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Some good sneed and dunking on dropshippers in response to post about FTC doing Feddy stuff
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5806576
> > Why shouldn't they? You've arranged to have product you didn't create shipped to a warehouse you don't operate to be stored by a system you don't maintain to be sold on a storefront under a brand you made up and that you didn't create to be fulfilled by a shipping apparatus instead of you going to the UPS Store. What exactly are YOU doing here that merits a payday? Mediating a relationship between Amazon and a Chinese manufacturing firm? They already have tons of those. > > > Maybe your point just sucks because finding some cheap garbage on AliExpress that you can sell with instagram ads isn't actually all that hard, or that much work, which is probably why this exact business model was sold to people who, as stated by people selling it, had low skills and no interest in acquiring them, so they can generate passive income by operating an automated storefront on Amazon. > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37668690 > > > Say what you will about their means of getting it, but this person did 100% of the leg work of getting that sale. That sale doesn't exists without them. > > > What leg work? Customer acquisition? They paid amazon for that. Delivery? They paid amazon for that. Manufacturing? They paid China for that. > > > The sale wouldn't exist without anyone in the pipeline (Amazon, manufacturer in China, shipping merchant, etc.) > >> I think it's actually worse than that. The merchant is the only party that is not needed. > >> In fact, calling a lot of these folks "merchants" at this point is probably a little too generous. Amazon is the merchant. Many of these other guys are sourcing and marketing "partners" for Amazon and the manufacturers. > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37666435 > > > That's literally the meaning of being a monopoly: There are no other distribution channels that can compete with Amazon. They are a distribution monopoly. > >> There is no monopoly in distribution. The vast majority of items are bought offline. Walmart, Costco, Target, Kroger and on and on and on and on. > > >> The world wide web + google and facebook make finding eyeballs open for all. Fedex, UPS and USPS make shipping products open to all. Stripe makes accepting payments open to all. Cheap 3rd party manufacturing makes making things open to all. > > >> We've probably never been further from a monopoly in any of the areas in question. The reason it's so damn hard to make any money selling random products is that there is just so much competition.
- www.home-assistant.io Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud
To control your lights you soon need to create an account and share your data with the Hue cloud.
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The Good Space - Mastodon users shares their finding about use of the fediblock lists and finds huge flaws in using fediblock lists
Kbin.social and one lemmy instance with queer furries were mentioned in the article.
- www.eff.org ISPs Should Not Police Online Speech—No Matter How Awful It Is.
Entrusting our speech to multiple different corporate actors is always risky. Yet given how most of the internet is currently structured, our online expression largely depends on a set of private companies ranging from our direct Internet service providers and platforms, to upstream ISPs (sometimes....
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The Internet Is About to Get a Lot Worse (US focused)
buttondown.email The Internet Is About to Get a Lot WorseWe've all watched in horror as red states have banned books in schools and libraries. We've seen teachers fired merely for reading a book about gender...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/2628014
> Charlie Jane Anders discusses KOSA (the Kids Online Safety Act). > > If you're in the US, https://www.stopkosa.com/ makes it easy to contact your Senators and ask them to oppose KOSA. > > > "A new bill called the Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA, is sailing towards passage in the Senate with bipartisa>n support. Among other things, this bill would give the attorney general of every state, including red states, the right to sue Internet platforms if they allow any content that is deemed harmful to minors. This clause is so vaguely defined that attorneys general can absolutely claim that queer content violates it — and they don't even need to win these lawsuits in order to prevail. They might not even need to file a lawsuit, in fact. The mere threat of an expensive, grueling legal battle will be enough to make almost every Internet platform begin to scrub anything related to queer people. > > > The right wing Heritage Foundation has already stated publicly that the GOP will use this provision to remove any discussions of trans or queer lives from the Internet. They're salivating over the prospect. > > > And yep, I did say this bill has bipartisan support. Many Democrats have already signed on as co-sponsors. And President Joe Biden has urged lawmakers to pass this bill in the strongest possible terms."
- gizmodo.com Looks Like the Website for Trump's Patriot Legal Defense Fund Just Got Hacked
On Friday, someone defaced the website for the organization funding the legal costs for some Trump staffers and allies.
