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"What has not changed in 50 years is the fact we are still using centralized architectures, prone to government intrusion and privacy leaks. Maybe it is time to think about a “Post Cloud” era where information is distributed instead of centralized. Of course this raises questions of trust, cryptography, security and collaboration, but the technology to build such systems already exists. It is more of a question of policy and education than of technology."

Somebody Else's Computer As A Service
On November 12, 1990, a 35 year-old Bill Gates introduced his "Information at your Fingertips" concept during his keynote at COMDEX. The PC, he said, would become "more personal," integrating "fax, voice and electronic mail," and providing "easy access to a broad range of information." More or less at the same time, Tim Berners-Lee was giving the final touches to the first web browser and web server software ever put in production. Bill Gates was right; as any Internet user can easily confirm 3…

Look at all these cool Muni routes that were eliminated in 2009 budget cuts and didn't come back 😭 Potrero Hill used to have *three* north-south bus routes where now it has one. The 53 Southern Heights was lost in 2009, the 10 Townsend in 2020, and only the 19 Polk is left.
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"How to spot climate misinformation on social media"
#Climate #ClimateChange #SocialMedia

How to spot climate misinformation on social media
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Wow, seems the people farmers of surveillance capitalism have fully embraced scammer techniques now.
Ran into this new flow on a number of sites just now (Indiewire, Variety, and RollingStone) delivered by the colossal douchebags at html-load.com who run report-error.com.
They make it look like a browser error has occurred and then tell you to disable your tracker/ad blocker.
To the asshole developers who built this for them instead of refusing: Fuck you for making everyone…

"""
The worst of the internet is continuously attacking the best of the internet. This is a distributed denial of service attack on the good parts of the World Wide Web.
If you’re using the products powered by these attacks, you’re part of the problem. Don’t pretend it’s cute to ask ChatGPT for something. Don’t pretend it’s somehow being technologically open-minded to continuously search for nails to hit with the latest “AI” hammers.
If you’re going to use generative tools powered by large language models, don’t pretend you don’t know how your sausage is made.
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https://adactio.com/journal/21831
by @…

I can help but feel this "feature" should raise more concerns than it does alleviate them.
"Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records addresses this need by targeting DNS changes that customers can make within 60 minutes of a service disruption in the US East (N. Virginia) Region."

Amazon Route 53 launches Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records | Amazon Web Services
Amazon Route 53 now offers Accelerated recovery for managing public DNS records, a new business continuity feature designed to provide a 60-minute recovery time objective (RTO) during service disruptions in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. This enhancement enables customers to continue making critical DNS changes and provisioning infrastructure even during regional outages, ensuring greater resilience for mission-critical applications.

Audio Evidence File : Year So Far , A 3.5 Hr Music Playlist Of Nearly 30 Tracks That I Apparently Listened To On Repeat In 2025 Via Amazon Music Streaming Service
https://music.amazon.com/playlists/PPACDD3DB539A9439795803937A86964F9

deeply amused with the premise of this video
what do you mean "if". _obviously_ the dark web sellers have customer service. how else would it work??

CISA orders federal agencies to patch exploited SolarWinds bug by Friday https://therecord.media/cisa-orders-agencies-patch-solarwinds-vuln

when the dark web threat monitoring service gets pwnd and lists itself as a breach because it aggregated sensitive personal data as a service and therefore drew a bullseye on its own ass

I created a Persona/System Prompt that I use with a local LLM that I have affectionately named "TOSBot". It analyzes Terms of Service and Privacy Policies of software and web sites.
Too often, it returns these results, especially for AI-powered products and there is no recourse.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#ai #tos

Sources: Nvidia's DGX Cloud is merging with the engineering unit, pivoting from selling cloud services to enterprises to supporting internal AI development (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-restructures-clou…

Nvidia Restructures Cloud Team After Retreating From AWS Competition
More than two years after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared his vision to develop a cloud service that could rival Amazon Web Services, he has backed away from competing with such firms and last week reorganized his company’s cloud team, according to several people with knowledge of the ...

Is there an attack going on with Card One Money, bank accounts run by Equals Money UK Ltd?
There's a banner on the Business web site saying "Card One Money Accounts are closing. The best way to get in touch to discuss this is via our Live Chat Service."
The Chat Service is saying it's out of hours.
The Business site says the phone service is down.
Now I've been told that it's Personal Accounts which are being closed, mine is a Business Accou…

While using the Wayback Machine the last few days, I've had a lot of "503 Service Unavailable" errors. I'm seeing those errors not just when archiving pages, but also when retrieving pages from the archive as well.
In the past, I've seen issues with Wayback Machine short-term corresponding to an event that would trigger a lot of archiving (example: a major government agency caught deleting web content.)

The US phone #spam-reporting site is off during the government shutdown 🤦

New sanctions target Russian web hosting service over suspected ransomware operations (Fatima Hussein/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/treasury-russia-sanctions-ransomware-cybercrime-442b7fbbc99e643cbf8b402c6199a226
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p65#a251119p65

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/115594249106598392
A browser is a perfectly fine way of interacting with a service. A web app works on any device regardless of form factor or OS and is always up-to-date.
One should never need an …

It feels strange to not be able to participate in all these technology switching activities. But I/we (we = family) never used WhatsApp, never had any streaming service (not for film, not for music), no Chrome or Edge, no password manager, etc
I must use MS things at work, but am one of the very few employees who not use the web applications, have autosave turned off, and insist on using the legacy version of software as long as possible
Is this a

when the dark web threat monitoring service gets pwnd and lists itself as a breach because it aggregated sensitive personal data as a service and therefore drew a bullseye on its own ass

www.fsf.org host (and IP4 TCP port 80, but not IP6 80/443 comms) seems to up, but actual web service appears to be unresponsive. Maintenance or broken? Unsure.

X replaces DMs with Chat, a new messaging system that it says is E2EE, supports file sharing, video calling, and more, rolling out first to iOS and the web (Karissa Bell/Engadget)
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/x-is

X is finally rolling out Chat, its DM replacement with encryption and video calling
X has finally revealed its long-promised chat platform, which replaces the service's basic DM functionality with features more like the messaging...

"Climate change is melting glaciers and ice sheets faster than they can regrow"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Glaciers

Climate change is melting glaciers and ice sheets faster than they can regrow
Yale Climate Connections is a nonpartisan, multimedia service providing daily broadcast radio programming and original web-based reporting, commentary, and analysis on the issue of climate change.

Bought a year of VM/BGP service from a #hosting provider on a Wednesday. Tuesday the service goes down. The next day a web page statement says operations are ceasing operations at that location. That would have been good #!?@'ing information a week ago!
True story. I've not seen it all, but when it comes to how providers operate I've seen a lot. :-)