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- Comment on It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. 10 months ago:
You were given references. You can verify it yourself if you want to get a clue -- or continue to spread misinfo to the contrary.
- Comment on It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. 10 months ago:
Not exactly. !showerthoughts was a poor choice, as is:
- !showerthoughts ← Cloudflare
- !showerthoughts ← Cloudflare
- !showerthoughts ← Cloudflare
- !showerthoughts ← Cloudflare
- !showerthoughts ← not CF, but copious political baggage & centralized by disproportionate size
They’re all shit & the OP’s own account is limited to creating a new community on lemmy.world. !showerthoughts would be the lesser of evils but the best move would be create an acct on a digital rights-respecting instance that allows community creations and then create showerthoughts community there.
- Comment on It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. 10 months ago:
Normal users don't have these issues.
That’s not true. Cloudflare impacts both normal users and street-wise users. In particular:
- users whose ISP uses CGNAT to distribute a limited range of IPv4 addresses (this generally impacts poor people in impoverished regions)
- the Tor community
- VPN users
- users of public libraries, and generally networks where IP addresses are shared
- privacy enthusiasts who will not disclose ~25% of their web traffic to one single corporation in a country without privacy safeguards
- blind people who disable images in their browsers (which triggers false positives for robots, as scripts are generally not interested in images either)
- the permacomputing community and people on limited internet connections, who also disable browser images to reduce bandwidth which makes them appear as bots
- people who actually run bots – Cloudflare is outspokenly anti-robot and treats beneficial bots the same as malicious bots
- Comment on It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. 10 months ago:
It’s an abuse of the fediverse and antithetical to decentralization.
- Comment on It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. 10 months ago:
“Petty” for not supporting the elitism and exclusivity that you support? Cloudflare blocks impoverished communities whose ISPs cannot afford an IPv4 for everyone. Shame on them and shame on you for supporting it.
- Comment on It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. 10 months ago:
And cf also allows you to block and report child porn
That’s been tried. When someone reported CP to Cloudflare, CF demanded the identity of the whiste blower then doxxed their identity to the offending customer, who then published the whistle blower’s identity so their users could retaliate. When the CEO (Matthew Prince) was confronted about this, his reply was that the whistle blowers should have used fake names. Then this company you support had the nerve to claim to have a privacy pledge: “[A]ny personal information you provide to us is just that: personal and private.”
- Comment on It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna. 10 months ago:
Shame this is posted on a centralized Cloudflare instance, which causes problems for people using Tor:
- Comment on Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights 11 months ago:
Isn’t this different because there are specifically truth-in-advertising laws? Not even a natural person is immune to truth-in-advertising laws. So it seems like Tesla is making a despirate move.
- Comment on Tesla says California's Autopilot action violates its free speech rights 11 months ago:
In addition to its first amendment argument, Tesla also said that the California DMV is violating its rights to have a jury trial, under the US Constitution's 7th Amendment and Article I, Section 16 of California's Constitution, both of which cover rights to trial by a jury.
Yikes. What does a jury of Tesla’s peers look like? Representatives from 12 other giant corporations?
- Comment on Lemmy Comments for YouTube is now available! 11 months ago:
I’ve been saying for years that Invidious needs to support comments. Glad there’s finally a free world option. I’m not keen on browser extenstions though. Is it just a matter of searching a particular Lemmy instance for the video ID?
- Comment on Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why 11 months ago:
A VPN is only as secure as the endpoints. You have to figure cyber criminals are seeing countless opportunities. Breaking into the right home kit could get you into fortune 500 servers.
- Comment on Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why 11 months ago:
Not sure people are finding meeting-free gigs. I read about someone holding down 4 jobs who once had to attend 3 meetings at once. Like a DJ he had multiple audio streams going with headphones and made a skill of focusing where his name would most likely come up. I’m sure there’s also a long list of excuses like “had to run to stop the burning food” or whatever.
- Comment on Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why 11 months ago:
it’s about time we restructure the workforce.
