The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta plans to move to a “Pay for your Rights” model, where EU users will have to pay $ 168 a year (€ 160 a year) if they don’t agree to give up their fundamental right to privacy on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. History has shown that Meta’s regulator, the Irish DPC, is...
The act of paying for something directly violates user privacy too. Modern businesses use Trust-based National Currency. They are REQUIRED to do so.
Thank you modern anti-money-laundering laws. /s
The best privacy defense is “Nobody Knows Who”. Any company that profits explicitly from asking “Who?” is a problem.
The best software asks “Who?” as little as reasonably possible. Companies in general would profit significantly more from software as a service if they did not have to bear the burden of answering “Who?” every time the government asks, or bear the fears of being tied up in legal proceedings for ages for simply upholding the right of privacy for another.
Facebook and it’s other related social networks is horrendous software. It’s company is actively exploiting “Who?”. Advertisements are a largely unwanted fact of life and people are beginning to draw lines and demand ‘moderation of Advertisement placement, levels and density’ as well as ‘more privacy respecting’ businesses and services.
TL;DR: If your business model is to invade people’s privacy to sell advertising and you charge exorbitant prices to “respect my privacy” in any shape, form or manner; then you have no morals, ethics or scruples and you should fully expect to be censured and shunned by people who value those things in the companies they do business with.
I use Adguard because it’s pretty reliable and solid.
I would love other options but I haven’t found many that rival Adguard. I’m very picky about DNS because frequently services that I use can detect them and most free providers do nothing to alleviate blocking.
This is not a thing I’ve ever heard in my lifetime online.
That said; it is wiser to go invisible. I wouldn’t call it inconsiderate unless/until you’ve discussed that with your friend.
I guess it just depends on the relation between friends as to whether you should care or not if you’re seen playing a Hentai Game.
For some people; especially people who might be public figures; yes, that would be massively questionable. For other people who only ever steam friend their buddies who also share similar game interests and tastes…it might not be such a huge deal.
That said it probably is a conversation one might have with that friend; especially if it bothers you.
However, I do think there are certain times I believe that Steam should just, by default, not share when you are playing certain titles with friends.
I would much rather shave, wear makeup, skirts and cute colorful tights and be called a female anyways.
But then again some would call that perspective out as being an outlier. :P
For the menfolk, and those who are male identifying, I do highly recommend kilts…and they do make some pretty neat ones including many pockets if needed.
For generations, the Navy SEALs have attracted top athletes who compete for slots on elite teams and take on harrowing missions, but never in all those years did the Navy regularly test the force for illicit steroids and other drugs that could boost performance. Now that is about to change....
At least if they’re forced to stay clean and away from “Illegal” P.E.Ds; the DoD and Navy can learn from doctors what these and other top soldiers might medically actually NEED to stay on their feet.
I guarantee you a complex of the right vitamins do wonders; and so does understanding the limits of men and women so that you can ensure that you enlist enough clean, high performing men and women to the SEALs to get all of their operational jobs done.
An additional benefit is; if all the SEALs are taking the same “dope” and other nutritional supplements to aid in keeping their performance optimal once they’re commissioned; then doctors and dieticians and many other folks can weigh in and provide a solid plan for safe dosages administered for every compound involved to each soldier.
Imagine… No more SEALs dying randomly of drug overdoses. Really; that’s an outcome that Navy Command should honestly be highly prioritizing.
Microsoft is stupid, someone high up is getting greedy or desperate.
Patching HWID is annoying and doesn’t stop piracy. In fact it will break a lot of legacy systems in general; which is probably what they intended and why they are guilty of corporate greed in this case.
I hate Micro$hit but I am REQUIRED to use Windows by too many stupid fucking different idiots, apps, and games to count. Linux is still not there yet for me usability-wise; though it probably is still improving.
No; I will never accept that CLI is an acceptable end-user implementation; GUI is required; along with ease of use and the polish that comes with it. I don’t mind CLI interfaces; but I do feel they’re not user-friendly enough usually. They REQUIRE YOU to LEARN a few things to get used to them; which is the opposite of an intuitive interface.
NOTE: I am very FLOSS accepting when it meets my needs; but I will not hold back criticism. Do not try to shout me down. You will always be wrong. Windows is factually more user-friendly and application compatibility diverse than Linux.
I genuinely hope that Linux finds more ways to 100% match Windows functionally without forcing the user to compromise. We need to punish Microsoft for all these years of monopoly holding and reclaim computing more effectively.