- www.businessinsider.com Elon Musk admits X 'may fail, as so many have predicted'
Elon Musk said Saturday "sad truth is that there are no great 'social networks' right now."
- www.techdirt.com With HR 3557, Broadband Monopolies Are Pushing A Bill That Would Crush Your Town’s Ability To Stand Up To Them
For thirty-plus years, giant telecom monopolies have worked tirelessly to crush all broadband competition. At the same time, they’ve lobbied state and federal governments so extensively, that…
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Kbin is still violating the zlib license of Postmill
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4351466
> kbin dev responds again > > hexbear chapos > >
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HashiCorp adopts Business Source License; Seethe abounds (for good reason)
www.hashicorp.com HashiCorp adopts Business Source LicenseHashiCorp adopts the Business Source License to ensure continued investment in its community and to continue providing open, freely available products.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/3058732
> Red site (50-some comments, high): https://lobste.rs/s/l2l1v8/hashicorp_adopts_business_source > > Orange site (600-some, decent): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37081306
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Moq, an open source mocking library for .NET, is harvesting emails because nobody wants to pay the dev
github.com Privacy issues with SponsorLink, starting from version 4.20 · Issue #1372 · moq/moqThere's a related discussion on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/15ljdcc/does_moq_in_its_latest_version_extract_and_send/ It seems that starting from version 4.20, SponsorLink is in...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2926894
> The developer finally grew a spine and realized he didn't want to do it for free. So he added some code to his library (SponsorLink) that runs in your IDE, reads your .gitconfig, checks if your email address is registered as a sponsor, and possibly slows down your build if it's not. > > Reddit reactions: > > https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/15m2q0o/moq_a_net_mocking_library_now_ships_with_a > > https://old.reddit.com/r/csharp/comments/15m2lg2/moq_now_ships_with_a_closedsource_obfuscated > > https://old.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/15ljdcc/does_moq_in_its_latest_version_extract_and_send > > I wonder if anyone at Microsoft uses this internally 😂. > > The Github issue and Reddit threads on this are pretty calm. Maybe there will be more drama in the coming days/weeks, when companies forbid their employees from using this library, and code monkeys have to rewrite all their unit tests. Redditors are trying to reportmaxx SponsorLink but nothing has happened yet.
- lunduke.locals.com Firefox Money: Investigating the bizarre finances of Mozilla
Connect with Lunduke and other members of Lunduke community
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HackerOne fires 12% of their hackeronies (this is the actual term they used)
> I have made the painful and necessary decision to undertake a restructuring and we will reduce the size of our team by up to approximately 12%. This comes as disappointing news, as we've all built strong connections with our fellow Hackeronies.
- www.windowscentral.com Microsoft accidentally leaks internal tool that can enable hidden Windows 11 features
StagingTool can enable hidden and unannounced features in Windows 11 preview builds.
- arstechnica.com Reddit beats film industry, won’t have to identify users who admitted torrenting
Court quashes subpoena for names of users who talked torrenting in 2011 thread.
- 9to5mac.com FBI found out who illegally used NSO spyware: It was the FBI - 9to5Mac
Using NSO spyware has been illegal in the US since the government banned its import and use back in November...
- www.bleepingcomputer.com Apple rejects new name 'X' for Twitter iOS app because... rules
Mr. Musk may have successfully pushed Twitter's new name and logo, 'X', and even made the vanity domain x.com redirect to the social media website, but that's not to say, the Mathematical double-struck letter will fit the bill everywhere. Apple's App Store can't accept Twitter iOS app's new name due...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/834310
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/834308 > > > Archived version: https://archive.ph/cQmID > > Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230729214729/https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/apple-rejects-new-name-x-for-twitter-ios-app-because-rules/
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Compliation of github drama
github.com GitHub - github-drama/github-drama: github-drama (community fork) Important: To edit, open a pull request. We will merge it as soon as we see the notification. To edit a large amount of content, open an issue saying so. We will grant you write access. To receive notifications about the latest drama, subscribe to the Community-Driven Happenings Feed.github-drama (community fork) Important: To edit, open a pull request. We will merge it as soon as we see the notification. To edit a large amount of content, open an issue saying so. We will gra...
