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In the United States, roughly 30% to 40% of the entire food supply goes uneaten and they'll fire your ass if you try and take any of it home in c/latestagecapitalism@lemmy.world
Your Windows PC Has a Permanent ID That Follows You – Even With a VPN in c/pcgaming@lemmy.ca
[–] 30 points 3 days ago (1 child)

Court filings in the Scattered Spider hacking case reveal Microsoft provided the FBI with a complete IP history tied to something called a Global Device ID (GDID)

It's kinda like a MAC address

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    White House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grants in c/science@mander.xyz
    [–] 4 points 5 days ago*

    From the lawsuit:

    dynamic, semantic terms related to DEIA and generated a list of terms” for flagging grants. McLorg Decl. ¶ 8, Ex. E(1) at ¶ II Stipulation, Nos. 3 & 4 Resp. A review of terminated grants showed concentrations of titles containing “equity” (238 titles), “diversity” or “diverse” (103 titles), “community” (111 titles), “gender” (58 titles), “underrepresented” (50 titles), “inclusion” (45 titles), and “justice” (46 titles). 1st PI Order at 11, 15; see also McLorg Decl. ¶ 8, Ex. E(2) (NSF Grants Spreadsheet). For NIH-HHS, the target list expanded over time. NIH-HHS implemented the Executive Orders through a series of internal directives requiring termination of grants in disfavored categories, beginning with “DEI-related” projects and expanding to include “gender,” “transgender issues,” “vaccine hesitancy,” and “COVID-19.” McLorg Decl. ¶ 7, Ex. D(1) at ¶ II Stipulation, Nos. 1-5, 3-4 Resp. NIH-HHS identified grants using a combination of grantee-specific terms and subject-matter keywords, including “work force diversity,” “structural racism,” “sexual orientation,” “health equity,” “diversity effects,” and “promote diversity, health equity.” McLorg Decl. ¶ 7, Ex. D(1) at ¶ II Stipulation, Nos. 3 & 4 Resp.; see also id. Ex. D(2) (NIH-HHS Grants Spreadsheet). NIH-HHS further acknowledged that, in some instances, grants were identified on lists compiled by DOGE and provided to NIH-HHS, and that “[i]t is possible that DOGE used AI in compiling the grant lists it provided.” McLorg Decl. ¶ 7, Ex. D(1) at ¶ II

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    Anyone else do this? in c/autism@lemmy.world
    Chrome Extension Used by 1.6 Million Users Silently Adds Data Exfiltration Capabilities in c/cybersecurity@infosec.pub
    WeeklyMTG - First Look - Magic: The Gathering® | Star Trek in c/startrek@startrek.website
    Why American ambulance rides are so expensive in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
    It's so bright it hurts... in c/autism@lemmy.world
    Part 2 of the new US gov website takeover in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
    [–] 18 points 1 month ago

    Description:

    I found a new passports.gov, and it doesn't belong to the State Department. When I called them to ask about it, you'd be surprised what they said.
    After last week's dig into vote.gov and the National Design Studio, it felt like the right time to talk about passports, what's being built, and how fast it's all moving to be ready before July 4th.

    The full investigation: a passport portal built by the National Design Studio and registered to the Executive Office of the President instead of the agency that actually issues passports, three photo servers sitting behind a sign-in gate with no seal and no privacy notice, ad trackers wired onto the real State Department passport page where the privacy policy link is dead, and login.gov getting a new feature that lets an outside organization verify your identity without you in the room.

    Read the full article: thedreydossier.substack.com
    TikTok / IG /  X:   thedreydossier 

    Share it with someone who deserves to know what's being built in the space between the government you can see and the one you can't.

    Thanks for being here.

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    What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? June 09 in c/books@lemmy.world
    [–] 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Atomic Habits by James Clear It's got some helpful advice but it reads like a Ted Talk. It's like (axiom)(anecdote)(academic research)(broad over simplification or sweeping generalization)(summary conclusion).

    There's good advice and I'm sure if you follow it you may get results, but I wish it were more academically rigorous.

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    What book(s) are you currently reading or listening to? June 09 in c/books@lemmy.world
    Google just fired a warning shot in the AI subscription price wars in c/technology@lemmy.world
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    I just discovered my wife's secret credit debit (lemmy.world)
     

    We've been together for 20 years and married for 15. We're a great couple, the kind our friends think of as "couple goals". We rarely fight and when we do it's normally over something trivial. And almost never about money.

    We tend to be frugal and usually discuss things before making any large purchases. I became disabled about a decade ago and she's been the "bread-winner" of the family. She works hard and I'm proud of her. With the sudden contraction in income we had to file bankruptcy about 7 yrs ago and we've been good about staying out of debt since.

    I handle the finances of the house, which really just means I file our taxes and check our bank statements. Yesterday, I was trying to reconcile our bank statement and trying to build a budget using our banks new software. This required me to categorize these transactions, which is a pain when a lot of them just say Amazon or PayPal. So I go digging into this only to discover she has two PayPal accounts and one is carrying $2500 in debt! We're not well-off people and that's a lot of money.

    I was heart-broken. It was like my soul was just sucked out of my body. I felt something between anger and disappointment. I couldn't believe it. She must have noticed my sudden shock and saw what I was looking at because she began to reassure me that she's about to pay $600 towards it. I didn't reply. I went for a long walk to clear my head.

    We still haven't spoken about it yet. I don't know what to do. I'm not mad anymore but I'm so deflated. We were supposed to be partners in all things. We don't even buy each other gifts without conferring usually it's just a joint anniversary gift.

    To make matters worse, I can understand how she'd do it. She's got impulse control problems because of her untreated ADHD. She tends to self-medicate with alcohol to unwind and likes "retail-therapy" for self-soothing. She also has rejection sensitivity and is aggressively defensive. So even asking her about this may cause an involuntary lashing-out. But I must. I just don't want to.

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    Netgear Nighthawk Router is Randomly Denying Connections (lemmy.world)
     

    This is driving me nutty. I've got a Netgear Nighthawk router. It is set up with two WiFi SSIDs one for 2.4 and 5 GHz. Both are set to DHCP. I've got about 30 devices connected at any given time. Most of those are my smart bulbs, which are all connected on the 2.4 GHz channel. Occasionally, and seemingly randomly, my phones will drop connection and will not be able to reconnect. The phone can see the SSID broadcast for my network, it will attempt a connection, but the connection will be refused. I've tried forgetting and reconnecting to the network on my phone but that does nothing. I've tried a static IP, nope. The only thing that resolves it is restarting the router.

    Whenever the routers reboots, it will deny all attempted connections unless I turn off all my smart bulbs and reconnect one at a time. If I do this I can get everything connected. But eventually my phone will get disconnected, usually from leaving the network range, and then won't be able to reconnect.

    To make matters worse, I can't connect to the router via the gateway address, which I'm certain is correct. Neither the IP nor the netgear RouterLogin.net connect to the router's maintenance portal. I've been using the Nighthawk app to manage my network, which is limited to say the least.

    I could use some helpful advice here. I'm about to just chuck the thing and get a new router.

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    [Question] What is the safest way to play a game that uses a modded Steam_api.dll to avoid getting banned? (lemmy.world)
     

    Hypothetically, if someone were to download a Steam game from FG what's the best operating procedure to avoid being Steam banned? For example, I understand that steam_api.dll will often be quarantined by MS Defender because the game uses a modded version of that file. Once it's restored what steps would you take to proceed? Log out of steam? Disable internet access? Kill all Steam processes?

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