More major software developers should be doing this and porting everything to Linux as fast as they can. Microsoft is getting greedy these days; and pretty soon we will find ourselves in a world where too many users can’t and won’t afford Windows anymore.
FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel has announced the agency's plans to restore net neutrality protections. Previous rules, which prevented ISPs from blocking or throttling specific websites, were nixed in 2017 under the Trump administration.
as an expert^1^ I can affirm that singular usage of they/them is absolutely acceptable in polite conversation with people who may be non-binary or with people whom you don’t wish to assume what gender they identify as.
1 - Why am I claiming I am an expert? I’m nonbinary and trans myself; and I moderated /r/genderqueer for a long time; so I do see trends.
I know it’s an odd question, but where I live phones get stolen often. My phone doesn’t have the option for an eSim, which is a problem because 90% of the time when a thief steals a phone they take out the SIM card immediately, meaning I wouldn’t be able to remotely lock or wipe my phone....
I might recommend using something like tape. Extra Strong Clear Tape.
You may also want to invest in a phone case; preferably an opaque and waterproof one that is difficult to remove.
There are apps available on F-Droid like PrivateLock which might help too; this will automate locking your phone if it’s snatched from your hands suddenly.
If I sign up using phony info and use a new email which is only for fb, always use a vpn and a browser (chromium) that I only use for fb can I be anonymous? I ask because there a couple groups that I’d like to join that only use fb. Thanks.
So I’m in a somewhat unfortunate situation. My circle of friends doesn’t want to switch to another messenger and we are currently stuck on the worst possible platform for security: Telegram....
Hot take here; so PLEASE do not replyunless you’re the OP.
Maybe you don’t have to switch. At least not immediately. Ultimately someone will make a stink out of switching. Again!
MProto isn’t the best cryptography around; but it does provide some implementation of some low level privacy. I wouldn’t trust a credit card number to it; but it’s not worthless. It is however heavily disliked by people who understand cryptography and value privacy. But Your friends don’t care! That fact is irrelevant to them emotionally.
And this is where the problem starts…Your friends have gotten accustomed and attached too much to Telegram and it’s many eye-candy features and smooth polish.
This is where you need to “Sour The Milk” and wean them off Telegram.
Perform your usual setup of a new group. Use Signal or Matrix (usually this will be though Element). Then Force anyone who decides to be stubborn on Telegram to use the “Secure Chat” feature on Telegram. At least then the stubborn holdouts won’t be causing you excessive privacy issues.
Then lastly just transition to your new platform and pay exclusive attention to the new one and let people trickle in.
I am soon moving out for university and am going to meet a bunch of new folks. But I was wondering how do you go about approaching this with privacy in mind?...
I’m going to quote another comment but not ping them; I don’t want to argue with them; but instead provide counterpoints for the OP to consider.
Most people aren’t going to install Signal just to talk to you because it does not fit their use case.
This is false. While it does take more effort; it can be achieved. I can compose an SMS with an install link for the appropriate app-store and in-person assist you and tell you my ID on my privacy respecting apps of choice. Bluetooth transfers and QR codes also work too; so we can exchange other contact details as well.
I’m also gen z and from the US, I go to university, and most people who I know use Whatsapp or Discord to communicate.
Telegram is far superior to Whatsapp and close to Discord in features. Your generation is capable of using it; I see Gen Z on there all the time. Signal closely mimics iMessage in features; and it’s available on both Android and iOS.
Bonus for the privacy-conscious; It has better privacy and cryptography. MProto isn’t the most respected but it’s sufficient for most day-to-day conversations.
Crypto is a scam. It’s yet another example of a pyramid scheme usually that seldom pays off.
I’ll start taking crypto seriously when you stupid shills stop trying to get rich off of that shit and actually fucking achieve something useful with Crypto that isn’t enriching yourselves or others in the hopes that you too will be enriched.
I’ve been using a SearXNG locally-hosted instance using WSL/Podman. Behind a VPN of course; and also using TrackMeNot to generate a steady slow stream of garbage searches to block general query tracking.
I’m loving it to bits; as I don’t have bullshit in my search results and I immediately find what I need; as I can query all the engines I want.
I don’t know the exact requirements but I’m literally running a locally hosted one on a much more previous generation CPU (i7-7820HK) and I appear to be using no more than 4GB of ram including Podman Desktop, WSL and the Docker image itself not seeming to consume that much RAM.
