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RandoCalrandian

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Advocate for user privacy and anonymity

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Yeah I get that occasionally, swapping to another endpoint fixes it right up

Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages ( arstechnica.com )

in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."...

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And even if it is your key, if you can’t see how they made the lock then you can’t prove other keys won’t unlock it.
OSS FTW

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Its also about monitoring what people are saying privately about your shows

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Or not caring

Or actively profiting from the status quo

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Still not as racist as you tho

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I’m 100% sure you don’t know what fascist means

Which is why it’s so hilarious for you to act like one while playing as anti

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If you’d found anything you could credibly jump on, I’m 1000% sure that’s what you’d be bullshitting about now instead of some completely random and baseless accusation

Yours is probably a trip

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It's called an "MBA" and they are the tip of the enshitification spear

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This.

If there’s a notification for an encrypted group chat, you can use that metadata to identify the devices of all parties involved in that chat, because the push system has to queue all that up and send it at the same time.

That’s just one valuable use of this data.

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Using weak examples and how they are better served in a different way doesn’t mean much

With push data like this you can identify something like every other member of an encrypted group chat by correlating the push notification metadata

They are demanding this for a reason

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And oh darn, didn’t you know the only solution is permanent extension of and expansions to all the patriot act bullshit that has been violating our civil liberties constantly for 20+ years?

Shucks. Welp, if it’s “for the children” or whatever excuse they use this time, I guess we have no choice!

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Not to mention Epstein was able to operate freely for decades while flying out high priority definitely-surveilled-at-all-times targets out to rape kids

Make no mistake, intelligence agencies are every bit as complicit as Epstein himself, and they don’t give a flying fuck about “protecting” kids

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That isn’t what you’re getting with any cell phone?

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SIM card tracks location and sells it too

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In steps, and you kinda drive onto it

Not great for mobile operation, however 😬

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The way I solved this problem is by using an https://invidious.io/ instance.

Logins are easy to create, so you can have one for each subscription set you want to create

Private by default, so not even the fingerprint scripts are monitoring you

And the subscriptions page lists just your subscriptions in order of most recently released, nothing else shoved in

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It’s the signal metadata that they want to keep associated with an identity

They still can fulfill government requests for who is talking to who and how often

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Can’t have those things being used unregulated or unmonitored

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We’ll make it AI trained on all the “best” citizens, fully automatic!

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They would have to vett all the closed source systems like iMessage to prove this

Which they won’t do, so it’s all down to the cops getting caught

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But without someone forcing that, for consumer hardware they will just "disable" (read: not mention) the ME, because there are entities (the ones that should be enforcing secure consumer hardware) that very much enjoy the ME being there for them to take advantage of on consumer hardware.

I tried, I really did

I've been an IT professional for 20 years now, but I've mainly dealt with Windows. I've worked with Linux servers through out the years, but never had Linux as a daily driver. And I decided it was time to change. I only had 2 requirements. One, I need to be able to use my Nvidia 3080 ti for local LLM and I need to be able to RDP...

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Git gud scrub

Zuckerberg Brags About How Your Facebook, Instagram Posts Will Power His AI ( gizmodo.com )

Instagram and Facebook have addicted users for the last 20 years, making sure to monetize us through advertisers every step of the way. Now, they’re revisiting your old posts, your special moments, and your big life updates, and using it to create billion-dollar AI tools. Zuckerberg’s braggadocious claim about Meta’s very...

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I find it immensely useful.

I run copilot-equivalent things locally for code autocomplete and suggestions. It's about even in terms of language specific snippets in terms of productivity gains there.

I've run my resume through it to have it inject HR buzzwords into all my bullet points, and i think it looks much better as a result. (The AI is way more flattering about my work that I am, myself). For something like ChatGPT specifically, i hand it my resume along with job listings and have it rate my fit, give explanations as to why, and highlight areas the company would like to know about, which makes writing cover letters trivial.

Nvidia has an AI feature that guesses and fills in frames, making it so a game only needs to generate about 30fps to get the user equivalent of 120fps, drastically improving performance on both low and high end machines even adding in the cost of running the neural net.

You're limiting your view of "AI" into what enters the news cycle, and like most things in the news cycle, they're almost completely off the mark and more focused on the doom and gloom aspects.

My future career is perfectly gears towards integrating AI into people's normal workflow so people can work with the accelerating affects of technology, instead of feeling replaced by it.

All that being said, jobs like screenwriters have good reason to be worried. Even a bad AI can make a better script that 80% of what comes out of hollywood these days.

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glad to see i'm not the only one who see's exactly how this tech will be used.

Now they won't even need to create political ads, they can generate the most manipulative and effective ones with AI for the highest bidder!

