Re: I don't really give a fuck that they got hacked...
To go with the "household information" that they retain.
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["Code evidences that [AppLovin] is collecting and structuring user IDs from its key platform partners, which appears to be a major violation of the platforms’ terms of service (TOS)," the firm said in a note on its website. ... Foroughi again responded in a blog post, arguing that the biz's advertising pixel – used to track and attribute online ads – is no different from those used by Google or Facebook.]
I read Foroughi's post and he used a lot of words to say 'everyone does it', but failed to address the "major violation of the platforms’ terms of service" criticism.
[Brother's US limb did, however, tell Ars Technica: "We are aware of the recent false claims suggesting that a Brother firmware update may have restricted the use of third-party ink cartridges. Please be assured that Brother firmware updates do not block the use of third-party ink in our machines."]
The complaint wasn't that third-party ink was blocked... just the performance deliberately downgraded in that case.
When I worked for a company (Mixam: anag.) in Sunnyvale, they put up a new office building and multi-story car park that accessed the flat-roof entrance of the new office building. The MSCP's cameras were either fake or simply never connected to a system, so no coverage. The roof access had to be unlocked for fire reasons, and word got out, so there was a spate of thefts by people wandering in, looking like they worked there, and pilfering stuff from cubicles.
It's not difficult to strip the nonsense out of Win11.
Run tiny11builder https://github.com/ntdevlabs/tiny11builder/tree/main to rebuild the iso so the nonsense isn't installed. The link shows what's removed.
This will install with secureboot and tpm disabled in the uefi (I recommend that), which means that MS won't force an upgrade later that you may not want becuase the install fails the hardware test.
Install as local account.
After install, use Winaero Tweaker to disable other unwanted features.
Last recommendation... partition your drive (or use two drives) with a small C:\ drive for the OS (128GB SSD is fine), and the rest of the space or second drive (HDD if you like) for D:\ with Documents, Temp etc moved to there. Then it's quick to backup the small C:\ reasonably frequently as an image (DD will do that for free), whereas the D:\ stuff you can backup more often just by copying.
Try living abroad when you don't have to do a UK tax return due to mutual treaty... HMRC still press hard for you still to do so, because of the 7 year rule. Even though I wrung a letter from HMRC confirming that I don't have to do a UK tax return, twice since then they've written saying that I do, only to back off when provided with a copy of said missive and a suitably strong letter, summarised as "Oy! We've agreed this!".
The features all require surveillance because the analysis is on MS systems. These types of useless features are simply to make it legally obvious to users that the minutae of their computer interactions are being monitored by MS to build a detailed profile of each user.
Pre-crime will be interesting when the real-time analyses from, say, MS, FB, your ISP, gmail, youtube, search engines all point to a person likely to kill their spouse...
What's funny is that ARs has cross-posted to this story with the lede "Company claims 1,000 percent price hike drove it from VMware to open source rival"... but the wording here "A bill from Broadcom for ten times the sum it previously paid for software licenses" means that the price hike is 900%.
Yeah, I'm being pedantic... but from a technical site???
Q remains the only time I've requested a chargeback on a credit card. During early Covid, or course, and Q cancelled the flight so the law is clear. No, we have lovely vouchers to offer you or you can go through these amazing phone-in hoops to get the refund. Oh, and separate hoops for the base ticket price and for the extra cost for seat upgrade, despite being bought at the same time and part of the same ticket charge. They didn't dispute the chargeback. I'm sure people have similar Air Canada tales of woe too.
"it's got a self-screwed up culture"... but the management likely thinks that the screwed up culture is the selfish lazy workforce not taking one for the team, when actually the union and whistleblower activity shows that the the workforce is thoroughly pissed off with taking one for the team for years, with no improvement.
One of the real problems is that Boeing did massive stock buy-backs which pushed up stock price and enriched the stockholders (including top level management), and also burnt the cash stockpile that could othewise be spent now to fix the endemic manufacturing quality issues.
Every country with a sigint service is "scanning for your unpatched vulnerabilities".
Including US and UK.
Since most people haven't a clue how to, say, install DD-WRT or OpenWrt on their home router, this is just a another useless scare story propagandising Russia=Bad, by the same people who pretend that a back door into encryption for the Good Guys won't be exploited by World+Dog.
I think that you've spotted the real reason. Firstly, when UK goes cashless HMG will see what other deposits are going in. Secondly, the bit "The bill is also expected to ... protect vulnerable claimants from racking up debt, DWP said." implies that people will be penalise for spending money on anything HMG disapproves of, such as donations to non-profits working on stuff HMG doesn't like.
Yes, this looks very shady. Combing through school records for sure (it's an opt-out: https://edlaw4students.com/military-records-release/) but doubtless having access to FB and other data too.
I'm sure the software doesn't just identify cold-call targets, but works out the mostly effective wording for the pitch to each target individually.
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The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act of 1988 (the "WARN Act") is a U.S. labor law that protects employees, their families, and communities by requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to provide notification 60 calendar days in advance of planned closings and mass layoffs of employees.
An opt-out option is worthless if the opt-out is ignored. And it will be, partly because it will be very difficult to discover that a particular patient's data is shared, and partly because the punishment will be a cost of doing business fine 7 years later but no redress.
If this sounds too cynical, ask yourself who has received a custodial sentence as a result of the Grenfell disaster, final report out now.
Actually it is legal to shout "Fire!" in a crowded theatre. Hate speech is also legal. The exception to the 4A is speech that incites immediate violence. So "I wish Fred would die painfully" to a bunch of friends is fine, but saying to a crowd "I want y'all to go and beat Fred over there to death" is not.
https://www.whalenlawoffice.com/blog/legal-mythbusting-series-yelling-fire-in-a-crowded-theater/