I don’t feel as if you could possibly lack the system resources needed to do it comfortably if you have at least 12GB of ram (for locally hosting on Windows 10) or 4GB of ram (Any flavor of Linux probably, if you wanna throw an old PC or rPi/rPi-like at it.)
You should look closely at github.com/searxng/searxng and find out what the exact requirements could be by asking the maintainers.
It’s good to hear that some are starting to speak out. The damage that these “Christian Nationalists” are doing to our churches and our nation in general is extensive; and the corrupt views they’re clinging to dearly have never been a wish of Jesus Christ.
It’s because ANY COMMERCIAL TRACKING AT ALL is unacceptable!
Chrome is trying to have it’s cake and eat it too by removing 3rd party cookies and baking in another tracking methodology anyways.
The User Has Spoken and we DEMAND that there be NO TRACKING! The browser devs are complying with that demand in various ways to various degrees.
Firefox complies with this demand openly and honestly. Third party cookies are not a thing much anymore and the browser actively tries to punish companies who try to do it anyways; while also allowing us to turn to other plugin developers to further punish companies who try to aggressively invade our privacy.
Google Chrome, on the other hand, complies very maliciously because it’s made by one of those companies who are trying to track us anyways. It removes third party cookies on the one hand and on the other hand tries to introduce other tracking technologies and WebDRM while also trying to severely curtail browser plugins that we choose to install to assert our rights to privacy our way.
You can’t tell me that’s not an evil dick move on the part of Google and the Chrome team. Chrome needs to clean up it’s act and the development team of Chromium needs to forcefully eject it’s Google developers and find new ones to retake the internet.
Google developers cannot be trusted not to put the interests of Google first; it’s literally what they’re paid to do.
You Will NOT Find A Search Engine That Does Not Geo-Locate You. They DO NOT Exist.
Why am I so bold in my statement? Because they don’t exist. Please oh please try to prove me wrong, it will be very entertaining, and I promise I will find that every engine you recommend will be caught red-handed doing this by the time I complete 100 searches specifically crafted to bait this behavior out.
How do I know? Been accessing the public internet since 2004. They all have been doing so since then; and those who failed to do so have ceased to exist.
How do I evade it? Unfortunately, you don’t I recommend using either Tor; or a VPN. Then you’ll know what region and possibly city your accesses will appear from; and the blatantly localized results will be irrelevant to you.
But XYZ has an option!~ No, they do not. You will still receive data relevant to your language and country as determined by your IP Address’ Geo-Location. You can’t turn that off; and engines won’t give you the ability to ignore fine-grained IP location either if you ask for something local; which still localizes you to the city level.
Geo-Location is a core feature of all search engines. So good luck trying to avoid it.
Not gonna lie; everyone seems to be over-reacting to what is common practice in law documents; terms are overly broad for a reason, and undoubtedly if you dig in the case histories; you’ll probably find an absurd lawsuit or two on the books.
That said; I doubt the car is capable of collecting this data; but they can collect information you freely volunteer to them.
Please just direct link to articles; or provide per-brand links to individual articles. Some of us use browser settings that do not fully render pages because Javascript cannot always be trusted completely to run without guardrails.
I've been wondering about this for a while, but couldn't find anything about it. What exactly happens after the screen turns off? Does the kernel actually suspend and halt the CPU? If so, how are notifications received while sleeping? Is there a coprocessor involved?
I'm curious. It would be great if someone could point me towards some articles or videos about this.
Your mobile device cannot sleep like your desktop can.
It can however, sleep it’s own way. Typically this involves CPU throttling. Android does enter a “Deep Sleep” state, minimizing all power consumption, and even switching it’s CPU to a completely idle state where it only periodically “wakes” to handle synchronization and other needed tasks.
TL;DR: This article is misleading and sensational. Do not take it at face value.
The cups were placed in temperate water or sediment and left to leach for up to four weeks.
This isn’t how the cups were intended to be used. Yes this can be used to model a threat caused by cups littered into our environment; but this article tries to spin this out first to scare you.
Coffee cups are made of a complex mixture of synthetic materials and chemicals. Manufacturers add processing aids, heat stabilizers, and other substances, many of which are known to be toxic. Even if plant-derived materials are used—such as polylactic acid, a material derived from corn, cassava, or sugarcane that’s used to coat paper cups—cup makers often add a number of other chemicals during processing.
More scare tactic information; preying on your lack of familiarity with how these things are regulated or tested. Scaremongering continues for two more paragraphs before it abruptly changes tone midway.
