No one is safe from hackers. Everyone and every company will get hacked, it’s unavailable. What matters is how they react to the inevitable because that’s how best practices are made.
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Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•18% of people running Nextcloud don't know what database they are usingEnglish1·8 days agoAre you still using sqlite?
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forwardEnglish2·14 days agoI don’t think you understand what they want. I use Calc and Excel and would rather work in Excel because of the features like creating tables. I manipulate data all the time and creating tables from that data makes manipulating it very easy since I can sort and filter it. I can also use the tables I created in other sheets for things like lookups. It’s pretty hard to do that in Calc. But if you want a better idea of the features that Calc should adopt then take the Google Professional certification on Data Analytics if you have the time to skim through it quickly to avoid paying.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Protests as newborn removed from Greenlandic mother after ‘parenting competence’ testsEnglish44·21 days agoRacism and indoctrination are two results I can think of from this. I cannot think of any examples of good outcomes when the state systematically takes children from their parents.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Ukraine’s Zelenskyy rules out China as security guarantor in any peace dealEnglish19·21 days agoThey used to have nukes. But the Russia way back when promised not to invade if they gave up their nukes. Well they did and…
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be overEnglish33·27 days agoI hope we loose it so we can get humbled. But if we loose, knowing how we are, we’ll likely invent a reason to go to war and steal their talent.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Sheinbaum rejects US ‘invasion’ after Trump orders military to target Mexico cartelsEnglish6·1 month agoThat’s also a stupid idea. Don’t know what you were trying to accomplish by bringing that up.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•OpenAI stops ChatGPT from telling people to break up with partnersEnglish1·1 month agoIf you have that type of problem then why are you even going to ChatGPT to begin with?
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship PetitionEnglish1·2 months agoI would hate to see that credit union comply with the financial regulations of EVERY country.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•Steam Users Rally Behind Anti-Censorship PetitionEnglish8·2 months agoThere’s Discover and American Express if you’re in the US. I don’t know the porn policies of those companies but they are the alternatives.
The main weakness it has is from a nosey flatmate, spouse, or child in the house.
Watch out for that home grown script kiddie
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto science@lemmy.world•Northwestern University sued over suicide of Chinese-American scientist targeted by the Justice Department. Though she was never charged, Northwestern closed her lab and reassigned her grant fundingEnglish30·2 months agoThe estate of a Northwestern University professor, who died by suicide last year after being investigated in a controversial federal probe, is suing the school for allegedly discriminating against her and evicting her from her lab — blaming the university, in part, for her death.
Jane Wu was a tenured faculty member in neurology, molecular biology and genetics at Northwestern’s Feinberg School of Medicine for nearly two decades. She was among hundreds of Chinese American scientists targeted by the Justice Department’s China Initiative, a Trump-era program seeking to counter theft of American intellectual property and research.
Though Wu was never charged, Northwestern reassigned her grant funding, closed her lab and forcibly admitted her to the university’s psychiatric hospital, according to a civil complaint filed June 23 in Cook County Circuit Court. The executor of Wu’s estate is her daughter.
The university’s actions were a “substantial and decisive factor in her decision to end her life,” the complaint stated.
“Anyone who reads the facts of this complaint will recognize that a great injustice was done to Jane Wu,” attorney Thomas Geoghegan said.
A spokesperson for Northwestern said the university does not comment on pending litigation.
The China Initiative was scrapped in 2022 under the Biden administration. Though more than 200 Chinese American researchers were investigated, researchers say only a few dozen were charged and subsequently convicted. Critics said the program fueled a narrative of bias and created a chilling effect among the academic community.
After Wu was identified in the probe, she was placed under an administrative investigation by the National Institutes of Health. Though she was a longtime professor, her grants were reassigned to her white male colleagues and her research team was dissolved, according to the filing.
“NU did nothing to support her nor help lift the racial stigma placed over Dr. Wu despite her obvious innocence and the enormous funding her work had brought to NU,” the complaint said.
