Two very different “blimey Charlie, ave a banana” moments from the article:
“A fruit and vegetable wholesaler in London was also affected but prevented the attack from escalating by pulling the internet connection to its cold storage units out at the wall”.
And
“The attackers attempting to take over the dummy controls remained anonymous, but most of the authentication attempts used the manufacturer’s publicly documented factory-default username and password credentials”.
FuckAI and what its doing to our world, economy, and to human beings but… why is Proton getting the hard treatment when so many other “AI first” businesses get a free pass to exploit/consume/destroy? Eli5: What is it about this specific privacy-focused business that has caused it to be so vociferously singled out for punishment? Like, have the people calling for migrating away from Proton stopped using Amazon, Atislan, Facebook, Twitter, Adobe etc?
That is some headline. “Tisch” is a person apparently, not a sound you make when you are disappointed. I have no idea what “Meta-banned” refers to, or why it’s relevant to the NYPD - does Facebook no longer using it mean the NYPD are prevented from using it?
Careful now: It’s addictive. I played 350 hours - two whole weeks.
Nice. Maybe do a “Cold dead hands” text version to appeal to the freedom and 2nd ammendment fans.
Yes, plain text is the way to go. Advertising, special offer, promotion emails, reminders from brands you have subscribed to etc filter themselves out in to two categories when you see only text: those who bother to use words to tell you something (and might be worth reading), or brands whose emails contain virtually nothing (apart from a handy unsubscribe link) once the pretty pictures have been expunged.
Long term storage for masses of cold data seems like it would be useful for when it rarely needs to be retrieved - my mind goes to user data like location and search terms for later use by law enforcement (but I am paranoid and all out of tinfoil). What innocuous real world uses would this data in this format be used eternal but infrequent recall?
I think the most alarming thing about this is the 72 hour claim. Are we expected to be pacified or reassured that the government will be able to respond within 3 days if an unexpected catastrophic event occurred - an attack on our water supply systems (or destruction of a couple of reservoirs) would lead to weeks or months of outages. It will take MPs a month to conclude the debate on a proposal for a consultation on a response.
I counted at least 14 brave men in uniform cowering behind one of their giant freedom trucks in response to a man with a stick (who seems to be distraught, or having a mental health crisis). Such an arse-backwards country.
No offence to our North American friends, but as whole, your nation is really fucking stupid. We should let the next global pandemic run wild on the older folk to bring about some kind of reset.
Not prefect, but The Canary offered something that might have been lacking in wider political news sources. There is a lot of space for emotional and catastrophising right-wing opinion - its a shame that the centre and left are largely missing (and yes, yes, the BBC is obviously a state-funded far left extremist pro-Corbyn mouthpiece aimed at disabled lesbian trans people - but apart from the liberal lefties at the BBC, the voices we hear from within the BBC and our news media in general, are often right leaning).
Interesting. It doesn’t even mention Add Ons or Extensions (unless I missed ut, I only saw webGL extensions). I know a lot of it is inferred, but is still remarkably accurate. The “Times you looked away” box being accurate for me was a real slap in the chops.
Like the Police, a few “bad apples” will show themselves but, this is people protesting that schools and education in France are underfunded, dilapidated and children do not have materials to learn while they are in cold, drafty classrooms with leaking roofs. I see an increase in funding for schools and education in France’s very near future. There is a a good reason why the retirement age in France was not raised even after the government announced that the age of retirement / pension entitlement would be raised. Anyone calling this rioting is a class traitor or a shill.
As I get older I see the same stories being rinsed and repeated for regular public consumption. This story from 2020 shows how bus and trains in the midlands have had similar measures in place for some time: https://www.wmca.org.uk/news/new-set-of-byelaws-to-clamp-down-on-anti-social-behaviour-on-the-buses/ and this one from April 2025 outlining the Lib Dem plans for £1000 fines and travel bans https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly5g7v2qddo was so popular that the Tories recycled it and trumpted it as a great new idea in August 2025: https://news.sky.com/story/ban-passengers-playing-loud-music-on-public-transport-say-tories-13417519 None of them look at enforcing the rules that are already in place. There already exists bylaws to prohibit this kind of behaviour but zero thought about enforcing them.
I feel old. I remember this story from 2010. Its almost word for word:
Elon “Pedo Guy” Musk was found not guilty when his defence boiled down to “Musk says he would not be insulted if the epithet ‘Pedo Guy’ was used to describe Musk and his island hopping extravagant lifestyle”
I like eBay - you can find and support good small sellers (people who are similar to you, just every day regular people). What made you stop shopping at Amazon out of interest? For me it was learning how Amazon treat their employees and union organisers. The pissing in bottles, the leaving the dead man lying on the floor and making people woe to around his corpse. The making people come in during a hurricane. This was 10 - 15 years ago (way before the Ring camera and AWS stuff came out); a buddy of mine get a job in an Amazon distribution centre (UK) and did 47000 steps in one shift. Some horror stories from there. So far eBay seems like the better option IMHO
I might be wrong, but they have not done anything to affect the privacy credentials of their privacy-centred vegetable dish. Unless Proton have they previously declared that they would not stuff AI in user and employees faces, I am struggling to understand why Proton specifically has triggered a backlash.
Sorry: I started with vegetable analogy but gave up halfway - the meat of the response is lost without the privacy/AI context.