Improving recycling practices would be a logical step in trying to keep harmful chemicals from ending up in nature, but researchers say it’s best to retire disposable paper cups altogether. It’s difficult for most recycling centers to separate the plastic coating from the cup’s paper. In the UK, for instance, a mere handful of recycling centers take paper cups. Many coffee shops will collect them for recycling—but having to drop paper cups off takes the convenience out of a single-use product. Today, only four out of every 100 paper cups are recycled in the UK.
By now the author hopes you’re scared enough to do as they ask; but if you weren’t convinced; they threw in some other statistics at the end, and even breaks their suggestion by showing how inconvenient and impractical it is to recycle them.
In 2019, a research group from India filled paper cups with hot water to see if plastic particles or chemicals were released. “What came as a surprise to us was the number of microplastic particles that leached into the hot water within 15 minutes,”
They’re still not done scaring you though.
On average, there were 25,000 particles per 100 ml cup. The researchers also found traces of harmful chemicals and heavy metals in the water and plastic lining, respectively.
They dump some number of particles on you; giving you zero context, and zero information about how dangerous that is. They only mention in passing the “harmful chemicals and heavy metals”, giving no specific concentrations nor giving you any clues as to how much of it is in there.
Unfortunately the above article is pay-walled; and is difficult to access. I doubt the journalists read the full paper. Everything mentioned in the article is accessible from snippets on this exact webpage; which may mean things are being taken out of context.
In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led...
Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry
Seems they only targeted potentially accounts that might’ve contained some MONEY (Cryptocurrency)
Then on Aug. 28, Monahan said she’d concluded that the common thread among nearly every victim was that they’d previously used LastPass to store their “seed phrase,” the private key needed to unlock access to their cryptocurrency investments.
It seems that in particular “Secure Notes” containing crypto seed phrases seem to have been compromised. It’s pretty silly to have not migrated your old crypto wallets by now though.
In a December 2022 blog post, Palant explained that the crackability of the LastPass master passwords depends largely on two things: The complexity of the master password, and the default settings for LastPass users, which appear to have varied quite a bit based on when those users began patronizing the service.
…If you have/had an older account with potentially a very weak Master Password… Your password would be considered Weak if it was Less than 12 characters & did not not contain Uppercase, Lowercase and Symbols & was not an XKCD style password that *isn’t * “Correct Horse Battery Staple” or some other combination of those exact four words…
But Palant said while LastPass indeed improved its master password defaults in 2018, it did not force all existing customers who had master passwords of lesser lengths to pick new credentials that would satisfy the 12-character minimum.
…Older than 2018…
Palant noted last year that for many older LastPass users, the initial default setting for iterations was anywhere from “1” to “500.” By 2013, new LastPass customers were given 5,000 iterations by default. In February 2018, LastPass changed the default to 100,100 iterations. And very recently, it upped that again to 600,000.
…Or worse yet, 2013…and you didn’t change the iterations setting(s), which most people probably did not.
I was similarly not particularly concerned by this breach; my iterations value was set much higher a long time ago, my master password was bordering on insane; as in greater than 16 characters, Mixed Case, includes symbols, has XKCD-Style word patterns and contained non-english/unexpected words/patterns.
I also had migrated away from lastpass and prior to the breach had Deleted my account.
I know back in the old country (blueit er redhat or whatever it was) there was a rule for waiting a year or some time before reposts were allowed again. Should there be something like that here?...
Any company that does this to it’s employees is dooming itself to failure anyways. A complete lack of trust makes for a very hostile working environment; and it will generally drive employees away anyways.
This is blatantly false. Name and fucking shame each variety of software. These cockroaches can’t stand the light of public attention. The more people who know how to spot and identify malicious and suspicious boss-ware behavior, the better. It protects the user to know that the software exists; as they can better be prepared to combat and deter abuses of this software by unprofessional and shitty bosses.
No; it isn’t going to be foolproof. That’s not the intent here. The intent is for everyone to be able to name, shame, and identify when software that their employer is deploying is going to be behaving in a manner that blatantly violates their rights to privacy in a non-constructive way that threatens them.
This is blatantly false. There are plenty of jobs out there who will hire you and not do something shitty like installing boss-ware on a computer.
If you allow or enable these employers to get away with it; you’re part of the problem. 99.5% of jobs do not require boss-ware to get done properly; and if your immediate bosses or supervisors had no problems with you before…consider it a large red flag. If you’re joining a company and they mention this; consider it a large red flag.
