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> What if Apple claims implementing required feature X will take more than 6 months? Then that will increase the implementation cost by at least (edit: up to ) 10% of their global revenue.
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> Is this potentially breaking apple's walled garden? I wonder wether they will comply at all. They will or there will be a repetition of Microsoft Corp. v. Commission , but with much higher fines.
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4y ago
Centralized power is also a crucial reason for corruption and oppression. History is full of examples.
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Even if the company was Facebook?
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It's a reminder to use encryption and the darknet for any leaks.
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4y ago
Right behind the paywall
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> If it’s a company provided laptop then it’s a good idea to assume that every keystroke, DNS request, and network packet is fair game. In the USA and other countries with subpar privacy laws.
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4y ago
I think this is in most cases true, where children are (ab-)used as a justification to reduce freedoms of adults.
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> personal info is one way to keep child predators aware of the fact that their actions can be traced back to a real person. And in case of a data leak, all the (anonymous) predators know which players are children and where they live.
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... assuming that these channels of interest are on Youtube and not on one of the other platform. I am using multiple platforms, just because the content is spread out now.
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Just call him Führer
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Soft carrots, sprouting potatoes, yellow broccoli and wrinkled peppers give me nightmares. I prefer my vegs and fruits to be very fresh and I avoid the ones that seem old to me, so I mostly judge them by the way they look and not by a date
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4y ago
Or taxes
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Would you feel ethically justified to support the mafia as long as they will not give you a pair of concrete shoes?
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> If you do not agree, just stop using the product. What’s so hard to understand? We are talking about Facebook here, the company that tracks unaware people as much as they can all over the internet, not just on their platform, and they
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4y ago
"Paper" people need to understand one thing: the real world does not give a shit what your paper stack says. For your paper-based project to have any effect on the real world, you need some physical, trusted party to reconcile the
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> “So far Harrison has only encountered gratitude for what he has done, however it is clear in this case someone is upset. He wholeheartedly apologises to Maree if she was offended by what he did and urges her to contact him privately so
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4y ago
High density rooftop farming is a thing, but of course that would never feed an entire city.
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4y ago
> How well could I survive eating local plants and whatever I can grow? Most likely not engough calories, but for growing your own greens in order to complement stockpiled food, I would recommend looking into passive hydroponics ( "
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Yeah, but how do you prove that everyone was informed? It needs at least to happen in written form and at that point, you can just put up a sign.
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Back when the main leaks happened, most real journalists were not able to use encryption, which would be a risk for the leaker. Snowden had to teach Greenwald encryption first. Newspapers only started to publish their public keys afterwar
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4y ago
Propaganda. At least to some extent.
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Privacy coins like Monero are not making all your transactions public and exchange to fiat gets only tracked with certain exchanges. One could as well sell it for cash on the streets.
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> These are both, basically, bogeymen. But the German bogeyman is the Nazis returning and the American bogeyman is the transient murderer. Eastern Germany had another authoritarian surveillance state after the Third Reich. I have no good
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I am not really fine with with them, but that's another can of worms.
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> We're talking about my front yard. I can go on street view and see exactly what everybody else driving by sees. The only change is that they scrub faces and license plates, which I could do using AgentDVR + DeepStack.cc and some s
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4y ago
I think a German court would ask in such cases which has more weight: a) your interest in security, or b) your neighbour's interest in privacy. I think the default is b), but there are cases where a) has more weight, for example if you
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> a legal threat would be the absolute worst way to achieve it. I agree, just asking is always a sensible first step, as well as making proactively sure that your camera does not invade anyone's private space, but I can see how that
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A physical mask that blocks the view to the hot neighbour, but not to your areas of interest would give them some reassurance.
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I find it really unfortunate that the US is so blatantly disregarding data privacy. In a world of eroding freedom, lack of data privacy can become a severe safety risk. The return of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the reversal of Roe v. Wade a
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