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by fwn 1y ago
> CSAM is also a list of hashes for some of the worst CP video/images out there. It doesn't read anything, just hash matching. The list presumably contains CSAM hashes. However, it could also include hashes for other types of c
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by fwn 1y ago
> And yet, that is very far from the majority. Remember that our parent said, "Many people in Germany neither trust the banks nor the government." You denied that, and I suggested that the turnout for the AfD might be a useful
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by fwn 1y ago
> Most people [in Germany] definitely do trust both government and banks to a sensible degree, even if they don’t like some decisions. The major far-right fundamentalist opposition party has built its unprecedented success on a narrative
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by fwn 1y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! I’ll start benchmarking my current md table setup against one using YAML. It's apparently slightly less verbose than JSON.
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by fwn 1y ago
That’s pretty typical, though not especially reliable. (Allthough in my experience, Gemini currently performs slightly better than ChatGPT for my case.) In one repetitive workflow, for example, I process long email threads, large Markdown t
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by fwn 1y ago
I currently use Ente.io as a secondary photo syncing service in addition to Google Photos. While I really like it — snappy and encrypted — I was surprised by how much the missing Ultra HDR implementation affects me. Photos are currently upl
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by fwn 1y ago
This is the boolean privacy fallacy: the idea that if some large-scale violation of privacy exists, then nothing else you do is relevant for privacy. It’s seductive because it justifies complacency. On a theoretical level, it seems irreleva
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by fwn 1y ago
> Don't keep it all on your phone and unencrypted. I've had a 90-day message retention policy set in WhatsApp ever since the feature became available. Not because I doubt my ability to manage secure backups, but because I don&#
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by fwn 1y ago
It is much more likely that someone else will process all my chat history at a border checkpoint or somewhere similar and find out a lot of interesting things about me and my friends.
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by fwn 1y ago
My primary takeaway from the previous comment was not the reference to corporate annoyance, but the question of how to assess overly verbose replies. I can see that, on a large scale, those outputs might end up consuming a lot of human time
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by fwn 1y ago
> Incorrect. This runs locally. It does not matter whether Recall runs locally. Microsoft controls the OS, the feature, and the update pipeline. If they decide tomorrow to start syncing Recall data to the cloud - for any reason - they ca
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by fwn 1y ago
You should be able to access everything on your own computer - that is a good thing. The real problem with Recall is that Microsoft will access the data to apply some algorithmic secret sauce. The product manager already probably has all ki
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by fwn 1y ago
> China is definitely digitally fenced-off and you don't see it having these issues. China is the textbook example of this problem. Political power in China routinely uses infrastructure to suppress or punish those who deviate from
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by fwn 1y ago
This seems like a tangent. The article isn’t about whether the ICC’s jurisdiction is valid—it's about how dependent international institutions (or anyone, really) are on US-based tech providers, and how that exposes them to US executiv
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by fwn 1y ago
> The attack ... involved modifying and re-signing KeePass installers with trusted certificates to deliver a custom malware loader ... The infection chain began with malvertising campaigns on popular search engines ... directing users to
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by fwn 1y ago
Yeah, any tracking expands the surface for surveillance, whether it's for subscriptions or for safety. Market incentives make subscription tracking likely to become more and more all-encompassing, though. (like with "Smart"-T
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by fwn 2y ago
> ... no point being all buttoned up if you have kids running who knows what ... Privacy is not binary. Therefore, it is very likely that even if other people do not practice good privacy practices, practicing them already increases pers
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by fwn 2y ago
Signal does not yet support disappearing messages after 90 days, which is rather unfortunate. For our main family chat, four weeks (the signal maximum) is perceived as too short, so we have not enabled disappearing messages there. No idea w
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by fwn 2y ago
It does (function() { var a = document.createElement("script"); a.type = "text/javascript"; a.id = "__gaOptOutExtension"; a.innerText = 'window["_gaUserPrefs
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by fwn 2y ago
> This is beyond silly. You could be using your phone to [...] I think you think the benefit of such a tool would be to shame politicians for something specific, whereas the real benefit of such a tool would be to make decision-makers aw
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by fwn 2y ago
I'm not the parent, but one reference they made but didn't link was this 60 Minutes clip "Policing the internet in Germany, where hate speech, insults are a crime". It was a bit of a meme in Germany. https://w
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by fwn 2y ago
> You're comparing oral discussion with written discussions. No, I am comparing communication in general and it just so happens that in the past all communication was oral and now we all work from home and converse through large onl
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by fwn 2y ago
When I was standing in the field in the Middle Ages, harvesting turnips, and I said to the guy next to me: I don't think I like our prince. There was no permanent record of that. If I was standing at the loom and I said to the weaver n
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by fwn 2y ago
> I don't think their AUP considers the browser software a service. It is not just about their services! They clarify it by writing: "Your use of Firefox must follow Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy, and you agree that you will
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by fwn 2y ago
> Your use of Firefox must follow Mozilla’s Acceptable Use Policy, and you agree that you will not use Firefox to infringe anyone’s rights or violate any applicable laws or regulations. I'm no expert, but this seems to imply that if
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by fwn 2y ago
South-Africa was facing a severe electricity crisis very recently. See, for example: https://theconversation.com/south-africas-electricity-crisis... I was there for a couple of weeks visiting friends back then and we even u
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by fwn 2y ago
> Because that genuinely is dangerous? Do you deny that people are more likely to commit crimes of opportunity when the lights are off, security cameras are offline, and communication systems are down? A rise in the likelihood of crime i
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by fwn 2y ago
> I am surprised you do not realize that cities have different civic requirements than countryside. Why do you think that? Stating a difference in civic requirements does not change any of the arguments put forward. I can move around a c
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by fwn 2y ago
> A government declaring a curfew (for any reason) is a bad thing[...] does the curfew etc. seem reasonable to [Chileans]? This comment doesn't seem to have gone down well with the community, but I wonder why. "Emergency"
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by fwn 2y ago
My German bubble is also maybe half Whatsapp and half Signal. Many contacts have both. It looks the same, feels the same and does the same. Notifications appear in exactly the same place, regardless of the messenger. I don't understand

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