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generalpotato,

Not really familiar with the series, but this looks like I’d wanna pick up and give it a go. One of the best years for gaming we’ve had this year in recent memory.

generalpotato,

I meannnn I don’t “hate” Musk, but boy…. Is he an idiot who deserves all the shit that he gets. My 7yr old is probably smarter than him atm.

generalpotato,

Just because it was watered down by the republicans doesn’t make it not “progressive”. It was “progressive” compared to the other option, which was literally not having any sort of health care coverage/insurance. Things are never that binary.

Remember Obama started with Universal Health care at some point and we ended up with ACA, which is still a win.

generalpotato,

I realize what you’re doing, but I’m questioning why are you viewing events from the lens of classical ideologies? How is that relevant to viewing whether a policy was beneficial terms of actual progress or not? It’s actually hurting your opinion and outlook since you’re now attributing terms that have a different meaning in contemporary discussion and discourse as opposed to it’s classical definition.

generalpotato,

JFC dude. Read the room. I’m not arguing whether you’re right or wrong, but it seemed like you implied that Obama didn’t make progress because you called it “right-wing”. Like previously stated, terms have different meanings/connotations depending on context. Yes, even in contemporary discussions whether you agree with it or not. So people corrected you, rightfully so.

That said, I see where you were coming from and don’t disagree with the point you’re making.

And, no shit political ideologies are going to be part of a conversation when we’re talking about politics, but what I’m saying (again) is stop going off of wikipedia because you can’t get your point across effectively anymore and it’s diluting you’re messaging.

Can’t believe I have to spell all of this out for you.

Lastly, I see that you’ve just discovered “political science and ideologies”, but don’t assume others on the same plain as yourself. Some of us have been doing this longer than you’ve been alive.

generalpotato,

Oh my god. Talk about being ignorant and tone deaf. We’re done here.

generalpotato,

The best part about Lemmy/Kbin etc now are that downvotes aren’t hidden, rightfully so. Just because a set of people don’t agree with you doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have the same visibility as somebody that is more agreeable to a set of people.

Niceness… will change and evolve over time as more and more people join. :-)

generalpotato,

Ouch… sorry to hear that. Reddit has definitely gotten Facebook level of scummy. I tried deleted my account 2x, only for those assholes to restore it. Now if only perma bans could make an account and all it’s content to disappear from the site, haha. I was at 9yrs in terms of account age.

generalpotato,

Definitely agreed for the most part.

generalpotato,

Haha you know I’ve seen that too and I can’t recall if this was the case on Reddit in the early days before they started fucking around with scoring.

generalpotato, (edited )

As much as I hate Nintendo, I fucking hate them for their stance on emulation. You would think they would have the sense to preserve their heritage outside of their own platforms since they do such an absolute dog shit of a job of providing access to the library and catalogue of games. Either make your games available (as widely as they are via emulation) or move the fuck outta the way.

Edit: I meant to say “as much as I love them”, but going to leave my double hate up there because of how idiotic their decision is to crack down on emulation.

generalpotato,

This comment needs to be further up rather than the idiotic takes that don’t understand the difference between anonymized data collection (Apple) vs identifiable data collection (Meta/Google/most other tech).

generalpotato,

Not all anonymization techniques are created equal? I’m pretty sure this is fairly obvious at this point to anybody remotely familiar with how data collection works when it comes to privacy and device metrics.

So, how is this relevant to this conversation besides adding more FUD and misinformation?

generalpotato, (edited )

Thanks for the “advice”. Now, let me expand on my position.

The reason why I’m slightly annoyed but everyone’s take here is:

  1. The demeanor that folks here have in passing on ill informed opinion as fact and then speculating details.
  2. Not looking at the actual privacy policy of a company and the history of how said company has been involved in data collection, privacy, implementation of features in that realm and their handling of customer data.
  3. Bringing up random points just to win an argument instead of conceding that they do not what they are talking about.

Here’s a few links to put things in perspective as to what and how Apple anonymizes data and how seriously it takes privacy:

apple.com/…/Differential_Privacy_Overview.pdf

www.apple.com/privacy/labels/

www.apple.com/privacy/control/

Read through those, look at Apple’s implementation of TouchID, FaceID and their stance on E2E encryption and tell me again why Apple isn’t serious about privacy, masking and anonymizing data, implementing differential privacy and informing users of what they collect and how users can opt-out of it.

Edit- Further evidence and reading:

techradar.com/…/fbi-says-apples-new-encryption-la…

www.digitaltrends.com/…/apple-data-collection/

apple.com/…/A_Day_in_the_Life_of_Your_Data.pdf

generalpotato,

:-) Thanks for the detailed response. Let me take a look and get back to you.

generalpotato, (edited )

My whole point is that you can’t trust that it’s impossible to de-anonymize data simply because some organization removes all of what they believe to be identifying data.

GPS data is a fairly obvious one which is why I brought it up. Just because you remove all identifying info about a GPS trace doesn’t stop someone (or some program) from re-attributing that data based on the start/stop locations of those tracks.

