I've personally grown to hate the security theatre of rotating my bank passwords every six months, especially because of requirements like "must contain one uppercase, one symbol, one lowercase, one special case and the blood of a unicorn."
When mathematically, a simple, grammatically incorrect sentence of 25 characters is much harder for a machine to crack than a gibberish 8-character password with symbols.
Entropy loves length.
I love the idea that the most secure key to your digital life could just be a weird little poem or an inside joke that only you know. Security doesn't have to be painful.
#infosec #passwords #cybersecurity #UX #security #sysadmin #programming #foss #linux #privacy #enshittification #reading #finance
I've personally grown to hate the security theatre of rotating my bank passwords every six months, especially because of requirements like "must contain one uppercase, one symbol, one lowercase, one special case and the blood of a unicorn."
When mathematically, a simple, grammatically incorrect sentence of 25 characters is much harder for a machine to crack than a gibberish 8-character password with symbols.
Entropy loves length.
I love the idea that the most secure key to your digital life could just be a weird little poem or an inside joke that only you know. Security doesn't have to be painful.
#infosec #passwords #cybersecurity #UX #security #sysadmin #programming #foss #linux #privacy #enshittification #reading #finance
The European Union should start working on a European Payment Network that would provide Europeans and the rest of the world with an alternative to Mastercard and Visa.
A single common payment system for accepting online and offline payments, accepted in all stores and on all platforms.
Although there are many different payment systems, the problem is that there is no single system that is widely used throughout the EU.
The EU has SEPA. With the European Payment Network, it would have a complete network that would significantly strengthen its sovereignty.
#EU #EUpol #Europe #Europa #EuropeanPaymentNetwork #Visa #Mastercard #finance #sovereignty #trade
The European Union should start working on a European Payment Network that would provide Europeans and the rest of the world with an alternative to Mastercard and Visa.
A single common payment system for accepting online and offline payments, accepted in all stores and on all platforms.
Although there are many different payment systems, the problem is that there is no single system that is widely used throughout the EU.
The EU has SEPA. With the European Payment Network, it would have a complete network that would significantly strengthen its sovereignty.
#EU #EUpol #Europe #Europa #EuropeanPaymentNetwork #Visa #Mastercard #finance #sovereignty #trade
"The collapse of the #AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the #StockMarket, and they endlessly pass around the same $100bn IOU.
AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a #finance sector and #tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
- @pluralistic
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
#Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #Business #Economy #News #World
"AI is a bubble and it will burst... So what will be left behind?
We will have a bunch of coders who are really good at applied statistics... a lot of cheap GPUs... And we will have the #OpenSource models that run on commodity hardware, #AI tools that can do a lot of useful stuff, like transcribing audio and video; describing images;... These will run on our laptops and phones, and open-source hackers will find ways to push them to do things their makers never dreamed of."
"The collapse of the #AI bubble is going to be ugly. Seven AI companies currently account for more than a third of the #StockMarket, and they endlessly pass around the same $100bn IOU.
AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a #finance sector and #tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more."
- @pluralistic
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
#Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #Business #Economy #News #World
Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds
https://www.di.se/nyheter/di-avslojar-alecta-har-dumpat-amerikanska-statspapper/
#HackerNews #Swedish #Alecta #Alecta #Bonds #Finance #Investment #US #Treasury
Début de panique après l'annonce par le fonds de pension danois AkademikerPension de la vente de ses bons du Trésor américain pour 100 millions de dollars? Une arme à double tranchant pour les Européens, préviennent les patrons réunis à Davos, tandis que le Premier ministre du Groenland appelle les habitants à se préparer à une potentielle invasion... https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/ermotti-warns-of-risky-bet-as-europe-flirts-with-debt-selloff/90810027
#Politique #Davos #Groenland #Europe #Trump #EtatsUnis #Danemark #Guerre #Economie #Finance
Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries
https://www.reuters.com/business/danish-pension-fund-divest-its-us-treasuries-2026-01-20/
#HackerNews #Danish #pension #fund #divesting #US #Treasuries #investment #news #finance #divestment #Denmark
A pandemic rescue became a 30-year debt trap
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5692543-small-business-loan-debt-trap/
#HackerNews #pandemicrescue #debttrap #smallbusiness #finance #newsopinion
📰 CETTE SEMAINE : « Fermez l'IBAN »
Pourquoi je recopie un numéro à la main depuis un PDF ? Parce que la gestion des IBAN en ligne est nullissime, voilà.
▶️ https://grisebouille.net/fermez-liban
#BD #oc #original #GriseBouille #humour #banque #finance #IBAN
International Central Bankers publish a statement to “stand in full solidarity with the Federal Reserve System and its Chair Jerome H. Powell”
Signatories include ECB, BoE, other European Central Banks, BIS, Central Banks of Canada, Korea, Brazil…
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr260113~ec4630b9fa.en.html
International Central Bankers publish a statement to “stand in full solidarity with the Federal Reserve System and its Chair Jerome H. Powell”
Signatories include ECB, BoE, other European Central Banks, BIS, Central Banks of Canada, Korea, Brazil…
https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr260113~ec4630b9fa.en.html
💬 NOUVELLE BD : « Fermez l'IBAN »
Aujourd'hui, parlons d'un truc qui m'agace profondément : la gestion des coordonnées bancaires par les sites internet en général.
▶️ https://grisebouille.net/fermez-liban
#BD #oc #original #GriseBouille #humour #banque #finance #IBAN
💬 NOUVELLE BD : « Fermez l'IBAN »
Aujourd'hui, parlons d'un truc qui m'agace profondément : la gestion des coordonnées bancaires par les sites internet en général.
▶️ https://grisebouille.net/fermez-liban
#BD #oc #original #GriseBouille #humour #banque #finance #IBAN
They Call It "Private Equity". It's Legal Theft
https://www.founderstowne.com/
#HackerNews #PrivateEquity #LegalTheft #Finance #Ethics #Investment