Privacy Badger focus on blocking trackers. uBlock origin blocks all kind of things Ads,Trackers,etc and so it have a higher risk of breaking sites.

Yes, they’re mostly redundant. Happy uBlock Origin users should probably keep using just uBlock. People who don’t use uBlock to avoid breaking websites, or just want to block trackers, should use Privacy Badger.

I strongly recommended installing EFF’s Privacy Badger on your and your relatives browsers.

This stops many trackers, and causes less side effects and less breakages than most filters (unlock et all).

“more speech and fewer mistakes.”

You can’t make moderation mistakes if you stop moderating. tap head with finger

Japan’s JPCERT released IOCs for MirrorFace malware earlier https://blogs.jpcert.or.jp/en/2024/07/mirrorface-attack-against-japanese-organisations.html

Kudos to them. Sharing IOCs and samples with other CERTs and vendors is important to protect others who may be targeted.

This might also apply to many news article for software vulnerabilities.

If it’s not a 0day, a patch is already available. So users shouldn’t do anything particular if there’s (semi)automatic update, which is the case for Win, iOS, and many Linux distributions.

It’s worth people’s attention if it’s a critical 0day where user need to mitigate manually, or if users need to update manually due to lack of auto update.

Rest of the world: We’re deprecating C++ due to lack of memory safety. Please consider doing something for safety.

C++ commite: Here’s a new convenient operator to make it easier to do a potentially unsafe, multi-level pointer dereference.

You should know when and how you are being tracked, and you should have an easy-button to say thanks, but no thanks.

Opt-out!? That’s not even close to being a good solution.

Your data should not be collected, and you should not be tracked, UNLESS you agree yo it, ie opt-in, AND data collection is proportional/appropriate for the stated goal.

That’s the spirit of GDPR.

Unibrowgate

It’s going to make even more nurses run away, when many places are lacking nurses.

Google Play Store is becoming less and less viable for OSS. Thankfully F-Droid support sharing apps to nearby devices.

In addition to not connecting stuff unnecessarily, connected devices that consume/produce lots of power need safeguards.

Like a random 0-60sec timer for remote power on/off operations. 50000 panels powering down over 60sec is easier to handle than if they do that simultaneously.

Temu sure wish they didn’t, but they do in fact need to adhere to local laws in juridictions where they’re doing business.

There already are complaints against Temu for noncompliance to EU regulation. For instance https://www.beuc.eu/sites/default/files/publications/BEUC-X-2024-046_Temu_Why_the_fast-growing_online_marketplace_fails_to_comply_with_the_DSA.pdf

It may be trickier to enforce law against Temu vs a more classic and direct seller of goods, so it may take more time, and it may become a game of whack a mole, but there will be some enforcement.

If not the chineese manufacturer, then whoever is importing them .

They should force a recall.

There are hypotheticals precisely because Tiktok is not transparent enough. It sounds like they’re doing an estimate on the best data publically available.

At the very least, this put pressure on Tiktok to be more transparent. Tiktok could prove the study wrong by publishing more about their energy and resource use.

The mobile standard setter, GSMA, and Google have said encryption will be coming to RCS, but there’s no firm date yet.

GSMA, please don’t come up with yet another poorly designed encryption standard.

The IETF is already working on Messaging Layer Security (MLS), please work with IETF and adopt MLS. IETF have more experience and do a good job at designing secure protocols. And multiple organisations and services are already working on adapting MLS (Mozilla, Google, Matrix, Wire, …)

As an alternative to newspaper and magazine subscriptions, go to your local library’s (website).

My library card allows me to access a bunch of newspaper and magazines online, and cost me just a very low yearly fee.

He’s also giving more material to the CoC board by posting this. He’s free to do it but it’s not helping.

I wish he would avoid commenting and stay away from the drama, until he hears from the board if there’s any complaint and what it is.

“I can potentially make it really big,” Lin said, hopeful despite the modest earnings.

This sounds like Uberisation, ie relying on entrepreneur wannabes to replace employees and warehouses with self-employed workers and their living room. I’d be curious to see if it allows them to earn a living wage with a 40h week, or if it’s exploitative.

Every service may be abused to spread misinformation. Here, the complaint isn’t that people abuse a service against the owner’s will, but that the service is operated to spread misinformation.

One way to address this could be to look at moderation. Is there meaningful moderation to limit misinformation? A service operated to spread misinformation wouldn’t moderate it.