As JD Vance delivered his speech about “European overregulation” and criticized “endless compliance costs imposed on the US companies by GDPR” I have seen some voices from Europe who said something to the effect “I don‘t know a single EU company happy about #GDPR either”.
Well, it’s kind of obvious companies aren’t happy because GDPR was not made to make companies happy but to protect the privacy of consumers 😄
This regulation is based on fundamental differences between US and EU legal systems. In EU, you own and control your personal data. In US it’s owned by whoever managed to extort it from you, and then aggregate, personalise and resell to any other entity anywhere.
For example, if you want to pay higher insurance premium because you have genetic tendencies to diabetes or obesity - well, that’s the US way of doing business, but it’s not the only one, nor it’s somehow axiomatically “better”. An
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As JD Vance delivered his speech about “European overregulation” and criticized “endless compliance costs imposed on the US companies by GDPR” I have seen some voices from Europe who said something to the effect “I don‘t know a single EU company happy about #GDPR either”.
Well, it’s kind of obvious companies aren’t happy because GDPR was not made to make companies happy but to protect the privacy of consumers 😄
This regulation is based on fundamental differences between US and EU legal systems. In EU, you own and control your personal data. In US it’s owned by whoever managed to extort it from you, and then aggregate, personalise and resell to any other entity anywhere.
For example, if you want to pay higher insurance premium because you have genetic tendencies to diabetes or obesity - well, that’s the US way of doing business, but it’s not the only one, nor it’s somehow axiomatically “better”. And yes, high insurance premiums also have the effect of increasing overall country’s GDP, just as a house burnt and rebuilt also does this magic, yet somehow few people celebrate it 😉
Then someone asked me if I really “feel that my data is better protected thanks to GDPR”. And yes, as a matter of fact the most invasive behavioural profiling aren’t being rolled out by companies like Twitter or Facebook to EU specifically because of GDPR, while in US they just roll them out without asking anyone.
Anyone… of course except for the states which have regulations very similar or even more restrictive than GDPR, such as California. Yet, because California is “their”, these companies and their CEOs with high media presence simply shut up and make their apps compliant with CCPA without all this barking about “how GDPR kills out business”.
It’s the same with EU VAT, about which Vance also whined, whereas US sales tax accounting rules are not even harmonized across states. But hey, you know what? An US business that has to emply a tax consulting company to get multi-state accounting right also increases overall GDP! 😄
So effectively what in US is perceived as each state’s fundamental right, sign of their diversity and key part of their autonomy, in the EU is portrayed as something equivalent to Soviet Union style central planning. And when they post all the memes about “bottle caps” in EU, they of course never mention a gazillion of state-level archaic or absurd regulations which are nonetheless binding, especially if someone likes to build a class lawsuit around them.
And now as Tesla opened a new factory in #China, I’ve never seen Musk make a single critical remark about the overregulation in China, even though it’s even more complex than EU and US taken together due to its vast geographic and administrative diversity.
GDPR is indeed designed to protect consumers, not make companies happy. Nevertheless, it is very common for companies to be satisfied that protective regulations exist, because they act as deterrent against fly-by-night operations undercutting their offering.
It's akin to saying that European electrical suppliers weren't happy for CE testing. Sure it's difficult, but the outcome is a safer market. @kravietz
but you have to understand, the regulations in China don't protect the consumer at the expense of profits. The EU regulations do. It's why Apple comply with authoritarian governments without batting an eyelid but throw a hissyfit the moment the EU focces them to sideload
Actually, this is a very bad source for GDPR advice, because it’s a website run by ProtonVPN whose purpose is to present GDPR as a scary thing that only their VPN protects you from 😂
And yes, on this website it indeed is unclear, but it’s done on purpose (see above). On the ICO guidance which I’ve just referred you to it’s quite clear - you need a combination of indicators that together uniquely identify an individual for that data to be PII. If it’s not unique or insufficient to identify that person, it’s not PII.
This is what they literally say:
By itself, the name ‘John Smith’ may not always be personal data because there are many individuals with that name. However, if the name is combined with other information (such as an address, a place of work, or a telephone number) this is often sufficient to clearly identify one individual.
Actually, this is a very bad source for GDPR advice, because it’s a website run by ProtonVPN whose purpose is to present GDPR as a scary thing that only their VPN protects you from 😂
And yes, on this website it indeed is unclear, but it’s done on purpose (see above). On the ICO guidance which I’ve just referred you to it’s quite clear - you need a combination of indicators that together uniquely identify an individual for that data to be PII. If it’s not unique or insufficient to identify that person, it’s not PII.
This is what they literally say:
By itself, the name ‘John Smith’ may not always be personal data because there are many individuals with that name. However, if the name is combined with other information (such as an address, a place of work, or a telephone number) this is often sufficient to clearly identify one individual.
They use conditional statements (“often sufficient”) because they deal with a generic topic. If you ask them about your SSH server, they will quite certainly answer “nah, it’s not PII”… unless you explicitly assign your users with usernames like john.smith.dob.07-03-1998… in which case the IP will be the least of your worries 😀
My problem with GDPR is the opposite - namely how it harms big corporations least.
For example, me running a SSH server on my personal vserver became technically illegal as the SSH protocol does not support the necessary disclosures, and happily logs every login attempt to the system log (where it tends to age out after 7 days as no one ever looks there anyway unless something is wrong).
I am aware that this kind of log would be permitted under the GDPR if it were properly disclosed. I would also be required to disclose my home address to the entire world just because I run SSH.
IMHO the very least GDPR should have done would be an exclusion so entities that do not use data in a way that requires explicit permission do not need to comply with the disclosure, legal entity etc. requirements. Maybe further conditioned by not making any profit.
@samueljohnson It's not been decided by a court, but:
- SSH port is open to anyone. - Anyone who connects to it - and be it by entering http://ipaddress:22 in the browser address bar - will cause log lines to be written. - The logging includes the source IP address, which is generally considered PII.
As such, it quite obviously falls into the scope of the GDPR.
As for the logging of the IPs itself, that clearly falls under "legitimate interest" as per Article 6(1) GDPR - so that is fine per se.
Art. 13 GDPR is the real problem with SSH - the right to be informed. The protocol doesn't even provide a _way_ for the connecting individual to be informed about these things.
Clearly the authors of the GDPR did not _intend_ to place 20 million EUR penalties on private individuals who happen to run a vserver with SSH access. And I also presume it won't actually be _applied_ like that. But ultimately it depends on whether someone will file a GDPR compliant, and how the DPA will treat that report. I suppose unless a wild #Gravenreuth appears, people should be safe.
@divVerent Your assertion that an IP address is "generally considered PII" is entirely false and you cannot provide a citation from any credible source to support that proposition.
I suggest you look up some definitions of PII and then consider the many reasons why an IP address is never included.
And don't forget that Americans unfairly pay US income tax no matter where on the planet they live, until they die or renounce their US citizenship. More false inflation of the narrative that America is the greatest country on earth. Yes, because it sucks everything it can out of its people and gives them empty promises in return.
It's a good thing to have heavy compliance costs on things you would rather not happen. Except, of course, that Vance is sucking the teat of people whose interests are fundamentally, diametrically opposed to those of the common man.
“I don‘t know a single EU company happy about #GDPR either”
What a silly measure to apply to regulations… I don’t know a single toddler who a happy about wearing snow pants either, but when it’s -15C they have to wear them anyway.
As somebody who prefers EU and (for now) UK businesses instead of US ones because of #GDPR, I expect businesses here do have a reason to be thankful for it.
In fact, there are many companies happy with the EU GDPR. When you allow a company to cheat their customers, spy on them and sell their data for billions, that company can use their ill gotten gains to undercut other companies, driving them out of business. As with any regulation, companies that aren't hurting people will prosper, and companies that are hurting people will fail.
That politician is just conveniently ignoring all the small businesses completely unimpacted by the GDPR because they don't collect data, who make more money, and achieve higher prosperity since Faceboogle is too inconvenienced to steal that money and prosperity from their customers first. Apparently he "doesn't know" about them.
Also pimps are totally in support of sexworkers rights. That's why they operate brothels to protect their employees from abusive customers and inclement weather. Except when you make prostitution illegal. Then all the pimps that survive are conveniently evil gits. Funny how that works out...
Women need to follow Quebec's model: Under the Civil Code of Québec, both spouses retain their respective names in marriage and exercise civil rights under those names. Consequently, if a married woman wants to adopt her spouse's surname, the Directeur de l'état civil will authorize that change of name only in an exceptional situation.
Not the most immediate issue, but can you imagine how many address forms would get messed up over the use of multiple commas and a potential ampersand in the state name section? Like, things get messed up in the mail when 2 numbers are too close together 😂
the idiot who introduced this needs a swift kick in the nuts and then to be replaced by someone who is actually interested in working for the people of the United States
I mean, even this administration's supporters should be up in arms about the fact that their representatives are spending time and tax dollars doing silly shit like this.
I was so hoping that this was satire. I don't know whether to laugh or cry. How will the world make it through 4 years of this crap? It's like doing hard time for a sentence we don't deserve...only the MAGA idiots should have to suffer!!! I'm Canadian and it's bad enough from up here!
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it's important to name and shame the people responsible for these pieces of shit
The Sponsor of Today's Bill is:
Earl LeRoy “Buddy” Carter .. an American pharmacist and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia’s 1st congressional district since 2015. The district is based in Savannah and includes most of the state’s coastal southern portion.
