Ok, here’s another one from Netherlands. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/hacker-claims-123456-password-let-them-breach-the-danish-national-registry-accessing-8-8-million-records-it-and-data-services-company-with-weak-passwords-linked-source-of-the-hack
If the people with access to your data have weak passwords, then so do you.
I’m saying that bad user passwords allow data to be hacked. When it’s the credentials of someone with access, like an employee of companies with your data, then that data is more easily compromised if they have crappy passwords. It’s harder to compromise with passkeys. It is not just your password hygiene that protects your data.
Here is a recent example in Australia. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-06/asos-app-users-sent-hacked-message/107236520
But most people don’t have well managed passwords. And me having good password hygiene doesn’t stop my data being hacked when someone working at a subcontracting firm to a company I use leaks all my data.
It also is annoying to have to log in over many steps with 2fa, often forced to email or SMS.
Collectively improving security benefits us all.
Yet not uniform in its appearance, nor present for 50%.
Alternative view. Being a regular customer means your are treated like a person rather than a customer. This means watching out for your safety around other members of the public. Or giving you warnings about unsafe events or people nearby.
Community keeps us safe. Being a regular can be like being a part of your community depending on the type of establishment.
Yes, it’s so slow and cumbersome. Fine as a backup but it also makes security worse if everyone uses email as then access to email gets everything.
A soft-fluff factory is dangerous if there aren’t safeguards. It’s not that ai or llms are dangerous as a concept. It’s that they are being given authorities and access that they shouldn’t as there are inadequate safeguards built in and there are inadequate punishments for the neglectful development. Make the companies and users liable for the errors and they will work hard in that rather than chasing investment and PR with all their effort.
Its often the case with new technology that the law doesn’t match how they are used. However, as technology progresses, thinks are scaled and rolled out at a much more rapid pace. Hence the term hyperscalers. The law needs to catch up. Instead the law seems to give concessions. Partly due to regulatory capture, partly due to economic reasons, partly due to lack of understanding, partly due to corruption.
I’m sorry, I deleted the Disney movies from Disneys server by mistake. Did someone give me authority to do so? Oh, ai. Magic.
You shouldn’t pick butts. You’ll get a smelly finger.
What about Bryce Dallas Howard and Jessica Chastaine?
However for white celebrities, it seems to be the exception. For celebrities of colour, it’s a common experience.
Yes, I agree. So the choice is self host, with the risks of that but also the hassle for you and family. Or use a smaller service focused in privacy that might(will) get hacked eventually, or just hand your data over willingly.
It’s only accessible by those you share a link with to your personal child(ten) gallery. They don’t share photos with you, just access your child photos to comment and like.
It also has tools for recording things like height and weight as the child grows. It’s probably possible with a locked down j stagram account but I wouldn’t trust meta to not use the data nor to not change the settings over time.
I used tiny beans with my family. It’s a micro social network designed for sharing photos with small groups, particularly of babies and kids.
Yes, when ads companies did surveys to match ads with your interests, I’m like, no, irrelevant ads are even easiest to ignore.
Which is why open source is important. Holes can be found and software telemetry can be avoided.
A lot of the telemetry is sold to people as being in their benefit. Monitor installed software for updates, location data for weather etc.
If the companies had to document the amount they collected in cash for each user based on ads and send it as a mk though report, it might be eye opening. The source if the cash would also be good. So did companies pay directly or dodgy intermediaries and data brokers.
What did they do this time?
Ah, ok. The problem I’m referring to is that if one file gets corrupted, syncthing will interpret that as a change and then duplicate the corruption across all devices. A good backup service will also interpret it as a change and keep both to allow rollbacks.
Does trash help with file corruption?
While I get the desire to degoogle and only use open source, it’s a pretty tough journey with a relatively steep learning curve, depending on your technical skill and knowledge. I would suggest looking at the pre-made and keeping their proprietary software as your starting point. Get your docker apps going, with everything backed up and degoogled and your own personal cloud. Then in the future, you can just transfer the data to a more open version.
I use synology and have been really happy with it. Haven’t been so happy with them, trying to force the use of verified drives only, but they backed down. They have a lot of functionality built in and their modified version of Linux works well and offers a lot of the google type cloud functionality out of the box, I haven’t used terramaster or ugreen. My understanding is their software and particularly docker support is poorer, it that was a few years ago. You’ll find devolving is a process, so don’t feel a need to do it all at once.
Just moving from windows to Linux made impromenets for me in terms of connecting to my nas, as nags rather than samba was automatically an option. Synologynhas built in remote access for a bunch of apps through their dynamic dns services, with easy letsencrypt workflows with wizards. Wireguard allows similar access to any docker apps. However, I’ve found it useful to be able to log in and download files from computers not in my wireguard network.
If you have an old laptop, or PC you could start out using it instead of a dedicated nas, which is just a stripped down pc. You would then just put true as or media vault on it.