Bravebros stay winning! Seeing a lot of people switch to brave recently. @BraveShill working overtime?

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xvjdz9/brave_will_block_annoying_cookie_consent_pop_ups/

https://x.com/brave/status/1577024437383200768

Brave is about to solve one of the most frustrating problems with browsing the web

The developers behind Brave Browser have announced that it will begin to block cookie consent notice popups that negatively impact browsing experience for many users.

In an update, the anonymous browser’s Privacy Updates blog called cookie consent an "infamous and near-constant annoyance”, while citing an academic study that found many browser popups track users across the internet regardless of their choice.

Fighting back against Google’s privacy changes

Brave cited Google’s latest raft of proposed changes to Chrome as reasons why an open web, and content-blocking cowtools, must be fought for, starting with blocking cookie consent popups.

These changes include its upcoming switch to the Manifest V3 API, the plan to consolidate websites into single files via a new standard named WebBundles and the Privacy Sandbox initiative it has in development.

"The Web is built to be open. On the one hand, that’s great: It means privacy-protecting Web cowtools like Brave can act on behalf of users, and protect them from Web abuses and annoyances. On the other hand, cookie banners highlight how much worse the Web will get if Google succeed in weakening users’ ability to block such annoyances,” Brave said in its announcement .

https://archived.moe/g/thread/88998035

Unironically a sigma chad move

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33085410

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/xv1hq9/feds_seized_311m_in_bitcoin_and_a_crypto_hacker/

Millions in Cryptocurrency Vanished as Agents Watched Helplessly

Feds locked up a storage device full of ill-gotten tokens.

Months later, Larry closed down the mixer, having performed 356,000 Bitcoin transactions.

Working with Chainalysis, a blockchain analytics company, the agents studied thousands of Helix transactions, subpoenaed emails, and ultimately found one involving a website that allows users to buy gift cards with Bitcoin.

He talked to agents that morning and attended the hearing where prosecutors convinced a judge that Larry was a flight risk and should stay locked up.

Gary is “not the sharpest tool in the shed and did not think through the consequences for his brother” before he moved the Bitcoin, the informant said.

And then there was the picture on his phone, included in the government’s court filings, of the bathtub of bills.

Rare based move from EU.

https://old.reddit.com/r/gadgets/comments/xvctao/eu_lawmakers_impose_single_charger_for_all/

EU lawmakers impose single charger for all smartphones

Apple resisted the EU legislation, saying it stifled innovation.

The EU parliament on Tuesday passed a new law requiring USB-C to be the single charger standard for all new smartphones, tablets and cameras from late 2024.

It is expected to save at least 200 million euros ($195 million) per year and cut more than a thousand tons of EU electronic waste every year, the bloc's competition chief Margrethe Vestager said.

The EU move is expected to ripple around the world.

But it resisted EU legislation to force a change away from its Lightning ports on its iPhones, saying that was disproportionate and would stifle innovation.

However some users of its latest flagship iPhone models—which can capture extremely high-resolution photos and videos in massive data files—complain that the Lightning cable transfers data at only a bare fraction of the speed USB-C does.

Orange Site discussion

Orange site (President of VLC commented!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33077441

VideoLAN, the developer and operator of popular media player VLC, has filed a legal notice to India's IT and Telecom ministries, alleging that the Indian bodies failed to notify the software developer before banning its website and did not afford it a chance for an explanation.

Indian telecom operators have been blocking VideoLAN's website, where it lists links to downloading VLC, since February of this year, VideoLan president and lead developer Jean-Baptiste Kempf told TechCrunch in an earlier interview. India is one of the largest markets for VLC.

"Most major ISPs [internet service providers] are banning the site, with diverse techniques," he said of the blocking in India. The telecom operators began blocking the VideoLan website on February 13 of this year, when the site saw a drop of 80% in traffic from the South Asian market, he said.

Now, VideoLAN, in assistance with local advocacy group Internet Freedom Foundation, is using legal means to get answers and redressal. It has sought a copy of the blocking order for banning VideoLAN website in India and an opportunity to defend the case through a virtual hearing.