Born: 1957 (age 67 years), Port Wentworth, GA
Office: Representative (R-GA 1st District) since 2015
red white and blue, just like Australia, Cambodia, Chile, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cuba, Czechia, Dominican Republic, France, Iceland, Laos, Netherlands, Norway, North Korea, New Zealand, Russia, Samoa, Taiwan, Thailand, Uk
More from the American Bar Association, condemning the Trump regime and urging all lawyers to stand up against it. This is extraordinary. There is too much text for me to put in alt-text, some quotes follow. 1/ (complete statement online at americanbar.org/news/abanews/a…)
Trump’s “actions have forced affected parties to seek relief in the courts, which stand as a bulwark against these violations. We support our courts who are treating these cases with the urgency they require. Americans know there is a right way and a wrong way to proceed. What is being done is not the right way to pursue the change that is sought in our system of government.” 2/
“The goals of eliminating departments and entire functions do not justify the means when the means are not in accordance with the law. Americans expect better. Even among those who want change, no one wants their neighbor or their family to be treated this way.” 3/
“These actions have real-world consequences. [Recent] employees fear they will lose their jobs because of some matter they were assigned to in the Justice Department or some training they attended in their agency. USAID employees assigned to build programs that benefit foreign countries are being doxed, harassed with name-calling and receiving conflicting information about their employment status. These stories should concern all Americans bc they are our family members, neighbors, friends.” 4/
“No American can be proud of a government that carries out change in this way. Neither can these actions be rationalized by discussion of past grievances or appeals to efficiency. Everything can be more efficient, but adherence to the rule of law is paramount. We must be cognizant of the harm being done by these methods.” 5/
“[R]efusing to spend money appropriated by Congress under the euphemism of a pause is a violation of the rule of law and suggests that the executive branch can overrule the other two co-equal branches of government. This is contrary to the constitutional framework and not the way our democracy works.” 6/
“The money appropriated by Congress must be spent in accordance with what Congress has said. It cannot be changed or paused because a newly elected administration desires it. Our elected representatives know this. The lawyers of this country know this. It must stop.” 7/
“We call upon our elected representatives to stand with us and to insist upon adherence to the rule of law and the legal processes and procedures that ensure orderly change. The administration cannot choose which law it will follow or ignore. These are not partisan or political issues. These are rule of law and process issues. We cannot afford to remain silent. We must stand up for the values we hold dear. The ABA will do its part and act to protect the rule of law.” 8/
“We urge every attorney to join us and insist that our government, a government of the people, follow the law. It is part of the oath we took when we became lawyers. Whatever your political party or your views, change must be made in the right way. Americans expect no less.” 8/8
True but the people who are doing this are the lowest of low life. And the sad part of it is, millions of Americans voted for the convicted felon who is instigating all of the illegal acts taking place. Along with his consigliere,. the muskrat.
@AzureArmageddon I’m glad the ABA wrote this letter, but in the past they’ve also chosen to close ranks when it suits them.
When Bill Barr was running amok as AG, there were calls for him to be disbarred.
I wrote a letter * saying as much, but got a reply saying “you don’t have standing”—as though being a citizen of the US isn’t affected by the laws of the US.
*I’d have to look it up, but I think I wrote to the DC bar
The law vs the real world: bsky.app/profile/chrisdeleon.b… Dems need to fight to protect the lower courts. The think tanks are gunning for them right now. At this pace the USA will be like Hungary by summer.
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have officially disconnected from the Russian power grid, marking a historic leap towards energy independence.
After preparing for the integration into the EU energy market for almost two decades, the countries now have proper infrastructure linking them to the European continental grid.
This EU-supported initiative allows to fully benefit from the European common energy system.
@beaufils Actually with only one outside link: the LIT-POL AC link between #Lithuania and #Poland. The other lines to Sweden and Finland are High-Voltage DC lines that do not contribute to synchronisation.
A second 3-phase AC line between Poland and Lithuania is part of the Harmony project, that is currently being built.
@bonkers @bossito As long as it is fully demilitarized and incorporated into the Schengen Area, I have no problem with Russia retaining the "Oblast of Kaliningrad". Anybody who wants to re-litigate the end of the Second World War has to recognize that the Morgenthau Plan is always a possibility.
Besides, if anything needs attention, it's the final status of Formosa.
It looks like the synchronization is already a fact. The mains frequency in the Baltics appears to closely match that of the European continental grid.
@sibrosan According to the sympower site, the Baltic Grid is still operating in "island mode" and will be synchronized with mainland Europe a bit later today, by 18:00 EET.
According to reports, synchronization was established around 14:00 EET. The close match in mains frequency (small differences may be attributed to measurement method and time delay) confirms this. Earlier this day the differences were much greater.
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania "successfully" synchronized with the Continental European electricity grid on Sunday afternoon, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda said. "The period of political pressure and blackmail is finally over," he added.
O godz. 13:05 dn. 09.02.2025 zsynchronizowano systemy Państw Bałtyckich (Litwa, Łotwa i Estonia) z systemem Kontynentalnej Europy. Baltic State power systems started...
When the person or country you rely on is constantly bullying you and forcing total reliance simply because they are stronger than you then it's time to leave. It is an abusive relationship. The first step is always the hardest.
@VieilOgre @MartinaNeumayer To be fair if we forget Russia a moment, diverse sources of energy is ALWAYS better than one, so it's really not crazy for someone to have that thought, especially when we KNOW Germany has been struggling with energy for years now.
People need to stop labeling someone a Russia bot as soon as they have a different opinion than them. (And going on the person's profile, it's the most German thing I've ever seen, Russian bots have empty or generic profiles).
@mrtn @VieilOgre@mastodon.top @MartinaNeumayer That's exactly what she had written. Not touching any political topics. But as we can see, people are way to stupid to just read what is written without adding some irrational, nonexistent stories. And yes, my wife is both german-finish. And yes we did moved out from the country few years ago because of the sick atmosphere building and gathering itself there. But that doesn't matter anything, especially to the entire topic. But yeah, they all are some bots! 🤦♀️
@mrtn I am not only German, but above all Finnish. But what does my or anymore nationality have to do with the ability to think independently? Unfortunately, today there is always a guy like Mr. Ogre who will immediately put his primitive label on someone. You will be called a troll, a nazi, a slut, and other such epithets. Well.. sadly, that is how the world works today and how the people are. And I meant in my toot only an real independence and its definition. Nothing more.
@MartinaNeumayer No worries it don't matter the nationality, I was just using the German vibes coming from your profile as a point in defending your comment that people need to stop labeling anyone a Russian bot when it's pretty clear you weren't one.
@mrtn Thank you very much. No worries I am aware of that. I am old enough to understand plenty of things, also human behavior as well. I know perfectly well that most of these people are very weak people who take their frustrations out on others online. They are acting like that, when in reality they themselves are under the thumb of their wives, mothers, etc. First they collect negative emotions at home, and then they only humiliate others, especially women. That's an so-called macho syndrome.😁
we haven’t been struggling for power, despite what right-wing media want to make you believe.
The profile says Luxembourg, but the rest does quite reek like bot, it doesn’t feel germanish enough, so I’m on the side for that. Blocking is a good thing to do at this point, too.
@mirabilos @mrtn @VieilOgre Fishy as hell. Meme pics, "men used to be men1!!!1!", occasional dig at Europe or USA. Might be just two 20-something years in Olgino, cosplaying.
@richlv The heck you want from me and my wife, dude?! Do you even know any of us both to state your idiotic opinions about us? Did any of us written something about your person? Or to you? Did we?! So, be so kind and keep your sticky fingers away. And if you are searching for something fishy, go to the bathroom and look into the mirror. There you will find it.
@MartinaNeumayer This is not about buying energy. They have not bought Russian electric energy for quite a while. This is about severing the connections, and the very technical issue of AC synchronisation. It’s about stability, not energy dependence.
@gunstick I didn't written anything about country, one or another, nor political thing. I did written about sematic.
And yes, the most nicest thing is to not have any bills at all. That's an true independence. Not being related, dependent on anyone, and anything etc. Do you think why so many people are going off grid in recent times? Why they don't want to have anything to do with power companies and similar? That's why.. To not have bills. Not pay extortion to these companies.
@MartinaNeumayer you know what happened to power independent Texas? They got a winter storm and it was horrible. Having a continental interconnected grid helps.
@gunstick Yes I know about that. Well.. Is nothing really strange nor unpredictable, especially if the infrastructure is not ready for such enormous consumption as it was. That's an simple and obvious physic. Helping? Hmm.. Yes and also no, simultaneously. Because this depends on many different factors. You know, it is not possible to state just: yes or no. We are here at our farm fully independent. Own power, own water, own bio gas and so on. We aren't connected to any grid at all. No issues.
@MartinaNeumayer Same thing as it was with gas. How much did they raise prices? 300 percent in a matter of year? Do I remember correctly? People almost had heart attacks when they saw their bills. It was supposed to be so beautiful, but the stinking shit came out from under the pink wrapper very quickly. My friend paid circa 250 per month, and now he is paying almost 600 for the same amount of gas. And only a year has passed. One year only! It's a frickin joke! 😡🤬
@MartinBe You remember correctly. It was exactly a three hundred percent increase. A real nightmare for many households, seniors, etc. But these pathetic EU politicians did not care about this at all. They only pushed through subsequent supposedly ecological laws, confused people and continued their spiral of EU propaganda. And ordinary people cried because they did not know where to get money for the next pay rises. That's why the whole idea about moving away from this gernan/eu driven mess.
@MartinaNeumayer True and if you only dare to have your own mind or opinion on some topic, then tons of morons who doesn't have any decent arguments will call you troll or something a like stupid. We'll.. That's an actual pitty effect of years of brainwashing. The dumbed down flocks of sheep will dance and clap as their masters tell them to. As the old proverb says: he who laughs last, laughs best. We'll sit and wait, and in a few years we'll see who will have a reason to laugh and who will cry.
@MartinBe That's why many years ago I've learned not to worry and totally don't care about such assholes, fanatics, morons, pseudo-activists, "I know better about you than yourself people", and other scumbags like that. They are absolute waste of time, same as trying to explain them something that pretty obvious is. How was it? Oh I got.. "Don't touch shit because it stinks, and stay away from idiots!". Truly the golden one rule! Fuck them and that's it. 😁👍
plugged into "European union".... Russia is also partly in Europe....