No, you are absolutely wrong. Trump HAS charges against him on both state and federal levels.
The 14th amendment places no emphasis on a judge finding one guilty. Therefore yes; it can be that broad. We can show he did something; Congress, DoJ and a State would not be investigating otherwise.
The wording of the 14th amendment is clear. SCOTUS will not save him if he catches a conviction; which he is under about 100+ counts of across Congress, Federal and State courts. I place the likelihood of all of those charges failing at near zero
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Meta (Facebook / Instagram) to move to a "Pay for your Rights" approach (noyb.eu)
The Wall Street Journal reported that Meta plans to move to a “Pay for your Rights” model, where EU users will have to pay $ 168 a year (€ 160 a year) if they don’t agree to give up their fundamental right to privacy on platforms such as Instagram and Facebook. History has shown that Meta’s regulator, the Irish DPC, is...
Which adblocking DNS do you choose? (kerala.party)
18+ Relatable or do I just have filthy friends? (lemmy.world)
let them have it. (feddit.de)
Navy Will Start Testing SEALs for Illicit Drug Use (www.nytimes.com)
For generations, the Navy SEALs have attracted top athletes who compete for slots on elite teams and take on harrowing missions, but never in all those years did the Navy regularly test the force for illicit steroids and other drugs that could boost performance. Now that is about to change....
It has finally happened. HWID activation for Windows 10/11 has been patched by Microsoft after 6 years.
Time of death: 4:22 PM UTC September 26th...
The FCC plans to restore Obama-era net neutrality rules (www.engadget.com)
FCC chair Jessica Rosenworcel has announced the agency's plans to restore net neutrality protections. Previous rules, which prevented ISPs from blocking or throttling specific websites, were nixed in 2017 under the Trump administration.
Should I glue my SIM tray shut?
I know it’s an odd question, but where I live phones get stolen often. My phone doesn’t have the option for an eSim, which is a problem because 90% of the time when a thief steals a phone they take out the SIM card immediately, meaning I wouldn’t be able to remotely lock or wipe my phone....
anonymous fb?
If I sign up using phony info and use a new email which is only for fb, always use a vpn and a browser (chromium) that I only use for fb can I be anonymous? I ask because there a couple groups that I’d like to join that only use fb. Thanks.
Am I okay to use VPN in uk now or is it illegal?
With UK’s new security bill that seems to more dismantle security rather than help. Am I still legally okay to use signal, VPN, tutanota, https, tor?
day one of posting madam and eve cartoons until Americans realize that noone cares about the politics of other countries (www.madamandeve.co.za)
What messenger app to recommend to those not interested in privacy?
So I’m in a somewhat unfortunate situation. My circle of friends doesn’t want to switch to another messenger and we are currently stuck on the worst possible platform for security: Telegram....
How do yall go about meeting new people while still maintaining a decent level of privacy?
I am soon moving out for university and am going to meet a bunch of new folks. But I was wondering how do you go about approaching this with privacy in mind?...
It’s all a scam, don’t even try to tell me it’s useful (i.imgur.com)
Malicious Google Search Ads can now fake the displayed URL to push malware downloads (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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How much porn is too much porn? (lemmy.world)
How an Oklahoma pastor helped his church officially support transgender rights (www.oklahoman.com)
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
Police called to yoga class mistaken for mass killing. (www.theguardian.com)
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Can we prevent cars from sending data to servers if we remove their antennae?
I don’t know anything about cars....
How cars spy on their drivers and passengers (foundation.mozilla.org)
Sorry, Your Paper Coffee Cup Is a Toxic Nightmare (www.wired.com)
Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach (krebsonsecurity.com)
In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. Since then, a steady trickle of six-figure cryptocurrency heists targeting security-conscious people throughout the tech industry has led...
[meta] What do you guys think about a rule for reposts?
I know back in the old country (blueit er redhat or whatever it was) there was a rule for waiting a year or some time before reposts were allowed again. Should there be something like that here?...
If you work remotely, your bosses are probably using software to track you. Here's how they'll catch you slacking off. (www.businessinsider.com)
I feel targeted (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
Proud Boys leader predicts Trump will pardon him as he bemoans prison food (www.newsweek.com)
In the wake of his 17-year jail sentence, Joseph Bigg said: "Oh, I know he'll pardon. I believe that with all my heart."
trans debuff (real) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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