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by masswerk 3y ago
Well, it may be that I'm biased against that kind of advertising – and that this may be a mutual affair. At least, it doesn't work for me, like most recommendation algorithms. I do feel locked in, I haven't seen anything rele
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by masswerk 3y ago
So, because they are likely to commit a much more severe crime, we must let them violating these regulations? Isn't this already a high-risk lock-in? Also, behavioural tracking is by no means the only road to advertising. We have manag
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On the other hand, the business of data brokers is effectively selling such profiles. It would be crazy, if the wouldn't… (Mind that this isn't about Meta in particular, it's just that Meta has been found in violation of gene
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Hum, if these behavioural profiles and assessments spill over to financial institutions, employment, housing, (private) education, etc., these harmless "companies & entrepreneurs" may have more impact on your personal life and
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by masswerk 3y ago
I found this rather ironic: > Market research shows younger generations are pivoting to analog devices, like wired headphones and CDs. (Well, an iPod is as analog as a CD and it does feature wired headphones, as well. So all marks checke
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by masswerk 3y ago
Hum, given that the Apple Silicon processors use unified memory and a general cache (and that some of their performance has been attributed to what was then deemed an innovative memory and cache architecture) and that this is in principle a
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Notably, the paper suggests that Webkit is even more hardened: > Taking this approach a step further, Safari follows a simple one process per tab model, where two web- pages are never consolidated into the same rendering process, even u
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by masswerk 3y ago
I'm not entirely sure about this. The paper mentions that in Chrome and Firefox "different rendering processes handle pages with different effective top-level domain plus one sub-domain (eTLD+1)." (Meaning, windows in the s
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Please correct me, if I'm misinterpreting this, but is the framing regarding Webkit-only actually correct? The cache exploit seems to be a general one: > Here, we show that our attacks have near perfect accuracy across Safari, Fire
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Also, mind how the subject shifts from "she", the lawyer, to "I", the businessman in first person, and back again.
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So they should, by the same standards, fire the AI and start all over again, which may introduce a significant incentive for getting it right the next time?
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This is pretty interesting in the context of how how we look at and think of (written) words. Thank you!
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by masswerk 3y ago
Marginal nitpick: The image for the Artifort F549 Tulip Midi shows Pierre Paulin's Little Tulip , 1965 for Artifort. The stills, however, do show the Tulip Midi.
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It's that I do not understand the "citation needed" annotation applied to "Arabic", because of the very reasons, you mentioned. (What kind of mindset is behind this?)
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"Citation needed" for "Aarbic" is Wikipedia at its best! ;-) (Especially in the given context, where this specifically refers to "unvocalised Arabic", which implies that the written language doesn't includ
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by masswerk 3y ago
Regarding the desktop metaphor: Magic Cap is actually not a good example for the desktop metaphor in its original sense, which is really about a stack of overlapping documents (windows). The desktop metaphor is about managing a stack of pap
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by masswerk 3y ago
However, the very premise of techno feudalism is that they do not pay taxes, rather, it's them, who collect the rents. (Possibly with the prospect of these rents increasingly replacing taxes, as traditional territorial hegemonies are l
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by masswerk 3y ago
One of the intricacies of this kind of policy is that it is implicitly reversing the burden of proof: prove that you're transparent, prove that your random test bytes are not another layer of encryption, prove that you're not with
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by masswerk 3y ago
What's most concerning to me is that this is the Commission pushing this agenda. The European Council is already a mash-up of national populism of all kind, but the Commission is expected to be the (last) bastion of reason against this
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I think, targeted advertising is the major (and single) incentive for what we have become to call echo chambers. Governmental institutions eventually chiming in into what is looking more and more like the predominant mode of discourse is ju
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Let's put it this ways: if policymakers are allowed to think that certain elements should not be represented in the political process and/or should be just overwhelmed by a broad wave welcoming the agenda, we're deep into the
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> To sway European public opinion, however, the European Commission went even further. X’s Transparency Report shows that the European Commission also used ‘microtargeting’ to ensure that the ads did not appear to people who care about
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by masswerk 3y ago
Update: This seems to actually be an issue with the Google Analytics opt-out plugin in combination with blocking a default set of beacons.
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by masswerk 3y ago
To clarify: I think, it's legitimate to let the author know that their content fails to render on one of the three major browsers (and displays a blank content area, instead). Similar messages regarding basic interoperability are seen
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Wow, GitHub fails for me to render the content over a security error on Safari 16.6.1 / Desktop: > Refused to execute a script because its hash, its nonce, or 'unsafe-inline' does not appear in the script-src directive of
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> “There’s a big responsibility on manufacturers to stop trying to find the most extreme forms of pain on individuals (…)” > Edwards said some of these items are being developed by companies looking “to make their mark in the indus
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Still, this seems to be more logical to me than moving the window borders, since moving something in a suitable place first, in order to maybe manipulate it there, is much more like we would proceed with real-life objects. (However, the win
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I guess, it's a question of perspective. For me, maybe due to habit, these are two distinct actions: moving the origin and resizing the viewport. And I'm actually not comfortable with having to combine them in a single interaction
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To be fair, in the era of dedicated title bars, there used to be a huge drag button for easily relocating the window, wherever you wanted it to be.
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I guess, a scrollbar is just a mouse based touchscreen, after all? :-)

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