Nice move, though, now how about a real trans EU power grid? It's more than annoying when some parts of the EU burn Energy from renewable sources into waste heat, whilst at the same moment, other parts fire up coal generators....
This is a monumental step for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania! Disconnecting from the Russian power grid and integrating into the EU energy market showcases resilience, unity, and strategic foresight. It’s a testament to the power of collaboration and long-term planning. A historic leap towards energy independence and a stronger, more unified Europe. 🇪🇺
Between Lithuania and Poland is a piece of Russia that isn't connected to the rest of Russia, to the East. How does that piece of Russia get its electricity, gas, water, telecommunications, etc.?
The Baltics now have more power backup and stability/resilience. That's good. BUT WHY we should celebrate a disconnection from Russia??? Can the EU Commission only think in terms of separation and no longer in terms of (future) togetherness? Russia IS and always WILL BE a neighbor! So we should find ways to live together in Peace - FROM BOTH SIDES! 🧐 😒
Which is actually based on the false claim, that such a continental grid would exist for the member states. All I can see is a dangerous political motivation against the best solution for all nations, free choice of shortest pipelines included. Or how do you explain a 5times high in energy costs for Germany? Any explanations?
Awesome, but from a redundancy perspective it would be good for #Latvia to have a direct power cable to a country outside of the Baltic’s. Maybe to Poland, Germany or Sweden.
@Aknorals I am sorry if I was unclear. All you said I also see.
I see the power cable going from Finland to Estonia. And from Sweden to Lithuania. There is no power cable going from Latvia to any other country - thus that was why I made my comment.
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania successfully synchronised their electricity systems with the Continental Europe Synchronous Area on 9 February 2025 at 14:05, meaning they are now permanently free of the former 'BRELL' network which also included aggre…
@dzedus Gahh, yes, the PSE in Poland is the main gateway. I know that. And thanks for the link. But it has nothing to do with where my thought was. I was talking about redundancy, such as back up systems.
The map used is showing the power cable between Finland & Estonia, and between Sweden and Lithuania. There are no power cables going to/from Latvia.
I think it would be good if each country had a back up system for power transfers.
This isn't "changing dependencies" as the Baltics also generate their own electricity, sometimes buying and sometimes selling on the regional energy market Nord Pool. This change just syncs the grids with the rest of the EU, meaning smoother transfers and a hopefully more varied and sustainable mix of electricity for both sides. Also a more stabile grid for the Baltics and one less thing Moscow can leverage against them.
Hey @Suheil_al_Hassan! The desynchronisation of the Baltic states from the Russian grid is expected to have minimal impact on electricity prices. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania stopped buying electricity from Russia and Belarus in 2022, so they have already reduced their reliance on power from these countries well in advance of the grid desynchronisation. What's new now is that they are officially disconnected from the Russian power grid, and have full control over their electricity systems.
And to combat another Kremlin propaganda talking point being parroted here: energy prices in the Baltics were around the EU average a year ago (I believe several years earlier as well) and will almost certainly continue to be in roughly the same correlation going forward.
The idea that being connected to the Russian grid (while not even buying from them) kept prices lower in the Baltics somehow is nonsense.
Interesting question: what now happens to the electricity grid in #Kaleningrad? It's obviously now isolated from the Russian grid, but this map shows it now isolated from the new #BalticStates grid, too.
Hey @Remittancegirl! We can’t send sunshine from Spain to the Baltics, but we can share the power of renewables! 🌞 The EU is investing in clean energy sources, and the Baltic countries have, for years, invested in alternatives to Russian fossil fuels. They aim for most of their energy to come from renewables. Lithuania, for example, aims for 100% renewable electricity by 2030. We see a shiny future ahead for the Baltics!
One of Mastodon's biggest barriers to entry is the Mastodon HOA, the massive volunteer army of scolds who take it upon themselves to tell strangers that they are doing it wrong. It's like you're waiting in line at... jwz.org/b/ykho
#AltText4Me or something similar can be a good way to recruit help if you aren’t able to do it yourself, there’s lots of people happy to step in now and then.
(ps many apps will auto transcribe text in photos)
it's strange that there are so many complaints about missing alt texts on Mastodon, but nobody seems to care about the many posts that don't have the right language setting.
I wish that gifs didn't have alt text on them, because you have to mouse over the gif to start it, and then alt text pops up OVER the gif I just moused over to start it playing. I find myself sneaking my cursor up on the bottom right of the gif so that I can activate it and not have it blocked by description text.
@tito_swineflu This is a consequence of the Mastodon web UI abusing the TITLE attribute by conflating it with ALT, in direct contravention of the standard. github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
Steps to reproduce the problem When I read my feed in the web interface, the mouse cursor must be in the feed column for the scroll wheel to work. This means that as I am scrolling, the mouse often...
@tito_swineflu The latest version on mastodon.social removes the title tag, in favor of a clickable alt label. So you no longer get the hover title. mastodon.social deploys pre-releases, so this change should presumably be coming to other servers soon, once it's released and your server admin updates.
i doubt this post will survive history as a "good take"
i too am annoyed by people telling me to tie my shoelaces, but i do it anyways, without complaint. because i hate complaints, so i don't wanna add to them. and bam: instant peace of mind. that's what i get out of it.
@lritter It looks to me like jwz put up a strawman (some "HOA") to then beat it because he doesn't like to receive criticism regarding some specific topic, in this case alt text.
There really is nothing to gain from interacting with someone who's just here to throw a temper tantrum (the last few sentences of jwz's post is a big red flag). This applies to everyone, including jwz.
One thing that also bugs me are people who complain that I’ve posted a paywalled link while doing nothing on their own to get around it. I don’t love paywalls, but I understand why they’re used. They are an unfortunate reality that we must deal with. And if you care enough to complain, you should probably also care enough to find your own way around them (it’s usually very easy). But not for some people. (1/2)
bruh what is that color scheme? neon green on black? do you want people not to read your article? are you trying desperately to stop people from reading your article?
@craig Initially it was because attaching an image mitigated the Mastodon Stampede DDoS somewhat. But when that turned out to be insufficient, I also realized that the screenshot was a better preview than whatever crap the server was going to construct out of the OpenGraph tags anyway.
Ars Technica was one hell of a honeypot for scolds for a while. It's better now but for a while every other post had someone complaining about everything from alt text on images to posting frequency to a picture of a spider to be visible.
A bigger question would be. What is really the function of the #Fediverse. Is it passive content consumption or curated passive content consumption. Or is it really for interaction of users? These knee jerk reaction from user in order to "control" what others say, do and think are really to ingrained in ourselves (Humans) and we will bring them everywhere we go.
@ParadeGrotesque oh thats so nice. I will ask my local library about this 😍
Schaut mal @stbibkoeln , wäre diese mobile Hängematte n Bibliothek nicht was für euren Fuhrpark? Ich würde auch mal fahren, dass würde sich sich ganz gut in mein Ehrenamt bei Radeln ohne Alter einreihen 😇
Aaron war ein toller Mensch, und er hätte viel für die Menscheit tuen können. Ich sehe es als globale Sünde, das man ihn in den Selbstmord getrieben hatt. ❤️ 🙏
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I'm fairly sure it's okay. It's been there on various channels for a long time. It's also prly more important to have the story told than to optimize monetization.
Thanks! I'd never seen that. This particular link has some audio censorship shenanigans due to the mention of "suicide" toward the end, but I was able to find another YT link that doesn't edit it out. youtube.com/watch?v=9vz06QO3Uk…
This is the FULL MOVIE! - The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Sw...
The Internet's Own Boy depicts the life of American computer programmer, writer, political organizer and Internet activist Aaron Swartz. It features interviews...
Best is that Aaron Swartz merely downloaded, and in a way that should be entirely legal. Meanwhile Meta/Facebook definitely illegally downloaded it all *and* then made a derivative product out of it.
Happy to see truth getting out. I did warn people back, then that it was piracy to download, but nobody listen to me. Sometimes greed overtakes our mental capacity to be rational. Case in point #ZuckTheSchmuck #Muskrat #Bezos #LarryPage #SergeyBrin
What??? If I remember correctly, sex offenders and other criminals often get less years than what that poor man got. Just for downloading articles? This is deeply cruel...
There exists a group photo of Aaron Swarz and Zuckerberg at MIT. Same story, different intents, different outcomes. Sadly not the good intention had the better outcome. Edit: It was Sam Altman. But the point still remains. mamutovo.cz/@Razemix/113978218…
That is the world we live in. The state is the henchman of big capital and will utterly destroy any ordinary citizen who is deemed a threat to the income of big capital. A very educational film on that matter.
Among other things, he co-authored RSS at 14, cocreated Open Library and Reddit, was influential in Creative Commons, and founded Demand Progress. All of this in his too-short twenty-six years on this planet.
Aaron Hillel Swartz, may his memory be for a blessing.
I’m not sure why you would say it’s illegal. Anna’s makes everything open for downloading and opposes copyright. The authors of those works could object but they would also very much object to Anna’s having “illegal “ copies and making them available outside of any protection.
Oh… THAT’S what Meta did (I had read random comments online, but wasn’t sure what they did and then got distracted by the avalanche of news coming at me.)
And isn't the result kinda...pathetic? You steal one of the largest libraries, an inconceivable amount of human knowledge, brilliant ideas, beautiful art and make... this? A digital parrot that is often wrong, but when it's right, it's kinda good?
Makes you wonder about the utility of IP a little... if corporations disregard others' IP (ie. Everything on the Internet) then perhaps we do away with IP altogether. Or greatly reduce copyright protections in favor of copyleft perhaps.
