splendoruranium

@splendoruranium@infosec.pub

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic | Mozilla says it deleted promise because "sale of data" is defined broadly⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is concerning - because Firefox barely has enough users to sustain it.

  Er… if you think Mozilla is sustained by its users then I have some bad news for you. Or am I misunderstanding you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  that it’s an artificially engineered “crisis” by the medical industrial complex to justify modern day discrimination and refuse to provide healthcare to fat people, Black people, etc
  podcast episode on this

  Thanks! I’m slightly confused by the sources linked in the podcast description though. While it’s pretty US-centric they universally seem to confirm that yes, obesity rates are rising and that yes, medical consensus is that obesity is a bad thing. Does the podcast then come to some kind of different conclusion?
  I don’t have a hard time believing that American companies are profiteering off of sick people, but I feel like there might be some accidental shuffling of cause and effect here. You can fleece and discriminate against a fat person, but in order for that to happen you first need a fat person, don’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s no obesity epidemic. it’s all eugenics to the core

  I’m almost afraid to ask, but what do you mean by that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  These are the people who then say that if you gain weight it is because you are lazy or weak willed.

  Whether someone perceives it as hard to lose or not gain weight doesn’t really factor into it, does it? For adults the ultimate decision to eat more than one needs lies with exactly one person.

  Really it is 99% hormones and only 1% strength of character.

  I’m not sure I understand correctly, are you suggesting that obesity epidemics have some kind of shared underlying physiological reason?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty amazing that it’s as cohesive as it is.

  That’s a very good point. I’ve often wondered that myself. We may have reached peak Linux already - it’s so hard to scale up massive FOSS projects without somehow sacrificing ideals on the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Many things in a FOSS ecosystem will sooner or later confront you with one hard truth: The program you’re using was not developed for you. It was developed because the creator saw a problem and wanted to fix it. Then they made a program to fix it and stopped refining the program the moment they were content with it. Little to no consideration for other users or mass-adoption. Which is fine, they developed it, it’s their time.
  But it also means that you will frequently be confronted with things that are objectively unintuitive and unreasonable from a new user’s perspective because they make sense from a developer’s perspective. The former will always be outranked by the latter, even though there will always be more users than developers. That’s just how it is. There are some few exceptions, but they are just that, exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PSA] Lemmy account deletion is a mess⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why Lemmy is such a GDPR nightmare :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you’re trying to sound optimistix, but that particular example required significant (worldwide, in fact) external intervention…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing old.infosec.pub⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, this is amazing! A very cool hack, thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  i absolutely disagree. the way insurance works is you all pay into it and they use that money for claims. it’s literally our money.

  Again, you do not “pay into” anything. There’s no pool or fund or growing personal account. You buy a service. There is an exchange of goods and services here. As you receive the service, the money ceases to be yours.
  Whether or not other people file claims with the insurance doesn’t matter, just like it doesn’t matter whether or not the baker buys new furniture after selling bread to you. They’re not paying the furniture store with your money, they’re paying the furniture store with their own money that became theirs as soon as you relinquished it to them in exchange for the bread.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  On every single professional sports game I’ve ever seen, every single show, every single channel. Isn’t this our fucking money you’re meant to give out should, god forbid, something happen?

  While there’s certainly no redeeming feature to be found in the advertising industry, I feel like you might be missing the point of insurance. An insurance does not safe-keep “your” money. You pay insurance for a service, you then receive the service and your money is gone, spent, as if you had bought groceries. The service you receive is what is called “coverage” but what is more easily thought of as “immunity against bankruptcy due to X”, X being the insurance case. That’s what you buy.

  Figuring out how to best allocate the money is up to the insurance - it’s their money, after all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana Pi BPI-M7 - More Reasons to Avoid the Raspberry Pi⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless it can natively run all the existing ready-to-go Pi images and software packages and will also receive community support when I ask for help in a Pi-adjacent forum it’s not really going to be a competitor to the Pi. The hardware is pretty much irrelevant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Should I worry about "legitimate interest" tracking cookies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Legitimate interest is their interest, not yours.

  The interest might be theirs but the “legitimate” part absolutely has to incorporate a written justification somewhere within the the depths of the mandated records of processing activities that explains why the business/institution couldn’t possibly do what they’re doing without processing that particular piece of user data. “I want that” is not legitimate interest in the sense of Article 6.