In the notice, VideoLAN argues that the way Indian ministries have enforced the ban on the website, they violate their own local laws. The letter adds:

As per Rule 8 of the Information Technology (Procedure and Safeguards for Blocking for Access of Information by Public) Rules, 2009 ('Blocking Rules') and the ruling of the Supreme Court in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, government officers responsible for issuing a blocking order are required to: (i) make all reasonable efforts to identify the originator or intermediary hosting the information to be blocked, (ii) issue a notice to such person, (iii) provide a hearing to such person before the concerned authority, and (iv) provide a copy of a reasoned blocking order to the person concerned prior to the hearing. Despite this, the URL, which allows users to download VLC was blocked by the DoT without any prior notice, or an opportunity of hearing to VideoLAN.

Indian telecom operators have not explained why they have blocked the VideoLan website, but some speculate that it could be because of a misinterpretation of a security warning from earlier this year.

Security firm Symantec reported in April this year that the hacker group Cicada, which has ties with the Chinese government, was exploiting VLC Media Player as well as several other popular applications to gain remote access to the victim’s computers. Kempf said he or his firm had not been contacted by any Indian government agency and the block is likely a result of a misunderstanding of the Chinese security issue.

But by blocking the website, India is pushing its citizens to “shady websites that are running hacked version of VLC. So they are endangering their own citizens with this ban,” Kempf said earlier.

In the legal notice, VideoLAN warns that failure to comply with its request will compel the open source firm to initiate legal proceedings. “Any such proceedings, if initiated, shall be solely at your risk, cost, and for breach of your own rules,” the notice adds.

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/xvjbyz/elon_musk_agrees_to_acquire_twitter_wsb_discusses/

https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/xvj3yh/tesla_ceo_elon_musk_said_to_propose_to_twitter_to/

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33085269

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/xusqal/fcc_threatens_to_block_calls_from_carriers_for/

DNS Providers as Piracy Fighters? Enforcement Groups Weigh Options * TorrentFreak

DNS Providers as Piracy Fighters? Enforcement Groups Weigh Options

The World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement recently heard how DNS providers have the ability to fight online piracy but could also face liability as secondary infringers. Veiled warnings like these are nothing new, but with piracy colossus Fmovies cited as a primary example, pressure on DNS entities is building once again. In the fight against piracy, not only do the smallest gains require an unusual effort but they're increasingly dependent on the cooperation of third parties, usually those in the online tech sector. If these companies can't be convinced to commit business resources to the piracy war voluntarily, lawsuits and mandatory conscription can lie ahead.

The message – that internet companies must tackle piracy or be held responsible for taking part in it – is nothing new.

Control The Phone Book, Control Communications

A presentation prepared for the recent Fifteenth Session of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Advisory Committee on Enforcement begins with a brief explainer of the Domain Name System and how it works. The fundamental importance of DNS to the internet is glaringly obvious. So that humans don't have to remember thousands of IP addresses to access their favorite websites, the DNS system holds all of those numbers in a database and matches them to more easily remembered domain names. When domain names are entered into a browser , DNS converts the domain into an IP address and the page appears.

Following legal action, ISPs in dozens of countries are now required to prevent their customers from accessing sites like thepiratebay.org. Critics say that internet infrastructure shouldn't tell lies to its users. If The Pirate Bay's resistance to shutdown helped to fuel the early days of pirate site blocking, sites like FMovies may end up shouldering the blame for more extreme measures. With close to 87 million visits per month via desktop alone, FMovies is not only massive but quite possibly the most comprehensive pirate VOD-style streaming site available today.

Hollywood companies have forced ISPs in several countries to tamper with the site's local DNS entries after obtaining injunctions or voluntary cooperation. Perhaps the most surprising thing about the presentation is that it talks about options for action against DNS, yet reveals the countries where FMovies has infrastructure, names the companies allegedly supporting that infrastructure, and puts their locations on a map. The presentation has some ideas but before we come to them, it might be worth looking at the slide again. OVH and M247, two companies listed as serving FMovies, are very large hosting operations and couldn't hide even if they wanted to.

The presentation to the WIPO Enforcement Committee even states that DNS resolvers are completely incapable of removing infringing content. “The legal frameworks and case law lack a clear picture at international and national levels. Sony Music certainly hopes that will be enough.

