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by eivarv 6y ago
It has nothing to do with the medium of video, but with establishing trust. We'll need to deal with video the same way we do with images, audio, and eye witness accounts. The way to do that is to establish a measure of trust in some qu
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by eivarv 6y ago
No, god damn it. As soon as the cat's out of the bag, it'll forever be an arms race (there'll be attack vectors, etc.). Let's not just establish a new proxy for implicit trust here.
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by eivarv 6y ago
I hope we just do the rational thing, and rather stop treating video as if its some perfect representation of reality that's inherently trustworthy. We've had to confront similar issues with other media earlier in history, after a
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by eivarv 6y ago
Somewhat weird. From my own experience during the pandemic (two organizations, from lead to manager), productivity has been higher than ever. I kinda suspected this, as I'd been doing certain work from home earlier – but I was always s
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Norway's parliament hit by new hack attack(reuters.com)
2 points by eivarv 6y ago|0 comments
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by eivarv 6y ago
We can use tools that protect us (secure software, anti-tracking software...) and educate practitioners about privacy enhancing technologies and privacy engineering in general. But there isn't any technological solution to the arms-rac
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by eivarv 6y ago
Contexual ads [0]. Alternatively anonymized analytics (i.e. you don't store personal data, IPs, do fingerprinting etc.) And, as you might know, you're required to get permission before dropping any cookies that are not strictly re
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by eivarv 6y ago
It already is – in national constitutions, and both the EU and UN definitions of human rights. The issue is with enforcement. Lots of today's data collection, sale and use is illegal (often patently so).
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by eivarv 6y ago
The difference is there are actually formal guarantees wrt privacy - such as k anonymiy, l diversity, and differential privacy. If you can PROVE anonymiy (to a certain extent), theres little privacy issue. The problem is that, frankly, lots
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by eivarv 6y ago
Seems there's still "required diagnostic data" [0]. See also "Minimum telemetry level" [1] under "Comparison of Windows 10 editions" on Wikipedia. [0]: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us&#
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by eivarv 6y ago
https://cleave.app Cleave is an application that lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think
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by eivarv 6y ago
While it is harder to make than to comment, the sort of attitude that leads to environments where one can't "criticize without having an alternative" is unbelievably counterproductive.
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by eivarv 6y ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure". That's not to say anything about any beneficial side-effects, though. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law#Generalizatio..
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by eivarv 6y ago
That's not my experience, at least. I haven't had any major issues I wasn't able to solve with either. Even if I were more comfortable with web tech when I first started experimenting with this stuff (some time around 2012-20
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by eivarv 6y ago
For the GUI-parts (and more) there's always wxWidgets and Qt, at least.
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by eivarv 6y ago
What we need is a subset of HTML features that are known to work across all major browser. From Firefox, Safari /WebKit on other MacOS, and Chrome. What, you mean like standards? Web standards?
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by eivarv 6y ago
It would also be nice if people understood and really appreciated the trade-offs of doing so – i.e. hogging resources, killing batteries, potentially wrecking the end users' experience and ability to multitask efficiently, etc.
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by eivarv 6y ago
I don't think this is entirely true. Have you tried wxWidgets or even Qt? In my experience, this is more about resources and economics ("reuse existing code" vs. having to learn something new).
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by eivarv 6y ago
Why not just wrap/abstract the native platform APIs (like what wxWidgets does)?
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by eivarv 6y ago
Exactly. Not to mention that lots of people do lots of stupid stuff – so appealing to it's popularity doesn't tell us much either.
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by eivarv 6y ago
It definitely should be. I think about it all the time. Resource-hungry apps screams "unprofessional" to me. The makers (i.e. developers or company) behind these app have apparently decided for me that whatever trade off they did
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by eivarv 6y ago
We're talking past each other here. The definition of personal data is "any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual [...] directly or indirectly" This says nothing about being linked. It&#x
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by eivarv 6y ago
Sorry, but I still don't think you're right. In fact, your understanding doesn't sound like anything I've heard from anyone else. The link doesn't give examples of what can be, but what is personal data. "Perso
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by eivarv 6y ago
You're incorrect – the GDPR mentions IP addresses specifically as an example of personal data in recital 30 [0]. The EU Commission also mentions [0] it as an example of personal data. [0]: https://gdpr-info.eu/recitals&
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by eivarv 6y ago
Yes; It might not be clear, but my argument is that these sorts of logs are usually personal data (as they usually include IP-address or other person/device-identifier) – but if you have URLs too you run the risk of storing SENSITIVE p
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SSL/TLS-Decryption and the GDPR(eivindarvesen.com)
1 points by eivarv 6y ago|9 comments
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by eivarv 6y ago
I think it's important to point out (if only for end-users) that Solid puts your data "under your control" in the "allows you to authorize third party access to your data" – not in the "can actually control you
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by eivarv 6y ago
It'll probably never happen, but we should look into solving the technical debt in our communications infrastructure – even if breaking backward-compatibility . Huge issues and vulnerabilities wrt security and privacy that are probably
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by eivarv 6y ago
Yes, it's relevant – they migrated from Electron because of the security-issues associated with building a browser in Electron specifically. Meaning: it's relevant because it's particularly insecure, and a bad idea to imple
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by eivarv 6y ago
Ah, right. Thanks!

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