resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
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Dear browser developers: plz implement a timer that imposes a 10 sec. limit on #javascript (per tab). After 10 sec, put the js process to sleep if it's still running. Give users a "10 more seconds" button if they need it to continue running more.
@walfischbucht @cypnk @gemlog Thanks for the info. I was boycotting Braun because of the battery issue, but I also boycott P&G for financing a right-wing #climateDenial PAC, so I guess I'll continue the Braun boycott even if they fix stop soldering batteries.
@gemlog Part of the problem is that all US credit bureaus are currently violating the FCRA law which requires them to disclose the sources of info they obtain. They comply w.r.t. account history, but they never tell consumers where they got the contact info. The penalty is $1k, but no one has been able to successfully sue the credit bureaus b/c plaintiffs still must prove damages.
@gemlog but then the question is, would the credit bureau buy possibly unreliable data like that and add to consumer files for reporting?
@gemlog The 1st question is whether the merchant shares the email address with the bank in the course of a purchase transaction, which would perhaps make the data reliable for the bank to share it with a credit bureau. If the data takes another path, like being sold to data miners, then the bank doesn't even matter (the credit bureau can buy it directly)
@gemlog @cypnk Great news. This #RightToRepair law could even benefit Americans. Consider that Braun & Norelco/Philips design their electric shavers to self-destruct if you try to replace the battery. I think these are German companies. Will they manufacture separate self-destructing models for outside the EU? Unlikely. The world will benefit from this.
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Gab, the far-right website, has been hacked and 70GB of data leaked. Including Trump's personal account.
@acesabe @Some_Emo_Chick #Gab: "we'll just use CloudFlare so we don't have to think about security"
@mupan Hence my question. I think they only share with banks information that is used for verification, which I believe is just shipping address.
@mupan And when they do, they could change the keyword so that I wouldn't know if it was the credit bureau who leaked it. I like knowing who leaks my address. So I supply banks with a manually generated address. It's more work but I know they will share it. But I prefer not to do that for every shop, so I use on-the-fly addresses for shops, hoping that they won't share with the banks.
@mupan I do something similar. I use a forwarding acct. Some forwarding accounts us on-the-fly address generation, and some use manually generated ones. On-the-fly addresses are the most convenient, but they always show a username either to the left or right of the "@". Spam control is decent, but the username exposure means anyone with access to my credit file can reach me by email.
If someone pays by credit card for an online order, do vendors normally disclose the customer's email address to the bank (who might then share it with the credit bureaus)? I think my credit report only shows email addresses that I've directly given to banks.
@hund The sweet spot was a few years ago, when you could use #GNUCash for a rich GUI (but useless for automation & CLI work), and #ledger-cli could operate on the same db as GC. Then ledger dropped support for GC, which really makes life hard. I hack an old ledger-cli to keep it on life support but I'm not sure how long that can be sustained.
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This article claims the US #census was breached - 200 million people compromized. The date of the article was 2020-03-20. Isn't that too soon to have collected the data? https://www.techradar.com/news/major-data-breach-exposes-database-of-200-million-users Perhaps it's from the 2010 census.
@woozle @dysphoricunicorn That's a bad place for a petition because #changeDotOrg is a privacy-abusing and exclusive #CloudFlare site. I will never sign a chg dot org #petition. Important petitions should be on sites like http://openpetition.org/
@dublinux @wuwei BTW, #Lemmy & #Lenny are both still broken on #UngoogledChromium.
@Sylphox @postmarketOS lemmy.ml is a lousy instance for sure, but calling #Antifa ppl "pro-fascist" isn't the most accurate phrasing. In any case, #postmarketOS should find a different instance.
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