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StackOverflow: Announcing OverflowAI. r/programming seethes
old.reddit.com StackOverflow: Announcing OverflowAIPosted in r/programming by u/sh_tomer • 92 points and 53 comments
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2246145
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Lets do a check in on Threads, The "Twitter Killer" From Meta
Threads usage continues to fall. (July 21st)
Hmm, wonder what sort of chatter is going on over on Orange Site from the past week
One post with over 100 updoots, only 40 comments. Other posts are literally dead.
Well, there is a Drama website. Let's see what sort of drama they've gotten from Zuck
It's Zuckover
Not a good look for threads
- stackdiary.com Google engineers want to make ad-blocking (near) impossible
In recent news, Google has put forth a proposal known as the "Web Environment Integrity Explainer", authored by four of its engineers. On the surface, it
- www.thedailybeast.com ‘X’ Rebrand Gets Twitter Blocked Under Indonesia Porn Laws
The domain X.com had previously been used by sites running afoul of the country’s rules on “negative” content.
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Orange Site seethes about the upcoming Chromium changes
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2212161
> ! > > Google's argument > > Highlights: > > > The only way around the dystopia this will lead to is to constantly and relentlessly shame and even harass all those involved in helping create it. > > > Mozilla should call for Google's removal from the W3C over this implementation of Web Environment Integrity. "But Chrome has 65% market share, what good is the W3C without them?” If Google can take unilateral action to fundamentally change the basic principles of the web, then the W3C is already useless. This will give Google a clear choice: if they want to maintain the idea that the W3C matters, they should withdraw this implementation. > > > It is unbelievable that over the course of 3 days, the potential future of the web has been put in such dire straits. There's already an existing, far less troubling (while still bad), proposal in the form of Private Access Tokens going through a standards committee that Google chose to ignore. They presented this proposal in the shadiest way possible through a personal GitHub account. They immediately shut down outside contribution and comments. And despite the blowback they are already shoving a full implementation into Chromium. > > What we need is real action, and this is the role Mozilla has always presented itself as serving. A "true" disinterested defender of the ideals of the web. Now is the time to prove it. Simply opposing this proposal isn't enough. This is about as clear and basic an attack on what fundamentally differentiates the web from every walled garden as possible. If someone drafted a proposal to the W3C that stated that only existing browsers should be allowed to render web pages, the correct response would not be to "take the stance that you oppose that proposal," it would be to seriously question whether the submitting party should even participate in the group. Make no mistake, that is what is happening now. > > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36877227 > > JFC this is scary
- www.eff.org FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users
We’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook. However, this new environment comes with challenges and risks for user privacy, so we need to get it right and make sure networks like the Fediverse and Bluesky are mindful of past...
cross-posted from: https://monyet.cc/post/147628
> Synopsis: > The article discusses the FBI's seizure of the Mastodon server and emphasizes the need for privacy protection in decentralized platforms like the Fediverse. It calls for hosts to implement basic security measures, adopt policies to protect users, and notify them of law enforcement actions. Users are encouraged to evaluate server precautions and voice concerns. Developers should prioritize end-to-end encryption for direct messages. Overall, the Fediverse community must prioritize user privacy and security to create a safer environment for all. > > Summary: > > Introduction > - We are in an exciting time for users wanting to regain control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook. > - However, decentralized platforms like the Fediverse and Bluesky must be mindful of user privacy challenges and risks. > - Last May, the Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when the FBI seized all electronics, including a backup of the instance database, during an unrelated raid on one of the server's admins. > - This incident serves as a reminder to protect user privacy on decentralized platforms. > > A Fediverse Wake-up Call > - The story of equipment seizure echoes past digital rights cases like Steve Jackson Games v. Secret Service, emphasizing the need for more focused seizures. > - Law enforcement must improve its approach to seizing equipment and should only do so when relevant to an investigation. > - Decentralized web hosts need to have their users' backs and protect their privacy. > > Why Protecting the Fediverse Matters > - The Fediverse serves marginalized communities targeted by law enforcement, making user privacy protection crucial. > - The FBI's seizure of Kolektiva's database compromised personal information, posts, and interactions from thousands of users, affecting other instances as well. > - Users' data collected by the government can be used for unrelated investigations, highlighting the importance of strong privacy measures. > > What is a decentralized server host to do? > - Basic security practices, such as firewalls and limited user access, should be implemented for servers exposed to the internet. > - Limit data collection and storage to what is necessary and stay informed about security threats in the platform's code. > - Adopt policies and practices to protect users, including transparency reports about law enforcement attempts and notification to users about any access to their information. > > What can users do? > - Evaluate a server's precautions before joining the Fediverse and raise privacy concerns with admins and users on the instance. > - Encourage servers to include privacy commitments in their terms of service to resist law enforcement demands. > - Users have the freedom to move to another instance if they are dissatisfied with the privacy measures. > > What can developers do? > - Implement end-to-end encryption of direct messages to protect sensitive content. > - The Kolektiva raid highlights the need for all decentralized content hosts to prioritize privacy and follow EFF's recommendations. > > Conclusion > - Decentralized platforms offer opportunities for user control, but user privacy protection is vital. > - Hosts, users, and developers must work together to build a more secure and privacy-focused Fediverse.
