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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Hostile interoperability is what made Facebook successful.
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The 2010 Census Confidentiality Protections Failed, Here's How and Why(arxiv.org)
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Pseudonimization as a data protection method fails. Routinely. New paper examines why and how 2010 Census reidentification attack occured.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Post-communist countries have highest rates of home ownership. It seems like it worked.
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The massive illegal scraping of data on the internet is "only done once" type deal. After platforms have learned of the abuse OpenAI has engaged in, content platforms are now gated and under access controls. You can't access
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
>car manufacturing Are you serious? EU regulates cars much . Majority of cars sold in U.S. cannot be imported to EU due to them failing safety regulations.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
PHP doesn't have many negatives. Even the go-to negatives aren't really. Many cite "rebuilding the environment everytime" as a con, but it's a pro in terms of horizontal scaling/load balancing. I for one would
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Perhaps Google should reassess its business strategy and start monetizing creators, not users. It is literally not our responsibility to develop sound business strategy for billion dollar corpos. They can hire McKinsey for that.
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Very likely probing user client state to detect ad-blockers without consent is illegal in EU law. Directive 2002/58/EC legal text: 3. Member States shall ensure that the use of electronic communications networks to store informati
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Not op, but I'm anti-IP. I couldn't care less for IP "theft" (ridiculuos concept it being. if two people share each an idea, they both now have two ideas. no material property is being destroyed). And as for R&D outp
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
China's high speed rail costs less than opportunity cost of transport projects. They're making money building it, especially when debt is cheap. And debt was cheap for quite a while until recently. Not to mention, the economies of
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Anonymization of data is largely impossible. That's an opinion of many data protection experts. Combining datasets, using open-source data from gov't sources and likes allows to "single out" individuals in no time. Furth
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> is that Facebook is the big corporation the GDPR was largely written to try and reign Actually GDPR text was largely written before shitting on Facebook became the cool kids thing. The text was adopted by European Parliament in 2014. I
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Noyb has a very good tracking of succeeding with their efforts, as they take pragmatic down-to-the-letter-of-law approach. They are not activists (there's other orgs for that, like Irish Council for Civil Liberties, which takes much mo
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
An administrative fine to a company because of GDPR violations allows the data subject to use the ruling as a basis for damages in a civil case. Further, emotional damages are allowed, also. And CJEU has reaffirmed there's no "min
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
The discussion around eIDAS lacks the nuance of digital sovereignty. You can have issues all you want with the legal text, but what we have here is a one-sided take that completely ignores any aspirations to digital sovereignty. U.S. alread
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Graphene isn't a 'privacy' project. It's a security project. It just manages to be the most privacy friendly there can be; but it's not a design goal. You cannot have 'privacy' without 'security'
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
We've seen real change in rhetoric in web space. It seems like PHP (through Laravel in particular) is so back into being vogue. And that brings me joy. HTMX, Laravel, Livewire, alphine.js are all the things that are what these insane J
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Android security model does not allow root users. If you allow root users, you destroy the security model. GrapheneOS has people working on it that are real security researchers. You can't patch your way up into security out of shit fo
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
U.S. does not use pavers for its sidewalks. Instead they concrete over the surface. Europe uses pavers (clay, concrete, whatever). Anytime the city needs to access the utilities under the concrete, they get sledgehammers and start destroyin
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
The military brought me the computers, the internet and the smartphones. Sillicon Valley merely commercialized the government funded research. And yes, this commercialization has brought many benefits. But that tap has long went dry. Sillic
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
Regulators are not required to consult businesses. That's what McKinsey, and Ernst & Young are for. In fact, I would like it very much that regulators would stay hostile to business as they are meant to. Not coddle with industry in
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
No, AI is not going to kill us anytime soon. Yes, LLMs are not even close to AGI and the research on them does not lead to research on understanding cognition (read Chomsky on this), which is required for AGI. Yes, DO ban all AI research an
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
It is time for regulators to step in and propose structural remedies. VC culture has shown itself not able to run these companies for betterment of mankind, anyway.
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
European governments do not "trust" Azure. Data localization policies are mandated by law for many sectors (finance, health) and data export to U.S. in general is banned in EU. Due to Schrems I, Schrems II rulings data flows to U.
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The only way the someone can make 'billions' is because of the state-given and enforced monopoly on production. Without this required threat of state violence, your ideas start being worth much less in the actually competitive mar
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by shortsunblack 3y ago
They are really not. The growth of financialization coincides with economic stagnation in U.S. If anything, the data shows the opposite. Finance sector is more or less a parasite on the productive economy.
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No one is arguing for free access. What people are arguing for is respecting fundamental rights. It is not the job of users to create business strategy plans for an enterprise. The enterprise has the burden of proof to problem solve and fin
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This policy very plausibly is not legal. From the text of GDPR, "(42) ... Consent should not be regarded as freely given if the data subject has no genuine or free choice or is unable to refuse or withdraw consent without detriment.&qu