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- Comment on Russian warships arrive in Cuba in show of force 8 months ago:
- Comment on Cops can force suspect to unlock phone with thumbprint, US court rules 9 months ago:
Which version/model? I don’t see that option on my 9 pro.
- Comment on We all understand what being 'banned' means. Some of us have been there. But, what about shadow banning? Why not alert users are banned? 10 months ago:
That depends on if the developer programmed an exception for this scenario what that exception does. As for the developer they’d just make another account for the bot to use, and likely try and figure out where they went wrong to avoid being banned again in the future.
- Comment on We all understand what being 'banned' means. Some of us have been there. But, what about shadow banning? Why not alert users are banned? 10 months ago:
Bots would likely figure it out quickly as they usually work on tandem with other bots boosting their own posts and comments which will fail if it can’t find the other bots content.
- Comment on We all understand what being 'banned' means. Some of us have been there. But, what about shadow banning? Why not alert users are banned? 10 months ago:
Accounts are free and easy to make so if someone’s banned they’ll just make a new one and circumvent the ban. If you are shadow banned them you won’t circumvent it.
- Comment on House passes bill to prevent the sale of personal data to foreign adversaries 10 months ago:
More like good news for foreign non-adversarial middlemen who have no problem selling it to those nations for a cut. If you don’t prevent the data collection from taking place it will still get passed around.
- Comment on Steam :: Introducing Steam Families 10 months ago:
Currently each steam account is given a unique steam id number which is how most steam games identify the player and when you family share you are just associating that new steamid with your steamid so you can share certain purchases with if the developer allows it. Since each account is unique if I ban one it doesn’t ban the other. In the past you could use the steam public web API to query a steamid to see if it was a family shared and it would respond with the parent account and you could compare that to your ban list and then ban the new account. A few years ago steam removed that capability for privacy protection and moved it to the game developers partner only access so a game developer could implement that same check but very few did and older or abandoned games are rife with cheaters now.
Now it would steam they are automagically making that check now or instead of a steam id it’s a family id, I have no idea but if it prevents account whack-a-mole and brings back automation I’m all for it.
- Comment on Bill that could ban TikTok passes in House despite constitutional concerns 11 months ago:
It won’t go away unless the company decides to just ban Americans from using it, they are only banning it in hopes the company will sell the rights to the highest bidder which is going to be one of the two political mouthpieces so they can use it as a propaganda tool since the younger generations don’t use their current propaganda outlets. If this was had been about protecting Americans they would have written legislation that does exactly thatfrom the next company to come along.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
As someone who loves the bells and whistles and who recently bought a new vehicle last year a lot of the safety features are really nice to have but of all the tech features I thought I wanted I don’t really use. If I can conveniently stream audio from my phone or have a larger screen than my phone for navigation that’s placed somewhere I can glance at it is be happy.
That said I wouldn’t be too paranoid about the data the car is collecting because your cell phone and everyones phone around you is collecting the same information. It’s just that these manufacturers are realizing theres money to be made here, it’s probably why GM wants to stop including Apple Car play or Android Auto so there’s less fingers in the cookie jar.
Could you imagine living somewhere that you could commute locally and just work remotely and not need such a finacial burden in your life? What a fantasy 😔
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
A lot of it has to do with things like Android Auto or Apple car play where the software needs access to your text message to read it to you and may need to send it to a more powerful cloud base system to translate your voice to text or the response from text into voice. These are legitimate reasons for using that data despite the taboo nature of how we view privacy and there are workarounds and technological breakthroughs that make it so those things can be done locally without sending it for processing but there’s pros and cons for technical reasons not to. That said does a system need to read every text message on your phone just to read out a text you’ve only just received absolutely not and this is where things get into the grey area.
The problem is that if you want that car you have to agree to these data policies that are very blatantly just trying to to take all of the data they can to monetize either directly from selling or trading or indirectly like improving services. What we need are strong laws in place to protect privacy but that’s an uphill battle when politicians are beholden to capitalism.
So to go back and actually answer your original question, yes, encryption is our only means or privacy assuming in this case signal encrypts data at rest.
- Comment on A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco 11 months ago:
If Californians can destroy a car blocking traffic New Jersey wants this privilege too.
