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[gayestcowboy]

one of the reasons i hate generative AI is that i have a chronic injury that makes me unable to write by hand for longer than a few sentences and therefore i need a keyboard in order to write essays for classes, and i’m a bit worried that professors won’t allow me to type essays as a result of potential AI use, even though i have a perfectly valid medical reason to need a keyboard. i’ve seen a few posts online saying that the only way to prevent students from relying on AI is to make them write by hand, and while i understand the sentiment and don’t even necessarily disagree with the general point, the matter of accessibility still needs to be addressed somehow, and it’s just a bit frustrating on a personal level as someone who has had to fight with teachers and professors in order for my needs to be met even before the era of chatgpt

[horsesource]

The American service dog and ESA conversations say a lot about this country’s animal/human relations. The dog is medical equipment, regardless of how well-trained she is? Full access. The dog is not medical equipment, regardless of how well-trained she is? Get outta here! Seems to reflect a training crisis too, you see so many people with service dogs decrying Fake Service Dogs

[butchviking]

one thing i truly do not know where i stand on is the ability 2 change legally documented gender. someone throw some opinions at me so i can figure out wtf i think abt that

[stinkrascal]

why doesnt google docs give u the option to indent paragraphs on mobile?? like the most basic thing u can do and they simply wont let you 😭

[theropodtheroblogs]

today i learned it feels fucking impossible to get a free minecraft server running a 1.7.10 modpack unless you know esoteric coding language and even when you try to figure that shit out it doesn't fucking work so i guess i wont be able to play 1.7.10 Regrowth with friends because fuck me I guess

[secretkeeper007]

Best cloud services? Ideally looking for something free with reasonable upgrade options.

[ghostboyravenight]

Reading the new checks that might come in due to the Online Safety Act in the UK and this is actually bullshit

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And how will I prove my age?

There’s a number of methods a site or app might use to ask you to confirm your age. They might do this check themselves or use another company to do the check. These methods include:

Facial age estimation – you show your face via photo or video, and technology analyses it to estimate your age. 

Open banking – you give permission for the age-check service to securely access information from your bank about whether you are over 18. The age-check service then confirms this with the site or app.

Digital identity services – these include digital identity wallets, which can securely store and share information which proves your age in a digital format.

Credit card age checks – you provide your credit card details and a payment processor checks if the card is valid. As you must be over 18 to obtain a credit card this shows you are over 18.

Email-based age estimation – you provide your email address, and technology analyses other online services where it has been used – such as banking or utility providers - to estimate your age.  

Mobile network operator age checks – you give your permission for an age-check service to confirm whether or not your mobile phone number has age filters applied to it. If there are no restrictions, this confirms you are over 18. 

Photo-ID matching – this is similar to a check when you show a document. For example, you upload an image of a document that shows your face and age, and an image of yourself at the same time – these are compared to confirm if the document is yours.

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Not only is this such a fucking breach of privacy, but this is going to hurt adults in vulnerable and abusive situations. Some adults don’t have bank accounts or credit cards or even a fucking phone. I’m one of them. I could not give half of this information even if I wanted to. What the fuck is this. Fuck the UK government. This isn’t going to protect kids, this is just going to hurt adults, and I know full well when they say “sites that allow pornography” they’re going to be going after sites that have huge amounts of queer content, like tumblr and Ao3. Queer kids are gonna lose their fucking communities because of this shit. Abuse victims are going to lose online support systems because of this.

I’m genuinely fucked off about this, and worried about whether I’m going to lose every single one of my online friends. Anyone in the UK, please email your MP and sign this petition. It needs to reach 100k signatures to pass through Parliament.

I’m only hoping the backlash will be big enough for them to stop implementing these measures.

[vague-humanoid]

At the California Institute of the Arts, it all started with a videoconference between the registrar’s office and a nonprofit.

One of the nonprofit’s representatives had enabled an AI note-taking tool from Read AI. At the end of the meeting, it emailed a summary to all attendees, said Allan Chen, the institute’s chief technology officer. They could have a copy of the notes, if they wanted — they just needed to create their own account.

