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by kome 5y ago
"Yet spy services are increasingly using a WikiLeaks-like model of posting stolen materials online. In 2018, the Trump administration granted the CIA aggressive new secret authorities to undertake the same sort of hack-and-dump operati
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by kome 5y ago
I think you exactly hit the nail on head, not just about Duarte, but especially about the whole "regulate Facebook" meme Regulating Facebook, while it mantains its monopoly position, means opening the door to a very grim future. T
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by kome 5y ago
I am not the OP, and I closed my Facebook account in 2008, because I really disliked the platform and I dislike walled gardens on the net. I saw where this was going and I was right. Facebook is clearly bad. But I find that pointing at Face
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by kome 5y ago
yeah, but i think it's a good hypothesis.
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Historical internet community Metafilter (est. 1999) is running at a deficit(metatalk.metafilter.com)
6 points by kome 5y ago|0 comments
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by kome 5y ago
> Firefox still has no alternative in the privacy / user-centric space (don't mention Brave, I'm gonna get mad). Vivaldi perhaps https://vivaldi.com/ ? It is still a chrome derivative, but it feel less sha
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by kome 5y ago
try pale moon https://www.palemoon.org/ , basilisk https://www.basilisk-browser.org/ or dot https://github.com/dothq/browser
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Subprime Attention Crisis(logicmag.io)
35 points by kome 5y ago|12 comments
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by kome 5y ago
Telegram?
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by kome 5y ago
what? no. if we can read plato and aristotle - and a bunch of others - it's thanks to Catholics monk.
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by kome 5y ago
that's crazy high even for most of the US
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by kome 5y ago
imho NSA people is technically skilled but politically naive... and that's clearly why they work for NSA in the first place... Technical training can make you good a something, but it doesn't necessarily make you aware of why yo
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by kome 5y ago
I think you are wrong. It seems like Telegram it's the only platform where Navalny's team has still some space and freedom.
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by kome 5y ago
I teach to university kids, and I know for sure: for many of them email is too complicated and they don't know how to use it. it's sad, but it's like this.
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by kome 5y ago
A public university doing wonderful work again state sponsored spyware. Thank you University of Toronto! You restore my faith in academia.
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by kome 5y ago
surveillance capitalism is a political decision, not a random development. let's not normalize mass data collection. because it opens door to totalitarianism.
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by kome 5y ago
facial recognition technologies and fingerprinting are not normal and please, don't try to normalize them. biometric surveillance technologies (such as facial recognition) in public places should be limited, but also other form of biom
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Facebook says it doesn't read WhatsApp messages, but it does(businessinsider.com)
4 points by kome 5y ago|1 comments
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Glenn Greenwald: All Communications Between Myself and Chelsea Manning(greenwald.substack.com)
8 points by kome 5y ago|2 comments
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The Whole Country Is the Reichstag (Adolph Reed, Jr.)(nonsite.org)
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by kome 5y ago
where i made nationalistic claims? i said that the racialist obsession in the US is a strong cultural trait, but it's completely unscientific
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by kome 5y ago
This Italian startups does exactly this kind of Orwellian credit scoring - like checking what browser, email provider and how old your computer is: https://www.fido.id/
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by kome 5y ago
so, in Belgium there is no creepy credit score, but a public registry. That's a more intelligent solution to the problem, like in the rest of Europe.
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by kome 5y ago
this is so american and pointless... human races are not a biological thing, stop trying to make it happen. the U.S. is SO obsessed with race.
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by kome 5y ago
I really dislike discord (slack for zoomers) and slack (discord for boomers). They are so bloated, messy and ugly. I still prefer email. The good side of discord and slack is that they are SO easy to ignore, and it was awesome when some of
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AirVPN, the story so far: a magniloquent tale(airvpn.org)
2 points by kome 5y ago|0 comments
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by kome 5y ago
no, not really... just on paper. like Afghanistan 1 months ago.
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by kome 5y ago
the only and correct answer is: you let them to do whatever they want as a collectivity, and you stop your imperialist project. You can use all the softpower you want, and i see no problem with this, but it's up to the majority of the
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by kome 5y ago
I want the black sky back, instead of space litter put by billionaires without any accountability
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by kome 5y ago
Yes, the Atrocities in Xinjiang Constitute a Genocide https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/15/xinjiang-uyghurs-intent...

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