I suppose a big part of that will be managers learning how to measure productivity more accurately than your clocked-in hours. That’ll be the most interesting change.. the “corporate welfare” program of just getting paid to occupy a desk space will have to be replaced with more sophisticated real performance measurements.
I have no idea how that pans out in software. Every bug is vastly different so they can’t merely count the number of bugs you fix. SLOC is a bit of a sloppy measure too.
- Comment on Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why 11 months ago:
Among the primary benefits: no commute, flexible work schedules and less time getting ready for work, according to WFH Research.
They forgot: being able to secretly simultaneously work 3 full-time overlapping jobs to triple your income.
- Comment on Grafana GDPR fail? 1 year ago:
Not sure what Grafana is but I can’t even visit the site because they block Tor. Gotta love how easy it is to see-and-avoid some privacy-hostile venues. If you were using Tor you might not have wasted 1 minute with that site.
- Comment on Do any ATMs in Belgium support balance inquiries? 1 year ago:
oh, that’s interesting. I wonder if card-issuing banks are blocking balance inquiries even if ATMs offer it. I don’t think I saw Ing ATMs in Netherlands, only the conglomerate they are partnered with (geldmaat). The Geldmaat ATMs print “credit limit” on the receipt.
- Comment on Is mander.xyz down? 1 year ago:
If you search, you’ll learn several privacy-abusing ways to do that via enshitified exclusive walled gardens which share the site you’re asking about with US tech giants.
- ❌https://downdetector.com/ ← avoid (Cloudflare)
- ❌https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ ← avoid (Cloudflare)
- ✓https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ ← good (CF-free & inclusive of everyone)
- ✓https://downinspector.com/ ← good (CF-free & inclusive of everyone)
I only listed 2 bad ones (the 1st two) but when you search the first dozen results are shit. What could be more shitty than being directed to CAPTCHAs and other exclusive bullshit in the course of trying to troubleshoot a problem?
There’s also an onion one but I lost track of it.
- Comment on Do any ATMs in Belgium support balance inquiries? 1 year ago:
I figured you were trolling but gave you the benefit of the doubt right up until you mentioned “all credit reporting agencies”, in Belgium. There are no credit bureaus in Belgium, only a central bank which (unlike US credit bureaus) is public sector and not interested in grabbing data for profit, or in obtaining any data it’s not legally required to obtain.
Nice try though.
But FYI, your assumption would be wrong even in the US as well. Request your credit report from whichever credit bureau you believe is buying location data from your mobile phone provider. Notice the location data is not on that report. Then go to your local small claims court and spend ~$100 to open a lawsuit against them for $1k (+~100 in court costs). Bring to court proof that they bought your realtime CDMA/GSM location data, a copy of your credit report showing it’s not there, and a copy of the federal law requiring that credit report to be complete. It might be the easiest $1k you’ve earned. You don’t have to prove actual damages either because the statute specifies $1k per violation. If you can catch all three credit bureaus doing what you claim, that’s an easy $3k. Good luck!
- Comment on Do any ATMs in Belgium support balance inquiries? 1 year ago:
Dutch ATMs give a balance.
- Comment on Do any ATMs in Belgium support balance inquiries? 1 year ago:
You are not getting around the tracking. It’s never going to happen.
I do. I only access banks electronically if they accommodate Tor. The bank only gets to know my physical location when I do a transaction where that’s unavoidable. Even if I were to carry a mobile phone on standby wherever I go, the bank would get nothing from it if I don’t run their app.
- Comment on Do any ATMs in Belgium support balance inquiries? 1 year ago:
I’m an ethical consumer. That means I will not patronize unethical companies. Feeding data to Google is as good as feeding money to Google. Google is part of the fossil fuel industry (they are in partnership with Totaal oil and use AI to help Totaal find places to drill for oil).
I’m also ethically opposed closed-source software because I think it misplaces power. The worst kind of misplacement of power is to give it to tech giants.