Meta a téléchargé illégalement plus de 80 téraoctets de livres de LibGen, Anna's Archive et Z-library pour entraîner ses modèles Al. En 2010, Aaron Swartz n'a téléchargé que 70 Go d'articles de JSTOR (0,0875 % de Meta). Il risquait une amende d'un million de dollars et 35 ans de prison. Il s'est suicidé en 2013.
yup that is a tragic story. and Aaron helped inventing great things like Rss feeds, and did not published the downloaded articles, and was not helped by his university to counter the harassment from elsevier. v_v
Asymmetric enforcement of property rights is absolutely not a mistake. It's core to how capitalist competition functions. zirk.us/@MidniteMikeWrites/113…
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A lot of people view the cruelty of capitalism as just a straight forward consequence of market incentives: profit maximization, arbitrage of information asymmetry, etc.
The purpose entirely different. Aaron wanted the knowledge to be free to be used for furthering human intellectual advancement and enrichment. AI is going to replace and never credit the ownership of anything. No citing of sources, no scholarly notations, just amalgam of secretive manufactured output inevitable owned by someone.
I've got a few hundred gigabytes of pirated PDFs and EPUBs lying around, more than half of that scientific publications, mostly due to that fact that those are full of images. The sheer number of files in the fictional literature directories is larger by several orders of magnitude, but since pure text compresses down to next to nothing, the entire Dune series, J R R Tolkien's collected works, even the entire Discworld series, all take up no more than a few megabytes each, while a single scientific book is often more than 100MB due to all those images. PDFs about biology are often larger than those about Physics because there are more high resolution photographs and much fewer simple vector graphics. So the sheer data volume doesn't tell us much about how many pieces of text we're dealing with, how many papers, magazines, books. It could be huge libraries of fiction, history, politics, or philosophy, or it could be just a few books on botany or zoology with a lot of HR photographs.
@pluto In a way. The post honours Aaron Swartz memory I get it. Part of his work as an activist was to make what he considered to be Digital commons to be publicly available. He was, I think, against the system of enclosure and privatization of the commons that characterizes capitalism . I was agreeing with a previous comment, expanding it to the most cruel forms of capitalism. Maybe a bit far from the original post, but in a continuum in my estimation.
How many of the people agreeing to that it's a outrage are still using Meta? How many are still using Meta and simply ignored all the previous violations the company performed?
Bigots.
Btw, the thread's discussion is maily about Aaron, which is not the main topic. See how fast people get distracted.
It's about Meta's THEFT and copyright violation, not about Aaron (RIP)!
meta being a leecher on Anna's Archive is meta not only being above the law, but also the worst kind of pirate, using a ton of bandwidth, causing cost, but for no good reason. a bad actor, in every senses that word can have, for everyone except itself
I want my blog to show tags, but I know my default would just be keyword stuffing the tags. So I was wodne if folks had a standard set of tags that they consistently use on their blogs
Soooo when we set this in comparison and scale it up according to the theft of intellectual property what Meta did for training it's Algorithms, how many Billions would that be? 🙄😁 @oliver
The #Tesla CyberTruck is 17 times more likely to have a fire fatality than a Ford Pinto, which was famously flawed with a gas tank behind the rear bumper that would explode in rear-end collisions.
We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities.
By the way, the Pinto gets a bad rap. I've owned two of them, never exploded. Only the Station wagon version ever "exploded" IIRC, and who would buy a Pinto station wagon. Anyway, they are sure better than Swasticars and Trucks.
@jab01701mid Well, there was a well-recognized design flaw in several years' models. I, too, owned a Pinto. (If I recall, it was a 1980, the year they changed the design), and I liked the car.
tl;dr I did review the Pinto case details. I still contend the Pinto got a bad rap. For one thing, if you are in a stalled Pinto on a freeway, and are rear-ended by a bigger Ford Galaxy, it's not going to turn out well. I also believe that people would have still bought Pinto models if Ford had disclosed "This could have been safer, but we didn't choose to do that. gas tank behind axle is not best-practice. Rear end beware". But safety standards do reduce risk, as you know !
@jab01701mid I had a friend in high school who had one of the old “exploding” pinto models. It had the added feature of having a hole rusted through the backseat floor board so when he drove through corn fields dirt would fly in.
@jab01701mid I had a '72 Pinto (in 1985-1988). It had a hole under the driver's side floor mat, and more holes under the seat itself. I once soaked myself and all my high school friends, hitting a puddle at 30 mph. I also nearly wrecked it avoiding a raccoon in the road, because I knew it would come up through the floor either in pieces or very angry.
The passenger seat adjuster was broken, so the seat just rolled forward a bit when I stopped, and back again when I accelerated. Luckily, the adjustment wheels were rusted, so it didn't roll quickly, but it was known as The Ejector Seat, and I got very good at easing up to stop signs. The Pinto did have seatbelts, but that was pretty much the only safety feature. It was clear that, in an accident, the only thing the Pinto would bring to the table was an added risk of tetanus.
My rule of thumb was to drive fast enough to never be rear-ended. And that thing could go, too, shedding rust flakes and small nonessential parts all up and down I-95.
@Andres4NY So many things feel like metaphors these days.
Amusingly, this car had previously been an Official Government Vehicle. A family member had been mayor of our town, and city officials insisted he have a "city car". He thought this was dumb and wasteful, and authorized the purchase of the cheapest thing he could find. I'm not 100% sure why he still had it, but I think the same officials who insisted he get it insisted he take it with him.
@Andres4NY @Michigander @eedly You guys are making me cry, I was going for Kenny G. 😎 🎷 No seriously EVH or Jimmy are high compliments for a wannabe guitarist and Pinto mechanic.
having owned & driven the car that inspired/created Ralph Nader (Corvairs were “unsafe at any speed”), I hope they expand their research! I’d love to see the data comparison.
@maccruiskeen there are lots of EV's on the road in Britain, and some are inevitably crashed. There was a high speed collision of a German EV in Western England recently (in which the son of a friend of a friend was killed). Police are still investigating the causes, but what was apparent from the released pictures is the EV batteries did *not* catch on fire. (the Cybertruck is prohibited here, it does not comply to UK or European safety regulations in its present form).
We lately seem to get inured to statistical information. I mean even "17% more likely to kill you by fire than a Pinto" should be a frightening risk in a modern car, and notable news.
But here they're talking 1700%. Yet somehow in this 'modern' reality that's not grounds to pull it off the road.
»A new analysis by independent automotive blog FuelArc suggests that fire fatalities are 17 times more likely in a Cybertruck than in the infamous Ford Pinto — the posterchild of deadly cars if ever there was one.«
Not a tesla defender but I read the article and this is based on two (2) crashes + Las Vegas and that’s just not enough data to be statistically significant. I still wouldn’t ride in one!
Ford knew ahead of time how dangerous the Pinto was. Ford did a cost benefit analysis, found that the company could still make a profit by releasing the Pinto, and did so. Elon Musk's "brother from another mother".
maybe it's by design if fascist Musk wants an army of autonomous weaponized trucks that catch on fire which is difficult to extinguish. It could also explain why he wanted it to be bullet proof for small calibers.
I really want to see some consequences for Elon Musk, but unfortunately, the rich are above the law. Maybe another Luigi will take him out. One can only hope.
My first car was a bright green 71 Pinto. I’m tempted to say the Cybertruck would look better in this color, but then it would look even more like a dumpster.
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There is one that drives around my neighbourhood. The problem is, every time I see it, I can only think of it as a truck trying to look like a utility, but having zero utility functions.
It's pretty useless, other than as a really expensive way to get around. And now apparently, a frikken death trap lol...
Is there a particular spot on the Garbagetruck's rear that, when struck, has a greater chance of causing an explosion? Asking for a friend. <evil grin>
I read the article on #Cybertruck explosions at fuelarc.com/evs/its-official-t… and left a comment because I figured maybe some positive feedback would be a good thing. The reply: "Got your note - glad you survived your Ford Pinto! I'm reading through a pile of death threats and hate mail from Tesla investors and their associated bots, pleased me to hear from you."
Maybe #Fediverse can show 'em what real humans are like.
We now have a full year of data for the Cybertruck, and a strange preponderance of headlines about Cybertrucks exploding into flames, including several fatalities.
@robcornelius For each adversary the most appropriate weapon. One of the most appropriate for this particular one is mockery, because his skin is so thin. But please, do tell what you've been doing?
to be said with an accent hereby defined as "Whatever makes that sound like supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, or vice versa" (if that's even possible...)
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In the early days of the AIDS pandemic, there was a group of attorneys who would sue the government to ensure that people would get AZT, which was the only treatment at the time. At the protests, people would carry signs that read...
You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device?
If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same - scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy".
You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps.
The system definitely scans photos for nudity already. Today they claim the feature only runs on certain apps but as we've seen with Apple and various world governments there's a major tendency for these sorts of features to creep into all of your content whether that's what Google intended in their first release or not.
Neither this app or the Google Messages app using it are part of GrapheneOS and neither will be, but GrapheneOS users can choose to install and use both. Google Messages still works without the new app.
Neither this app or the Google Messages app using it are part of GrapheneOS and neither will be, but GrapheneOS users can choose to install and use both. Google Messages still works without the new app.
The system definitely scans photos for nudity already. Today they claim the feature only runs on certain apps but as we've seen with Apple and various world governments there's a major tendency for these sorts of features to creep into all of your content whether that's what Google intended in their first release or not.
A few folks are questioning if AI scanning like what Android is doing can be missused. The last time a similar feature was coming to Apple's iOS the media rightly described it as an extremely dangerous warrantless surveillance tool.
Regardless of what Android developers intended this client side scanner to do it will be enlisted by governments of the world to spy on you and break strong encryption.
@nazokiyoubinbou it's disabled by default if you're over 18, specifically a google messages feature, and very explicitly does not send any data to google including whether or not there was a flag
went and checked what it did. Scan every image as stated suppose to be to "blur" obscene" images who decides that? Oh they do it also would destroy evidence if some one is sending unsolicited nudes
I'm currently on the below version (I do have an update pending), and don't have the app. I'll update and let you know if I have it or not. Do we know what the affected versions are?
