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Only on HackerNews is that considered pretty straightforward. I barely understand what a container is, and I know the BIOS mbr magic number off the top of my he
by lldbg 6y ago
Only on HackerNews is that considered pretty straightforward. I barely understand what a container is, and I know the BIOS mbr magic number off the top of my head. We should not all have to be Andy Dufresne to escape privacyhell. A bit of a tangent coming here, if you will indulge me.
The battle for privacy is lost on so many fronts; I do not believe it can be won, any longer. Even the language used by proponents for privacy shows this. What Google and others represent is not the opposite of privacy, that would be transparency. I've never heard Google's (nor Facebook's) practices designated as transparency friendly. Perhaps there is a good word for it, but as an ESL person, I've at least never heard of it.
As programmers we should know all about the benefit that proper naming provides. And things should be called by their proper name.
I am not for privacy, I have nothing to hide. Rather, I am against the exploitation of data I generate. So this comment can be taken as either a call to arms and naming the enemy, or as a statement of my ignorance of the queen's own english :p
- spijdar 6y agoIt's interesting to think about, that the two ways to prevent the misuse of your data would either be total privacy or total transparency. I was mostly joking, since I can't imagine anyone buying a Google Chromebook in an attempt to avoid Google. But, for the sake of argument, I do think it's genuinely straightforward. The internal details are slightly complicated, but from a user's perspective, all you have to do is press one button from inside settings, open a terminal, and type "sudo apt install firefox". That's not as easy as downloading a setup.exe file, but I think it's pretty straightforward. ChromeOS will even associate URLs with Firefox, if you choose. Then, even if you open Chrome, it will redirect all links back into Firefox. Just a small technical tangent of my own. :D
- forgotmypw17 6y agotransparency provability interoperability reimplementability
- zelly 6y ago> Rather, I am against the exploitation of data I generate do you really think your "data" is valuable? or was this just an idea put in your head by journalists? ponder that for a moment
- karlshea 6y agoObviously it is, otherwise everyone wouldn’t keep trying to get more of it.
- bearburger 6y agoOh, come on. Anyone who worked with FB ads system as "client" understands the power and price of the data that they collect. This is not conspiracy theory but fact. And I can't imagine the amount of data that browser owner able to collect. I'd guess that even MS knows less about me than Google despite of the fact that I use Windows.