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Tabby

RandoCalrandian ,
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Google "Cambridge Analytica"

That was an org that trump paid to do what facebook has been doing on their own for over a decade to push politicians that help prop up it's business.

"Amusingly", people were all up in arms about election interference and bypassing election advertising rules all up until they realized their own preferred politicians had been doing the same thing extensively even back in the obama era.

People got real quiet about it after that, but facebook is quite clearly the greatest election manipulation machine ever created or conceived by mankind. Other social networks are close behind.

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So what are the odds this ruling even slows down the agency’s blatant abuses of power?
Any bets?

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Yeah… I went Apple to get away from Google, but now I’m looking at de-googled android options

Pretty shit all around. Almost like millions of wealthy and powerful people don’t want anybody to have private and secure phones.

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Same.

Even for gaming, switching all my desktops to Linux was a breeze.

It’s mobile im struggling with

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Might be a good opportunity to drop some toxic games at the same time

Have you heard of our lord and savior, Factorio?

RandoCalrandian ,
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We can have legally binding checkboxes, like a nutrition label

“Does this ToS allow the selling of user data to third parties”
“Does the ToS allow collection of location data”
“Does the ToS allow collection of biometric data”
“…accelerometer data”
“Does the ToS claim ownership of data created by the user, or the users device”

And so on

Yes we’d need an entry for every type of bullshit these EULA’s try to pull, but that’s where we are at.

ToS have a severe conflict of interest wherein the author tries to preemptively fuck over the consumer while hiding that they are trying to do this. We require regulation on companies to protect consumers, and I imagine that solution looks like a standardized and legally binding “nutrition” label.

Until something like that is enforced by the power of the state, ToS are a losing battle for anyone without an army of lawyers and cash to burn.

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How are rights “rights” if you can be coerced or tricked into signing them away.

That entire concept is bullshit

“Ok a new law just passed. I need all of you ‘workers’ to sign this document stating I’m allowed to whip you and your vote only counts for 3/5ths of a person”

Kinda defeats the whole point of the laws in the first place.

Right shouldn’t be able to be “waived”

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Ironically, their job is more suited for AI to take over than almost any other

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So long as they can pay bills during that time.

The strike did not help writers as much as it’s pretending it did

RandoCalrandian ,
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It being intentional or not doesn’t change the situation for those stuck in it

RandoCalrandian ,
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Better at?

They fucking count on it. I’ve watched companies get stripped to the bone and then the bones sold off. Doing that was their core business model.

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Until those that finally put in the effort to organize past the censored calls to action get led around by the nose of some controlled opposition “grassroots” bullshit that is still meant to ensure nothing really changes

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Yup. They wait for you to organize, because they have a million strategies to corrupt the head of the organization and make it more beneficial to themselves in the end

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They already are. That’s part of what makes religion so difficult to excise.

They’re filling an ancient psychological social need, and we already know many will stay members of cults they know are false due to the community and perceived social support it provides.

Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It ( www.wired.com )

For facial recognition experts and privacy advocates, the East Bay detective’s request, while dystopian, was also entirely predictable. It emphasizes the ways that, without oversight, law enforcement is able to mix and match technologies in unintended ways, using untested algorithms to single out suspects based on unknowable...

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It already is too easy to frame someone, and you didn’t have to spoof their DNA to do it.

Just bribe the dna guy to say it matches and done

RandoCalrandian ,
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Unfortunately true

But they didn’t start that way

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You wouldn’t happen to have all those needed settings changes in a conveniently shareable list, would you?

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What a load of shit.

Not only have they been doing this, blatantly, since the 2000’s (remember PRISM?), but even credit report agencies were originally setup in the 80’s to do exact this, and exploit this exact loophole for the government.

Did big scwary orange man bad do that, too?

RandoCalrandian ,
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ISP’s have been collecting and selling browser history since 2010 at least

Them was Obama years, iirc

Cryptographers Just Got Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches ( www.wired.com )

" three researchers have crafted a long-sought version of private information retrieval and extended it to build a more general privacy strategy. The work, which received a Best Paper Award in June 2023 at the annual Symposium on Theory of Computing, topples a major theoretical barrier on the way to a truly private search."

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Let’s take a moment and acknowledge that it was never hard to make searches private.

It’s just that doing that requires trusting a company not to fuck with you behind the scenes and sell you out, and ensuring that doesn’t happen is fucking hard

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Unless there’s a strong correlation between those who set fingerprint protection to strict and those that disable telemetry

In that case they’re about to piss off a much larger portion of their users than they realize

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All moderators in a nutshell?

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You’re trotting out Biden as an example of “decent president” in a thread about blatant political corruption and the willingness of politicians to sell Americans out for money?

Bold strategy, Cotton, let’s see how it works out for him

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