To me it's not clear what this app does, in particular if it sends data back somewhere. That is the problem. That an OS regularly installs new components seems normal.
So once again, people complain about the wrong issues, and I feel this doesn't help, even if it is popular. It doesn't help, because Google can now say, all these complaints have nothing to do with reality, which is not wrong. But instead we should ask for more transparent and easily accessible info.
And I'm not saying this App is harmless. I just seem to have difficulties finding info about it.
@GrapheneOS honestly i can't imagine a group that has more direct knowledge of this while still being directly antagonistic to google that i would want to hear more from about what this is/how this works, if you had the time
@jonny @GrapheneOS i've been forwarding people to this post to tell them we probably don't need to sound the alarm but would love to have something more specific to point to regarding what this added module does
It's tiring going through endless news cycles of fake privacy and security threats and we don't really have the energy to deal with it more than that.
We're dealing with ongoing attacks on GrapheneOS on X by several different charlatans/scammers and we've been focused on dealing with that rather than writing about something like this. Threw together a quick thread about what it is though.
Neither this app or the Google Messages app using it are part of GrapheneOS and neither will be, but GrapheneOS users can choose to install and use both. Google Messages still works without the new app.
"The app doesn't provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc."
Forgive me if I'm not understanding correctly, but to clarify:
That statement could be misconstrued to suggest that "on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content" is different and distinct from "client-side scanning". To clarify, those're two ways of saying the same thing, with one being more specific. Do you really intend to just point out that it doesn't report things to Google or anyone else by default, and/or that the "client side scanning" is a scan-on-request thing, and not a let's-scan-the-whole-device-by-default thing?
What's stopping any app from using the output of the "on-device machine learning models" to report to third parties?
@AnachronistJohn @hipsterelectron @jonny We're pointing out neither this app or Google Messages is using it to report something. It's also not scanning for illegal content. Apps also don't need this app to use local ML models. It only provides certain already made models. Apps have always been able to run local classifiers and can use hardware acceleration for it, which has been there for many years. It's not something which just showed up recently with the recent AI craze.
@AnachronistJohn @hipsterelectron @jonny People are using the term client side scanning to refer to doing content scanning for a service on the client side and reporting to the service. That's not what this is doing. This also doesn't somehow enable that in a way that wasn't already doable by any apps wanting to do it. It's a specific implementation of detecting certain kinds of content used by Google Messages for local warnings and blurring with a dialog to bypass it.
People shouldn't delete things like this from their phone based on random (and it seems disputed) social media posts. This is the slightly smarter equivalent of "delete System32"
Did you read through linked Google's documentation? It corroborates the post - mentioned app that is installed invisibly without any warning or consent does scan for nudes.
@gytisrepecka If you read the rest of the thread there are *loads* of caveats to that. My point is don't delete things with names like "system safety core" because you saw a viral social media post.
I'm not sure if that app specifically scans photos, AFAIK it only scans for malicious apps- although if they broadened the scope that wouldn't be surprising to me either.
I however do know that the EU and USA both mandate running CSAM scanners on any cloud platform, so if you upload anything to Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, iCloud, etc, you will definitely get screened for CSAM and alike. As much as I hate that, the only way around that is to run your own infra from scratch.
People echo #Google too much in this thread. Even if it's only for Google Messenger, people shouldn't use Google Messenger as well. 🤷🏻♀️ I removed it. Thank you for the heads up.
yeah! it has almost no info in the app store? Ot promises both that it is not collecting data and not sharing with third parties, but the only description is: "Provides safety features for Android devices. Android System SafetyCore is a system service that provides safety features for Android devices." and on the phone it mentioned "content moderation" and other features
Exactly. Right at a time when SMS(RCS) end-to-end security is improving isn't it odd that suddenly there's so much helpful client side AI that wants to read your messages. 🤔
Is -accidently- sending a nude really this big of a problem that ALL android users need this feature turned on by default without warning over night?
@leo @nazokiyoubinbou then why is it installing itself? 'we don't do anything, we just LOOK' does not make me any happier to have a Peeping Tom invite themselves into my garden.
I'm not disagreeing with the info you're sharing, and thank you for it, it just feels like it's maybe not the whole story.
the amount of copium in these replies is staggering. YO that computer in your pocket with an OS you cant modify and dont control wants to spy on you. This should not be news to anyone.
It looks like this app was released a few months ago. Here is a video I found explaining how it blurs pictures and how this will eventually be a part of the messenger app as well. youtube.com/watch?v=1rdlTveD8F…
I found many reviews on Google Play complaining about this app just being installed without notice but that it can be deleted. At least for now. A humorous review said Gemini told them the app was unsafe and to delete it, so they did.
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@paperpad @tokensane @TheMNWolf then I will share it and let everyone know. In the meantime I will keep exploring alternatives to Google's Android to be ready for what to recommend to people.
Neither this app or the Google Messages app using it are part of GrapheneOS and neither will be, but GrapheneOS users can choose to install and use both. Google Messages still works without the new app.
Neither this app or the Google Messages app using it are part of GrapheneOS and neither will be, but GrapheneOS users can choose to install and use both. Google Messages still works without the new app.
Neither this app or the Google Messages app using it are part of GrapheneOS and neither will be, but GrapheneOS users can choose to install and use both. Google Messages still works without the new app.
@Infrapink @karpour The way Graphene handled releasing this feature (opt in, not installed by default, thorough risk analysis) is exactly the opposite of how Android released it(opt-out, installed OTA by default, limited explaintion)
While I agree with the Graphene team's analysis(client side AI can work in the user's best interest, some people might want & like this one) I think the style of rollout on Android alone is enough for many privacy minded folks to not trust this new feature
Honestly at this point we should just function under the assumption that any internet connected device, especially smartphones, is going to do something like this. If it's not doing it already.
It also wouldn't shock me if just removing them wasn't enough, as I'm assuming they'll reinstall themselves.
> These APKs power the Sensitive Content Warnings and cryptographic key verification feature **in Google Messages** respectively. The transparency log we published to verify the claims that we make with regards to these APKs.
I have just read through the 59 replies to this post, and, as a tech "normie," I'm not quite sure what to think. But I'm glad I now know something about it.
The trade in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online is growing -- more than 65 million images were reported last year alone. Android is the most popular personal device OS that doesn’t find and report these heinous images.
You remember #Apple scanning all images on your #mobile device? If you have an #Android #phone, a new app that doesn't appear in your menu has been automatically and silently installed (or soon will be) by #Google. It is called #AndroidSystemSafetyCore and does exactly the same -scan all images on your device as well as all incoming ones (via messaging). The new spin is that it does so "to protect your #privacy". You can uninstall this app safely via System -> Apps. @KainEAhnung
@leo @nazokiyoubinbou "[..]doesn’t allow Google access to the contents of your images, nor does Google know that nudity may have been detected[..]" does not mean that somebody else, not Google, will not receive or screen that data. The wording of this paragraph is very specific and we should not paraphrase this.
@hyperbolix @leo @nazokiyoubinbou it does also say: > All of this happens on-device to protect your privacy and keep end-to-end encrypted message content private to only sender and recipient. which i think would imply it doesn't get sent to someone else either? it sounds like they're using an on device machine learning model to classify images then only use that result locally
@m04 @leo @nazokiyoubinbou I'm sorry but this refers only to the recognition process. It is absolutely unclear how the recognition actually works and where the data or procedure comes from, that is used for this purpose and what happens with data, that is not explicitly mentioned in this text.
It is once again time to give thanks to Brian Fox, the Black American programmer that has given us BASH and echo! Thank you for your INCREDIBLE contributions to open source software, Unix, and Linux. It literally would not be the same without you. BASH is still absolutely foundational to all computing today. Happy Black History Month to an absolute icon!
We saw a swastitruck earlier today. The usual dull stainless steel (SS) color had been turned a dull dark olive green. It looked like a drivable helmet.
@violetmadder @GhostOnTheHalfShell We also live in an area with a very large number of Teslas. Most are driven by people concerned about the environment who were early EV adopters before knowing what Musk was. The regular Tesla sedans are one of the more affordable EVs on the market, surprisingly. I sure wouldn’t buy one now, but dumping a perfectly good, already purchased car isn’t a good choice for the environment. Just saying.
@troy Oh dear ... I did not know that. I got a Model 3 in 2010 and I named it "Snowflake Warrior" -- kind of a combo of Social Justic Warrioer and Snowflake. So I guess I am on Elon's hit list.
@ChrisWellens @troy Every time I see a Tesla of any model I can only think of Musk’s Nazi salute and I assume the driver is a Trump-voting fascist. Sorry to break it to you.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell I think "deplorian" and "wankpanzer" are more generic terms for the unnecessarily large vehicles that so many people drive these days.
Not going to comment on weak minds or small penises, I'm sure some people really need them, have their own plans for coping with the impending doom of climate change, and drive extra carefully to avoid the carnage that others with similar vehicles cause to other road users and pedestrians.
"Swasticar" and "swastitruck" I feel should be reserved for vehicles made by actual nazis such as Elon Musk.
@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Drop Bear @David Penfold hahaha I once had a friend from Australia and one from Texas. They would tease each other about drop bears and all sorts of non-existant things. I found it hilarious!
¹ At least those from Bavaria. ² linke-t-shirts.de/25mm-button/… Edit: This is the Button. The sticker is out of stock. I'm not affiliated with them in any way.
Here is the Cybertruck font for those looking to add more customization. You will have to adjust the kearning (spacing between the letters) to your liking but i figured thats not too much to deal...
