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by infodroid 9y ago
Debut on Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11234702
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by infodroid 9y ago
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15930073
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by infodroid 9y ago
recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15642116
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by infodroid 9y ago
You might have a good excuse, but don't deny what is really going on here. These "free" analytics services have a dark side. The price for using them is that they get to build profiles of your users, with varying degrees of i
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Don’t Buy Gifts That Snoop: Introducing Mozilla’s Holiday Buyers’ Guide(blog.mozilla.org)
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by infodroid 9y ago
I read that they use the same suppliers that are used by US-based System76 and other Linux-focused vendors, so no surprises there. There is a video review from Quidsup up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhpPsktOZ
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Station X Linux Machines(stationx.rocks)
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Is it urgent to revoke access to private repo if mistakenly granted access?(security.stackexchange.com)
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by infodroid 9y ago
You suggest you were a victim of some kind of injustice, yet there isn't enough information to think that. You don't actually explain why your initial change was reverted. And you don't say whether you acknowledged the reason
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by infodroid 9y ago
recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15631473 (12 days ago)
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by infodroid 9y ago
How we treat advertising on social media is a matter of convention, a social negotiation. If we agree that it's just targeting demographics and not endorsing the actual content, then that is what it means, and advertising dollars would
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by infodroid 9y ago
I'm thinking of the bigger picture here, especially taking into account the way YouTube was unfairly attacked. The whole point of social media is for users to generate the content and to decide for themselves what makes content good or
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by infodroid 9y ago
Someone needs to put a stop to this bad meme... On social media, advertising is not an endorsement of the content. This might be the case for traditional media, but social media is different. Advertisers and platforms need to recognize th
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Bookmark Archiver: Your Own Personal Way-Back Machine(pirate.github.io)
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The big list of Vi[m]-like software(xaizek.github.io)
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by infodroid 9y ago
> ... using a less strict version... Nice to know there's a name for it. Using distributivity for creative simplification of a hard multiplication problem is a useful skill... It's a mental shortcut, like Russian Peasant Multip
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The big list of Vi[m]-like software(xaizek.github.io)
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MantisTek GK2's Keylogger Is a Warning Against Cheap Gadgets(tomshardware.com)
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Going rogue in Silicon Valley(theoutline.com)
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by infodroid 9y ago
The problem in the case of the Twitter announcement is that it appears dishonest. RT/Sputnik were not the source of the fake news stories that marred the US election, and yet are taking the blame for it. While the real producers of fak
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by infodroid 9y ago
Unfortunately the links you posted don't provide any evidence or suggestion that RT or Sputnik promoted these stories.
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by infodroid 9y ago
I don't think the focus on incentives is the best way to look at the problem. A different perspective is that decentralized social services fail because of the lack of capital/revenue and sufficient management structure to compete
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U.S. widens surveillance to include 'homegrown violent extremists'(reuters.com)
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Keeping open source software projects maintainable(jeffkreeftmeijer.com)
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Can Technology Save Democracy?(fastcompany.com)
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by infodroid 9y ago
Despite the headline, social media isn't the privacy issue or the main story. It's just that we have evidence that social media makes up one of the Bulk Personal Datasets (BPDs) [1]. The actual story is that the oversight body was
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by infodroid 9y ago
There are several problems: - It is more than just posts on social media. The databases cover "sensitive medical data" and "financial details" and much more. - The oversight body was not informed that this data was being
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by infodroid 9y ago
The headline unfortunately downplays the scope of the data, since it covers a lot more than social media - it can include legally priviliged and "otherwise confidential" information, as well as information on "religion, racia
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UK spies using social media data for mass surveillance(techcrunch.com)
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A Unified Zotero Experience(zotero.org)
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