Even when the NIH’s investigation concluded in December 2023, Wu’s grants were not returned to her, according to the lawsuit. Her lab was completely shut down by May 2024, preventing her from applying for new NIH funding. Because Wu’s research was listed as inactive, Northwestern reduced her salary.
Feeling increasingly isolated, Wu began to spiral into a deep depression and show signs of obsessive behavior, the filing said.
“NU destroyed not only Dr. Wu’s chances at NIH funding but also her research career,” the complaint said.
That same month, university and Chicago police removed Wu from her office in handcuffs. She was then admitted against her will to the psychiatric unit of Northwestern Memorial Hospital “as a means to end her active research and employment,” according to the lawsuit.
Wu died by suicide weeks later, on July 10, 2024, “with her career, her professional reputation, and her sense of personal safety shattered.” She was 60 years old.
The complaint did not specify what damages the estate seeks.
The filing said Wu became a naturalized citizen in 2000, and had spent nearly 40 years in the United States. She had won continuous NIH funding since 1996. Her work investigated the molecular biology of mRNA and neurodegeneration, seeking to fight diseases such as Alzheimer’s and ALS.
Margaret Flanagan, now an associate professor at University of Texas Health San Antonio, worked beside Wu for more than three years at the Feinberg School of Medicine. But she was more than a colleague, Flanagan said — she was a mentor and friend, with a deep passion for science and unwavering generosity.
“Her legacy is one of strength, compassion, and a relentless commitment to advancing science,” Flanagan wrote in a statement to the Tribune.
Wu was intense and thoughtful, Flanagan said, and her astute advice has stuck with her colleague years later. She often reminded Flanagan to “focus on (her) science.” Wu always centered her work around a larger mission of advancing knowledge and helping patients, Flanagan said.
The pair largely fell out of touch when Flanagan left Northwestern in 2023.
“I assumed there would be time in the future to reconnect, not knowing how short that time would be,” Flanagan wrote.
Andrea Chu, the Midwest organizing director for Asian American Advancing Justice Chicago, said that Wu’s death shows the “devastating” impact of the China Initiative. She pointed to the lack of cases brought by the Justice Department as an indication that the program was racially biased.
A 2021 investigation from the MIT Technology Review found that 148 individuals were charged, but just 40 of them had pleaded or been found guilty. Only 19 cases included violations of the Economic Espionage Act, the intended focus of the initiative.
“The toll that it took on the scientists themselves, their colleagues and also their families is innumerable,” Chu said. “This was a great source of fear.” Originally Published: July 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM CDT
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•The EU initiative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!!English14·2 months agoEU citizens should keep signing. If you aren’t from the EU then do not sign, it causes more harm than good.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto Technology@lemmy.world•This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast!English1·3 months ago4k Blu-ray rips? Naw, probably porn.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto Selfhosted@lemmy.world•Do you actually audit open source projects you download?English4·4 months agoYOLO
It’s a joke, I know it’s a joke, I’ll give you your upvote.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Satellite Images Show Russian Military Buildup Near FinlandEnglish144·4 months agoHere we go boys! WW3! Lets watch the destruction of the world order AGAIN. I wonder which side Trump will take? The allies he hates or the autocrat he adores?
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto World News@lemmy.world•Hind Rajab’s killer identified and reported to ICC on her 7th birthdayEnglish0·4 months agoI hate what’s happening to the Palestinians but I’m not joining an echo chamber.
Eezyville@sh.itjust.worksto Games@sh.itjust.works•Switch 2 pre-orders will prioritise players with the most Switch playtimeEnglish2·5 months agoIt’s OK. Mostly solving puzzles and collecting echoes. I like the art style but it feels like the Link’s Awakening port so it feels like a port when it isn’t.
I never even thought about data smuggling. China isn’t allowed to buy Nvidia GPUs? Ok then China will have someone maintain the Nvidia servers in another country and remote into it to run their AI models.