- www.theregister.com Want to live dangerously? Try running Windows XP in 2023
The pain and joy of using an old OS on hardware newer than it is
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Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node
lowendbox.com Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node (The Story of William Weber) - LowEndBoxGuns. Drugs. TOR. Child pornography. The long and twisted tale of LowEndTalk's famous member William goes deep.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2067119
> Man Found Guilty of Child Porn, Because He Ran a Tor Exit Node::undefined
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USA is sinking ship, India is rising tide
www.teamblind.com USA is sinking ship, India is rising tideIndia has so many startups these days: Meesho, Swiggy, Paytm, CRED, Groww, and more, while USA is dying from mass shootings, inflation, woke politics. In 20 years, all the world will be moving to India for tech jobs. Then Americans will know how back...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2066580
> Screenshots provided due to login wall > > —— > > let me browse this "tech" forum and see what kind of tech-related posts there are: > > > USA is sinking ship, India is rising tide > > > India has so many startups these days: Meesho, Swiggy, Paytm, CRED, Groww, and more, while USA is dying from mass shootings, inflation, woke politics. In 20 years, all the world will be moving to India for tech jobs. Then Americans will know how backlogged visa feels. > > ----- > > > india is going backward. will reach to 7th century if modi/bjp continues. > >> you must be a bhakt and not see reality. > >>> Didnt know some folks enjoyed mughal rapists and brit bayonets up theirs, and want it back so much. > >>>> Unfortunately, they have tremendous power and will get elected. I guess we are closer to 7th century. Now we will go back to BC. I am considering rural areas where people are still killed and woman are raped just because they are minorities > >>>>> Like Louisiana? > > There's like another 15 comments in this chain > > ! > > > India doesnt need a copycat - uber, amazon good enough what it need is clean public toilets, free birth control, mass transportation, side walk for people to live healthy lifestyle. What is the point of sitting in traffic for hours so much pollution, trash, poop, filtth, mosquitoes, dirt and potholes ? India is populous and it needs some unique solution cities more like in europe and singapore and not aspire to be like usa coz unfortunately its not gonna happen. > > > 700k H1b applications in 2023 and among them 550k is from India. Explains where people want to settle. > > ! > > ! > > OP, where do you live? Bangladesh? > > Can't forget the obligatory post asking if OP is from Pakistan or Bangladesh >
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Another Linux fanboy gets into a fight with BSD worshipers
old.reddit.com Why is this sub/BSD users so toxicI first came here to just learn more about a Desktop platform I haven't used (used Unix a few times for work) but instead of having the pros of a...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2055726
> Linux vs BSD is one of the funniest and most hilarious meme fights I see these days. > > Overall i think though that Linux OP was a bit of /r/lostredditors here because he came unprepared
- rdrama.net Running bark ai with pytorch 2 on a rx580 2048SP 8gb
[Bark](https://github.com/suno-ai/bark) is an AI text to speech generator WARN: You will NOT be able to run the full sized model with this card, you need 12gb of VRAM for that. You can however use the small model Following the guide [here](https://github.com/tsl0922/pytorch-gfx803) you can get th...