If you share a link from twitter to other platforms you used to see a preview… but not for a while now. Doesn’t matter if it’s Facebook or Lemmy, twitter.com replies with a 404 on links that work fine even without being logged in....
Interesting theory. A fancy way of saying the press aren’t super sleuths or credible reporters with all the facts.
I’ve been involved in about 4 incidences that made the news. None of them. 0/4 were remotely accurate outside of the total sum of the event (there was a car crash involving two vehicles). The broad strokes are there but that’s about it.
But then the news is a money making enterprise that has no real incentive to report the news impartially or even accurately. It kinda cuts into their profits (real reporting takes time, money, resources).
The take home is the shit you see on the news is essentially “based on a true story”, nothing more.
I live in amarica and noticed that every tape measures I find are imperial only. Hell even on Amazon I can’t find a metric tape measure and you’d think they must exist considering us amaricans are the only people using imperial.
The biggest challenge to getting an agreement over the European Union’s proposed AI Act has come from France, Germany and Italy, who favour letting makers of generativeAI models self-regulate instead of having hard rules....
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18....
Yeah this is so wrong. I read stats claiming only the top 30% make $70k annually or more. That’s basically $4k a month take home. Given rent and bills, that actually likely leaves people with like $1,500 for food and other. Given the cost of food, I can’t see anyone eating on a budget of $200 a month. Even eating moderately costs about $400-500 and you’re likely making most of your meals from scratch.
And that’s the top 30%. What are the other 70% living like? Because I buy a dozen eggs, some milk, a loaf of bread and I’m down like $20.
Yes but out of a household of 4, you’d theoretically have two people earning $70k annually if per person right? So your stats half the household incomes but only drop the population by 15% give or take. Thats far more bleak.
A Vancouver woman is asking for the courts to make an example of her neighbour, a practising lawyer she alleges has filed a baseless pseudolegal lawsuit against her in an attempt to “provoke a state of fear.”
“That i possess a licence to practice law in the legal jurisdiction of the province of British Columbia does not make i into a lawyer, the same way that having a driver’s licence to drive a motor vehicle does not make i into a driver,” Arbabi said.
Uhhh, whut.
My question is how did this person ever become a lawyer???
Why are people weaving social media and the internet into a single thread? The internet is so vast, social media makes up a tiny sliver of it.
The real problem with the internet isn’t Facebook or Twitter or Reddit, it’s the fact the entire experience is pretty much controlled by Microsoft and Google. As they shape your content, lock you out of areas and generally dictate what’s “legal” or even what gets found during your searches.
It’s no longer an information superhighway but rather turning into a giant storefront. And that’s the problem. I search for anything and the first 3 pages are Amazon link backs. Or fake websites with AI generated content used only for ad impressions.
Facebook and the like definitely erode some parts, but as a whole, there is way more fuckery going on by big tech.
And this isn’t even mentioning the tracking and fingerprinting and violations to privacy and security we are all promised.
Yeah not saying they aren’t shit. Just that the internet isn’t just social media. I surf with mullvad blocking all nuisances (social media included) and I don’t even really feel its effects unless I actually try to visit facebook.com or equivalent.
I worry about that shit more than I do what social is doing. The fact Meta, Google, MS, etc can control actual parts of the internet is just beyond wild to me.
Apple is a hardware company. Over 90% of their cash comes from hardware. Latest figures show that about 6-8% are from services. Aside from making a browser that’s quite popular on mobile, they really have little to no control on the net.
Their partners certainly do, but they are not a software company. They have nowhere near the impact Google or Microsoft do because those two are both service companies and both actually control and own giant slices of the net. Google has shaping the net’s infrastructure for decades now.
Not saying Apple doesn’t influence in other ways, but is just a spec compared to the companies that actually own parts of the nets backbone.
It’s going to be like old telecom soon, where the companies that own the physical lines have all the control. And that’s scary. I don’t want kids growing up using Google Internet or Microsoft AllNet to access the web.
This is actually terrific news! Before this, every province had their own suicide hotline which were understaffed and so poorly supported that I wonder if they didn’t cause more suicides than prevent them!
A friend of mine had called them 4x between a three month span during 2021 and only got through to one helpful person. The rest were hang ups, or under qualified staff (he said one of the counsellors spent the entire time talking about his experience on the job and how hard it was).
If this is properly funded and they have qualified staff, I think it’ll make a real impact!
Yeah same experience as my friend. He said one girl questioned whether he was really committing suicide and just hung up on him. I guess he didn’t sound distraught enough? To me I would have shut the whole system down but I guess it looked good on the surface and kept a few managers in a nice home.
And so it begins. If mortgage rates don’t drop within the next year or two before too many people’s renewals come up, it’s going to be a bloodbath.
I’m pretty sure that’s what most banks are waiting for and have learnt to better exploit the housing sector thanks to the collapse back in ~2008 (where they suffered zero repercussions). And where they picked up billions in foreclosed homes thanks to the crash, all for pennies on the dollar.
