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[black3dynamite]

Korora Spins from the community.
https://jmiahman.wordpress.com/2018/08/02/korora/
https://kororaproject.org/support/engage/question/i-want-to-help-please-let-me-1
https://kororaproject.org/about/news/the-community-is-working-on-korora-28

[scottalanmiller]

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Korora Spins from the community.
https://jmiahman.wordpress.com/2018/08/02/korora/
https://kororaproject.org/support/engage/question/i-want-to-help-please-let-me-1
https://kororaproject.org/about/news/the-community-is-working-on-korora-28

That's pretty awesome. And XFCE is the version that I use.

[Kelly]

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Non-paywalled site: https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/equifax-wants-the-lawsuits-connected-to-its-2017-data-breach-dismissed/103370

[black3dynamite]

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Wow!
...insisting that no one was actually injured and that it owed no duty to safeguard the personal information of millions of consumers and financial institutions.

[Dashrender]

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Wow!
...insisting that no one was actually injured and that it owed no duty to safeguard the personal information of millions of consumers and financial institutions.

If they don't owe a duty to customers - then why does anyone?

[DustinB3403]

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Non-paywalled site: https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/equifax-wants-the-lawsuits-connected-to-its-2017-data-breach-dismissed/103370

And we as law abiding citizens have no duty to allow a business like Equifax to operate in the US!

[Dashrender]

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Non-paywalled site: https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/equifax-wants-the-lawsuits-connected-to-its-2017-data-breach-dismissed/103370

And we as law abiding citizens have no duty to allow a business like Equifax to operate in the US!

in fact - I think we have a duty to get them shut down.

[scottalanmiller]

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Non-paywalled site: https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/equifax-wants-the-lawsuits-connected-to-its-2017-data-breach-dismissed/103370

And we as law abiding citizens have no duty to allow a business like Equifax to operate in the US!

in fact - I think we have a duty to get them shut down.

GDPR requests!

[Dashrender]

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Non-paywalled site: https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/equifax-wants-the-lawsuits-connected-to-its-2017-data-breach-dismissed/103370

And we as law abiding citizens have no duty to allow a business like Equifax to operate in the US!

in fact - I think we have a duty to get them shut down.

GDPR requests!

Can American's ask for it?

[scottalanmiller]

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Non-paywalled site: https://www.itbusiness.ca/news/equifax-wants-the-lawsuits-connected-to-its-2017-data-breach-dismissed/103370

And we as law abiding citizens have no duty to allow a business like Equifax to operate in the US!

in fact - I think we have a duty to get them shut down.

GDPR requests!

Can American's ask for it?

Anyone can request it. It would be dangerous for them to ignore it because of two reasons...

1. It is unclear who exclusively it covers.
2. They can't be sure you aren't connected to a place with coverage.

[travisdh1]

@dashrender said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

@kelly said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

There are no words for the apparent arrogance implicit in this legal position that Equifax is taking imo: https://www.law.com/dailyreportonline/2018/07/23/equifax-asks-court-to-toss-data-breach-lawsuits-arguing-theyre-based-on-a-far-fetched-theory/.

Wow!
...insisting that no one was actually injured and that it owed no duty to safeguard the personal information of millions of consumers and financial institutions.

If they don't owe a duty to customers - then why does anyone?

In general, we're the product, not the customer. It's actually logical. They didn't loose customer data.

Now as to weather the entire line of business is an ethical thing to be doing, @Dashrender and @DustinB3403 I tend to agree that they need shut down.

[Kelly]

And GDPR (or something like it) is coming to the US: https://iapp.org/news/a/california-passes-landmark-privacy-legislation/. It was only a matter of time imo. And this will be coming to your states soon if it doesn't happen federally before. Better get started planning so you can look amazing when it does start affecting you.

[scottalanmiller]

voip.ms has finally added automatic billing.

[black3dynamite]

Pi-Hole 4.0
https://github.com/pi-hole/pi-hole/releases/tag/v4.0

[DustinB3403]

Is anyone using Pi-Hole as a means of ad blocking at their residence or place of business?

[scottalanmiller]

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Is anyone using Pi-Hole as a means of ad blocking at their residence or place of business?

Yes. Both.

[NerdyDad]

@dustinb3403 said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

Is anyone using Pi-Hole as a means of ad blocking at their residence or place of business?

I'm considering putting it in again.

[scottalanmiller]

I would really miss it if it went away, that would be horrible.

[NerdyDad]

@scottalanmiller FIL couldn't understand how blocking ads made us more secure and sped up the Internet. He also didn't understand Google ads in-line with the results.

[bnrstnr]

@nerdydad said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

He also didn't understand Google ads in-line with the results.

Google ads inline with results was a tough one for my users to grasp. A couple of them still think "the internet is broken" when they click those ads.