I’m also ethically opposed to software designs that make phones disposable and force the disposal of perfectly good hardware.
W.r.t. paranoia, street wise people and those with some infosec background always seem “paranoid” to normal people. And to us, normal people are cavalier because they needlessly share information without knowing the rule of least privilege. Privilege should only be granted on an as-needed basis and that includes access to information. It’s unreasonable for banks to snoop on people without a warrant.
- Comment on Do any ATMs in Belgium support balance inquiries? 1 year ago:
No. There are a few phone numbers but they’re a disaster. I’ve not encountered a Belgian bank that gives automated account info over the phone. Last time I called my bank it was just a greeting saying “contact us through the app” or something like that, IIRC.
- Comment on Do any ATMs in Belgium support balance inquiries? 1 year ago:
Banks are gradually removing features from their websites in a progression toward complete elimination of the website (some banks have already taken that step & impose an app). 1-factor authentication is illegal in Belgium. So for web access banks typically hand out devices for 2FA. Some banks avoid that cost by imposing a smartphone app in lieu of a card reader or RSA token (BYO smartphone).
There are many problems with bank apps in Belgium:
- You must buy smartphone hardware (the apps detect when they are executed inside a virtual machine & deny service)
- You must patronize a surveillance capitalist (create a Google or Apple account)
2.1. You must subscribe to mobile phone service in order to satisfy Google’s unreasonable demand for a mobile phone number
2.2. You must trust Google with your mobile phone number
2.3. When Google records your place of banking, you must trust Google not to share that info (with debt collectors, for example) - All bank apps in Belgium are closed-source, so you must trust the apps not to carry spyware and to work in your interests
- You must chronically upgrade your hardware every few years because the bank apps are upgraded with reckless disregard to the lockstep-coupling of hardware to software on all phone platforms that are supported by Belgian banks. You cannot run a VM to prevent irresponsible electronic waste (see point 1)
- The bank’s privacy policies are written to allow your realtime location to be tracked via the app.
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- Comment on Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks 1 year ago:
Can’t read the article (Cloudflare blockade).
In principle there needs to be pushback on the power of defaults for sure. Yes, all the options are shit anyway, but that’s in part due to the #powerOfDefaults.
- Comment on Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks 1 year ago:
We could all start using search engines that filter out the shitty websites. But then what’s left? Ombrelo¹ filters out the Cloudflare sites which only scratches the surface of web deshitification & results are often less than one screen. So in effect, you’re right. The free world is getting so small we might as well unplug.
- Comment on FCC closing loophole that gave robocallers easy access to US phone numbers 1 year ago:
I would hope it can be done without collateral damage. I spoof my own number (in fact as a self-defense maneuver) and wouldn’t want to lose that option. I subscribe to a voicemail-only number which I give to countless untrusted entities (e.g. banks). Then to make outbound calls to businesses, I use a numberless voip line that spoofs the voicemail number.
- Comment on Why do you hate Microsoft? 1 year ago:
- Comment on Amazon made a new version of its cashierless tech that doesn’t need cameras 1 year ago:
If we consider the sick amount of data harvesting Amazon does with cameras-- the fact that they even monitor the mood of Amazon drivers using cameras, it’s just hard to get my head around them giving that up with customers. You would expect cameras to have full coverage for theft and to monitor the mood of the shoppers. IIRC, Walmart had an initiative to monitor the moods of consumers as they looked at various products, signs, promos, etc.
- Comment on Google’s Bard AI can now access Gmail, Drive, Docs, and more 1 year ago:
Just curious- what exactly do you mean by that? Do you mean abandoning/trashing your google account, or do you mean also refusing to send email to gmail recipients?
Personally I’ve gone all the way. Ditching the Google acct was just the 1st step (which implies also ditching Google Playstore). Then I quit sending email to gmail & outlook recipients. Then I went further and do an MX lookup on all email addresses to verify whether a vanity address like bob@lastname.com resolves to google. This has made #email mostly dead to me.