#users

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.

— Rick Cook

#users

https://www.europesays.com/uk/?p=21784 NR7 Miner cloud mining adds 170,000 new users in a week through cloud computing power to mine Bitcoin #000 #170 #a #adds #bitcoin #cloud #Computing #in #Mine #Miner #Mining #New #NR7 #power #Technology #through #to #UK #UnitedKingdom #users #week

That groan you hear is users' reaction to Recall going back into Windows

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/04/microsoft-is-putting-privacy-endangering-recall-back-into-windows-11/

#HackerNews #Recall #Windows #Privacy #Users #Reaction #Microsoft

Re-posting this offer for deep, deep discounts on Jelly, our shared inbox tool, for non-profit tech user groups (and other non-profits!).

We use it for @lrug to help our small team of volunteers run things smoothly.

https://letsjelly.com

#ruby #python #javascript #usergroup #users #tech #nonprofit

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech at the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture. >

https://vimeo.com/1059798497

#enshitification #monopsonies #twiddling #LockedUsers #LockedSellers #GAFAM #lecture #AlgorithmicWageDiscrimination#speech #SurveillanceCapitalism #interoperability #competition #regulation #WorkersPower #BigData #sellers #users #TechnoFeudalism #employment #ratings #Uberisation #queries #JediBlue #profiling #enshitified #internet #abuse #DataBrokers #AntitrustLaw #TechLayoffs #RegulatoryCaptures #TechnologicalAbuse #privacy #value #GiantPileOfShit #TechnicalMechanism #rankings #unions #digitalisation #nursing #speech #lecture #video #coporatocracy #monopoly

Apple ID Hack — New Warning For 2 Billion Users

Apple has long since had an air of invulnerability about it as far as users have been concerned; be they iPhone, iPad or Mac fans, the ecosystem has been thought of as pretty darn secure. Like most security assumptions, however, it is wrong. […]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/03/30/apple-id-hack-new-warning-for-2-billion-users/

#apple #itsecurity #hacking #users #itsec #iphone #ipad #mac #itsecurity #idhack #security #appleidhack #appleid #infosec

Another service which will use #users #data to train #ai

https://futurism.com/pinterest-data-photos-train-ai

#privacy #pinterest

Oh no, Mozilla! Promised no data selling and suddenly finds itself in an inferno of irate #Firefox #users. Meanwhile, The Register is too busy playing hide-and-seek with its robot sensors to actually report it.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/02/mozilla_introduces_terms_of_use/ #Mozilla #DataPrivacy #TheRegister #TechNews #FirefoxDrama #HackerNews #ngated

Big question, Why ATProtocol from #BlueSkySocial #PBC’s mouth instead of Mastodon and ActivityPub?:

“Why not use ActivityPub? #ActivityPub is a federated social networking technology popularized by #Mastodon.

Account #portability is a major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol. We consider portability to be crucial because it protects #users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements. Our #solution for portability requires both signed data repositories and #DIDs, neither of which are easy to retrofit into ActivityPub. The migration #tools for ActivityPub are comparatively limited; they require the original server to provide a redirect and cannot migrate the user's previous data.

Another major reason is #scalability. #ActivityPub depends heavily on delivering messages between a wide network of small-to-medium sized nodes, which can cause individual #nodes to be flooded with traffic and generally struggles to provide global views of #activity.”

Short version, WE CANT CONTROL YOU.

<https://atproto.com/guides/faq>

“#Mozilla is made up of several organizations, one of which is the #MozillaCorporation, which develops Firefox and other technologies, and another is its nonprofit and tax-exempt #MozillaFoundation, which oversees Mozilla’s corporate governance structure and sets the browser maker’s policies. Much of Mozilla’s work focused on advocating for #privacy, #inclusion, and #decentralization of #technologies, and “to create #safer, more #transparent online experiences for #everyone,” which ultimately benefit the #browser maker and its #users.

Announcing the layoffs in an email to all employees on October 30, the Mozilla Foundation’s executive director #NabihaSyed confirmed that two of the foundation’s major divisions — #Advocacy and #GlobalPrograms — are “no longer a part of our structure.””

There you go. One side of Mozilla builds the tools of the Internet, the other does… I can’t for the life of me see what. It’s the #MozillaFoundation who cant engineer the tools that are doing “deals” with others to make things safer.

The power to make change for the better of the Internet is being moved from direct impact, ie: basic technology and applied applications TO soft corporate influence through manifestos, papers, jobs and pay for influencers and collaborations with third parties…

I know what is more effective. Basic engineering and applied products because it scales.

#WhiteCollar / #Layoffs / #CorporatePolicy <https://techcrunch.com/2024/11/05/mozilla-foundation-lays-off-30-staff-drops-advocacy-division/>

Do you trust Firefox (Mozilla) to respect and keep their users' interest at heart in the long run?

#firefox #mozilla #browser #linux #users #trust #future

Passkeys just mean that sites using one can track you down to the device level.
"[JoeUser] just connected to our site on his computer at home."
"[JoeUser] just connected to our site on his phone."
Is it just coincidence that the dominant spy-on-users vendor invented passkeys? I don't think so.
#passkeys #tracking #users #GooleIsSpyware
#security

@GossiTheDog @ajsadauskas OFC, we groomed generations of #TechIlliterates (#Users and #Admins) to use that garbage and everyone who didn't lick the boots got yeeted.

It's called #BrainDrain!

Lobsters blocking UK users because of the Online Safety Act — https://web.archive.org/web/20250108091906/https://lobste.rs/s/ukosa1/uk_users_lobsters_needs_your_help_with
#HackerNews #Lobsters #Online #Safety #Act #UK #Users #Help #Internet #Freedom

https://www.europesays.com/1860201/ News and Analysis on Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and Decentralized Finance #crypto #cryptocurrency #UAE #Users:

https://www.europesays.com/1854673/ Bybit Introduces the Physical Card for International Users: Simplifying Cryptocurrency Spending Worldwide #ByBit #card #crypto #cryptocurrency #for #international #introduces #Physical #Simplifying #spending #the #Users: #Worldwide

Meta expands Instagram ‘Teen Account’ protections to New Zealand https://www.byteseu.com/732988/ #account #expanded #expands #include #Instagram #measures #Meta #new #NewZealand #protect #protections #series #Teen #Teens #to #users #zealand

New #Botnet on the loose?

A surge of accounts from gtmastodon.online / mastodon.gtmastodon.online has emerged, all seemingly following a limited number of #MastodonSocial users.

Is this a coordinated effort? If so, what is the goal?

#SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse #news #Profiles #Account #Follow #Followers #Network #alert #fake #bot #bots #user #users #info #it #server #servers

@Schneier_rss

With the new #Trump-#Administration, more and more american #Cloud-#Users will search for european Cloud-#Solutions for advanced #Security-#Features, because they no more trust american #BigTech-#Cloudstorage like #Google or #Microsoft or #Amazon. We all see, how #Musk and his #GoonSquad inspect and infiltrate the Payment-System (luckily stopped at the Moment). At any given Time, they could try this with the Cloudstorage. #Nondisclosure-#Gagorders could make this easier.