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For anyone who uses Discord, their new ToS revokes your right to sue. You can opt out of this clause by sending an email to
[email protected]Read the brief posted to Reddit.
Discord has changed their Terms of Service! Unfortunately, this change comes with a revocation of your legal rights. Discord has revoked your right to sue (you must go through an arbitrator) and to congregate as a class action lawsuit. Luckily, there is an opt-out for the clause, in which you must email [email protected], but you must do it within 30 days or you can no longer opt-out. YOU CANNOT DELETE OR DEACTIVATE YOUR ACCOUNT TO OPT-OUT OF THE ARBITRATION CLAUSE You can see the added clauses for yourself here: https://gist.github.com/Rapptz/c93697c9d59ec2f0d8071b7d0e907632 I will attempt to answer some common questions. Is this enforceable? In the United States, yes. This was decided by the Supreme Court in 2011. See https://gc.gy/7538114 In Europe, no. There are many clauses, a relevant one is Article 77 of the GDPR ("Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority"). Why does this matter? Without the ability to congregate for a class action lawsuit, if Discord ever leaks your data or does something catastrophically bad to a large portion of the population you have no way to representatively sue together without each of you individually suing via the arbitrator. Please see the following article: https://gc.gy/7538130 Essentially: Your right to file a complaint in the court of law is removed. The arbitration system tends to heavily favour the company rather than the consumer. Since your right to pool similar complaints together is taken away, the amount of damage you can do to a company that has wronged you significantly is limited to those who are willing to arbitrate. Why should I care? Other companies do it too! By learning about this I hope that you will be more conscious about these arbitration clauses and how anti-consumer they are. You can't change the past, but you surely can't predict the future either. -
@dustinb3403 I just opt-out of Discord, problem solved.
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Had no idea Winamp was still around...
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Samsung launches Snapdragon 850-powered Windows 2-in-1
Snapdragon 850 is Qualcomm's first chip explicitly for PC form factor.
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@dariena said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Had no idea Winamp was still around...
I think it is only technically still around. The website is still around
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Forums look to still be pretty active too.
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Meet Helm, the startup taking on Gmail with a server that runs in your home
Fee-based service couples the security of a private server with the reliability of the cloud. -
Curious little read. Mary Jo’s reporting is usually accurate.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-windows-server-2019-never-actually-rtmd-heres-why/
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@dariena said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Forums look to still be pretty active too.
Beyond people laughing at them?
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@mlnews said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Docomo, the wallet sized, Japanese cell phone.
/sigh....
WTF is Docomo?
The actual link: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/10/this-business-card-sized-japanese-phone-bucks-the-giant-phone-trend/
The actual title of the article: This business card-sized Japanese phone bucks the giant-phone trend
The actual name of the phone: KY-O1L
The name of the company that makes the phone: Kyocera
Why do you continually try so hard to make your own titles...
For the record, NTT Docomo is the name of one of Japan's major cell phone carriers. NTT Docomo, will be releasing this phone in late November.
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If Supermicro boards were so bug-ridden, why would hackers ever need implants?
Whether spy chips reported by Bloomberg existed, attackers had much easier options.By now, everyone knows the premise behind two unconfirmed Bloomberg articles that have dominated security headlines over the past week: spies from China got multiple factories to sneak data-stealing hardware into Supermicro motherboards before the servers that used them were shipped to Apple, Amazon, an unnamed major US telecommunications provider, and more than two dozen other unnamed companies.
Motherboards that wound up inside the networks of Apple, Amazon, and more than two dozen unnamed companies reportedly included a chip no bigger than a grain of rice that funneled instructions to the baseboard management controller, a motherboard component that allows administrators to monitor or control large fleets of servers, even when they’re turned off or corrupted. The rogue instructions, Bloomberg reported, caused the BMCs to download malicious code from attacker-controlled computers and have it executed by the server’s operating system.
Motherboards that Bloomberg said were discovered inside a major US telecom had an implant built into their Ethernet connector that established a “covert staging area within sensitive networks.” Citing Yossi Appleboum, a co-CEO of the security company reportedly hired to scan the unnamed telecom’s network for suspicious devices, Bloomberg said the rogue hardware was implanted at the time the server was being assembled at a Supermicro subcontractor factory in Guangzhou. Like the tiny chip reportedly controlling the BMC in Apple and Amazon servers, Bloomberg said the Ethernet manipulation was “designed to give attackers invisible access to data on a computer network.”
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@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
@dariena said in Miscellaneous Tech News:
Forums look to still be pretty active too.
Beyond people laughing at them?
Cruel... but funny.
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Amazon patents Alexa tech to tell if you’re sick, depressed and sell you meds
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Apple CEO Tim Cook calls on Bloomberg to retract its Chinese spy story
"We were very clear with them that this did not happen," Cook tells BuzzFeed.Apple CEO Tim Cook is calling on Bloomberg Business to retract a story that said his company was the victim of a hardware-based attack carried out by the Chinese government. It's the first time Apple has ever publicly demanded a retraction, according to BuzzFeed......
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