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Thousands of people protesting mass deportations planned by President Donald Trump marched in Southern California, including in downtown Los Angeles where demonstrators blocked a major freeway.
an unelected billionaire storming into US agencies, installing his unqualified and unapproved lackeys, purging civil servants, seizing access to sensitive data and payments, unilaterally eliminating federal agencies: fine
@dnddeutsch Calm down, friends, in a real rotten state ransacked by some fascist militia you'd never be told in advance that they'll come for you, even less so would the gangster in chief in person be the one to tell you.
Honesty, both are wrong. Naming private individuals publicly is just as wrong as giving access to someone like Muck. The ones who have to be hold accountable are the once agreeing to it in the first place. All of this is giving me the ick.
Edit ot add: In Bulgaria we had a very nasty anty LGBTQ law managed to pass in schools and there are a list of teachers signing a petition against it. The petition and the names are technically public. The farthest right wing party posted a "black-list" of those teachers to their far right audience and excused themselves saying it's public information. There was harassment, there were dead threats. It was a mess. Do you see now why technicality means nothing in these situations? Wrong is wrong, morally wrong. Is it technically a crime as per Musky suggestion - probably not but still not a move I can support.
Second edit: I'm absolutely not against information being public as I wasn't against the petition being public. But it's one thing having it avaliable to whoever decides to purposely look for it and a whole other thing to p
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Honesty, both are wrong. Naming private individuals publicly is just as wrong as giving access to someone like Muck. The ones who have to be hold accountable are the once agreeing to it in the first place. All of this is giving me the ick.
Edit ot add: In Bulgaria we had a very nasty anty LGBTQ law managed to pass in schools and there are a list of teachers signing a petition against it. The petition and the names are technically public. The farthest right wing party posted a "black-list" of those teachers to their far right audience and excused themselves saying it's public information. There was harassment, there were dead threats. It was a mess. Do you see now why technicality means nothing in these situations? Wrong is wrong, morally wrong. Is it technically a crime as per Musky suggestion - probably not but still not a move I can support.
Second edit: I'm absolutely not against information being public as I wasn't against the petition being public. But it's one thing having it avaliable to whoever decides to purposely look for it and a whole other thing to post it as a sort of black-list to an angry crowd on the other side of the political spectrum as some sort of silent punishment -esque move.
@mwguy They are workers. They are not the decisions makers (in my understanding). They are stupid college kids ffs, they are working for an asshole but they are not the actual issue here.
I'm sorry, since when has saying "a worker named X is doing this job" ever even been an issue? The names of teachers at a school is a matter of public record, and they're just workers. These aren't spies undercover, CIA agents. It's just some people's names.
@jimbob @mwguy In Bulgaria we had a very nasty anty LGBTQ law managed to pass in schools and there are a list of teachers signing a petition against it. The petition and the names are technically public. The farthest right wing party posted a "black-list" of those teachers to their far right audience and excused themselves saying it's public information. It was a mess. Do you see now why technicality means nothing in these situations? Wrong is wrong, morally wrong. Is it technically a crime as per Musky suggestion - probably not but still not a move I can support.
I would say, keep the conversation to the problem, to the action itself, in a open enough manner that you get to outside individuals. Increase the understanging to the problem itself, tackle the problem with enough people against it and then go about the individuals. What's the use now? Flashing the names to an already very liberal crowd that already knows it's a problem, that also just wasn't big enough to prevent it in November. Face the facts, the same size crowd won't be enough now ether. So the mission is an open conversation (not a "hahah stupid republicans", it achieves nothing) about the problematic nature of the actions itself, so you increase the crowd in your corner. You might say that people who elected a felon are a lost couse but let's be real, there is not any other option than to change their mind for a success. And also, those have been some of the same individuals who have elected Obama with a huge majority so the situation is not as simple as (elected Trump = love nazi) as people like to make it be to wash their hands of the unsuccessful liberal compain. And after... show more
I would say, keep the conversation to the problem, to the action itself, in a open enough manner that you get to outside individuals. Increase the understanging to the problem itself, tackle the problem with enough people against it and then go about the individuals. What's the use now? Flashing the names to an already very liberal crowd that already knows it's a problem, that also just wasn't big enough to prevent it in November. Face the facts, the same size crowd won't be enough now ether. So the mission is an open conversation (not a "hahah stupid republicans", it achieves nothing) about the problematic nature of the actions itself, so you increase the crowd in your corner. You might say that people who elected a felon are a lost couse but let's be real, there is not any other option than to change their mind for a success. And also, those have been some of the same individuals who have elected Obama with a huge majority so the situation is not as simple as (elected Trump = love nazi) as people like to make it be to wash their hands of the unsuccessful liberal compain. And after all, every individual, good or bad, is very protective of their money, so if they're welcomed to the conversation, they might be of use to the current issue, even if they are horrible with any other issue.
@mayaisloading You're getting sidetracked by circumstance.
There is a basic right in a democracy for transparency. How you feel it is being used is completely irrelevant. That right allows for accountability and must be upheld.
Accountability is even more important when the individuals being named are a direct threat to the democracy.
And hey, just because you and I can't do anything about these guys doesn't mean no one can.
@solitha @jimbob @mwguy It's pretty relevant if it's shown as ineffective and it's shown as ineffective because good part of the compain against Trump was repeating his charges and crimes and that didn't do shit.
@solitha @jimbob @mwguy The point of my comment clearly is "change the strategy to something more useful" not "scrap laws". But I guess it's easier to do the same thing over again and afterwords cry about it leading to no better result.
@mayaisloading I'm afraid your point wasn't really clear at all.
You came into the thread complaining to multiple people about naming these guys who are actively and illegally working to undermine our nation. Naming them offended your sensibility.
We are in a constitutional crisis and unless you are going to actually submit some of those more useful strategies you mention, maybe don't pull down others who are doing what they can to inform.
@solitha @mayaisloading @mwguy I think my main concern is the idea that these guys are just *innocent workers*, like they all just applied for a government job and happened to end up working for Elon's wrecking crew. They were hand picked, they are ideological, the correct term for them is not "worker", it's "collaborator".
@jimbob @solitha @mwguy I mean they might be handpicked because of their knowledge or because of their ignorance. The second is also a possible strategy. I don't like assumptions.
But the point is, if they just disappear into thin air tomorrow, half an hour later there would be a new team assembled. Nothing would change. But if Trump or Musk disappear, everything would change. So any strategy against the tech guys is basically fruitless at this stage in particular and not worth moving the focuse from the core issue. On top of the lack of morals I see behind black lists.
@mayaisloading They are Elon loyalists. They've worked for him before.
And we know that because they've been IDENTIFIED PUBLICLY so that people could look up their backgrounds.
As @jimbob says, they are collaborators. Co-conspirators. Acting illegally and knowingly.
While it would be utterly delightful for Trump/Musk to "disappear" as you say, the odds of that happening are nil. But naming and shaming might keep other script kiddies from stepping up.
@solitha @jimbob @mwguy Being a Musk fanboy is not a crime in itself, believe it or not. And yes, the intimidating strategy is exactly what I have problem with.
I literally listed a paragraph of more useful strategy to a comment of yours. And you chose to address none of it. And now you act dumbfounded as if I just said nothing works and suggested no alternative. Nah, I didn't suggest a detailed (for a social media comment) alternatives I believe to be much more fruitful.
Also, I don't know what "complaining to multiple people" suppose to mean. I came into the thread, I presented a different viewpoint, which apparently doesn't happen much on social media echo chambers unfortunately. Than I proceeded to answer the comments that popped under my original comment. I'm not like picking people from the thread who didn't interacted to me..?
Lastly, naming them didn't "offend my sensibility", it reminded me of this approach being used to scare and silence people into obedience to a very discriminatory law. Which is apparently the second thing you have failed to read before making the points in your comment.
If you mean the really long one? It was vague and more than a little difficult to comprehend, I'm afraid. I took what I could out of it, and addressed what I thought was important and understood well enough.
I'm not trying to be mean; I gather you're not a native English speaker? And perhaps there's a bit of a language barrier.
@solitha @jimbob @mwguy Do you not understand the concept of open discussion and that doesn't alienate people outside your immediate political view, so you have any chance of moving their views in your direction? 🤔
I also understand we're about to lose OUR WHOLE FREAKING COUNTRY and do immense damage to the world economy and maybe the time for singing Kumbaya is not now.
I am not interested in us making friendly gestures towards people who would like to jump in and help destroy us.
Triage. We need to stop the damage before trying to repair.
you think it will be a minority if the treasury goes down? I don’t.
As far as normalizing this approach? MIS-use of a thing is a problem. But that doesn't mean the thing is the problem. Your Bulgarian teachers? That's a societal problem.
@solitha @jimbob @mwguy If it goes down, it's kinda too late, don't you think?
Yeah, of course, our far right were so pround of themselves they are using this intimidation strategy to "protect our children". Such pure intentions, such a nobel use!
@mayaisloading I hear they are pushing new code directly into production, which means it could go down at any given moment.
Honestly, it feels like you're indulging in magical thinking. We cannot rely on Trump or Musk just "disappearing" and in Trump's case it wouldn't matter. We cannot just talk this out against decades of propaganda.
@mayaisloading Okay, you're editing posts to be longer and longer and I don't have the character limit you do.
"Complaining to multiple people" means I am bad at following threading. Apologies.
Re: "offending your sensibilities"... you're worried these poor innocent kids might get in trouble. But naming them allowed us to see they are not, actually, poor innocent kids. They know what kind of person they're working for, and they very likely know they are acting illegally.
@solitha Sorry, didn't know charecters limit is an issue. I'm not that concerned about them in particular, more about normalizing this approach makes it into a good weapon towards other people (for example the ones protesting the law) and being justified by "well, you did it first".
there's even a concept of citizen's arrest in many countries, including USA; these kids are committing a crime. If a private citizen (usually this just means literally anyone, the citizenship doesn't matter) arrests, leave alone names, any of them, it would be perfectly legal.
Crimes only matter if significant enough portion of the people understand they are crimes. Work on increasing this, the rest is counter productive.
