RandoCalrandian

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Privacy in Microsoft Edge's latest AI tool sends open websites to Microsoft - gHacks Tech News

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.

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Privacy in How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy – The Markup

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”

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Privacy in How to Quickly Get to the Important Truth Inside Any Privacy Policy – The Markup

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.

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Technology in "We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic)

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.

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Technology in "We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic)

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

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Technology in "We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic)

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

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Privacy in Cops Used DNA to Predict a Suspect’s Face—and Tried to Run Facial Recognition on It

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 , 5 months ago to Technology in "We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic)

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.

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Technology in "We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic)

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

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Technology in "We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic)

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 , 5 months ago to Technology in "We're nowhere near the point where an AI can do your job, but we're well past the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job." (Pluralistic)

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

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Privacy in NSA Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says

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

Them was Obama years, iirc

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Privacy in Why do you think they don't show Brave here?

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

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Privacy in Why do you think they don't show Brave here?

Unfortunately true

But they didn’t start that way

RandoCalrandian , 5 months ago to Privacy in NSA Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says

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?