I mean think about it, it’s these guys that artificially make the economy. Absolutely fucking wild the system is so broken and corrupt and everyone is just throwing up their hands like well that’s life hur dur.
What fixes tho? The banks are running wild and everyone is like “ya it’s needed to control inflation.”
You’re taking money from all the consumers to try and force business to control their prices? How does no one else think this entire system is absolutely insane?
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said their study was the largest of its kind, said they found no evidence to support “popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk” from the technology....
The entire scientific community isn’t what people think. There is so much corruption or bias, it’s absurd. But I agree, every peer reviewed paper needs to have its top 3 sources of funding right there is the title. And we need to keyword them so every article Google or Microsoft have ever funded are right there in plain sight. And not some forgotten footnote.
Leave it to capitalism to mix everything with money and subsequently greed 👍
But then governments do this on the daily too. My first year bio prof left her job testing water samples for the government because she found things. Bad things. And they didn’t bring them findings to light, they suppressed them and told her to forget about it (applaud her for having the backbone to leave!).
iMessage definitely has more hooks in than those listed. It’s an integral Apple service that’s hooked into your deeper iCloud account. And because of that, they know a lot more than just a mere “chat” app would get access to. Which likely makes it harder to quantify.
Moreover, Meta and Alphabet also cross reference a lot of data points from all the other sources they have (cookies, IP logs, etc.). Again making actual data points fuzzy or incomplete.
Yes as of writing this, the instance works fine. But that’s what I’m saying, within an hour it’ll be down, or just show the thumbnails but not actually load videos.
The takehome is Google isn’t going to let Piped exist. And constantly does things to interfere which Piped can only do so much to bypass it all.
TL;DR: Tumblr is discontinuing its Post Plus feature, allowing creators to charge for content, starting December 1st. This decision follows a leaked memo about downsizing due to struggles in meeting usage and revenue targets. Post Plus, introduced in 2021, didn’t meet expectations, leading to its discontinuation. Existing Post...
“More than half of the websites in the study accepted passwords with six characters or less, with 75% failing to require the recommended eight-character minimum. Around 12% of had no length requirements, and 30% did not support spaces or special characters.”
I was under the impression that even just letters (no case) would take a lifetimes to brute force if you exceeded 15 characters. And that drops to just 11 if you mix cases, numbers and special characters.
Or you know have the sense god gave goats and be able to see the neon sign as they have been blowing out Amazon home devices for years. Now they need to recoup that half decade of losses. Buckle up.
Honestly, this is why we are here. I get it if you use their delivery because getting stuff can be hard depending on the area. But this stuff, where there are half dozen competing options… come on.
All I’m saying there were so many red flags on buying these that you’d have to be new to technology to not have seen this coming. I’m actually surprised they weren’t doing or worse from day one 🤷♂️
An investigation by the media organization The Markup found the pixel by Facebook and Instagram-parent Meta on dozens of popular websites targeting kids from kindergarten to college, including sites that students are all but required to use if they want to participate in school activities or apply to college....
Samsung has prep courses that funnel kids from high school into university where they come out with a job. It’s designed to basically fuel Samsung’s employee head count year after year.
Some ten years ago, they swept graduates and through them into rooms with dangerous chemicals. With nothing more than a mask.
But it pretty much the same here in NA. All of my computer classes were Microsoft heavy. I mean intro Computers spent a third of the course on Microsoft Office ffs.
Companies have educational institutions under their thumb and have for decades.
That’s just a fundamental problem with security. You can vault up your home but give your idiot brother in law a key and find the back door wide open, him drunk on the kitchen floor.
Prompts don’t work and aren’t really the right way to go because they are annoying and pretty cryptic as apps often assign a myriad of features to a single permission. Everyone’s just going to hit OK.
It’s a difficult issue to solve because there are so many edge cases. And fundamentally you can’t really control what others do with your number.
Honestly. I wish we started talking about doing away with phone numbers altogether. I feel tech is there. And it’s honestly such a massive fingerprint. I’ve had mine for 20 years ffs.
I have a feeling I know the answer, but thought it worth an ask, so here goes - I’ve not used FB in years, and generally try to keep fairly private online (Mullvad, librefox, etc) but I’ve found I’m missing out by not being able to use FB marketplace. If I set up a fresh account, and don’t use the social side of it at...
Of course you can, you’re only striping one at a time. You could put as many as the physical card can hold.
Best way is to apply glue the back using a regular glue stick. Put it in a book for a day till it dries. Then you’ll need to laminate the card with a non glossy coating to protect it.
What is the general consensus on Zello?
I understand that Zello is not FOSS, but their website claims everything is end-to-end-encrypted....
twitter is so broken ... it returns a 404 when you share links (beehaw.org)
If you share a link from twitter to other platforms you used to see a preview… but not for a while now. Doesn’t matter if it’s Facebook or Lemmy, twitter.com replies with a 404 on links that work fine even without being logged in....
