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by fitblipper 5y ago
Best way to secure customer's data? Don't have it to begin with! All that data is not needed when all you need to do is charge people $ and let their phone call another.
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by fitblipper 5y ago
Ive shifted to disappearing messages by default for about 4 months now and I like how it feels to communicate in this way! It feels more like talking directly with someone instead of collaboratively filling out a log. One mental shift is
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by fitblipper 5y ago
I thought Google was not allowing work-from-home except in exceptional cases. Does this tool mean that is not the case and they are providing the option more generally?
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by fitblipper 5y ago
To me it is clear they are bowing to government pressure to add this feature. I cannot imagine any other reason they would go from drawing so much attention to privacy of their platform in their communication and general PR around the laun
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by fitblipper 5y ago
The thing which always makes me hesitant about these projects is that they don't receive frequent security audits and not having an expensive brand behind them makes them more at risk to being willing to trash their name at the cost of
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by fitblipper 5y ago
I dont know of guilt or innocence. I do know that any jail time alone is a huge penalty in the US where their ability to get a job will now be greatly impacted. The US also has harsher terms than any other nation in the world for the vast
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by fitblipper 5y ago
I think a huge chunk of bad privacy outcomes arise through data retention policies and aggregation across many sources. To operate, a phone company might need to know where you are calling from and who, a doctors office might need to know y
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by fitblipper 5y ago
The fact that they even allow development of any software without reserving the right to claim ownership puts it leaps and bounds ahead of Google's policies they force on their employees. They used to have a ridiculously heavy handed p
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by fitblipper 5y ago
Rule of thumb: If something invokes "protect the children" to justify itself or to push it's agenda, it is advocating something. Not only that it is doing so in an underhanded and emotionally targeted way. I'm not sayin
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by fitblipper 5y ago
Deception is a technique often used during interragation. This leads to MANY issues including false confessions. Illinois at least recently passed a law disallowing police to lie to minors ( https://www.nytimes.com/2021&#x2F
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by fitblipper 5y ago
They can compete even with municipal internet. They just don't want to because then it will become a commodity market which will cause prices to race to the bottom instead of a scarce market which allows them to charge higher prices an
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by fitblipper 5y ago
I love how you put that! When the utility is operated by the government we, the people, have more direct control of how they operate. We don't have to put up with laws which encourage mass surveillance and data retention [1], 3rd part
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by fitblipper 5y ago
I'm no expert but this part seems to stretch science into hollywood sensationalism: "At the right angle and velocity, you might even fall back into Earth’s atmosphere and burn up." There is a Scott Manley video that describes
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by fitblipper 5y ago
Their excuse for this is that more severe crimes are more likely to have follow up news articles indicating if the suspect was charged, found guilty, whatever. This change is an important one to make and signals at least a recognition of th
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by fitblipper 5y ago
I understand how "clever law hacks" like warrant canaries are not clever when faced against actual law enforcement practices. I say this to try to explain that the following isn't meant to be a clever trick and instead is me
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by fitblipper 5y ago
Like the author I think resolution needs to improve to make this a better experience. Also comfort is important. Quest 2, even with the elite strap is not quite there when it comes to comfort but maybe the Valve Index is. What I would lik
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by fitblipper 5y ago
A quote that stood out to me: > The decision comes as nations around the world have sought to weaken encryption to benefit law enforcement investigations. When news articles talk about "an attack on encryption" it should be rea
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by fitblipper 5y ago
To say "the police go after criminals" is overly simplistic. They go after those who they are allowed to and that group of people changes from administration to administration making the police a political hammer and we are all th
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by fitblipper 5y ago
Crappy software sends people to prison. Crappy software keeps people in prison ( https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210222/12462746295/arizo... )
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by fitblipper 5y ago
Me to! Please share. :)
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by fitblipper 5y ago
That is horrifying. source: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13judge.html
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by fitblipper 5y ago
Asylum law is federally defined. However, if you look at the asylum requests per judge [1] you can see 2 different judges, 1. Hear 354 cases and approve 3.7% and 2. Hear 770 cases and approve 97.4% in my opinion clearly shows judges have
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by fitblipper 6y ago
Only in a very limited capacity, I guess. IMO the important result of this legislation is that it helps align the incentives of the police department with that of the public they are supposed to serve. That means a department will be more
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by fitblipper 6y ago
It was a sincere question, thank you for the sincere response. When I asked my question I was narrowing thinking of account security and data leaks (which I still think Google does a decent job at) but it is clear that the issue of privacy
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by fitblipper 6y ago
In my experience Google encourages good security practices. I'm interested in hearing if you have a different experience.
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by fitblipper 6y ago
When 1 thing happens that can be used to justify encroachment on our privacy congress gets their war cries ready and demands immediate change. When thousands and thousands of things happen which justify increased police oversight you hear &
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by fitblipper 6y ago
Sadly the division responsibility of the government branches do not match what you are taught in 6th grade government class. The overwhelmingly VAST majority of laws are passed by the executive branch. The common law system uses judicial
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by fitblipper 6y ago
We need to demand a publicly accessible audit. The fact prisons don't even have to accurately report the number of inmate deaths they have to anyone with decision making power highlights how crazy the situation currently is. Federal p
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by fitblipper 6y ago
I recently heard an interesting podcast about the feral hog problem growing in the southern US. They seemed to feel like the incentives put in place to exterminate the hogs has backfired and may have led to the spread of the hog population
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by fitblipper 6y ago
Watching The Social Dilemma on Netflix[1] was eye opening for me. I say that as someone who is intimately familiar with the technology related to the topics discussed. [1] https://www.netflix.com/watch/81254224

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