Cloudflare Ordered to Block Pirate Sites

In July, an Italian court ordered Cloudflare to block three torrent sites on its public DNS resolver 1.1. 1.1. Music industry group FIMI said that since the Cloudflare service helps people to access pirate sites, Cloudflare becomes part of the piracy problem. The court agreed and issued a preliminary injunction against Cloudflare.

While it has been compelled to block in both Italy and in Germany, Cloudflare recently said it will fight any ‘global' blocking requests if they target its 1.1. 1.1 DNS resolver.

Less Aggressive Options

If DNS entities get tired of the lawsuits, it's possible they could be tempted by so-called non-fault injunctions, the presentation suggests. Everyone involved acknowledges that the intermediaries are in a good position to help out and that everyone's rights should be respected under the principle of proportionality. By designating groups such as the MPA as ‘Trusted Notifiers', DNS entities could follow the lead of two domain registries and decide what should be blocked in private. “Proactive measures by DNS providers to discourage online infringement and other illegal activity should be adopted, such as ensuring accuracy of registrant/WHOIS data.

Voluntary reactive measures, such as trusted notifier arrangements, should be encouraged,” the presentation concludes . WIPO says that the views in the presentation on DNS providers and resolvers are those of the authors and are not necessarily shared by WIPO members.

Research

Movie & Music Piracy Acceptable to a Growing Number of U.S.

LMAO just let apple frick itself out of market share. NFT people don't give a shit what the platform is and opensea 2.5 percent already getting undercut by emerging competition.

Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them.

Hint: It has to do with chasing promotions. 🤦‍♂️ pic.twitter.com/u9nwleGxHK

— Peter Yang (@petergyang) October 3, 2022

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18379394

tl;dr

Fandom [...] has acquired a portfolio of entertainment and gaming brands from Red Ventures - GameSpot, Metacritic, TV Guide, GameFAQs, Giant Bomb, Cord Cutters News and Comic Vine.

Fandom will extend its 360 programs for its advertising partners [...] and enhance the data and insights within FanDNA, Fandom’s proprietary data platform.

It will be amusing to see how they inject autoplay videos and ads into old text guides on GameFAQs.

Following the open-source release of Stable Diffusion, photos of violently beaten Asian women generated by Stable Diffusion were posted in online chat rooms. Reports also indicate that several 4chan threads have been dedicated to Stable Diffusion-generated pornography, some of which portray real people. In a message posted to users of the Stable Diffusion Groomercord, Stability AI Founder and CEO Emad Mostaque said to Stable Diffusion users, “If you want to make NSFW [Not Suitable for Work] or offensive things make it on your own GPUs when the model is released.” Mr. Mostaque then went on to tell users which GPUs were compatible with its model for the sake of using it to generate illicit content , content Mr. Mostaque knew or should have known would likely include illegal content.

Iran is literally locking in and shooting its best and brightest students. #MahsaAmini

(This is at Sharif University, which my father helped establish, it is one of the most elite technical universities in the world) https://t.co/wZqKnGYBOL

— Hadi Partovi (@hadip) October 2, 2022

Imagine being this dumb of a country

This entire comment section is filled with seething webshits, pick any subthread in there and it's glorious. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33056077

Absolute anal apocalypse.

Read it here

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33061826

I lied about the title actually he doesn't talk about s but he fricking goes OFF about Rust in his Kernel being mostly fricking useless.

Even "safe" rust code in user space will do things like panic when things go wrong (overflows, allocation failures, etc). If you don't realize that that is NOT some kind of true safely, I don't know what to say.

Although I may be wrong, I believe Rust does have compile-time failsafes for overflows

You had a bug. Shit happens. We have a lot of debugging cowtools that will give you a HUGE warning when said shit happens

Probably the best take out of this. Most Rust arguments are completely invalidated by the fact that Rust developers are just fricking lazy and too willing to blame a language than to blame their shitty programming skills

Deal with it.

Or, you know, if you can't deal with the rules that the kernel requires, then just don't do kernel programming.

Polite way to say "Frick off"

Who knew the site was full of chuds?