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It's not really misinformation though. Most vuln researchers aren't burning browser 0-days targetting pirates, but many piracy sites host malicious content, even if that content isn't looking to deliver malware through brows
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It's less an issue of the reality distortion field, and more the issue that Apple hasn't been co-opted by the allure of advertising dollars. That's going to change, with projections of revenue growth just from advertising ex
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Vancouver, a very bicycle friendly city, has numerous shared pedestrian and bike paths. Most of the ones that are shared are usually sidewalk transitions between bike lanes and busy streets where there simply isn't space to build a se
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They do modify the attack surface, but since these prefs cover code that ships in the release version of Firefox, they should be reasonably well tested. Most of the preferences in this will actually reduce the target-able attack surface,
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There is a crucial difference between a config file that changes options within Firefox, and something that adds new code. Unless something has changed dramatically, the Firefox team (and other teams) test and fuzz Firefox extensively - obv
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https://www.reuters.com/graphics/GLOBAL-ENVIRONMENT/INSECT-A... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-warn-o... Just two quick examples, but go ahead and keep your head in the
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There is nothing that individual consumers can do that will change this. Policy is needed at a national and international level.
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Right - global warming as a function of climate change, it's not the climate that is collapsing, it's the ecology that ~8 billion people depend on to survive that is collapsing :) fiddles pedantically while the world burns
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> Most of the online banks are pretty secure for non-oblivious person. Ok, granted, I spent the last 23 years of my life working in IT security across consulting, government, finance, and tech companies, but this is just garbage. Banks
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> We require drivers license to operate vehicle, it is time we should require infosec101 training before handing over credit cards and or online banking accounts. Sure. Why not start with an outline for what infosec101 should look like.
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So point by point: 1. Stealing a credit card number, ccv, expiry, and name shouldn't be game over. It is because businesses want to reduce friction for customer purchases. If card not present transactions required a second step of ve
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I think it's really interesting that Sony is not on that list. It is self-declared, but Sony had > 75B€ in revenue in EU in 2022, I would guess has more than 10k business users across it's lines of business, and guessing from
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Sure, but that's turtles all the way down... any time you run untrusted code, you are making a risk based decision, usually based on the provenance of the code.
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Nah, it was meant as preachy, but not necessarily condescending. It's absolutely important to challenge Mozilla and other open source projects, especially in this era of enshittification[1]; Mozilla and Firefox operate in a position of
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> Preventing the random extension I installed from hijacking my bank login page is good! Giving Mozilla the ability to disable my adblocker or NoScript on an arbitrary domain list that they can update remotely is scary! So the ability fo
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It's actually ok for you to feel that way! It's also ok for Mozilla to do this, because Mozilla aims to use this to protect users! The internet is already a yard full of rakes for folks, I appreciate things that make it easier fo
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On point 3, well, yes. If your mother or teacher wanted to, and had the means and opportunity to do so. Whether or not you find artistic merit in those drawings has little bearing on the expression of pride that might drive your parent or
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I think a lot of folks who don't have an agricultural background mistake how different the processes are. Often when a person uses a hoe in modern times (for example, urban gardeners), they use it the way one would use a plough - long
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Police in your jurisdiction are held accountable?
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so.... no intergenerational wealth transfer then? if estates can't pass on intellectual property, then why should they be allowed to pass on physical property? If they can pass on physical property, then why not intellectual property
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I mean, it's in the headlines regularly, but sure, I'll google it for you. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/racial-bias-found... https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-
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Yes, guns don't kill people, people kill people. We know, we have watched this argument unfold in the United States over the last 100 years. It sure does seem like a few people are using guns to kill a lot of people. The point of regu
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Do you have a viable suggestion for an alternative provider?
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I interviewed at Stripe, pre-COVID, and it was an onsite interview after I suffered a concussion. I should have cancelled the interview, but I was excited about the opportunity, and had underestimated how disabled the concussion left me. O
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I don't know about other countries, but immigration targets in Canada are trending towards attracting 500,000 immigrants per year by 2025. Just because we have alot of openings doesn't mean it's easy though... there are seve
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Well yeah, but the long tail of shitty health policy is coming home to roost. What kind of a health care impact do you think the recent criminalization of routine women's medical health procedures will have? (Hint - there are already
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Those are all individuals who had access to the finest health care on the planet, and teams of folks at various periods of their lives to focus on them and their health. Access to health care, and personalized health care on top of that is
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The Overton window on the feasibility of lockdowns would get a bit of a shift if it becomes a pandemic with a 60% (or even a substantially lower) fatality rate.
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That's not a very complete story. The proliferation of telemedicine services by private sector services in BC, and Telus in particular has actively reduced the availability of healthcare professionals in rural communities. While teleme
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Not much. Having a function build pipeline takes a bit of work to get set up, but once it's up and running, and projects are built to depend on it, it takes away a fair bit of ops work. That can help smaller teams become more agile, a

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