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"Spy Pet" secretly recorded your Discord messages. Now, they're being sold to anyone with a few dollars.
  • I mean you are right to eschew discord but this isn't really particular to discord. Scraping messages for something like this can be done on any public chat room regardless of which boxes you may have that it ticks; it it's floss, decentralized, nationalized, communist, on the blockchain, indie, community run, simple protocols, whatever, in the end if anyone can read it then someone can scrape it. Discord was targeted because it was popular that is all.

    Unless you eschew discord because it's popular and not because it sucks in which case score one for the hipsters I guess.

  • Israel's defence against Iran attack 'cost over $1bn'
  • If Israel escalates to a war with Iran it will lose to cost asymmetry

    However Israel will win the posting war by gish galloping mind numbingly brazen posts like this that do completely disproportionate psychic damage to anyone debunking it.

  • A Huge Number of Homeowners Have Mortgage Rates Too Good to Give Up
  • This article reframes people being able to afford to stay in their homes as some kind of crisis.

    Not present at any point in this article; any evidence that any American is stuck in a home they would rather leave. They couldn't even be bothered to quote a single homeowner who wanted to move let alone anything indicating that this is a common sentiment.

    The only evidence cited are previous rates of housing mobility which are then taken simply as a natural norm with any deviation an unwanted aberration.

    The idea that people might generally want to live in the homes they bought long term is not considered. The idea that those who move or downsize are often doing so reluctantly under pressure from their mortgage is not considered.

  • Smart locks securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can open them remotely.
  • True but I also think there are good use cases for such locks and would probably buy one if there were an open source lock available, or even one with easily replaceable firmware that was affordable.

    Important thing to remember is that all locks are at best an inconvenience for any dedicated intruder and also to yourself if it fails.

  • On Contradiction
  • after r/cth got big reddit starting purging leftist mods from any subreddit that started gaining traction before they outright banned cth and blocked any account associated with it from starting subreddits

  • that ain't legal either
  • I can excuse attempting to compromise millions of computer systems worldwide for nefarious purposes but I draw the line at violating the contributor guidelines of an opensource project.

  • Yeah, that baby emu(?) chick and its dad are nice but what you are forgetting is...
  • bluesky users pretending that it's a real contender to activitypub and will become decentralized any minute now.

    bluesky users also not understanding if it were decentralized then it cant stop Putin from making an account.

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