Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 27m

I am now selling stickers to help support the channel! I think my favorite is "my car doesn't have a privacy policy". Check it out if you want :)

rejectconvenience.printful.me

Reject Convenience Store

rejectconvenience.printful.me

6

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 20h

I did that discord thing but with the airpods dying sound once lol people did not like that, but ENGAGEMENT IS ENGAGEMENT!

1 3

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 2d

Weird Al

1 4

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 5d

As long as you send it from the same email as your account was created with, that should be all you're required to send.

1 1

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 5d

Also idgaf if it was a third party that was breached, Discord GAVE that third party that power. They are responsible for vetting their third party partners, and so they are responsible for this breach.

1 22

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 5d

Just a friendly reminder to send that email to opt out of arbitration. There were over 70,000 ID's breached, and attackers had access to this data for a full 52 hours. Also talk to your local lawmakers to point out these obvious risks to ID verification laws.

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 11d

That forced arbitration clause that was in Discord's recent TOS update is starting to make a little more sense now... cybersecuritynews.com/discord-data...

Discord Data Breach - Customers Personal Data and Scanned Photo IDs leaked

A data breach at a third-party customer service provider has exposed the personal data of some Discord users, including names, email addresses, and a small number of scanned government-issued photo ID...

cybersecuritynews.com

2 9 27

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 6d

But hey, the SAY they don't sell your data, they just hold onto it for as long as they want, and it's only a LOT of rather sensitive data. I'm sure nothing could go wrong...

Sources:
www.shopify.com/legal/privacy

Also shout out @pixelzwithaz.bsky.social for making me look at this garbage policy

21

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 6d

When I went to their support portal, I was forced to talk to an AI, and it just said "here's how you update your privacy policy" and I'm just stunned how useless this entire system is. The policy is missing information, they don't give you the information you need to track your purchase

1 20

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 6d

Okay, so maybe I'll just shoot them an email to let them know this is missing? WRONG, they don't provide an email to contact about privacy. You can either:
1. Make an account and give them MORE data (the thing I was trying to validate their practices on)
2. Send them a physical letter in the mail

1 18

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 6d

First is that they reference documents in the privacy policy that don't exist as far as I'm able to find. "For information on the CCPA requests we have received, please see here." and there's no link! I like to review these requests, as it gives an idea if they're actually chill about requests.

1 17

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 6d

So, upon reviewing the privacy policy, they do all the things y'all know I love to hate on. No clarity as to how long they retain data, a thing that says "we don't sell your data" followed by things that I'm fairly certain qualify as selling your data in several states, and 2 very interesting things

1 21

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 6d

In today's example of privacy policies that are missing important information, we have Shopify! I've had the misfortune of using their Shop service to buy things in the past, and was reminded today that instead of giving you tracking info, they make you download their app, which made me suspicious.

3 3 27

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 6d

This is how my projector works (in blender)! (please note the perspective is insane here, the light sources are actually very close together)

2 5 40

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 10d

I've been WAITING for this one!

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 10d

I think as long as you send it from the email that you used to create the account, I don't think you need to include any personal information (at least that's how I read it in the ToS, I'd love someone else's insight)

1

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 11d

That means you have until October 29th to send that email. If you don't send that email, you cannot be part of a class action lawsuit against them if your personal info was a part of this data breach.

Also you should stop paying for Nitro. It's clear they don't care about their customers.

2 31

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 11d

Reminder from their ToS:

"Opt-out. You can decline this Agreement to Arbitrate–and no other provision of these terms–by emailing an opt-out notice to [email protected] within 30 days of September 29, 2025"

3 5 27

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 11d

That forced arbitration clause that was in Discord's recent TOS update is starting to make a little more sense now... cybersecuritynews.com/discord-data...

Discord Data Breach - Customers Personal Data and Scanned Photo IDs leaked

A data breach at a third-party customer service provider has exposed the personal data of some Discord users, including names, email addresses, and a small number of scanned government-issued photo ID...

cybersecuritynews.com

4 8 38

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 12d

Interesting, I haven't come across this yet. I'll look into it, though!

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 14d

Don't tell me what to do

1 2

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 16d

There's an early screenshot when I was trying to match the lighting.

A 3D recreation of the dankpods desk and iPad from YouTube.

27

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 16d

Here's proof of the dankpods set being re-created from scratch in Blender in the latest video!

4 47

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 18d

He/Him

1

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 18d

Have you ever wonder why old people are bad with computers, yet they seem to be constantly on their phones? Or maybe you've wondered why the smartphone took over the world in the first place! Well, do I have the new video for you: youtu.be/lme9X2pf990

A side effect of simplicity

YouTube video by Reject Convenience

youtu.be

2 11 41

Reject Convenience @rejectconvenience.com · 19d

If you are ever worried about making something that looks bad, do it anyways. Making stuff is the only way to get better at making stuff. I made my very first 3D-dude videos on YouTube just over a year ago, and the difference is BONKERS to look back on. New video tomorrow, see you then :)

A comparison of the visual quality of a video I uploaded back in May of 2024 and a video I uploaded in September of 2025. It's just prettier now, that's all!

3 8 71