FrankTheHealer

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No excuse for this not being legislated against. Its just theft.

 

Absolutely shameful statistic

 

This is just shameful. Theres 60k + on the housing list, thousands more homeless and on the streets. The government is acting like 500 is an achievement.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Access to open source, end to end encrypted technology. Particularly for messaging/ communication.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

The picture has Centra brand products. Centra is a chain of Irish convenience stores with a bunch of own brand products.

Also OP mentions being Irish on their profile

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hello fellow Irish Lemmy user

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

'I gotta plan Arthur'

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Worked support for an electricity supplier. I was able to see a frightening amount of info about the customers. Even past ones who had moved elsewhere.

We also kept notes about each call, email, web or app chat. So if you were an asshole in the past, everyone will know going forward.

Also fuck landlords and landladies etc. More often than not, they were shitty to deal with.

Also we would often use Google Maps and Streetview to see what your house looked like. We also had pictures of the inside because the installation techs took pictures to confirm that works were completed as specified.

Alll of this was available to us for any reason, at any time with no oversight. And none of it was encrypted. There was also government websites in use up to 2020 that required internet explorer to use and had passwords as trivial as 'Password1'.

I left that job because the pay was lousy and the stress was pretty full on. I respected a lot of people that worked there. Both higher ups and people who came after me. But fuck was there a lot of potential for bad actors or like stalkers etc to mess with your info.

I would reccomend to everyone. Please use password managers. Especially decent open source ones like Bitwarden. Take note of every piece of info that you give a company. From your phone number, address, email etc to even when you contacted them. Also try to not have your home look like an abandoned hovel on Streetview lol. Easier said than done I know. But it may affect your dealings with support people that you need help from. And lastly, please dont use Password1 as a login. Ever. Like please.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

It should spark backlash everywhere. Not just France ffs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

I love my Fairphone 3. This is great news.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

With Louis Rossman, sometimes I dont find his videos very interesting. But every now and again he will drop a bombshell that sends waves throughout the industry, and for that, I respect him immensely.

Outside of his YouTube stuff, the way hes so vocal about Right to Repair too. I think its awesome. More power to him.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

Won't somebody please think about the poor lowly fossil fuel company shareholders.

How will they ever achieve pertetual growth every quarter if this tech gains traction.

We should tax these new technologies so that fossil fuels can still compete

/s in case its not obvious lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Went down a bit of a rabbit hole here. Very interesting. Would love to see a Vsauce style video going into various real life examples of this

Thanks for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Unfettered Capitalism breeds emshitification.

Why build and keep a great product when shareholders will always push for more growth and higher revenue. Even if that means laying off your best devs and pissing off users.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Not through the API call, but elsewhere like when you make an account on their website etc

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