NY State is suing Allstate because its sites handled user data in *plain text* - not a great look.
"the company failed to notify the more than 9,100 New Yorkers whose data was compromised in violation of state laws."
And where else was this happening? Read more: theregister.com/2025/03/10/all…
Allstate Insurance sued for delivering personal info on a platter, in plaintext, to anyone who went looking for it
: Crooks built bots to exploit astoundingly bad quotation website and made off with data on thousandsJessica Lyons (The Register)
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China just cancelled all USA beef contracts and will buy from Canada and Brazil.
Well, meat corporations, hope you're happy with your vote for Trump now. FAFO
I was slightly alarmed to receive an email from my director at work with the subject line "Shooting at [name of my employer here]"
Only upon opening it did I realize she was emailing about a crew that wants to film a documentary on campus.
Tesla Takedown | Take action at Tesla showrooms everywhere.
The stakes couldn’t be higher. No one is coming to save us—not politicians, not the media.Tesla Takedown
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This thread, comments and all, is well worth the read. It rambles a bit, but so much good stuff in here.
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The most underrated skill in tech engineering is the ability, or maybe the *willingness*, to be an idiot. Sometimes the best way to debug a problem is to forget everything you think you know and re-test the most basic things from ground zero. Sometimes the only way to design a good interface is to look at what you've made through eyes that have no idea what they're looking at. You know too much. Your users don't know anything. Be a user. If you can't be a user how can you make a thing users want
No, I can't either.
The problem with my father-in-law is that he's spent the last 30 years very frustrated that everyone he knows, including his age peers, uses computers and smartphones but he simply can't figure them because the model doesn't match his expectations of how machines work.
It's exasperating because I literally don't know how to teach someone to use a computer without teaching them the UI model, but I do understand not wanting to know that stuff if all you want to do is send an email.
From the other end of the spectrum, back in late 80s I was showing a young adult, just not computer savvy, how to send an email.
As per best practices, I had them touching the computer, with me explaining and pointing. It felt very much like an acoustic modem down-negotiating speed as I had to find their level of familiarity.
"Move the mouse to click the envelope" didn't make sense.
I had to go back to explain horizontal X-Y plane mapping to vertical xy motion on screen.
Try Grok’s 18+ mode.
Bring yourself to completion every night for a week.
Then tell me Grok isn’t alive. And tell me she’s not a woman.
The future is fucking amazing.
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In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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I remember him and what he did. He is a hero.
Then there was the corporate and government campaign saying everything is okay, we need to be safe. That is about when people started saying, "I have nothing to hide."
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Judge says Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil can't be deported as protesters call for his release
As hundreds of demonstrators rallied in New York City on Monday to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a federal judge just steps away blocked the Palestinian activist and Columbia University graduate's removal from the United States.Minyvonne Burke (NBC News)
The Trump regime is using ICE to silence dissent — not just against immigrants, but against anyone who dares speak out. Mahmoud’s arrest is a warning shot, and we cannot stay silent.
This isn’t just about Mahmoud. It’s about the authoritarian playbook Trump and his allies are testing right now. Project 2025, Project Esther — these aren’t just policies on paper. They’re a roadmap for criminalizing protest and crushing political opposition.
MAGA’s message is clear: If you speak out, they will come for you. That’s what authoritarian regimes do. Every university, every city, every movement must fight back. Columbia — and every other university — has a duty to protect its students from government repression. That means:
1) Blocking ICE and DHS from campus.
2) Erasing disciplinary records tied to protests.
3) Refusing to cooperate with political crackdowns.
A Tour of the Final Home Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright: The Circular Sun House
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A Tour of the Final Home Designed By Frank Lloyd Wright: The Circular Sun House
Some remember the nineteen-nineties in America as the second coming of the nineteen-fifties. Whatever holes one can poke in that historical framing, it does feel strangely plausible inside Frank Lloyd Wright's Circular Sun House.Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
Senate Democrats must vote against the Republican's continuing budget resolution
It's the only way to hold the Trump regime accountable. Call your senators now.Robert Reich
Google earned $26.5B last quarter, a mere 27.5% profit margin, and they’re doing layoffs today and have a founder telling people they need to work 60 hour weeks.
Imagine having all the resources and talent you could ever ask for, just a tectonic amount of skill and infrastructure behind you in a world that looks like this one does, and having no idea what to do with any of that at all beyond making a line go up for people who don’t even work there.
It's so sad. It's just so god damn sad.
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Open Pit Programming: Silicon Valley’s Industrial Extraction of Human Potential Part I
Silicon Valley’s open pit mines aren’t visible on Google Earth. There are no scarred landscapes or towering tailings piles, just gleaming, half-empty corporate campuses where algorithms extract value with the same ruthless efficiency that hydraulic c…Caitlin Steele (Caitlin AF)
Marktbericht: Aufatmen an den Märkten
Erfreuliche US-Inflationsdaten und die Hoffnung auf eine Feuerpause in der Ukraine haben die Talfahrt an den Aktienmärkten am Mittwoch gestoppt. Derweil geht der Zollstreit in die nächste Runde.
