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3 years ago
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Facebook users have a say? =0
Privacy
adhoc
3 years ago
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Wait... fb and apple aren't the same company?
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3 years ago
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"who watches the watchers"?
What if my doctor gives malicious advice aimed to cause me harm? Am I still responsible for that? Isn’t the doctor at fault for what they did? Then you are responsible for trusting the untrustworthy. It really doesn't matter if he is at fault since he cannot harm you if you don't trust him in the first place.
adhoc
3 years ago
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Your "protected" reads "dependent" ^^
www.reddit.com
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3 years ago
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It does answer. If you die because you did whatever someone told you, it's still your own responsibility for blindly following ill advice. I'm not implying that nobody should be trusted. I'm clearly saying, it's your responsibility to choose who you trust.
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3 years ago
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"allowing "unauthorized" repair companies to fix iPhones will lead to privacy violations and will cause security problems" ^^
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3 years ago
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Reddit's network effect is a thing. It bears fruit every now and then. ;)
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3 years ago
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Do you think people shouldn't be responsible for whom they trust?
cryptocurrency
lib.rs is actively discriminating against cryptocurrency developers
adhoc
3 years ago
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I miss the old P2P days.
Found this cached deleted blog post on https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/nupcn0/police_around_the_world_have_been_listening_to/
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3 years ago
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Everyone is responsible for his own content diet. Freedom of speech is fundamental in a free society. How do you distinguish "truth" from misinformation and propaganda without it?
therecord.media
"Since January 2020, a threat actor has been inserting thousands of malicious servers into the Tor network to identify traffic heading to cryptocurrency mixing websites and perform an SSL stripping attack, which is when traffic is downgraded from an encrypted HTTPS connection to plaintext HTTP. The belief is that the attacker has been downgrading traffic to HTTP in order to replace cryptocurrency addresses with their own and hijack transactions for their own profit." - https://therecord.media/thousands-of-tor-exit-nodes-attacked-cryptocurrency-users-over-the-past-year/ "One of the more comprehensive fixes we're exploring from the user side is to disable plain HTTP in Tor Browser." - https://blog.torproject.org/bad-exit-relays-may-june-2020
reclaimthenet.org
“the Four R’s of Responsibility:” “remove, raise, reduce, reward.”
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3 years ago
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Until Linux runs properly, and has a healthy app ecosystem for smartphones, Replicant is our choice.
"Through the lens of advanced data analytics, gaze patterns can reveal much more information than a user wishes and expects to give away. (…) eye tracking data may implicitly contain information about a user’s biometric identity, gender, age, ethnicity, body weight, personality traits, drug consumption habits, emotional state, skills and abilities, fears, interests, and sexual preferences. Certain eye tracking measures may even reveal specific cognitive processes and can be used to diagnose various physical and mental health conditions.”
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4 years ago
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<3
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4 years ago
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Conversations
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4 years ago
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Furthermore, I'd further argue that it's not so much about profits, but rather the naive who buy their products.
Technology
YouTube AI Blocked Chess Channel after Confusing 'Black' and 'White' for Racist Slurs
adhoc
4 years ago
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Why hard code word bans then?
Technology
YouTube AI Blocked Chess Channel after Confusing 'Black' and 'White' for Racist Slurs
adhoc
4 years ago
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Are you referring to LE's Longinus Spear pedo&terror?
Technology
YouTube AI Blocked Chess Channel after Confusing 'Black' and 'White' for Racist Slurs
adhoc
4 years ago
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Evidently! Immediately posted about it and opened an issue.
Music and audio production
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adhoc
4 years ago
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Submissiveness is way more annoying. Far easier to get pardon than authorization. You may downvote me now.
adhoc
4 years ago
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Public school doesn't like Bastiat's The Law...
Technology
YouTube AI Blocked Chess Channel after Confusing 'Black' and 'White' for Racist Slurs
adhoc
4 years ago
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Once upon a time one of my Lemmy posts used the word "smartwatch". Couldn't post it. Repeatedly gave me the error "slur filter - twat". Political correctness is fascism disguised as manners. - George Carlin
Security
So they made Android mostly free software. The thing is that at some point they ended up having the biggest market share with operating systems connected to the Internet. So the idea was at this point to make Android non free. But it was already free software, so how do you do that? People can also fork. You do it through the control of google play. They stopped developing many applications in Android and continued developing them in Google Play edit: a relevant 2018 article - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on-android-controlling-open-source-by-any-means-necessary/
Announcements
New community announceent: !libgen
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4 years ago
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The more the merrier ^^
Having a 100% secure system (nobody can break-in), but no privacy/anonymity, is like: "Hey man, I protect you. You can trust me!", says the man with an MP and 1500 bullets.
Technology
guy who might know suggests to run screaming from bitcoin
adhoc
4 years ago
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Corporate sellout lost me with “You know what real money is? Money you can use to pay your taxes.”
www.youtube.com
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/01/jared-mauch-didnt-have-good-broadband-so-he-built-his-own-fiber-isp/
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4 years ago
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Nice to see you too! Keep up with the amazing quality!
adhoc
Locha Mesh: open-source, open-hardware resilient network for private chat, censorship-resistant webs, Bitcoin & payments without internet
adhoc
4 years ago
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You should tell them! I think it would be good for them to review their copy. https://twitter.com/Locha_io
adhoc
Locha Mesh: open-source, open-hardware resilient network for private chat, censorship-resistant webs, Bitcoin & payments without internet
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"What is a ‘Harpia’ node? A Harpia node is a Locha Mesh standalone node which can provide services on the network such as an Internet gateway, Bitcoin transactions broadcast, latest blocks data, Electrum Server, a remote monerod, or any other. This device can have a larger antenna plugged, a power amplifier, or even a satellite dish, extending the transmission range in several kilometers." - https://github.com/btcven/locha/blob/master/documentation/en/faqs.md#what-is-a-harpia-node
github.com
adhoc
4 years ago
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Our smartphones come with conversations. It's by far the best choice in our opinion.
