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Forbo··on Using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment
Meatless Mondays are a thing.
Forbo··on Robinhood to pay $45M SEC settlement over data breach, other violations
And their stock is up 5%.

Glad we do so much to keep corporations accountable in this country!

Forbo··on Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan
I asked for details on how the hashing is blinded but haven't heard back. There are plenty of systems where an operator cannot furnish any information about a user, for example a Tor relay operator, mix net nodes, etc.
Forbo··on Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan
Yeah, unfortunately until IPv6 adoption increases this will be a problem. Even the currently utilized IPv6 space is probably small enough that sufficiently motivated corporations/nation states would probably be able to crack it given the resources available, assuming it's important enough for them to care about.
Forbo··on Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan
How has the server been blinded from the hashing mechanism? Is this happening on different hardware, or facilitated through API calls to another server or something?

Genuinely curious as I think anonymous discussions are awesome but hate the kind of stuff that comes along with other anonymous image boards. Truly hope this is successful and results in a wonderful thriving community.

Forbo··on Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan
So if you were served a technical assistance order you would have no way of complying with that? How are you using a salt that you have no way of knowing/observing/recovering? What protection measures are employed to prevent the salt from being recovered from memory or otherwise dumped via some other exploit? Please be detailed, as matters of anonymity can usually be boiled down to life changing consequences for those involved.
Forbo··on Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan
Don't call it anonymous if it isn't actually anonymous.
Forbo··on Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan
This is a pseudonymous system, not anonymous. The "anonymity" is entirely dependent on the salt. Unless you literally have no way of complying with a court order to hand over a user's IP, making any claims of anonymity is just flat out irresponsible. I hope no whistleblowers attempt to use this platform without a lot more consideration and countermeasures taken.

Sorry for the rant, I just really hate how much of a buzzword anonymity has become when nearly every claim of it falls on its face.

Forbo··on Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan
I would love it if web devs would stop externalizing the costs of their bloated apps onto their users. Make web devs care about resource utilization. How much bandwidth, electricity, and time is wasted on poorly written applications?
Forbo··on Show HN: Discuo – Anonymous discussions with infinite branching and 24h lifespan
Until a bunch of people try to find a thread about insert newsworthy event here, only to find there isn't one, create their own, and suddenly a day later there's hundreds of dupes.
Forbo··on Apple 'broke law' by pushing out labor-organizing dev
Change the fines to be based on percentages of revenue and they'll change their tune real quick.
Forbo··on World’s oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest
I have twice, it's great. Highly recommend.
Forbo··on Okta – Username Above 52 Characters Security Advisory
Doesn't have to be targeted for it to be shitty behavior.
Forbo··on Okta – Username Above 52 Characters Security Advisory
I'm really sick of companies disclosing this shit late Friday afternoon.

Go fuck yourselves.

Sincerely, Everyone in the industry

Forbo··on How the CIA 'kidnapped' a Soviet moon probe during the space race
Surface operation, not distance to the moon.
Forbo··on Pattern of brain damage is pervasive in Navy SEALs who died by suicide
I only lightly skimmed that article, but holy shit. I couldn't take much before I had to bail.
Forbo··on How to get root access to your Sleep Number bed
That's all well and good until it's smothered in surveillance capitalist garbage. There's a thin veneer of helping the disadvantaged/vulnerable group du jour that is used to justify abusing everyone that interacts with it. You see the same crap with "think of the children" panic.

Unless these devices respect their users, they're simply profiteering off of the disadvantaged, which in my mind should be just as rage inducing.

Forbo··on Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11
I recently started using the Heroic launcher for my GOG library and so far it's been working great.

https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

Forbo··on The Twitch DJ Program
I'm not super clear on the situation, but I have a brother that DJs at a local venue. Their biggest complaint was that even though they had obtained their broadcast license they couldn't livestream their sets on Twitch. Not sure if this offering now resolves that issue, or how other platforms are handling those situations. Seems like it would make more sense for the platforms to require proof of the performers licensing rather than handling the licensing themselves.
Forbo··on Napster sparked a file-sharing revolution 25 years ago
My device is perfectly capable of playing 4K media, but Netflix has decided that Linux doesn't deserve it.
Forbo··on Tesla's self-driving tech ditched by 98 percent of customers that tried it
Musk doesn't think about legal troubles because of things he says on Twitter. Remember "funding secured"?
Forbo··on Arti: A Tor Implementation in Rust
I don't think holding the current state of the project to a version of the README from three years ago is even remotely anywhere near a good faith comparison.
Forbo··on Arti: A Tor Implementation in Rust
Please, no more recursive backronyms. Or maybe I just have a sour taste of them because of some of more lamentable choices of other projects....
Forbo··on Google CEO: Building for our AI future
He's speaking to a symptom, not the root of the problem. We're all for applying the five whys, except when it will prevent us from profiting.
Forbo··on Google CEO: Building for our AI future
Not me.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147976

Forbo··on Google CEO: Building for our AI future
No, genuinely help me to see the error.

If my colleagues are enabling bad things, it is not bad to disrupt them.

Don't be evil, instead just turn a blind eye to it.

Forbo··on Google CEO: Building for our AI future
Is the characterization wrong? And if so, in what way?
Forbo··on Google CEO: Building for our AI future
Ah, yes, the problem is that people are disrupting their coworkers, not that you're enabling and profiteering genocide. Got it.
Forbo··on USPS jumps to first place as most imitated brand in phishing attacks
I wish they would ban mixed media envelopes. So sick of ripping off the plastic windows on junk mail so I can recycle it, it's a such a waste of time and resources.
Forbo··on German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice
Collaborative editing in OneNote is hot garbage, leaving you with a mile long list of conflicts. It desperately needs some work.
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