Notices by Krupo (krupo@infosec.exchange)

@patrickcmiller great lede

"How do we know there was dramaaaa? Even Vanity Fair piled in."

@horse combine it with a SharePoint style check-in/check-out system for maximum carnage.

@horse erased a bunch of "rich text" content from my comments.

It used to support this content. Whenever I got the last update applied reopening the document auto-nuked the rich text.

I didn't realize how upset I could get over Microsoft breaking their Word comment feature but they hit a new low.

Hours of work. Erased.

Astounding.

Of course I don't trust that company with anything serious so I had a backup. Of course restoring my work from the backup is still a pain.

I just look forward to the next surprising piece of idiocy.

The latest @pluralistic is full of so many fantastic points. I've forwarded this a half dozen ways with seperate pull quotes for each friend

"For a lot of people, the analysis stops here. "If you're not paying for the product, you're the product." Google locks in users and sells them to advertisers, who are their co-conspirators in a scheme to screw the rest of us.

But that's not right. For one thing, paying for a product doesn't mean you won't be the product. Apple charges a thousand bucks for an iPhone and then nonconsensually spies on every iOS user in order to target ads to them (and lies about it):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

John Deere charges six figures for its tractors, then runs a grift that blocks farmers from fixing their own machines, and then uses their control over repair to silence farmers who complain about it:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/31/dealers-choice/#be-a-shame-if-something-were-to-happen-to-it "

All from: https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/03/not-feeling-lucky/#fundamental-laws-of-economics

@mainframed767 @thomasfuchs it's not a racist desire to keep racists out of your community, Tommy.