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despitegirls t1_jac9qmf wrote

Reply to comment by LiberalFartsMajor in U.S. cyber official praises Apple security and suggests Microsoft, Twitter need to step it up by vanhalenbr

According to the report, 95% of Apple users use MFA on iCloud compared to about 25% of Microsoft corporate customers, and less than 3% of Twitter users.

You can call it butthole licking if you want but those are the numbers each company disclosed. This sub is generally pretty skeptical of Apple, Microsoft, and Google to varying degrees from what I've seen.

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Ronny_Jotten t1_jac9lat wrote

Reply to comment by RabbitSlayre in This Hacker Hoodie Uses Surveillance Camera Parts to Blind Surveillance Cameras | The 'Camera Shy Hoodie' renders its wearer anonymous to night vision surveillance cameras, using infrared LEDs usually found in the cameras themselves. by chrisdh79

I guess all it takes is an art student who's leaning into the self-promotion, and some "news" sites like Vice, PopSci, etc., that really want you to click on their links.

I mean, he has some other work that's not bad, and it got me to look at his website, so mission accomplished I guess. But it did leave me with the feeling that it's a bit narcissistic to hype something that's such a well-known, decades-old shtick, without acknowledging that. Maybe it's a useful quality in an artist... but it's not a necessary one.

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ixid t1_jac9l1l wrote

Reply to comment by slantedangle in Students can quote ChatGPT in essays as long as they do not pass the work off as their own, international qualification body says by Parking_Attitude_519

We're talking about pre-university level education, talking about quoting sources is rather grandiose. Most kids just look at the textbook and wikipedia. ChatGPT is not even lowering the level. Hopefully the context wasn't lost on you.

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HanaBothWays t1_jac9ad2 wrote

Reply to Facebook, Instagram backing new 'Take It Down' platform for minors to remove sexually explicit images online by Vivid_Impression2508

This is an expansion of the existing tool to remove CSAM which has been around for a long time.

If you are a teenager and someone spread around the photos you shared with them, or if you’re an adult now but someone spread around nude photos of you as a teen from way back when (or you’re worried that they will as a form of revenge porn), you can upload hashes of those photos to this tool and they will be detected and removed when someone uploads them, like known CSAM content is.

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slantedangle t1_jac8uj2 wrote

Reply to comment by ixid in Students can quote ChatGPT in essays as long as they do not pass the work off as their own, international qualification body says by Parking_Attitude_519

Even if you used chatgpt for READING comprehension, you wouldn't want them to quote it for submitting an essay. You would always want them to quote the source in homework or a test or a thesis, something the student WROTE. Hopefully the context wasn't lost on you.

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stappernn t1_jac6uju wrote

Reply to comment by GMW-5610 in Netflix Drops Prices in 30 Countries by No-Drawing-6975

> Then it's not legal. You are basically using a paid link to a direct download. Where is the file coming from? > >

thats for me to know and me only :)

>Then it's not legal.

if you cant prove it , it didnt happen.

>Services like Real Debrid live off user submitted content, none of it is legal because you are not paying who actually made the movie.

and why are they in business for like 10 years? because it IS legal , otherwise they would have shut them down. this is not some deep web service this is accessible from regular internet and you can pay with Mastercard because its LEGAL.

>none of it is legal because you are not paying who actually made the movie.

thats not a crime, you are making up crimes now.

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GMW-5610 t1_jac6nub wrote

Reply to comment by stappernn in Netflix Drops Prices in 30 Countries by No-Drawing-6975

Then it's not legal. You are basically using a paid link to a direct download. Where is the file coming from?

a) The content creator uploaded the file for you to download, in which case it's legal.

b) You are pulling the direct download link for a file pulled from a streaming platform, in which case it's illegal because you are breaking the licensing deal.

Services like Real Debrid live off user submitted content, none of it is legal because you are not paying who actually made the movie.

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Adrian_Alucard t1_jac6mea wrote

Reply to Netflix Drops Prices in 30 Countries by No-Drawing-6975

> in more than 30 countries in Asia, Europe, Latin America, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East. 

> As the BBC reports(Opens in a new window), the countries include Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Croatia, the Philippines, Venezuela, Kenya, and Iran, and the planned cuts there will reportedly see some subscription charges dropping by half.

Is the list of those 30 countries available somewhere? The article only mentions 8 countries

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