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by toofy 2y ago
While it has had funding from some sources we don’t necessarily trust, it’s still entirely open source and the code has been combed through repeatedly. When it comes to privacy apps, I’d place significantly more trust in something like th
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by toofy 2y ago
vivaldi is not open source, they’re almost certainly more invasive than Mozilla.
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by toofy 2y ago
> Obviously as a society we should avoid releasing heavy metals into the environment, regulators should be vigilant about egregious levels of contamination in products (e.g. lead paint on toys), but as consumers I really don't think
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by toofy 2y ago
So much, I know a lot of these have already been said so forgive me if I repeat some that others have said, - 80-90% of the web's servers (something like nginx 35%, Apache 30%, cloudflare 20% who I believe run Linux for a large chunk o
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by toofy 2y ago
> I get your natural but naive reaction, but as someone who just lived through the Sisense breach as neither the original source or end-user, it's much more complicated than you try and present it. If they find it too complicated to
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by toofy 2y ago
There was a decent sized discussion here yesterday about the larger hack [0] The original article was pulled, strangely with no explanation as to why. and to make it even more confusing, Snowflake’s press release is pretty heavy with corpo
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by toofy 2y ago
again, if you keep the same metrics. there are plenty of just plain awful companies that have been around for decades. i’ve seen terrible restaurants, terrible construction companies, just awful search engines, etc… and we’ve all seen many
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by toofy 2y ago
i used to feel this way and say “the government is terrible, look at example x, y, and z” until someone asked me a simple question, “using the same standards, how many companies have we seen that are just plain awful?” this simple question
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by toofy 2y ago
The Octopus Murders was absolutely fantastic.
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by toofy 2y ago
and what she did should be illegal as well. we should have privacy for individuals / citizens and no privacy for those with power, whether they’re a government official or company. it’s wild to me how quickly this is flipping on its h
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by toofy 2y ago
again, in this scenario that wouldn't magically make the architect "the boss", at least according to the US idea of "boss", it simply means he's leading the project. ive been fortunate enough to know quite a fe
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by toofy 2y ago
if me and a group of friends are on a sunny weekend building a house together, we’re going to show much more deference to the person who has 20 years of electrician experience when it comes electrical work. and the same would go with plumbi
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by toofy 2y ago
what you call “bias” i call “learning from mistakes.” yes, i am biased against putting my hand on a burning stove top.
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by toofy 2y ago
it really is sad that i can actually believe this could be a realistic outcome.
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by toofy 2y ago
> … so [Clear] customers aren't intersecting with the general public… this just feels so… gross.
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by toofy 2y ago
As a sibling already pointed out, this is pretty much all of twitter now. Infosec twitter moved over to Mastodon a while back, some are also trying out bluesky but Mastodon is where the community has mainly roosted.
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by toofy 3y ago
Yep, the “self-made” is absurd. We’re all so intertwined and the amount of people who help build a billionaires empire is never ever just the billionaire. How many times have we seen a billionaire declare “look what I did!?” when somethin
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by toofy 3y ago
ok, i think we should be skeptical of this piece of data and require this much rigor before we believe the assertion, but then let’s also require the same from the other direction. we don’t have academic peer reviewed papers on why npr is l
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by toofy 3y ago
nope, they would check like 20% to 30% of them. i’ve done work for a few non-profit performance organizations and this seems to be fairly effective in putting a large dent in reseller markets for non-transferable tickets. resellers really
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by toofy 3y ago
and it’s equally as possible insufferable directors make it worse far more often than they make it better. there is no shortage of absolutely elite tier directors who exhibit exceptional abilities to work well with others. in fact. on the s
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by toofy 3y ago
i think we’ve seen repeatedly that his reasoning for loudly preaching to us all about “free speech” was never genuine or even realistic. the first clue was the “public square” argument. a privately owned space by literal definition can not
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by toofy 3y ago
i’ve said it before here, so apologies if you’ve already read it, but: > It’s literally just mobile devices. It’s probably very unlikely that it is “ literally just ” mobile devices. I agree that is probably one of the major contribut
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by toofy 3y ago
This is exactly why we’ve been unable to hold anyone responsible for misuse of their powers in so many instances.
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by toofy 3y ago
i’m not trying to be dismissive of your concerns, so if this post comes across that way, i apologize in advance. im aware this will be wordy, i can't really sum this up in a more succinct way--im with the family doing easter dinner so
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by toofy 3y ago
> Twitter is doing fantastic. Reported yesterday [0] that it’s worth 73% less than when elon took over. You absolutely may have a different definition of fantastic but what was once one of the largest social sites losing 3/4 of its
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by toofy 3y ago
to add to this, i think 404media is also where Joseph Cox went (edit: i just checked, he is a part of 404) most people here will be familiar with his writing for motherboard.
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by toofy 3y ago
i’d question the “…couldn’t be bothered to build…” i’d be more likely to believe they knew exactly what they were sharing and wanted it that way.
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by toofy 3y ago
the world the game creates is fun. it really is that simple. tangential but kinda related : ive spent an embarrassing amount of time gaming — my grandpa told me one time, be wary of people who refuse to have pure fun. being the contrarian
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by toofy 3y ago
> They have different completely different objectives. they sure do. and one of those really makes me wonder how incredible things would be if we restructured what we incentivize. i’ll echo what so many others in this thread have alread
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by toofy 3y ago
> What do you reasonably expect? the argument i hear quite a lot is: No real world business would be allowed to continue operation if it repeatedly did little or nothing to address—or worse allowed the patrons to flaunt—illegal activitie

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