If tomorrow more than half of the world decides murder is not a crime, you can scream the names of murderers to your less than half of the world echo chamber all you want and you will achieve nothing. Trying to shut my points with technicality is precisely why this has even been allowed to happen in November. Because instead of a welcoming open conversation, the liberals are crying "nazis" in the liberals echo chembers and basically change the opinion to no one. Then when the vote was clear, it was such a surprise because one could have never guessed it from the highly liberal echo chamber. And it's very unfortunate turn of events. But yeah, by any means, continue doing the same mistake over and over again.
@dimpase @jaxroam @mwguy Well, guess what, republicans kinda of tried it 4 years ago and failed miserably. Why? Because they significantly overestimated the number of people willing to do it. We get to the same point you need enough number of people in your corner.
@mayaisloading home country? oh well, not everyone really has one. Our home "country" can be perhaps described, qua our passports, as European Union, at best; the only EU language everyone in the family speaks is English. We relocated from UK, where medical services didn't provide our not very healthy son adequate care (any idea how inadequately treated epilepsy looks like?), and schools were routinely excluding him. At least the latter two things are much better here in Illinois, believe it or not.
H1-B visa is a standard temporary employment US visa.
@jaxroam @mayaisloading Historically following order has been an incredibly effective defense for committing crimes. It's really only in WW2 that people following orders were punished en-mass for their crimes.
@mwguy @jaxroam You need enough people to belive it's a crime to punish anyone and at the moment you don't as it was shown in November, so I don't see how this would result it a success at this moment.
@mayaisloading On the contrary they're replacing multiple public figures. They're not just some desk jockey; they're making editorial decisions for the Administration.
@mayaisloading hi Maya, do you think that they do not understand what they have agreed to be the instruments of?
I suppose they know perfectly well what they are doing, and do not care at all that it is illegal because they are aware that once there is no democratic administration, they will never face any consequences. I would not absolve them of their responsibility.
I think people agreeing to dismantle a country under a fascist are the issue.
@ilookloud I don't know (not think, I'm not gonna pretend I can see what they think) if they understand what they are doing is wrong. Honestly, I don't even know if they have thought about checking the legality but even if they have, I'm not gonna assume they are acting with malice. The ones to know both the legality, morality and logistics are the ones elected and presumably "knowledgeable" of politics, finances and logistics. There's noting good coming out of assuming what's in people mind. And it's pretty bold to assume with such certainty a bunch of fresh from college teck guys know shit about running the country.
@mayaisloading we clearly have different perspectives and levels of faith in humankind.
I see these men as complicit in a coup. If they do not care to check if their actions are criminal, that's less important. "I didn't know it is a crime" is not really a defense, and here we're not talking public consumption of alcohol, or advocating for a repressed minority, but dismantling a country. It's serious and deserves public outcry.
@ilookloud Thank you for the "agree to disagree" aproach. Just wahted to clear I'm not against a public outcry here, it's needed, I just disagree with the way it's done.
@sheislaurence @toriver I would say, keep a known database with government figures that everyone could access if they want to, don't just flash them to a social media angry crowd that has a good amount of toxic individual in any side of the molitical spectrum, focus on the ones enabling the actions, rather than the ones doing the "diry work" because without being enabled it wouldn't have happend and also strongly focus on the action itself and why it is the wrong choice not in a "us vs them" manner but in a more open conversation manner so it could actually get to much more people and not just the once who already know it's wrong and a problem. That's my 2 cents, that's how I would try tackling a similar situation. It's not perfect but I believe it's at least a tiny bit more effective than mockery and silent intimidation to a handful of collage kids.
@mayaisloading I don't see how these are the same things. The teachers in your example were signing a petition protesting a law and were singled out for that.
These guys are *committing crimes* against the government and people.ot.the US. They may even be stealing from us. So they need to be identified publicly to make sure that that can be held accountable for any and all crimes they commit or abet.
Ok, I might misunderstand the situation 'cause I'm not following closely at all but isn't it basically Trump creating a new government agency with Musky who is given the power to bring whoever he find fitting? (I'm not saying any involvement in Musk or another billionaire with no political experience is ever a right option but if that's the case, it's not a crime, it's dumb governance, or if it's a crime /I don't know the US legal system/ it is a crime from Trump, not from random tech guys brought for the job)
Btw, the far right said also they are outing the teachers because "those teachers are threatening to break the law and families should protect their children from them and ask the schools from explanation". I'm not saying they are right in the slightest but using this argument enables the far right of saying it through their prism and using it to promote hate and alienation so I feel it's just a shaky ground to step onto. Information has to be public but listing individuals on social media is a different step. Information could be public without this too.
@mayaisloading You are close but not quite there yet. There is no official government agency. Musk has been given carte blanche control over federal information technology systems, even though he is not a federal employee, has not been approved by any government entity, and does not hold the requisite security clearances for 99% of what he's doing.
@aerofreak @Ehay2k Because the conversation is kept to a very closed liberal crowd who already knew it's a problem and are using the time to mock a bunch of college students and silently intimidate them instead of making an open conversation about why the action is problematic and getting more people on their side. The same crowd who hasn't been enough to prevent it in November and wouldn't be enough by doing the same thing that was done then - laughing among themselves how stupid the republicans are and alienating instead of educating anyone who dares to get to the liberal part of the internet with not "liberal enough" opinion. Great PR, guys.
Transparency might be a helpful tool if the political system is still intact with checks and balances. Without those it becomes a violent way for the powerful to show themselves being untouchable. A forceful way to say "resistance is futile".
The fact that he is financially dependent on china and has un-monitored phone calls with Putin obviously should have no bearing on this. I am certain that any US government employee applying for a security clearance while receiving massive payments from China would be cleared without any problems.
On the other hand, Musk and Thiel do make Trump's statements that emigrants are destroying our country more plausible.
Great so when is Elon releasing his tax records and that of all of his companies to the public as a gesture of good faith and all his companies government contracts.
That would be the only consistent rule they can muster: Whatever they do is fine, and whatever everyone else does, that even just barely annoys them is straight up treason.
I know that sincere facts are not the point but actually the climate advisor to HUD should be figuring out how to account for climate change (which we agree is real; the new denial position is "nothing to be done") in planning. And "diversification" in this context is almost assuredly about investing in a variety of technology so that our collective national eggs are not in one basket.
I don't know why they let them in. If they don't have valid building passes they should not got past the security area. Next time when they show up detain them and have the police escort them out in handcuffs.
If they are to be allowed access then the type of passes that is for visitors is issued and they are escorted 100% of the time, no exceptions.
Funny, I thought most employees of any government organisations absolutely have to disclose they are such. Exceptions being only CIA like orgs, I guess - which any "oversight board" absolutely is not.
I was reminded recently of this video essay by Skip Intro
Hypocrisy doesn’t matter, because they don’t see it as hypocrisy. While the video is primarily about Jon Stewart, it applies to pretty much every attempt to try and lay “hypocrisy traps” for the right. They don’t care because the point isn’t that _no one_ should do those things, it’s that they believe in a hierarchy and only those at the top of the hierarchy should do those things.
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he really is a stupid boii. Hes like the cholesterol Icarus flying too close to the stupid cholesterol source, losing brain cells and gaining HGL the longer he stays up there
@sarae @toriver Reposting from another comment of mine:
In Bulgaria we had a very nasty anty LGBTQ law managed to pass in schools and there are a list of teachers signing a petition against it. The petition and the names are technically public. The farthest right wing party posted a "black-list" of those teachers to their far right audience and excused themselves saying it's public information. It was a mess. Do you see now why technicality means nothing in these situations? Wrong is wrong, morally wrong. Is it technically a crime as per Musky suggestion - probably not but still not a move I can support.
And is there any kind of audit to the changes #Musk and his team are making?
For example, do we know if he has just moved 50 billion into his private account? Or to Trump's? Or to Putin's? There are no controls on this anymore. The fox is in the hen house, and he has a gun.
Thats low dick energy. The front face of the ruling class in USA is so pathetic. They look like a bunch of losers that got rejected and try vengeance at all costs.
Just look at zuck, altman and elon. They are so pathetic.
Is this discussion below this post for real? Those individuals are braking into the "Fort Knox of data" of american citizens and ya all discuss if it's a "wrong move" to call out their names and show their pictures? Seriously? Am don't care who is their boss. It doesn't matter. They have NO right to be in there. They are not authorized whatsoever to access all those datas afaik. And for sure NOT to download them.
But may be i am just stupid and "don't understand" anything.🙄
This is all leading up to america collapsing. Like Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg says: life comes from destruction, disorder, and chaos. The faster we reach maximum wealth disparity, the faster we get to a society with Universal basic income, housing, health care, etc. If you want a society that's already on the right path, China is the place to be. They plan to have UBI by 2035.
@sarae @toriver Public and flashing a blaclist to a social media angry crowd are two different things. They were public before the post too. (And yes, you should have been better protected)
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Actually he and his team are legitimate government personnel (Musk is a Special Government employee). Doge is a legal dept. within the OMB. It's a reorganization and rename of the United States Digital Service (which was also created by an EO under Obama).
Also, every federal agency is staffed with unelected people, none of the employees in these agencies are elected and many of them have access to your information every day. So this is nothing novel.
I understand partisan/ideological biases are at play but I would actually have thought everyone would be in favor of uncovering waste and fraud in the government, regardless of which side is in power. We are already seeing tons of waste being uncovered, much you can't possibly debate as not being ridiculous.
The real problem though, is government itself. Both parties are corrupt in their own way (though both love wars). Government always increases in size and becomes more corrupt since government attracts the sociopaths in society. I challenge people to open their minds, think outside the box, step outside of tribal
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Actually he and his team are legitimate government personnel (Musk is a Special Government employee). Doge is a legal dept. within the OMB. It's a reorganization and rename of the United States Digital Service (which was also created by an EO under Obama).