"Bing's Bizarre Blunder: Search Engine Claims Australia Doesn't Exist" (samrome58.substack.com)
Tech news doesn't understand ad blockers or Chrome extensions (www.spacebar.news)
Where are some good places I can buy metric tape measures
I live in amarica and noticed that every tape measures I find are imperial only. Hell even on Amazon I can’t find a metric tape measure and you’d think they must exist considering us amaricans are the only people using imperial.
Generative AI a stumbling block in EU legislation talks (www.reuters.com)
The biggest challenge to getting an agreement over the European Union’s proposed AI Act has come from France, Germany and Italy, who favour letting makers of generativeAI models self-regulate instead of having hard rules....
Facebook parent Meta sues the FTC claiming 'unconstitutional authority' in child privacy case (apnews.com)
MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — The parent company of Instagram and Facebook has sued the Federal Trade Commission in an attempt to stop the agency from reopening a 2020 privacy settlement with the company that would prohibit it from profiting from data it collects on users under 18....
I think my code will be OK... (i.imgflip.com)
I know this isn’t any kind of surprise, and yet, well…
19% of people living in Ontario experience food insecurity. That’s almost 3 million Ontarians. 1 in 4 children live in a food insecure household. (www.odph.ca)
Batman's secret identity [Pictures in Boxes] (startrek.website)
Vancouver lawyer who sued over condo deck divider accused of pseudolegal 'paper terrorism' | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
A Vancouver woman is asking for the courts to make an example of her neighbour, a practising lawyer she alleges has filed a baseless pseudolegal lawsuit against her in an attempt to “provoke a state of fear.”
A secret phone surveillance program is spying on millions of Americans (www.foxnews.com)
Imagine that every time you make a phone call, someone is keeping an extraordinarily detailed record of the call.
EP rejects mass scanning of private messages - European Digital Rights (EDRi) (edri.org)
Some Google Drive for Desktop users are missing months of files - The Verge (www.theverge.com)
Be careful of trusting google
The Internet is Worse Than Ever – Now What? (yewtu.be)
Meta sues FTC, hoping to block ban on monetizing kids’ Facebook data
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988 suicide crisis helpline launches across Canada (www.cbc.ca)
Canada’s 988 hotline, which gives people access to suicide prevention services via call or text, went live on Thursday....
Bad loans piling up at big banks as TD, Royal and CIBC reveal quarterly numbers (www.cbc.ca)
Study finds no “smoking gun” for mental health issues due to Internet usage (arstechnica.com)
Researchers at the Oxford Internet Institute, who said their study was the largest of its kind, said they found no evidence to support “popular ideas that certain groups are more at risk” from the technology....
A question about secure chats (sopuli.xyz)
Two questions....
Kroger (grocery and pharmacy) Sued for Sharing Sensitive Health Data With Meta
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Intel CR 23.35.27191.9 Released As A Big Update To Their Open-Source GPU Compute Stack (www.phoronix.com)
Is YouTube starting another attack on third party clients?
I’ve noticed than most of them have stopped working including all invidious and piped instances
Tumblr sheds Post Plus subscriptions as the platform downsizes (www.theverge.com)
TL;DR: Tumblr is discontinuing its Post Plus feature, allowing creators to charge for content, starting December 1st. This decision follows a leaked memo about downsizing due to struggles in meeting usage and revenue targets. Post Plus, introduced in 2021, didn’t meet expectations, leading to its discontinuation. Existing Post...
Amazon's iRobot purchase sucks up formal competition concerns in EU (techcrunch.com)
Largest Study of its Kind Shows Outdated Password Practices are Widespread (www.cc.gatech.edu)
“More than half of the websites in the study accepted passwords with six characters or less, with 75% failing to require the recommended eight-character minimum. Around 12% of had no length requirements, and 30% did not support spaces or special characters.”
Drinking in your 20s vs 30s [Sarah Anderson] (startrek.website)
[Article] If I’m at a crosswalk, do drivers have to stop even if the lights aren’t flashing? (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Link with no paywall:...
Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV (9to5google.com)
Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College (themarkup.org)
An investigation by the media organization The Markup found the pixel by Facebook and Instagram-parent Meta on dozens of popular websites targeting kids from kindergarten to college, including sites that students are all but required to use if they want to participate in school activities or apply to college....
What the actual fuck?! (lemmy.world)
Some random website knows which school i go to, this is the second time i have received this message
is there a way tominimise risk while using facebook?
I have a feeling I know the answer, but thought it worth an ask, so here goes - I’ve not used FB in years, and generally try to keep fairly private online (Mullvad, librefox, etc) but I’ve found I’m missing out by not being able to use FB marketplace. If I set up a fresh account, and don’t use the social side of it at...
Best way to glue a magnetic strip?
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Canada’s Top 0.01% Saw Income Growth Of 30% In 2021 (www.readthemaple.com)