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by rolandog 7mo ago
Exactly. It started out as something good: see what friends and family are up to. But now: scroll infinite algorithmically placed or sponsored rage bait trying to trigger you into behaving the way that advances certain corporate or foreig
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by rolandog 7mo ago
Sure, but do we agree that the unitedstatesian's (pet peeve: they shouldn't be called americans, per definition) Congress could at least stop one side of the war (the one that initiated the aggression). The Iranians would probabl
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by rolandog 7mo ago
I don't look forward to corporations "automating" (unleashing) their "defenses" (hackbots) with AI, and ending up bricking random people's and businesses' phones and devices because they start hallucinatin
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by rolandog 7mo ago
Not sure if I agree that the only solution is to give up now; we need sensible people that know how the technology works in power and that are not beholden to serve big corporations, but rather the average person. We need less populist and
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by rolandog 7mo ago
It is the fault of the coders, the salespeople who over-promised the capabilities of the system, the lawmakers who have not regulated or demanded a minimum percentage of accuracy from those products, the AI' company's onboarding t
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by rolandog 7mo ago
Which means that, if the cops (and other relevant personnel) gets it wrong, they should get served with the same injustices that they committed, no questions asked... you know, because they didn't raise any when they were the ones dish
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by rolandog 7mo ago
And tied to inflation (or to a % of gross income), too, otherwise it'll be cheaper in X years to get fined than to hire information security officers
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by rolandog 8mo ago
> The ~foo as backup convention is not part of any standard. > [...] > It's the second thing I fix in either Vim or Emacs: Put backup files in a central location. (The first is proper indentation/spacing rules.) Perhaps n
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by rolandog 8mo ago
Ha! Well, not right now ! Previous to the last year or so, this wouldn't have escalated to the current situation where we're actively having to be wary of fending off Big Brother or blatant power grabs. However, given that we&#
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by rolandog 8mo ago
It's understandable; I would maybe expect to undergo an extra step in verification for a sensitive app like, "we noticed this is the first time you are using this system that is not locked down; please type in the token we have ma
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by rolandog 8mo ago
They will be able to do banking at least once the legislators tear down the walled gardens in a sensible way. Are the security benefits from the Appstore/Playstore real or security theatre? I'm pretty sure that, if there are secu
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by rolandog 8mo ago
Common sense and decency has departed the world's economic and legal systems for a while, huh? It now seems to be a "how evil can I be without it affecting our bottom line?" system.
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by rolandog 8mo ago
It feels like "they're" pulling the ladder after building the surveillance state with our free tools. I wonder if "they're" trying to install a Nomenklatura-style [0] government. [0]: Alison "alimcforever&
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by rolandog 8mo ago
Honest question, wouldn't the Ad Topics proposal by Google have shifted away from all this data being leaked during bids? IIRC, advertisers would've received something like 4 words to specify your interests. Maybe I'm misre
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by rolandog 8mo ago
> best to just quietly wait it out That's what an abuser expects of their victims. The disproportionate retaliation against Spain, I think, is out of fear that the US face consequences. The Trump-Epstein cabal would be quickly over
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by rolandog 8mo ago
Let's not drape ourselves in lobbyist-ammended laws too fast now; laws are the source code, in a way, of societies. They lay down the things we value, and what we are willing to do to protect them. These last few decades, a corporate
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by rolandog 8mo ago
It could also be a signal that they intend to take on the world; so they could technically not be racist if "everyone else is a threat".
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by rolandog 8mo ago
What about security tiers: - base tier: your code had 1% of no back doors - starter tier: your code has 100% additional chance of no back doors - security guru tier: generated code has 1000% additional probability of not having security bac
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by rolandog 8mo ago
Sorry, I wish I could blame my callused fingers and the touchscreen, but I didn't stop to do the math, because that's not the point I was addressing.
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by rolandog 8mo ago
Instead of 1 reviewer, have 10; also, don't we benefit as a society when everyone is more highly educated? Sure, we have a ways to go before we get there, namely with regards to resistance to disinformation training and including more
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by rolandog 8mo ago
Ah, the next level in determining Schrodinger's cat's outcome is if the detector measures Zuckerberg's profit taxability instead of radiation decay; the measurement's results depend on who is carrying them out, where the
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by rolandog 8mo ago
I wouldn't be opposed to there always being a "dumb" car tier where we don't get screens instead of buttons. Can you imagine getting privacy back in the car you bought? No more data-thirsty "assistants"!
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by rolandog 8mo ago
How do dupes work here? If it's a different article (Engadget is not the NYTimes), but it's paywalled, is it worth pointing to it?
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by rolandog 8mo ago
It may seem impossible on an individual level, but collectively it may make sense to take them on, ala death by a thousand paper cuts style.
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by rolandog 8mo ago
But more importantly, that walled gardens should be abolished and portability and compatibility of user accounts should be enshrined into law and protected at all costs.
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by rolandog 9mo ago
Wholeheartedly agree. I can't wait until we can live in a better era where we look back with collective disgust at the blatant white-collar crime time period that was ushered by Friedman and Welch. That, plus the current era, feels to
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by rolandog 9mo ago
> You have individuals who at best completely a BSc in Business Studies, and you are asking them to decide on COVID or climate change. That by itself is a hard ask. [...] Personally, I don't think it's that hard of an ask. The
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by rolandog 9mo ago
Would ssb (secure scuttlebutt) with Yubikeys have a similar usecase? [0] [0]: https://opencollective.com/secure-scuttlebutt-consortium/upd...
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by rolandog 10mo ago
Which is what I've come to realize: at least for the US, national prosperity comes at the expense of foreigners' misery [0]. I wonder if this holds for other countries, too? I wonder if --- for example --- former European coloni
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by rolandog 10mo ago
Right, but isn't it noisy ... at the headphone level? (i.e. not heard when not wearing them?). What I'm getting at is that I think the risk varies depending on how often you leave the headset paired; for example, if the headphone

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