Looking at all the links you’ve posted… so there’s been cases and studies stating that data can re-identified, but do we have insight into what exact data sets they were looking it at? I tried looking at the Nature study but it doesn’t say how they got the data and what exact vectors they were looking at outside of mention of 15 some parameters such as zip code, address etc. Data pipelines and implementation of metrics vary vastly, per implementation, I’m curious to see where the data set came from, what the use case was for collection, the company behind it, the engineering chops it has etc.

If from a data collection standpoint you’re collecting “zip code” and “address”, you’ve already failed to adhere to good privacy practices, which is what I’m arguing in Apple’s case. You could easily salt and hash a str to obfuscate it, why is it not being done? Data handling isn’t any different than a typical technical problem. There’s risks and benefits associated to an implementation, the question is how well you do it and what are you doing to ensure privacy. The devil is in the detail. Collecting “zip code” and “address” isn’t good practice, so no wonder data become re-identifiable.

youtu.be/8JxvH80Rrcwengadget.com/apple-phone-usage-data-not-anonymous…gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-privacy-settings-third-l…

More FUD. Why aren’t they testing iOS 16? Ok, sure, it’s sending device analytics back… but it could just be a bug? The YT video is showing typical metrics, this isn’t any different to literally any metrics call an embedded device makes. A good comparison would be an Android phone’s metrics call and comparison to it side by side. I’m sorry, I refuse to take seriously a video that says “App Store is watching you” and tries my skews my opinion prior to showing my the data. The data should speak for itself. I see the DSID bit in the Gizmodo article, but that’s a long shot, without any explanation of how to the data is identifiable specifically.

Lastly,

As for your TechRadar link to Apple’s use of E2EE, that’s great, I’m glad they are using E2EE, but that’s not really relevant to our discussion about anonymizing data and risks running afoul of the #3 point you made for why you are frustrated with the majority of users in this post.

Privacy is fundamental to designing a data pipeline that doesn’t collect “zip code” in plain str if you want to data to be anonymized at any level. So it is absolutely relevant. :-)

Edit: To clarify, if it wasn’t clear, relying on just data anonymization and collecting everything under the sun isn’t a good way to design a data pipeline that allows for metrics collection. The goal should always be collecting as little as possible, then using masking, anonymization and other techniques to obfuscate it all. No solution is perfect, but that doesn’t there aren’t shitty ways of implementing things leading to the fiascos you see on the web.

I've completely lost interest in Marvel r/randomthoughs (old.reddit.com)

just too much already. Why is there so much? Disney won’t lose money if they stop producing Marvel content. They’re already rich. The last Marvel related content I watched was What If. I don’t follow the timeline anymore and don’t care about what comes next. They need a hard reset or a refresh for me to care. My...

generalpotato,

I’ve been an avid MCU fan and Secret Invasion was the last straw. It’s so pathetically bad, I think I’m going to put Marvel on the backburner for a while. There’s plenty of good content to follow/watch in the interim.

Even Bob Iger (Disney’s current CEO) believes that the Marvel brand has been diluted to hell and there’s too much. It desperately needs a reduction + refocus. Marvel stans can think and rationalize this however they want, but less is more and Marvel desperately needs it.

generalpotato,

Eh, I know people hate on Marvel now because, reasons, but they’ve managed to do something things well. Loki, Spider-Man: No way Home, Moon Knight, so it hasn’t been all bad contrary the perception folks have.

Top progressive Democrat: Israel is racist state, two-state solution doesn’t feel possible (www.haaretz.com)

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the head of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, on Saturday condemned Israel as a racist state, warning activists that there is an organized opposition against progressive critics of Israel’s policy towards the Palestinians....

generalpotato,

Right. Let me kick you out of your house that you’ve had for generations because I can “claim” the land as mine as my ancestors resided there a thousand years ago. This is the dumbest argument to justify ethnic cleansing. Stop trying to pass this revisionist idiocy off as “education”.

generalpotato,

I’ll need a source on this claim.

generalpotato,

Both of them look amazing. I prefer the G80 though.

Are there really so few car enthusiasts on this site? This sub seems to have such little traffic. What gives?

Coming from Reddit, there were multiple car-related subs and they all saw some fairly heavy traffic with lots of posts and comments. Heck, even some of the model-specific ones seem to get more interaction than this sub does. What’s the deal?

generalpotato,

I think it’s the demographic and the lack of mass adoption (car people tend to be part of the latter unless they are nerds). Model specific subs were hit and miss. For example, the Porsche sub was awesome but BMW was toxic af and tiring with everybody shitting on the new designs constantly and not contributing to the discussion much beyond that, so I definitely don’t miss it. That said, I think forums like bimmerport and rennlist are going to see an increase in traffic as people leave reddit behind, if Lemmy doesn’t end up absorbing the exodus.

generalpotato,

They can’t have the university expense a $300 Android device + a vpn to access TikTok? This solves, not having to use a government issued device that access government’s resources and networks, and being protected by using a vpn to create an onion route and preventing potential phone home.

If they cannot work around this, then I legitimately question the quality of “research” they would be conducting here.

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