xilliah

@xilliah@beehaw.org

Developmental informatics hacker

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Lol Facebook was too dumb to even share my father’s posts when he joined. Just kept spamming me with rage bait and posts from someone obnoxious I met at a party years before and never really had a real contact with. How is this company supposed to detect anything? To me it’s just a cesspool that provides a few people with power.

Let’s imagine the error rate would be 0%, anonimity is a right and none of the privacy tools are broken, would you be on board with it? Or are there concerns I am missing here.

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You mean like a secret power motive? I’ve never sought that in the EU. Would appreciate any references.

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Hmm I’m not under that impression, at least not from the parliament. I’m unfamiliar with the dynamic between the commission and the parliament but it might be that the commission tends to state what’s possible and the parliament then picks what they want.

It’s not a backdoor as far as I understand it and it doesn’t compromise e2ee, but a scan on a system you trust. Local or on a server you trust.

The only issue I personally have is with the error rate. It seems to be at 80%. Personally I would find any level of error a problem. I don’t see any reasonable solution with our current tech.

xilliah,

I think we have different information. What I’ve read showed that the commission had a very broad and extreme proposal just as you just mentioned. I’d definitely not be on board with that.

However the parliament’s proposal was way more restrictive. If I understood it right it’s the commission that makes proposals but the parliament can react to it and this goes back and forth. The parliament is the one in the end that turns it into law.

I’m still a newbie in this area because I wasn’t able to vote due to my circumstances until last week.

As I mentioned before this might just be a standard day at the office for them. The commission makes wide and extreme proposals. Perhaps they even survey that stuff and look at the public opinion and allow time for debate. Eventually they create a reasonable law.

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Afaik it’s a thin margin sector. I’ve even heard of pilots paying to fly during bad periods.

xilliah,

It’s a good idea for note taking.

xilliah,

It’s foss

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I’ve always thought the idea that consciousness just suddenly starts with us makes no sense. I can’t believe it exists within a vacuum.

Take the eye as analogy. Eagles might have the best eyes in one sense, but dragonflies have a panoramic view and see more colors.

There’s also convergent evolution happening all over the place. If consciousness is useful for us, it must be for other animals too. Same for intelligence and so on.

xilliah,

Probably installed it for free just so someone can get all that juicy data.

xilliah,

Librera Reader

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I like the Dutch consent form for body donation. You can just checkmark what you’re ok with and what not. I don’t know all the details but I expect that it’ll be used responsibly.

I think we can all agree that that’s an important topic. Why can’t we do that for other, often less important, things too?

Like sure, access my diary if your research is supported by a board but not for security purposes unless you have a warrant.

xilliah,

FYI data on USB sticks might not last as long as you might expect.

xilliah,

Spaceballs clip (inv)

xilliah,

FYI data on USB sticks might not last as long as you might expect.

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Bonus: cut it up and entrust it it to trusted people in envelopes. In case something happens they can combine their secrets to get access.

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Yeah someone in my building lost their fancy mountain bike, eventhough it was behind a thick locked door that only people with a key thingie can get inside with.

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Pretty sure they wrote that they also did that additionally.

xilliah,

Release the crab!

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🤦🏻‍♀️

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The time is nigh that I’ll get to see a relevant ad. Finally a system complicated enough to able to store that I’m into pc games.

xilliah,

This is such an apt way to put it. It makes it relatable for everyone, as I’m sure we’ve all experienced prejudice and the like.

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Slightly unrelated but it kind of reminds me of a guest room I used to have.

I had this tiny but amazing little room in the center of an expensive city. Walking distance from station. Large balcony. Large windows with sun. Blackout curtains. Silent. Pretty wooden desk. Ample storage space. Mirror. Shiny clean. Lots of features, basically!

Couchsurfers were always so deeply thankful and I’ve never had any real issues. It was fun and rewarding.

Airbnbers? Oh my god there were some entitled guests. And it was just eur 25 a night! There’s even emotional labor involved because you have to take it with a smile or you might end up receiving a bad review and drop out of the search.

I can’t for a second imagine a surfer acting that way. Just like this article says it’s like they assume there’s this capitalist alienated relationship going on, whereas actually it’s simply a gift.

xilliah,

That’s better than being a young cynic

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My hair stood up straight due to an ad on that website playing music… A blast from the past!

xilliah,

Mostly using duck duck go. But am considering Firefox with some addons now.

xilliah,

I play Crystal Caves on my 3080. No regrets.

xilliah,

Compensations should be paid out, watch how security grows

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.”...

xilliah,

Ugh and now it’s happening yet again with discord. Everybody seems to want me to be on discord. Just after I managed to get off everything. At least they seem kinda OK for now but we all know it’s just a matter of time until dr evil gets his hands on it.

xilliah,

Nah I’m just talking

xilliah,

Could you say something more about it?

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That’s amazing

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Ah now I get it

xilliah,

I tried the demo. It’s pretty cool.

xilliah,

I consider most of the stuff I post here to be personal.

xilliah,

Are there any school textbooks out there that have poeple in them that don’t look creepy?

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Finally a website without popups!

It would be amazing if you could pay in the command line. Like imagine when you appreciate a foss library and can easily make a donation. Then you can build all sorts of software on top of that.

Iirc the pirate bay guys made something like that, but only in the browser, and only for very few websites. It gives the content a like button. Periodically it then distributes money over all your likes from a preset pool of cash.

It should be as easy as cash irl.

xilliah,

I suppose so

xilliah,

That’s cool! I just wish I could use it with my normal bank account.

xilliah,

As far as I understand it inflation is an important tool that allows for redistribution of wealth to where it is needed in hard times. For example when a bank fails.

Then you can say that banks shouldn’t borrow out more money than they have, but that would reduce growth.

Then you can say growth is bad but growth doesn’t necessarily mean consuming more resources. It’s mainly needed for the system to sustain and adapt. For example to climate change.

Which ties in back nicely to Monero, as it uses proof of work which is a senseless waste of resources if you ask me.

Overall I just wish for a cli/api that works regardless of which payment provider you personally select.

xilliah,

I appreciate your reply. My UI does not allow for downvoting.

Hmm it seems to be a very political issue. I get the appeal of using technology to make social progress. But personally I feel that political issues are just that: political issues. The US has a bipolar government, and that’s an issue that needs solving. I’m not sure if crypto is the way to go there. I also trust in the inherent good of people and that they are open to reason, and that we can’t solve issues by being overly individualistic, aka hide behind public keys. That’s my perspective, that’s all.

xilliah,

🐔

xilliah,

Well they did pay an ungodly amount of money for a freaking chat program.

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Fun fact the guy behind awk sent in a patch via email cuz he thought git was too complicated or not worth the hassle.

xilliah,

I wonder what the numbers are for hunter scavenger societies.

xilliah,

I was referring to currently existing ones.

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Crazy how politicized the internet is now. Not so long ago nobody gave a rat’s ass. I wonder how regulated it will become and if online freedom still exists in say 50 years.

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Ya I get you but I think in the end it’s nothing really new. It seems like everything is just another rehash of something we already had. E.g. instead of killer bots we brainwashed kids into killing on command. Same with freedom.

xilliah,

That it might seem like something new that internet freedom is being curtailed, but in a more generic way freedom was taken away from people in many ways already today and before in the past. Likewise how freedom has been gained countless times before will also apply to the internet in some form today and in the future. It just appears novel but it’s your every day human power dynamics at work.

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