Next thing Chen knew, Read AI’s bot had popped up inabout a dozen of his meetings over a one-week span. It was in one-on-one check-ins. Project meetings. “Everything.”

The spread “was very aggressive,” recalled Chen, who also serves as vice president for institute technology. And it “took us by surprise.”

The scenariounderscores a growing challenge for colleges: Tech adoption and experimentation among students, faculty, and staff — especially as it pertains to AI — are outpacing institutions’ governance of these technologies and may even violate their data-privacy and security policies.

That has been the case with note-taking tools from companies including Read AI, Otter.ai, and Fireflies.ai.They can integrate with platforms like Zoom, Google Meet, and Microsoft Teamsto provide live transcriptions, meeting summaries, audio and video recordings, and other services.

Higher-ed interest in these products isn’t surprising.For those bogged down with virtual rendezvouses, a tool that can ingest long, winding conversations and spit outkey takeaways and action items is alluring. These services can also aid people with disabilities, including those who are deaf.

But the tools can quickly propagate unchecked across a university. They can auto-join any virtual meetings on a user’s calendar — even if that person is not in attendance. And that’s a concern, administrators say, if it means third-party productsthat an institution hasn’t reviewedmay be capturing and analyzing personal information, proprietary material, or confidential communications.

“What keeps me up at night is the ability for individual users to do things that are very powerful, but they don’t realize what they’re doing,” Chen said. “You may not realize you’re opening a can of worms.“

The Chronicle documented both individual and universitywide instances of this trend. At Tidewater Community College, in Virginia, Heather Brown, an instructional designer, unwittingly gave Otter.ai’s tool access to her calendar, and it joined a Faculty Senate meeting she didn’t end up attending. “One of our [associate vice presidents] reached out to inform me,” she wrote in a message. “I was mortified!”

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PDF Accessibility is crucial for creating inclusive digital content. Our latest guide, "The Comprehensive Guide to PDF Accessibility: Bridging the Digital Divide For Readers," explores essential practices to make your PDFs accessible to everyone, including individuals with disabilities. Learn how to enhance your documents to comply with accessibility standards and ensure a seamless reading experience for all. Dive into our blog to understand the importance and techniques of making PDFs accessible for all users. 

[stjohnstarling]

I hate to go through this all over again. On July 23rd, Itch.io, one of the most popular platforms for hosting queer and adult independent media, went through a large-scale crackdown on adult content.

This was primarily aimed at games, but novels and comics were hit in the process. Most adult content has been de-listed from the site's search, and some creators were banned without warning. Any funds banned creators have not been paid are currently being withheld by Itch.io.

This crackdown was done, as it always is, because of payment processors like Mastercard and Visa threatening to pull their services.

The payment processors caved to an influence campaign by Australian extremist anti-pornography group Collective Shout, who have been inundating Visa and Mastercard with calls to force video game platforms to stop hosting adult content - which, of course, includes anything queer.

Collective Shout claim to have sent in 1000 emails to get this result, but there are a WAY more than a thousand of us. We need as many people as possible to make as much noise as we can!

Below the cut are numbers and scripts, all you need to do is follow the step by step guide.

Graphic, contact info, alt text, and script by voiddebris on Bluesky, also available collected in a handy document:

Paypal:

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161

Phone (outside US): 1-402-935-2050

Hours: 6am - 6pm PT

Online (for non-users or logged out - UK bc US site ONLY allows logged in users)

Mastercard:

Phone (US): 1-800-627-8372

Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111

Online form

Visa:

Phone (US): 1-800-847-2911

Non-US numbers

Online form

Script:

