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by fwn 2y ago
> ... some types of advertisements need to be highly regulated ... I truly detest advertising and have been avoiding it with a passion for about 20 years through adblocking, aggressive unsubscribing, etc. But regulating advertising is on
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> What if, for example, a piece of software is logging your key presses... Even easier: What if someone beats you with a stick until you unlock your password manager? Security is always a compromise around a lot of assumptions about thre
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I'm pretty relaxed about all this, but just a thought: Your comments in this thread seem very eager to talk about Russia instead of the actual topic of the thread, which is privacy and AI. You wrote those comments in a very repetitive
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> [...] my conclusion is that you're here to spill russian propaganda. [...] The case described by the parent is that of someone who was wrongly imprisoned for 10 months on the basis of bogus application of faulty technology, even t
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by fwn 2y ago
I use this bookmarklet to disable all CSS styling: javascript:(function(){var styles=document.querySelectorAll('style,link[rel="stylesheet"]');styles.forEach(function(style){style.disabled=true;});document.body.que
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The primary impression that most of the contemporary world has of FIDE is probably one of corruption and power games that are completely detached from the game of chess. There are people who think that it can be reformed and there are peopl
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> So your mouse driver can have AI in it, apparently. Just to highlight: The offline installer (supposedly for business environments) does not include AI. It can be installed directly on top of the regular application. https:/&#x2F
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> Quite the opposite actually, it emphasizes the importance of such anonymity but also acknowledges that it also comes with problems for society. I think this is just a tongue-in-cheek argument by the author. The article suggests adding
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I think it is quite a big deal that they did not have data on a single phone number that ventured into the European Union. I tend to be quite critical of our GDPR, but in this particular case, for this particular commercially available data
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Economists know this definition, yes. But, as the parent hints, this is separate from the phenomenon that the use of epistemic language that does not match the common use of a term undermines legitimacy/trust in the institution. > T
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by fwn 2y ago
The safety-argument functions as an apologetic narrative to justify the gatekeeping. Strangely, almost everything the Play Store pushes at me (Temu, TikTok, millions of communication apps with dubious reputation) is crap. I would never inst
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by fwn 2y ago
It really depends. Many apps currently cannot be distributed through the stores or the maintainers have to endure a lot of bullying to stay in the stores. (Think NewPipe et al) In these cases, the middlemen like Google are the hostile party
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This argumentative pattern comes up regularly. It's the idea that someone arguing against something they think is wrong (on moral, strategic, practical grounds - it doesn't matter) is somehow less valid because it's unlikely
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> I did like the new anti-toxicity features on Bluesky though: [The Verge article about a new Bluesky feature that allows cited accounts to remove themselves as a citation in other accounts' posts retroactively.] But this feature on
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While I personally think there is a universally agreed upon idea of public access (as in non-exclusive), I was thinking about how other platforms handle it, and Facebook, AFAIK, seemed to have moved to the "everyone" category at s
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by fwn 2y ago
> it gives stalkers/ragers time to calm down after they’ve been rejected But afaik it's just right click -> open in private window to see the profile as the open internet would see it. Takes a second. It's the same on r
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by fwn 2y ago
Regular subscribers to Patrick Boyle know that his channel is not really about finance - and certainly not about crypto. Most of the time, the channel is meant to be a place to talk about rap music. It's very subtle.
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There's nothing wrong with wanting advertising to survive. It's a creative powerhouse and a huge cultural influence. But what most people really mean when they say that is: I want to preserve ways of coercing or tricking people in
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by fwn 2y ago
> Perhaps you trust gorhill with that power, but it's pretty understandable why others might not want to give that power to a third party. I have been using the extension, now called ublock origin, for longer than I have been using
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> And, when a self-signed certificate is in use, the browser should show a prominent icon of self-configured security. ..and there should of course be a way to disable that prominent icon of self-configured security. Because Firefox, unl
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The authors of the title most likely wanted to suggest a similarity between metas use of the data and scraping. In some legislations there are rules about scraping. And for many less technical people it sounds scary.
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In the paradox of intolerance, Popper was writing about violence, not anti-establishment speech. Known for his critical rationalism and vehement opposition to authoritarianism, Popper would probably be spinning in his grave if he knew that
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> The question that needs to be answer is how far democracy is willing to go outside of democratic bounds to preserve itself. Leaving aside all inaccuracies that are unavoidable in political situations: Philosophy spent quite some time t
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There is also the European Payment Initiative (EPI). It's an organization set up by a group of banks to streamline payments around (AFAIK) SEPA instant credit transfers. While I'm highly skeptical of shared initiatives by European
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Oh Spotify does not have ad free music and there is no subscription level that makes Spotify music free of advertisements. They hunt me with banners and popups for random musicians almost every day. What they provide is an ad free music &qu
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> Doubly so when it's a personnel matter because the less said the better. I think it depends. There's probably a whole lot of reasons to select a specific communication strategy around an incident. If it's an obvious viol
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> If you don't use GNOME, why is this interesting to you anyway? Regardless of where someone stands in this particular conversation, perceived injustice is bad even for those who are only indirectly affected by it. I guess that most
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Corruption has traditionally been difficult to quantify. There is the Corruption Perceptions Index, which uses perception as a (clever but tricky) proxy for actual corruption. https://www.transparency.org/en/cpi/20
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That is a wild explainer. They deny any direct benefit for the user, and then go on to list some actual downsides (CPU, network, and battery cost & privacy loss) for the user running their software. > Any benefit people derive from t
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by fwn 2y ago
> You can. No, AFAIK you cannot. The inability to donate to Firefox is a valid and longstanding criticism of the Mozilla corporate/foundation setup. Mentioning this deficit in a comment chain about the projects financial sustainabil

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