Political Microtargeting by EU Commission illegal

1y 6mon ago in europe@feddit.org from noyb.eu

Is DuckDuckGo/Bing still viable for piracy?

1y 6mon ago in piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

In my experience, Yandex has always been better for piracy than any other search engine.

Looking for suggestions

1y 7mon ago in buttcoin@awful.systems

I made the "what happens with the child porn stored in the blockchain" question and the guy didn't know what I was talking about. I'm waiting for the video to go up live to contact some of the people financing this and ask them if they're comfortable with that.

Start-up incubator Y Combinator backs its first weapons firm

1y 9mon ago in techtakes@awful.systems from www.ft.com

Yes, it is. I didn't see the old thread, sorry for the noise.

Paywall-free link: https://archive.ph/8Em1V

Privacy.com in Europe?

1y 11mon ago in privacy@lemmy.ml

In Spain at least I have two small alternatives to this:

  • Paypal (I don't like it too much, but it works fine).
  • A prepaid credit card offered through my bank. Good for sites that don't look too trustworthy but I need to buy from. I just activate it, load it with whatever amount I need, I make the transaction, then disable it again. Even if it gets leaked no one can take any money out.

For everything else I have a virtual credit card number that's not dynamic, but at least it's something I use exclusively for online stuff.

Here you get a debit card by default with your bank account, and that one's free. You might get a credit one, but credit limits are typically low. I lived in Canada for 9 years and by the time I left I had a CC with a limit of 26k CAD. Here my Spanish credit card has a limit of 1.2k euros, and I've had it for quite a long time.

In Spain at least there's quite a lot of confusion with this. People call any card type a "credit card", even debit ones.

The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam Economy

1y 11mon ago in buttcoin@awful.systems from www.wired.com

I can read it (probably Cookie AutoDelete), but does this link help? https://archive.ph/kTa9X

"Ignore all previous instructions" as a trigger for Twitter bots

1y 11mon ago in enshittification from mastodon.de

In praise of libgen

2y 10d ago in piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

I'm not completely sure. Sometimes I find stuff in one site I don't find in any of the other two. Also, I don't know how often catalogues are synced.

Yes. I combine libgen with Anna's Archive and Z-Library and there's very, very little I can't find.

Combine that with KOReader and this is pure bliss.

Slack by default using messages, files etc for building and training LLM models

2y 1mon ago in techtakes@awful.systems from mastodon.social

In response to Google

2y 1mon ago in techtakes@awful.systems from www.wheresyoured.at

US urged Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian oil refineries

2y 2mon ago in europe@feddit.de from www.ft.com

The AI-generated hell of the 2024 election

2y 2mon ago in cybersecurity@infosec.pub from www.theverge.com