Customer Complaint Dept, This message is to lodge an official complaint about the ongoing rampant restrictions your company has placed on legal sales made by legitimate businesses. These restrictions are not only counter to the concept of freedom of speech and expression, but they harm consumers, businesses, and they harm your company’s bottom line. The following actions are absolutely necessary to protect the freedoms of your client base and the sustainability of legitimate business practices: 1. Remove from your Terms of Service any mention barring the use of your service for sale and purchase of legal products. 2. Contact Steam (Valve), Itch.io, and any other company you have previously put pressure on to retract your content restrictions. Put in place protections to prevent such restrictions from being put in place in the future without ample warning and time to contest them. If these changes aren't made then I, along with many others will be forced to seek other options for processing payments. Sincerely, A Concerned Customer

***

OTHER THINGS YOU CAN DO

Sign this petition from the ACLU:

Americans - contact your representatives about payment processors acting as censors! You can find your reps’ contact information on 5calls.org.

Script, from here:

Hello Representative/Senator [LAST NAME], -or- Hello office of Representative/Senator [LAST NAME], My name is [YOUR FIRST NAME/SCREEN NAME] and I am one of your constituents. I am calling today to express my concerns with technological censorship. Legal and legitimate adult entertainment is being banned in this country. These bans are not by legislators, but by payment processors like Mastercard and Visa. Mastercard and Visa are improperly creating legislation online through their user and merchant policies. They are banning creator and user access to content that is legal and legitimate. They are inciting fear and panic to encourage censorship. Please take a stand against this impermissible censorship. This is a direct attack on an adult's right to legal content. No one but the legislative branch should be allowed to create legislation. Please support the Federal Trade Commission in their stand against technological censorship to protect the first amendment. Thank you for taking the time to listen today.

***

UPDATE: Apparently it is Stripe specifically putting the pressure on Itch.io:

“The open case we have with Stripe right now is probably most critical right now. They apparently are or will be making a determination on the eligibility of our entire platform soon. Do what you want with that information”

Contact info for Stripe can be found here and here:

(888) 963-8955 (San Francisco HQ)

Stripe: complaints@stripe.com

Stripe Complaint Submission Form

354 Oyster Point Boulevard, South San Francisco, California, 94080

Americans, I also encourage you to file a complains against these companies with the Better Business Bureau!

And here is a website to help Americans contact their representatives:

Australians can register a concern about Collective Shout's wrongful listing as a charity:

Collective shout's profile + ABN

Raise a concern with the ACNC

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

Cybercriminals are abusing Google’s infrastructure, creating emails that appear to come from Google in order to persuade people into handing over their Google account credentials. This attack, first flagged by Nick Johnson, the lead developer of the Ethereum Name Service (ENS), a blockchain equivalent of the popular internet naming convention known as the Domain Name System (DNS). Nick received a very official looking security alert about a subpoena allegedly issued to Google by law enforcement to information contained in Nick’s Google account. A URL in the email pointed Nick to a sites.google.com page that looked like an exact copy of the official Google support portal.

As a computer savvy person, Nick spotted that the official site should have been hosted on accounts.google.com and not sites.google.com. The difference is that anyone with a Google account can create a website on sites.google.com. And that is exactly what the cybercriminals did. Attackers increasingly use Google Sites to host phishing pages because the domain appears trustworthy to most users and can bypass many security filters. One of those filters is DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail), an email authentication protocol that allows the sending server to attach a digital signature to an email. If the target clicked either “Upload additional documents” or “View case”, they were redirected to an exact copy of the Google sign-in page designed to steal their login credentials. Your Google credentials are coveted prey, because they give access to core Google services like Gmail, Google Drive, Google Photos, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Google Maps, Google Play, and YouTube, but also any third-party apps and services you have chosen to log in with your Google account. The signs to recognize this scam are the pages hosted at sites.google.com which should have been support.google.com and accounts.google.com and the sender address in the email header. Although it was signed by accounts.google.com, it was emailed by another address. If a person had all these accounts compromised in one go, this could easily lead to identity theft.

How to avoid scams like this

Don’t follow links in unsolicited emails or on unexpected websites.

Carefully look at the email headers when you receive an unexpected mail.

Verify the legitimacy of such emails through another, independent method.

Don’t use your Google account (or Facebook for that matter) to log in at other sites and services. Instead create an account on the service itself.

