No, Privacy is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset

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• zante@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  80/20 applies for everyone unless you are James Bond or Ed Snowden.

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree with you and the premise, in general.

    Unfortunately even the little bits of data that are gathered can form a bigger picture over even a few years. See the recent acquisition of Ancestry.com by Blackstone (a finance company, IIRC) - now pretty much all of us have some of our genealogy held by them. Why would a finance company want that data(rhetorical question).

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  • FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Context on 80/20 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle

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• cavemeat@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I like this article. Perfect is the enemy of good and all that, and trying to keep some privacy is worth it, especially now.

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  • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    To quote General George Patton, “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”

    BTW, there is a riddle I want to say to illustrate how important that is… tell me? What is always coming but never truly arrives?

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    ___The answer: tomorrow

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  • freddy@lemmy.one ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks for the kind words!

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• praagg@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I often find myself defaulting to the “All or nothing Mindset”, I find it reasurring to hear/read something different occassionally. Especially as striving for the “All” can leave me exhausted about it all!

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• irvinefantasyno@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As someone who is the first to go “yeah, but so-n-so does this-n-that,” I needed this reminder of the thin line between “being informative” and “being a killjoy.”

  Caveats are nice, but I still shouldn’t discourage folx from making better choices.

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