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4 years ago
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Political correctness is fascism disguised as manners. - George Carlin
Fediverse
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4 years ago
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Big is not always good ;)
Source: https://twitter.com/schorselysees/status/1344136636951498753
"(...) Platforms like Amazon, Facebook or Alibaba incorporate more and more financial services into their ecosystems, enabling the rise of new specialized providers that compete with banks in payments, asset management, and financial information provision." - https://blogs.imf.org/2020/12/17/what-is-really-new-in-fintech/ "(...) imagine the kind of intimate history that Facebook could have with a borrower and suddenly its digital cash initiative starts to make more sense. But how would all this data be incorporated into credit ratings? Machine learning, of course." - https://gizmodo.com/your-credit-score-should-be-based-on-your-web-history-1845912592
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IMF directly pushes for social media and google search credit score. "(...) Platforms like Amazon, Facebook or Alibaba incorporate more and more financial services into their ecosystems, enabling the rise of new specialized providers that compete with banks in payments, asset management, and financial information provision." - https://blogs.imf.org/2020/12/17/what-is-really-new-in-fintech/
"“Banks tend to cushion credit terms for their long-term customers during downturns,” the paper’s authors write. This is because they have a history and relationship with the customer. Now, imagine the kind of intimate history that Facebook could have with a borrower and suddenly its digital cash initiative starts to make more sense.
But how would all this data be incorporated into credit ratings? Machine learning, of course." - https://gizmodo.com/your-credit-score-should-be-based-on-your-web-history-1845912592
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4 years ago
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I did report it. But it doesn't change that language filter is not a feature, it is censorship.
My last post had the word smart*watch. It repeatedly gave me the error "slur filter - t*w*a*t".
""AIR-FI: Generating Covert WiFi Signals from Air-Gapped Computers," Guri shows that perfectly timed read-write operations to a computer's RAM card can make the card's memory bus emit electromagnetic waves consistent with a weak Wi-Fi signal. This signal can then be picked up by anything with a Wi-Fi antenna in the proximity of an air-gapped system, such as smartphones, laptops, IoT devices, smart watches*, and more." - https://www.zdnet.com/article/academics-turn-ram-into-wifi-cards-to-steal-data-from-air-gapped-systems/ Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhNnc0ln63c Paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.06884.pdf *misspelled due to lemmy's [slur filter](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1224) facepalm
He is seen, but he does not see, he is the object of information, never a subject in communication. Visibility is a trap. Surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action. The perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary. So it is not necessary to use force to constrain the convict to good behavior, there were no more bars, no more chains, no more heavy locks. The efficiency of power, its constraining force have, in a sense, passed over to the other side - to the side of its surface of application.
www.youtube.com
PT1 Before the Web: The 1980s Dream of a Free and Borderless Virtual World PT2 Cryptography vs. Big Brother: How Math Became a Weapon Against Tyranny PT3 When Encryption Was a Crime: The 1990s Battle for Free Speech in Software PT4 Bitcoin and the End of History
www.eff.org
"For the first time outside authoritarian regimes, Europe would be declaring which Internet communication programs are lawful, and which are not." - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/orders-top-eus-timetable-dismantling-end-end-encryption
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"A few hours before Adolf Eichmann was executed, a prison warden asked him, “What should the Jews have done? How could they have resisted?”
Eichmann replied “…We would have been at a loss if they had disappeared before being registered… The number of our commandos was very small, and even if the police had helped us with all they had, their chances would have been at least fifty-fifty. …A mass flight would have been disastrous for us.” (17)
A few thousand Jews survived in Germany through it all, to see the Nazis out. Predominantly, these were people who avoided identification by changing address and identity at the time of registration. Those who escaped identification and ‘isolation’ in ghettoes generally escaped altogether." - https://www.globalresearch.ca/id-cards-an-historical-view/15231
www.youtube.com
Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos (full film) | FRONTLINE
"Germany’s leading credit bureau, SCHUFA, has immense power over people’s lives. A low SCHUFA score means landlords will refuse to rent you an apartment, banks will reject your credit card application and network providers will say ‘no’ to a new contract. But what if your SCHUFA score is low because there are mistakes in your credit history? Or if the score is calculated by a mathematical model that is biased? The scoring procedure of the private company SCHUFA is highly intransparent and not accessible to the public." - https://openschufa.de/ "[SCHUFA] is a German private credit bureau supported by creditors. It has its headquarters in Wiesbaden, the capital of Hessen, Germany. (...) Schufa has 943 million records on 67.7 million natural persons, and 6 million companies. Schufa processes more than 165 million credit checks each year. Of those, 2.5 million are self-checks by citizens. (...) At the beginning of the 20th century, the Berlin city electric company (BEWAG) offered household appliances for sale on installment plans. At the time, the financing was compared with electric bills and only regularly paying customers would be supplied with appliances.[5] This started a system for assessing payment behavior." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schufa