Technical details Analyzing the URL used in the attack on Nick, (https://sites.google.com[/]u/17918456/d/1W4M_jFajsC8YKeRJn6tt_b1Ja9Puh6_v/edit) where /u/17918456/ is a user or account identifier and /d/1W4M_jFajsC8YKeRJn6tt_b1Ja9Puh6_v/ identifies the exact page, the /edit part stands out like a sore thumb. DKIM-signed messages keep the signature during replays as long as the body remains unchanged. So if a malicious actor gets access to a previously legitimate DKIM-signed email, they can resend that exact message at any time, and it will still pass authentication. So, what the cybercriminals did was: Set up a Gmail account starting with me@ so the visible email would look as if it was addressed to “me.” Register an OAuth app and set the app name to match the phishing link Grant the OAuth app access to their Google account which triggers a legitimate security warning from no-reply@accounts.google.com This alert has a valid DKIM signature, with the content of the phishing email embedded in the body as the app name. Forward the message untouched which keeps the DKIM signature valid. Creating the application containing the entire text of the phishing message for its name, and preparing the landing page and fake login site may seem a lot of work. But once the criminals have completed the initial work, the procedure is easy enough to repeat once a page gets reported, which is not easy on sites.google.com. Nick submitted a bug report to Google about this. Google originally closed the report as ‘Working as Intended,’ but later Google got back to him and said it had reconsidered the matter and it will fix the OAuth bug.

[fincrif]

Emergency & Instant Loans: A Comprehensive Guide

Life is full of unexpected moments — an urgent medical bill, a sudden car repair, or a home emergency — where immediate funds are needed. In such circumstances, emergency loans or instant loans can provide a quick financial lifeline. These loans are designed to be processed quickly, providing much-needed funds during emergencies when you might not have time to wait for traditional loan approval procedures.

In this article, we’ll explore the features, benefits, and options for emergency and instant loans, helping you understand how to access fast cash when needed most.

1. What are Emergency & Instant Loans?

Emergency loans are a type of short-term loan designed to provide funds quickly during a financial emergency. Whether it's an urgent medical expense, home repair, or unexpected travel, these loans can help bridge the gap. They can be either secured or unsecured, and are typically offered with flexible terms and fast approval processes.

Difference Between Emergency and Instant Loans

Emergency Loans: These are generally personal loans intended to cover urgent and unexpected financial needs. They can be processed quickly, but the loan amount, interest rates, and repayment terms depend on the lender and your financial profile.

Instant Loans: These loans are specifically designed to be processed and approved quickly, often in minutes or hours. They are usually unsecured and have minimal documentation requirements.

2. Key Features of Emergency & Instant Loans

Here are some features that make emergency and instant loans attractive for borrowers who need quick access to funds:

2.1 Fast Processing and Quick Disbursal

One of the primary benefits of instant loans is their speed. Once you submit your application and the necessary documentation, approval can be completed within minutes in some cases. Once approved, the loan amount can be disbursed directly to your bank account within 24-48 hours, providing the funds you need for urgent expenses.

2.2 Minimal Documentation

Unlike traditional loans, which often require detailed paperwork, instant loans typically need only basic documents, such as your identity proof, income proof, and bank statements. Some lenders even offer pre-approved loans to existing customers, which require very little documentation.

2.3 Flexible Loan Amounts and Repayment Terms

Emergency loans can vary greatly in terms of loan amounts and repayment schedules. Lenders offer smaller loan amounts, which are suited for short-term needs, and often provide flexible repayment tenures, allowing borrowers to repay in installments over a few months.

2.4 Unsecured Loans

Most emergency and instant loans are unsecured, meaning that you don’t need to provide any collateral like property or gold. This is especially beneficial for borrowers who don’t have assets to pledge but still need funds urgently.

3. Benefits of Emergency & Instant Loans

3.1 Immediate Access to Cash

When you need money fast, traditional loan processes just won’t work. Instant loans ensure that you can access funds quickly to cover your emergency expenses. This quick disbursal process can relieve a great deal of financial stress during emergencies.