Also, every federal agency is staffed with unelected people, none of the employees in these agencies are elected and many of them have access to your information every day. So this is nothing novel.
I understand partisan/ideological biases are at play but I would actually have thought everyone would be in favor of uncovering waste and fraud in the government, regardless of which side is in power. We are already seeing tons of waste being uncovered, much you can't possibly debate as not being ridiculous.
The real problem though, is government itself. Both parties are corrupt in their own way (though both love wars). Government always increases in size and becomes more corrupt since government attracts the sociopaths in society. I challenge people to open their minds, think outside the box, step outside of tribal politics and read books such as "Democracy, The God That Failed" by Hoppe, "Anatomy of the State" by Rothbard, "Road to Serfdom" by Hayek, "Chaos Theory" by Murphy. A big part of the problem is education (because of our horrible education system). Most people don't even know what federalism is or how the US was structured (tldr; it's a union of states not a single nation state).
Also, and not quite related to this post but realize everything goes in cycles, everything. From milankovitch and lunar cycles, climate, financial markets, and even generational cycles. These days are playing out similarily to past war/generational cycles and so these last couple decades promised to be turbulent based on the timing of where we are in these cycles. (Highly recommend reading both The Fourth Turning and The Fourth Turning is Here to understand this).
that's actually a big part of why this episode really stood the test of time. If you show it to kids today, they love it. No one likes the ones that punched down (even Chuck Jones directed one obligatory racist short in the 40s).
US president Donald Trump has done away with the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH), which advises the president on policy decisions and engagement with the philanthropic and private sectors. It also endeavours to boost support for the arts, humanities and museum and library services at the federal level.
Canadians, if you have any info stored in the clouds of American businesses, seriously ponder clearing out that info. The US is currently giving access of databases to a lot of evil whackadoodles, no security clearance, no experience, and a lot of malice and greed.
Not just Canadians. I don't think anyone should trust US companies to safeguard their data in this political climate - not even US companies themselves!
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You can find a large random selection of open source #TTRPG resources on our site now for easy reference. Borrowed from the Forever Open Source game jam series I host every year. Suggestions for additions welcomed!
Here's a collection of forever open licensed tabletop roleplaying games and resources. Borrowed from and inspired by the Forever Open Source RPG game jam
@chrisburdick unfortunately, the Into the Odd license is revocable and therefore ineligible. (Revocability is a reserved right. Licenses must be explicitly irrevocable or else their issuers can legally cancel them at any time.)
@chrisburdick no problem! It's one of those quirks of copyright law. Nothing wrong with a regular release like that in itself. Just doesn't fit into a list of forever (irrevocably) open source resources.
My gaming group tried JAGS-2 (then JAGS Revised) a few years ago before we explored (then adopted) GURPS 4e. I remember JAGS-2 to be interesting, but not great. YMMV.
shearer.de Wish I'd discovered them in their heyday. I've found a lot of great stuff on Jamendo over the years, no idea what I was thinking switching to Apple Music for over a year.... but I've seen the error of my ways.
I really feel for the thousands of Ukrainians who fled Ukraine for Canada, only to be faced with a trade war... and potential war against annexation by the US.
CANZUK is basically a proposed free trade and relaxed borders agreement between Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK. The idea is to create something like the EU with it
I'm starting to whittle them down according to where I can get the most up-to-date information about this goverment takeover. I find it important that in the chaos, we make sure we flood the social media platforms with this information. They ARE reading it.
If they pledge to "Do No Evil", can they walk it back later when it becomes inconvenient? It"s why the ATProtocol makes me nervous, especially seeing Mark Cuban's interest in investing.
That’s partly why I won’t join blue sky. It is subject to sale to an oligarch. Unfortunately some people in America are very #selfish. About 43% of the population voted for the fascist. 49% of the voting public, so he didn’t even get 50% because some people voted for the alternate parties just because they wanted to vote as a low info voter but didn’t like either one. They voted for them even knowing what they could get in the end by throwing away their vote.
In case you weren't aware - Truth.social is actually a re-purposed/forked Mastodon instance. I don't personally know what they did about federation, but have every reason to believe they can just flip a switch and be back in the fediverse.
Lets hope the oligarchs aren't secretly setting up many mastodon instances, letting people join, and then shutting them down when convenient. How would we know that? The Tor network is rumored to have much of its infrastructure of the exit nodes and much of the onion routing compromised by governments. Don't get too complacent.
it would be an interesting topic for a video. think about it.
of course not the differences about how they work (decentralized vs centralized, open source vs proprietary etc: there's already too much content about that), but how is your own personal experience different in the two platforms.
I can't find anything about this topic around as for now.
To make a YouTube video that is watched by more than a few, I have to find an angle that would appeal broadly, and an idea that would make a good thumbnail. Sadly, YouTube is full of content no one watches. Not saying I applaud that. Just saying, this is how it is.
I want to make this video, but I have not found this idea. Making a thumbnail that tells people they are on the wrong social medium will not be effective, because people are very resistant to change.
@Randahl Fink Actually, the first question I ask is "is it accessible with my screen reader". If it's not, it doesn't matter who owns it or how good or bad it is.
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in reply to kravietz 🦇 • • •GDPR is indeed designed to protect consumers, not make companies happy. Nevertheless, it is very common for companies to be satisfied that protective regulations exist, because they act as deterrent against fly-by-night operations undercutting their offering.
It's akin to saying that European electrical suppliers weren't happy for CE testing. Sure it's difficult, but the outcome is a safer market.
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Actually, this is a very bad source for GDPR advice, because it’s a website run by ProtonVPN whose purpose is to present GDPR as a scary thing that only their VPN protects you from 😂
And yes, on this website it indeed is unclear, but it’s done on purpose (see above). On the ICO guidance which I’ve just referred you to it’s quite clear - you need a combination of indicators that together uniquely identify an individual for that data to be PII. If it’s not unique or insufficient to identify that person, it’s not PII.
This is what they literally say:
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Actually, this is a very bad source for GDPR advice, because it’s a website run by ProtonVPN whose purpose is to present GDPR as a scary thing that only their VPN protects you from 😂
And yes, on this website it indeed is unclear, but it’s done on purpose (see above). On the ICO guidance which I’ve just referred you to it’s quite clear - you need a combination of indicators that together uniquely identify an individual for that data to be PII. If it’s not unique or insufficient to identify that person, it’s not PII.
This is what they literally say:
They use conditional statements (“often sufficient”) because they deal with a generic topic. If you ask them about your SSH server, they will quite certainly answer “nah, it’s not PII”… unless you explicitly assign your users with usernames like
john.smith.dob.07-03-1998… in which case the IP will be the least of your worries 😀@samueljohnson
divVerent
in reply to kravietz 🦇 • • •My problem with GDPR is the opposite - namely how it harms big corporations least.
For example, me running a SSH server on my personal vserver became technically illegal as the SSH protocol does not support the necessary disclosures, and happily logs every login attempt to the system log (where it tends to age out after 7 days as no one ever looks there anyway unless something is wrong).
I am aware that this kind of log would be permitted under the GDPR if it were properly disclosed. I would also be required to disclose my home address to the entire world just because I run SSH.
IMHO the very least GDPR should have done would be an exclusion so entities that do not use data in a way that requires explicit permission do not need to comply with the disclosure, legal entity etc. requirements. Maybe further conditioned by not making any profit.
SamuelJohnson
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in reply to SamuelJohnson • • •@samueljohnson It's not been decided by a court, but:
- SSH port is open to anyone.
- Anyone who connects to it - and be it by entering http://ipaddress:22 in the browser address bar - will cause log lines to be written.
- The logging includes the source IP address, which is generally considered PII.
As such, it quite obviously falls into the scope of the GDPR.
As for the logging of the IPs itself, that clearly falls under "legitimate interest" as per Article 6(1) GDPR - so that is fine per se.
Art. 13 GDPR is the real problem with SSH - the right to be informed. The protocol doesn't even provide a _way_ for the connecting individual to be informed about these things.
Clearly the authors of the GDPR did not _intend_ to place 20 million EUR penalties on private individuals who happen to run a vserver with SSH access. And I also presume it won't actually be _applied_ like that. But ultimately it depends on whether someone will file a GDPR compliant, and how the DPA will treat that report. I suppose unless a wild #Gravenreuth appears, people should be safe.
SamuelJohnson
in reply to divVerent • • •@divVerent Your assertion that an IP address is "generally considered PII" is entirely false and you cannot provide a citation from any credible source to support that proposition.
I suggest you look up some definitions of PII and then consider the many reasons why an IP address is never included.
Better not to spread misinformation.
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in reply to kravietz 🦇 • • •“I don‘t know a single EU company happy about #GDPR either”
What a silly measure to apply to regulations… I don’t know a single toddler who a happy about wearing snow pants either, but when it’s -15C they have to wear them anyway.
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in reply to David Mitchell • • •It’s like reporting about DEI programs, headlines like:
“DEI doesn’t work; We asked 100 business owner what they thought and 58% said it was a waste of money.”
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in reply to kravietz 🦇 • • •Steve Woods
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in reply to kravietz 🦇 • • •In fact, there are many companies happy with the EU GDPR. When you allow a company to cheat their customers, spy on them and sell their data for billions, that company can use their ill gotten gains to undercut other companies, driving them out of business. As with any regulation, companies that aren't hurting people will prosper, and companies that are hurting people will fail.
That politician is just conveniently ignoring all the small businesses completely unimpacted by the GDPR because they don't collect data, who make more money, and achieve higher prosperity since Faceboogle is too inconvenienced to steal that money and prosperity from their customers first. Apparently he "doesn't know" about them.
cy
Unknown parent • • •Also pimps are totally in support of sexworkers rights. That's why they operate brothels to protect their employees from abusive customers and inclement weather. Except when you make prostitution illegal. Then all the pimps that survive are conveniently evil gits. Funny how that works out...
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