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by r3bl 8y ago
Does it need to prevent them? Do stars in a repo represent something significant?
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by r3bl 8y ago
Banana phone runs Kai OS, which is not supported by Spotify. However, there are people requesting it: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Simplified-versi... and https://community.spotify.com&#x
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by r3bl 8y ago
That's a valid argument against GitHub, since they open source a ton of code, but you can't run GitHub yourself. That's not a valid argument against GitLab, which offers you the option to host it yourself, and then builds fea
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by r3bl 8y ago
To be precise, Google/Yahoo deal(s) made by Mozilla only affect certain countries. Mozilla is free to include whichever default browser they want in the rest of the world. In fact, they did that during the Yahoo deal. Yahoo was default
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by r3bl 8y ago
I'd like to mention the most obvious abuse of copyright I've ever seen. It was featured in EFF's hall of shame back in January: https://www.eff.org/takedowns/ten-hours-static-gets-five-cop... Long story
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by r3bl 8y ago
> I think it'd be nice to have a browser option where it simply won't load content from outside of the current domain. Firefox does have that as an option hidden in about:config ("privacy.firstparty.isolate").
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by r3bl 8y ago
Not only that, but it only closes itself if you scroll too fast, thinking that you're not interested in that specific article you've clicked on. Best example of trying to over-optimize a site I can think of.
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by r3bl 8y ago
> I wonder if there will eventually be guidelines about how many ads you can show users and now much screen real estate is allowed to be covered by ads. Isn't that kind of what "acceptable ads" programs in adblocks are? (O
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by r3bl 8y ago
If, by "built around privacy", you're referring to end-to-end encryption, that was introduced (fully) to WhatsApp in 2016. Facebook acquired WhatsApp in February 2014. Open Whisper Systems announced their partnership with Wha
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by r3bl 8y ago
Of course there is! https://tosdr.org/
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The author of the nightmare letter didn't even claim that his nightmare letter was aimed at data subjects (AKA users), but specifically to companies that are trying to be compliant. Like, "if you can answer this letter, you&#x27
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by r3bl 8y ago
Absolutely not. At best, you can challenge them to remove the page with your contribution to the guest book.
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by r3bl 8y ago
Fine, here's a Dutch public broadcaster: https://www.npo.nl/ Upon opening it, you'll see a button labeled "Cookie-instellingen aanpassen". Clicking on it allows you to fine tune their cookie policy. &quo
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by r3bl 8y ago
Here's a marvelous example I've stumbled upon yesterday: https://juro.com/policy.html The entire privacy policy is very well done (and beautifully designed, I may add). Clear options, transparency over who gets yo
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Encrypted Email and Security Nihilism(aclu.org)
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by r3bl 8y ago
They are a family, as in, all of them were almost certainly created by the same group. Symantec said that Duqu is "near identical" to Stuxnet. As for Flame, Kaspersky[0] initially said that it contains no resemblance to Stuxnet,
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by r3bl 8y ago
I agree. It's the most sophisticated piece of malware , that's for sure (at least counting the ones we know of). But calling it the most sophisticated piece of software is too big of a stretch. That said, other answers to this
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by r3bl 8y ago
While I do understand your hate, and while I personally hate the problem of using video instead of text, I gotta say that this specific example you've mentioned can be blamed to the limitations of the platform (Twitter). Their alternat
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In the footer, in both of the cases.
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by r3bl 8y ago
I know that an unsanitized HTML input is a stupid issue to begin with, but update issued within 24 hours of discovery (and within 5 hours from disclosure)? That's really impressive.
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by r3bl 8y ago
That's a ridiculously high percentage: 200 out of "thousands" tested. Judging by their use of "thousands", I'd bet that the number is somewhere between 2000 (making 1 in 10 suspended) and 8000 (making 1 in 40 s
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by r3bl 8y ago
Facebook claims that Facebook suspended the apps because their CEO claimed that they will. Meanwhile, they offer no real evidence of doing so, not even a list of names. Just a number. And even that number isn't exact, since it's
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by r3bl 8y ago
HTTPS means encryption in transit. Email are also encrypted in transit (almost) universally. Encryption in transit has absolutely nothing to do with keeping the data hidden from the service you're visiting.
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by r3bl 8y ago
I'm from one of those countries in the list. It has been known that this is the case and that countries vote for neighbors ever since I've first watched Eurovision (in like 2007). I'm really surprised that this isn't com
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by r3bl 8y ago
Oh, now he's fixing it, not salvaging it? May last year in NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/20/technology/evan-williams-...
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by r3bl 9y ago
So... do you like that Google released a dozen of IM programs so far instead of working on one single product and regularly updating it?
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by r3bl 9y ago
Purism phone still doesn't exist. You can't buy it. It annoys the fuck out of me when someone says that a phone that still doesn't exist and isn't available for purchase is mentioned as an "alternative". It w
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by r3bl 9y ago
Not only will it require them to include the info they're using to target you with ads, but also their source for that info (if it wasn't submitted by the user itself), the existence of automated-decision making, and "meaning
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by r3bl 9y ago
I live in the EU. If I'm your "customer" (as in, you store my personally identifiable data), you have to comply with GDPR, regardless of where your company is. Hope that simplifies things.
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by r3bl 9y ago
I don't think you understand author's point. His point is highlighted in the first tweet, in which the author appears to be specifically annoyed by the potential founders and investors that can't understand that ML isn't

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