- Comment on Mozilla CEO quits, org pivots, but what about Firefox? 1 year ago:
Most internet usage is mobile and people use whatever’s preinstalled on their phone because it just works is my guess.
- Comment on $5 is a steal 1 year ago:
Does that $5 cover finding the remotes first?
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 1 year ago:
Companies already bundle their invasive data collection with necessary features so if you block it than the website just won’t work, this would incentivise that behavior if necessary cookies are automatically approved.
- Comment on European Union set to revise cookie law, admits cookie banners are annoying 1 year ago:
Because you are cleaning your cache/cookies and wiping out the record of your selection, or outright rejecting them so they are never saved to begin with.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 1 year ago:
You know I cannot quantify damages from a program that forces compliance without transparency through gag orders. I can point out that preventing the use of a VPN does not halt an entire company, you can still connect and work exactly the same as with a VPN it’s just not in a secure and private manner but what are you trying to hide? /s
No matter what you and I believe it’s irrelevant, if privacy goes on the chopping block than a VPN access would need to go with it and the technology is currently irreplaceable as-is but that doesn’t negate the possibility that it can become regulated. Privacy should be a human right but you and I both know that equality isn’t always equal and there’s a large portion of government over numerous groups that all have their own agendas and understand the advantages of knowledge and the power it can bestow. You’re trying to fight greed and greed only cares about getting more.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk and best of luck to you frezik, I hope you’re right but I’m not going to hold my breath.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 1 year ago:
Like the patriot act?
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 1 year ago:
And you think lawmakers would make a wise informed decision? You think that they wouldn’t make a decision that would strip away your capability to use a VPN while protecting themselves and big tech that lobby for exemptions?
Their Profit or Your Privacy, what do you think they’ll pick?
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 1 year ago:
You make it sound like our lawmakers are wise and would make an informed decision and not just write an exception for companies that lobby for exemption.
- Comment on Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads 1 year ago:
Pretty soon VPN’s will be illegal too.
- Comment on It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives 1 year ago:
Is the sync server an alternative to cloud based saving?
- Comment on Dropbox removed ability to opt your files out of AI training 1 year ago:
I looked into backblaze and was kind of turned off by the egress fee though I doubt I would exceed that for backups unless I had some really bad luck. Dropbox integrates with a lot of apps and that provides some value to me and with the comparable pricing Dropbox seems safer.
That said I’d love to hear more because I think my situation sounds similar to yours. “$6/TB/Month. No Hidden Fees. No Delete Penalties” but then it says “Storage: $0.006 GB/Month Download: Free up to 3x monthly storage” and I’m confused, is it $6 a month for a TB or is it $0.62 for 1024 GB at $0.0006 GB/Month?
- Comment on Dropbox removed ability to opt your files out of AI training 1 year ago:
If you aren’t aware rclone makes it easy to backup (copy) or sync files to different cloud providers like Dropbox and you can setup encryption very easily so you can continue using Dropbox since it does have pretty good value for the price even though they’ve shown they aren’t trustworthy.
rclone.org/dropbox/ rclone.org/crypt/ rclone.org/commands/rclone_copy/ rclone.org/commands/rclone_sync/
- Comment on ready for work 1 year ago:
Right in the feels that I used to have.
- Comment on makes sense 1 year ago:
That’s because you assume it means financial reward but the real reward is the privilege to serve the company, what a bonus!
- Comment on Burger King is desperate for employees. 1 year ago:
Woah now, let’s not let anyone sell it so cheap when wraps is plural. We might make a profit yet.
- Comment on Researcher has developed, at a cost of less than one dollar, a wireless light switch that runs without batteries, can be installed anywhere on a wall and could reduce the cost of wiring a house by ... 1 year ago:
Companies: That’ll be $49.99.
- Comment on It's never been a better time to switch to Firefox 1 year ago:
Google took a novel approach of trying to give people a free product that had value to them and features they wanted in a way that was easy to use. Such a product gave a better experience and only at the cost of someone looking over their shoulder, something that people have grown accustomed from their governments.
- Comment on How to block posts about Elon Musk (or other custom string) on computer 1 year ago:
No thanks let the bots have at it at this point.
- Comment on Yes 1 year ago:
I think you mean edit for ms-dos.