3.2 No Need for Collateral

Since most emergency loans are unsecured, you don’t have to risk your assets to get approved. This is ideal for individuals who may not have property or valuables to pledge for a loan.

3.3 Quick Application Process

Applying for an instant loan is easy. Many lenders offer online applications where you can fill out basic forms, submit digital copies of your documents, and get a loan decision within minutes.

3.4 Flexible Usage

Emergency loans are versatile and can be used for a wide range of needs, including medical expenses, car repairs, household expenses, or even urgent travel.

4. How to Apply for an Emergency or Instant Loan

If you need a personal loan for an emergency, here are the general steps you’ll need to follow to apply:

4.1 Check Eligibility Requirements

Lenders typically have certain eligibility criteria, such as minimum age (usually 21-60 years), income level, and credit score. Make sure you meet the requirements before applying to avoid rejection.

4.2 Gather Required Documents

For instant loans, the documentation required is minimal. The most common documents include:

Identity proof (Aadhaar, PAN, Passport)

Proof of income (Salary slips, Bank statements)

Address proof (Utility bills, Bank statements)

Some lenders may also require employment details to verify your job stability.

4.3 Choose the Right Loan Lender

Different lenders offer different terms for emergency loans. Look for a lender that offers fast approval, low-interest rates, and flexible repayment options. You may also want to check for processing fees or prepayment charges to ensure the loan is affordable.

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4.4 Apply Online

Many lenders provide an online application process where you can fill in your details and upload documents. This is one of the fastest ways to get a personal loan in an emergency. If approved, the funds will be transferred to your bank account within hours or days, depending on the lender.

5. Best Lenders for Emergency and Instant Loans

Here are some of the best lenders offering emergency and instant loans:

5.1 IDFC First Bank

IDFC First Bank offers personal loans with fast processing and competitive interest rates. Their online application process makes it easy to get instant approval for urgent financial needs.

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5.2 Bajaj Finserv

Bajaj Finserv offers instant loans with flexible repayment terms and no collateral required. You can also check your eligibility and apply online in just a few minutes.

👉 Bajaj Finserv Personal Loan

5.3 Tata Capital

Tata Capital offers personal loans for emergencies, with quick disbursal and affordable rates. They also offer personal loan calculators to help you determine the EMI and repayment schedule.

👉 Tata Capital Personal Loan

5.4 Axis Bank

Axis Bank provides easy access to funds with their personal loan products for emergencies. Their flexible loan terms make it a great option for individuals seeking quick financial help.

👉 Axis Bank Personal Loan 👉 Axis Finance Personal Loan

5.5 InCred

InCred offers quick approval for personal loans, with minimal documentation and competitive interest rates, ideal for those who need fast cash.

👉 InCred Personal Loan

6. How to Avoid Common Pitfalls When Applying for Emergency Loans

While emergency loans can provide financial relief, it’s essential to avoid common pitfalls to ensure that the loan is manageable:

6.1 Check the Interest Rates

Some lenders offer high-interest rates on instant loans. Make sure you compare rates to ensure that the loan is affordable.

6.2 Don’t Over-borrow

Borrow only what you need to cover your emergency expenses. Taking out a larger loan than necessary can lead to unnecessary debt.

6.3 Review Repayment Terms

Ensure that the EMI repayment terms fit within your budget. Choose a loan with manageable monthly payments to avoid financial strain.

Emergency & Instant Loans for Urgent Financial Needs

Emergency and instant loans provide quick access to cash during critical moments in life. Whether it’s a medical emergency, home repair, or unexpected expense, these loans offer a lifeline with fast approval and minimal documentation.

For the best emergency loan offers, ensure that you choose a reliable lender with competitive rates, flexible repayment options, and quick disbursal.

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By understanding how emergency and instant loans work, you can make an informed decision that helps you navigate financial emergencies effectively without adding unnecessary stress to your finances.