A recent example is that reproducible builds allow for the creation of proof, simply by rebuilding and comparing the result, that a GCC build whose source was extracted with a compromised xz was not compromised; this process was achieved without needing to reverse engineer how the compromise occurred. Similarly, reproducible builds were reported as being usefully during investigations of the xz compromise.
The EU’s Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising....
The deal has always been that targeted advertising is how you pay for a free service.
Always is a heck of a long time. Decades ago when ads on websites slowly became popular it was just ads. But no personalized targeting.
This isn’t exclusive to Facebook.
Offering an ad free experience for a subscription fee is an extremely common practice. Do people really expect to be able to use an entertainment platform for free?
Extremely common practice does not make it good nor does it make it a good reason to normalize or ignore these things. For example exploitation in labor and in housing is also extremely common practice. No reason to make exploitation on the Internet seem like a fair game and expand it further. Sustainability should be a key word here in my point of view.
EU elite are the same liberal/capitalist clowns as in the US (funded by oligarchs), and they don’t give a shit about EU citizens or our privacy. All capitalist corporation act the same psychotic way and should be shut down, but this is pure protectionism against US big tech.
Glad to see honest and sensible take on this.
I’m happy about the GDPR but I have my doubts about all the fines of cases versus big tech in the past. Those fines are peanuts for big tech, and where is the money of those fines going ? To protect Fortress Europe or what ? To keep paying Microsoft, Google and other cloud licenses ? It is unbelievable that some organizations in this year 2024 still come up with arguments that “there is no better offer” or “no choice” and then move parts or the complete of their IT into the cloud of USA corporations. Worrying especially given the risk that Donald Trump will be back in power. “Digital sovereignty” is a word that has been wiped from the vocabulary since years in Europe.
On the one hand, meta does collect data on people who do not have an account. This is simply illegal, since that collection is neither necessary nor consented to. The EU should finally put a stop to that.
Good that you brought that up. And that deserves more attention!
Just wondering, are you keeping LibreWolf at the default window size or max screen ? Lately I noticed that some Linux distributions do not respect the defaults of LW and max it automatically. Few weeks ago I test Tor browser and LibreWolf with both sites and got mixed results :/
I’m trying @librewolf browser and it might seem like a small thing to you all, but they went out of their way to preserve accessibility features for disabled users like myself, whereas other privacy solutions remove accessibility features completely, and their efforts to make sure disabled users have a private focused but accessible browser is more welcome than you can imagine because disabled people need privacy as well. I would argue that disabled people need privacy more. I wish more #privacy advocates took accessibility and disability into account the way they have currently. I hope this remains a core mission of theirs
And this is what Debian users will be doing more often : Installing, uninstalling and installing software just because APT and nala is so pretty and colorful. It adds a whole new flavor to the art of Procrastination 😁
Seriously ? Google just continues firing employees. And remember Elon Musk taking over Twitter and firing a considerable amount of employees ? They likely will get away with all of that, for free or paying a small fine or settle a case.
And let’s insert a quote I just read on Mastodon :
I quote a great jewish thinker on far-right politics:
”When you look in the fascist mirror, you do not see a monster there. You see beauty, and it tells you are special, exceptional, part of the most important people on earth. It is the others who are the problem”
Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....
How many reCAPTCHAs did you solve today ?
And did you suddenly feel the need to buy a motorcycle ?...
openSUSE Factory enabled bit-by-bit reproducible builds (news.opensuse.org)
Why are you leaving your current job (lemmy.ml)
…substack.com/…/comic-why-are-you-leaving-your-cu…
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy (www.theregister.com)
The EU’s Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising....
Bike lane in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (video) (social.notjustbikes.com)
Neon Suns crossover (lemmy.sdf.org)
neonsuns.cz is a project of a Czech science-fiction writer Rudolf Vostrý.
LibreWolf no longer protected under EFF's "Cover your Track" and "Am I Unique"?
I am forced to use JShelter to block myself from fingerprinting. Or am I doing something wrong? I’ve not messed up the defaults in any shape or form.
TWIF generated on Thursday, 11 Apr 2024, Week 15 (f-droid.org)
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Humans are cat toys (lemmy.world)
Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color (www.theregister.com)
STATEMENT from Google workers with the No Tech for Apartheid campaign on Google’s mass, retaliatory… (web.archive.org)
Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract (www.theverge.com)
Google fired 28 employees in connection with sit-in protests at two of its offices this week, according to an internal memo obtained by The Verge. The firings come after 9 employees were suspended and then arrested in New York and California on Tuesday....
House Moves Toward Bundling TikTok Bill With Aid to Ukraine and Israel (www.nytimes.com)
A new measure attempts to force the Senate’s hand on passing legislation to ban TikTok or mandate the app’s sale.
a git cheat sheet - Julia Evans (lemmy.ml)
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How do you say SUSE? (m.youtube.com)
I always thought those whoe said susa instead of soos are wrong....
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