fanso99

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by fanso99 4y ago
You need an always online instance that can be federated if you want to own your identity and social graph. If you don't care about that, then you can just create an account in your instance of choice and then use a wide range of tools
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by fanso99 4y ago
In my experience blogspam has been primarily used for commercial purposes (selling stuff and/or ads). Political disinfo at a new scale could pose very interesting new challenges. In a similar way we saw a paradigm shift when Cambridge
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by fanso99 4y ago
Isn’t that just a paid account without any KYC verification?
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by fanso99 4y ago
Somewhat agree with your take. A good example is Twitter: it’s trivial even for a non-state actor to automate a bot farm to post hundreds of thousands of disinfo tweets, create “connections”, retweet each other, etc. this is happening today
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by fanso99 4y ago
https://archive.vn/mzr6X
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by fanso99 4y ago
I experimented a lot with different sleep gadgets. Weighted blankets felt suffocating, especially in Summer. What really worked at the end is just 2 large pillows (20x40in) that I put on either side of me under the blanket. The most satisfy
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by fanso99 4y ago
Unless they mean something non-conventional, a search query, country, and device type are not enough to do any fingerprinting reliably. Some would argue that if you live in a very small country (like Vatican City) and you are the only user
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by fanso99 4y ago
perhaps randomize minutes/seconds of the "last-modified" header.
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by fanso99 4y ago
Collecting IP addresses and linking them to a user ID is considered PII as far as I know.
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by fanso99 4y ago
Storing a cookie with a counter still requires consent afaik. If I am right, then this technique is not sufficiently different and also requires consent.
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by fanso99 4y ago
My understanding is that most commenters are less critical of this specific implementation, but are alarmed by how this new technique could be used by other more nefarious parties in the future. Counting visits is probably still not a fully