Cybersecurity professional with an interest in networking, and beginning to delve into binary exploitation and reverse engineering.
He’s releasing this abysmal attempt at damage control because a former Twitch employee blasted the details on Twitter yesterday. I doubt the chat logs actually get leaked, although given the fact that he’s almost certainly downplaying the vileness of the I wish they would be.
I’ve noticed this happens when I click volume up or down repeatedly a lot of times in rapid succession instead of just holding the button down. It hasn’t happened to me since I’ve tried to be conscientious about it, but ymmv.
Might be 9999 in 10000 are downloading torrents with a vpn though.
I think the decision itself highlights the dichotomy between the EU’s push for the right of digital privacy for citizens of its constituent nations when using products and services and the EU’s push to have unrestricted insight into the digital lives of those same citizens.
You can’t have digital privacy from select third parties only, it’s an all or nothing thing. If you don’t want your citizens to be tracked and their browsing data sold, don’t allow websites or ISPs to track that data. If you don’t want that data to be sold, but you want it tracked and accessible to the government then call it a right to not be monetized, not a right to privacy.
I agree that the article itself is pretty duplicitous as well. None of rhetoric direct sources they quoted seemed to have anything to do with piracy.
Out of curiosity, is copyright infringement a civil matter instead of a criminal matter in all EU member states? I only ask because I thought there were some EU member states where copyright infringement was explicitly not a legal violation, civil, criminal, or otherwise.
I just responded to someone else in another comment chain, but I agree. As I said there, the more tenured employees checking out can really block anyone new from gaining the long-term institutional knowledge they need to be successful, which either leads to high new worker turnover or an implosion when the last of the long term “old breed” retire.
That’s Business Insider being Business Insider, yeah.
I’m super confused by this verbiage. If it’s harder for a worker to get hired than fired, doesn’t that mean that it’s relatively easier to get fired? Which is nit how it should be right?
Based on the article context, shouldn’t the worker quoted in the article be saying “It’s very hard to get hired here, and getting fired is even fucking harder!”?
Anyway I agree that it should not be easy for a company to fire workers. I think that knowing this, companies should try to ensure they’re onboarding quality workers in the first place, which would probably involve a difficult hiring process.
My read on the article isn’t that workers are complaining about “half decent work conditions”, but that workers are complaining about completely checked out coworkers. If you’re a new, junior level worker and both your manager and your Intermediate and Senior level coworkers have completely checked out, you’re probably not getting the performance feedback, mentorship, or over the shoulder exposure to techniques and procedures that are invaluable at that stage in your career.
I’m definitely reading between the lines, but I’m seeing an article where less tenured employees are complaining about that culture shift, and BI is putting their “happy, well-compensated employees bad” corporate bootlicker spin on it.
I’ll just leave this here.
https://www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-employees-rich-happy-problem-insiders-say-2023-12
I have yeeted printers out of non-ground level apartment windows before, so i feel your pain. i bought a brother laser jet printer and hardwired it to a switch port and have not had connectivity issues for years. i can easily print from my phone, pc, laptop, whatever.
Probably. The civil rights activist Che brought on last season was legit.
It sounds like you already know what you want to buy, just fucking buy it. Why are you fishing for other people’s approval on what you spend your own money on?
I mean you do you, but there’s always a trade off with these types of things (usually security at the expense of usability), so most people would be better served by taking stock of their activities, the risk caused by those activities, then mitigating that risk to an acceptable level. If acceptable to you is cruising around to mcdonald’s parking lots so you can bounce off their wifi like you’re taking the risk of ordering weight more power to you, but just know that from a risk mitigation perspective you’re implementing controls way out of line with the actual risk. Probably, depending on your local laws etc idk i’m not you.
Bro they’re grabbing links from trackers, not even downloading any copyrighted material. They’re not buying mdma on alphabay.
next is securing their data against breaches for 23% (44%)
This particular motivation is extremely confusing for me. Who do they worry will get breached, and what data are they worried about protecting?
If they’re worried about the ISP getting breached and their browsing history being leaked (via ISP DNS logs), I guess I understand it although displays a very low risk tolerance in my opinion. Not only would the ISP have to be compromised, but the attacker would need to dump both DNS logs and a database(s) to correlate the assigned public IP (or RFC 1918 address depending on ISP topology) to the customer. This is all predicated on the customer actually using the ISP DNS servers, which you don’t even need a VPN to do. The actual data you send to a website would be unaffected in this situation.
If they’re worried about a website they use being breached and their data compromised that way, how do they think a VPN will help? If they’re sending data to a website it doesn’t matter whether it’s over the ISP lines or tunneled to a VPN through the ISP then sent to the website, the website still receives the data. If I have friends coming to stay the night it doesn’t matter if they walk, bike, drive, train, fly, or launch themselves by trebuchet over to my house, I’ll still need a bed made up with fresh sheets for them.
I’m all for more people using VPNs, I’m a huge proponent of piracy, and I’m a huge proponent of personal data sovereignty, but I just don’t understand this particular reason for using a VPN at all. It’s kind of disconcerting to see it as the second highest reason given for using a VPN, setting as a VPN doesn’t really solve that issue. Either VPN providers are lying to their customers or the users fundamentally misunderstand what the product they’re buying can and cannot do.
their conclusion? “The choice of a VPN is rather simple, to not be tracked and access illegal content” what kind of botched logic is that
While France/the EU has passed data privacy and data sovereignty laws, the EU is also the leading source of pressure on tech companies to remove or backdoor end-to-end encryption of user data and communications. The EU doesn’t want companies tracking EU citizens, which is good, but also wants to preserve their ability to track EU citizens, which is bad. If data privacy means privacy from ISPs and not being tracked by the authorities within the EU, then the conclusion makes sense when looking at it through their eyes.
I used to be hopeful that as legislator demographics shifted to be more digitally savvy they would pass legislation that encouraged a free, open, secure, and decentralized Internet. I’m starting to think that was naive as fuck, and that the Internet as we knew it, with that original ethos, will get forcefully snuffed out and people 200-300 years from now will read about and romanticize the Golden Age of Digital Piracy in the same way we look at the Golden Age of Piracy today.
I abhor medium, but run across it a little while researching cybersecurity shit. I had no idea scribe.rip existed, so thanks for the plug.
Medium is the journalistic version of the gig economy apps, mixed with a bit of digital landlording. The correct thing to do here is to bypass any of Mediums paywalls you might run in to.
I don’t torrent, just usenet. I added Paw Patrol into sonarr and have an ungodly amount of episodes of that show. The only kids show i’ve ran in to issues getting personally was some newish winnie the pooh show, but a new season dropped recently and the backlog filled in basically overnight.
Edit - I’m missing one episode in season 5, fourteen in season 9, and twenty five from season 10. Not really sure why i’m missing so many from the more recent seasons, but with 101.9GiBs of Paw Patrol none of the parents I share my media with care when they can hit shuffle, and their four year olds definitely don’t give a fuck about which episode just dropped. Although I’m probably going to hyperfixate on this now and not sleep until i’ve grabbed everything that’s missing so thanks for that lol.
They actually make left-handed nova to alleviate this issue. Fountain pens are truly the S-tier writing tool.
Need is a pretty strong term to use for access to professional sports broadcasts.
Does spotify not serve ads from their own domains? I know i’ve noticed more stuff getting through my pihole and when i check the admin panel both the actual video and the ads are being served from the same domain a lot of times.
And his entire defense is “I never met up with her in person”. Yeah bro because you got fucking caught. This is not the defense you think it is.