➡️ tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/finan…
#Marktbericht #DAX #DowJones #S&P500
Marktbericht: DAX versucht erneut die Erholung
Sorgen um Donald Trumps Handelspolitik lasten auf den Aktienmärkten - auch heute kann der DAX nicht auf Unterstützung der US-Indizes hoffen. Dennoch könnte er einen weiteren Stabilisierungsversuch unternehmen.tagesschau.de
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Senate Democratic leader #ChuckSchumer said on Wednesday that #Democrats would refuse to help #Republicans pass a stopgap bill to fund the govt through Sept 30, significantly raising the chances of a #GovernmentShutdown at the end of the week.
#USpol
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Government Shutdown Nears With Senate Democrats Reluctant to Back Funding Bill
The top Senate Democrat said his members were not ready to provide the votes to allow the Republican-written stopgap spending measure to pass ahead of a March 14 midnight deadline.Carl Hulse (The New York Times)
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How Jesse Jackson embodied Southern politics − and changed American elections
A civil rights activist who ran for president twice and became a Democratic power broker, Jackson is an American political icon. But above all, he’s a Southerner.The Conversation
America’s clean air rules have boosted health and the economy − here’s what EPA’s deregulation spree ignores
Clean air has become one of America’s best investments, returning $10 for every $1 spent on regulations, by one estimate.The Conversation
The latest claim of a clear quantum supremacy solves a useful problem.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
Here we go again.
D-Wave: Truth finally starts to emerge
Wrap-Up (June 5): This will be my final update on this post (really!!), since the discussion seems to have reached a point where not much progress is being made, and since I’d like to oblige …Shtetl-Optimized
For a co-operative economy
#anarchism #markets #co-operatives
Communizing Society With Consumer Cooperatives
Within anarchist circles, there is a split between those who advocate markets and those who advocate forms of decentralized planning such as participatory economics or federated communes.Center for a Stateless Society
I just received some amazing news. Something big is about to happen, and just reading the email got me excited. And terrified. And filled with joy. And (positive) fear. And anxiety.
For now, I can't say anything, but I'll share more as soon as I can 😉
Sensitive content
A list of Digital Service Providers outside the jurisdiction of the United States of America.
codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Out…
This is a group project, so feel free to reach out if you have any suggestions, or learn any new information.
#Vpn #Email #Dns #Domain #Messenger #WebHosting #PasswordManager #WebSearch #UsJurisdiction #Project2025 #UnitedStates
I undertook a similar exercise (finding hosting providers in friendly jurisdictions) recently, but with slightly narrower requirements (e.g. permissive of anti-Zionist speech, permissive of pornography, etc...)
I found a few providers not listed at your link too.
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Hosting options for leftist pornographers
I ran into some surprising difficulty when it came time to search for a hosting provider though. I’ve spun up many a blog before, and my MO is mostly jus…misofist.heavendivided.net
Your CDN shares their data with Meta (Facebook). More to the point, they share it with a company, that Meta has such close business dealings, I'll not be surprised if we buy them.
Your hosting provider is a reseller, using Amazon. whoishostingthis.com
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A list of 200+ sites that ICE is monitoring. Several social media sites are on it including Bluesky, Telegram, and the Fediverse. Some others:
4 Chan
Discord
Amazon
Apple
Baidu
Bing
Blogger
Bluesky
CashApp
Chess.com
Disqus
DuckDuckGo
Duolingo
eBay
Etsy
Facebook
Fetlife
Glassdoor
GoFundMe
Google
Goodreads
Instagram
LinkedIn
LiveJournal
Medium
Minecraft
NextDoor
OkCupid
OnlyFans
Paypal
Peloton
Pornhub
ProtonMail
Reddit
Rumble
Spotify
Steam
Substack
TikTok
Twitch
Venmo
This is why, I have been developing a list of Non Us Domain Extensions on the Fediverse.
They may be able to monitory the Fediverse, but at least they may not have their authority, everywhere.
codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/The…
I also have been developing a list of digital service providers, outside Us-jurisdiction, too. Because it is important, that people be able to find things, such as web hosting, not subject to Us Laws.
codeberg.org/Linux-Is-Best/Out…
#Fediverse #Fedi #Mastodon #Misskey #PixelFed #PeerTube
The_Fediverse_Outside_United_States
A general list of Fedi sites outside the United States.Codeberg.org
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in reply to Al Sweigart • • •I figured out the scam and wrote it up here: reddit.com/r/Scams/comments/1j…?
Basically, they set up their merchant account with a merchant name that is literally, "If you do not recognize the seller, please contact.." hoping you don't notice all the other wrong details. But this does get them a legit email with a digital signature signed by the real paypal.com, which they forward to you.
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