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kubikpixel, to internet German
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Welcher Internet Browser ist "sicherer"?
Gute Frage und nicht simpel zu beantworten, doch nach meiner Auffassung ist es Firefox und weniger der sehr beliebte Chrome Browser.

So viel ich weiss, gibt es den Firefox länger und hat doch (knapp) weniger bekannte, so wie meistens behobene Schwachpunkte. Weshalb glauben so viele lehre Versprechungen von Konzerne?

🦊 Firefox
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=firefox
🌐 Chrome
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvekey.cgi?keyword=chrome

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yacc143,
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@kubikpixel
Weile die Konzerne die Leute zwingen.

Beispiel aus meiner Arbeit: Hintergrund Modifikationen in Google Meet hat lange Zeit nur in Chrome funktioniert. Endresultat, ich verwende am Arbeitslaptop für die Arbeit einen Chrome.

Für das Privatleben einen Firefox. (Nebenbei beim Experimentieren mit meinen Webcams gestern, Firefox kann in Google Meet jetzt auch den Hintergrund anpassen. 1, 2 Jahre nach Google Chrome.)

yacc143,
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@kubikpixel Nicht mein Punkt.

Google hat eine gewisse Tendenz, seine Schäfchen mit der Brechstange einzusammeln.

Dann gibt es ja noch so Dinge wie DRM (Die Leute w3c Leute die EME erlaubt haben, gehören wegen Verbrechen gegen die Menschheit nach Den Haag.). Rate mal, wer Torwächter für das wichtigste DRM Modul ist? Ohne das, kann dein Browser sprichwörtlich Jamaika Kaffee, perfekt zubereitet, gratis vor den PC beamen, und er wird floppen.

gtconway3, to random

The New York Trump Case Is Kind of Perfect

“What the case is really about is Trump’s modus operandi—lying. He’s a matryoshka doll of mendacity. He lies, usually lies some more, and then often lies about the lies he’s previously told.” https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/05/stormy-daniels-on-stand-trump-trials/678373/?gift=Ut5zkH9vG00uzi0vmoT5f7wXdPmgGKSkJ0gd9Bsg8PE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

yacc143,
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@mastodonmigration @gtconway3
Well, his voters seem to love his lies?

craiggrannell, (edited ) to random
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UK folks:

  • Publisher states a payment has been made + sent remittance.
  • I have not received the funds (after six weeks now) and my (UK) bank’s customer services, fraud and international teams have all stated they cannot see any payment and that I do not have a block on my account.

Any advice on what to do? I’ve never been in this situation before, and the amount of money is not insignificant. But also, the publisher appears to be very much in “we’ve paid so nothing we can do” mode now.

yacc143,
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@craiggrannell @ellneal
Consider one thing:

Your relationship is almost certainly already f%cked up.

Why?

Because if you do not fix it, chances are good that they will again use the wrong way to pay, and you won't get your money.

So chances are you'll end up fixing this via the legal department.

We had it once the other way around, when our ISP was swallowed by a bigger one, the new accounting Dept was incapable of assigning payments correctly. (Yes we have a complicated address.)

baldur, to random
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One of the things that the Stack Overflow brouhaha demonstrates is that it doesn’t matter if a service was founded by people trusted by the community (Atwood and Spolsky) and was broadly community-led. If it’s a VC-funded startup, they will sell out their users at some point.

yacc143,
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@baldur Worse, at some point the “trusted people” might want to retire, and will sell.

And then the vulture capitalists will be waiting.

br00t4c, to random
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Medical Students Staying Away From Abortion Ban States In Droves

#reproductiverights #students

https://www.wonkette.com/p/medical-students-staying-away-from

yacc143,
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@br00t4c Job accomplished.

The GOP is on a time journey into the good old colony days, and surely, you don't think that the colonists had that many doctors available?

TechConnectify, to random
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Real thought:

What depresses me most about the state of the world at present is that we've stopped caring to live up to the spirit of our ideals.

When we fail them and are pressed, we can rationalize our terrible actions based on technicalities - and large swaths of our culture have normalized doing this very thing.

It is my most sincere hope that we can walk our way back from this. I see some signs of this, but would prefer to see many more.

yacc143,
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@TechConnectify 🤷 Did we ever?

jeffjarvis, to random
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California just came out with a new bill and it's worst than the last, demonizing data as if toxic pollution. Yeesh. I have a post about it--and offer yet another alternative:
https://medium.com/whither-news/news-legislation-from-bad-to-worse-c32d9fc34670

yacc143,
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@jeffjarvis Sorry privacy invading data is not exactly about making an enlightened society happy.

Although many have opinioned, that the GDR's Stasi would have reached continuous new levels of happiness with the level of data collection and privacy invasion that the US surveillance capitalism practices.

But then the GDR was as a huge open-air prison.

Now don't let me get started about US news (IMHO, you basically don't have news, you have news entertainment).

dangillmor, to random
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Can Big Journalism connect some dots please?

Trump vows to effectively nationalize local police into a migrant deportation force -- stopping people on the street and herding millions into concentration camps, supposedly before dropping them off somewhere south of the border.

That's grotesque, and terrible, in every way.

But you are naive if you imagine that this national cops squad would be disbanded, or the concentration camps closed, after the mass deportations.

Vote.

yacc143,
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@dangillmor One central tenet of Trump's plans is that he decides who is a migrant and who is a citizen.

E.g. he plans to ignore “citizenship by birth” as the constitution contains via an executive order.

Now, just as a hint for further thought, what is the primary document US citizens use to prove their citizenship status?

🤷

dangillmor, to random
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Our corrupt Supreme Court is NOT going to rule during the current term that presidents have immunity from prosecution for crimes committed while in office. It will send Trump's case back to the lower court in a way that ensures he isn't prosecuted before the election.

After that, who knows?

yacc143,
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@dangillmor Then it's good that the NY DA is nailing him for his crimes before he was elected. Based on NY laws. Yes, at some point Donald's paid for buddies at the SCOTUS might get to rule on these laws and/or on the verdict, but all the polls suggest that any verdict will ruin it for in the swing states.

LindaCollins11, to random
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218905101

yacc143,
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@LindaCollins11 🤷
I, personally, find it funny if people speaking a foreign language assume that they are talking privately in public.

Which can backfire. Other people speak these languages too.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Guess who's profiting from AI. Consultants.
BCG says AI consulting will supply 20% of revenues this year
https://www.ft.com/content/33dfaec4-b5e7-4eca-a869-cdd33d447e65

yacc143,
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@jeffjarvis 🤷 Well, what's new?

dangillmor, to random
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Human Rights Watch 101: "Peaceful protest is a human right. Freedom of speech is a human right. Freedom of expression is a human right." https://www.hrw.org/the-day-in-human-rights/2024/04/29?story=paragraph-8162

yacc143,
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@dangillmor 🤷 US citizens might not realize, but “human rights” have basically no legal standing in the USA.

The USA likes to discuss “Human rights” and use it as a tool to shame other countries with, but surprise, the USA has made a quite numerous detours to avoid signing any treaties obliging it to follow Human Rights standards.

Actually the fact that any rights you might have in the USA only generally apply only to legal residents is incompatible. ("Human" rights. remember)

craiggrannell, to random
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Sigh.

yacc143,
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@craiggrannell @sdarlington @uliwitness
Be careful what you wish for.

We already have ECJ verdicts lying around, that when read strictly declare the USA unsafe for GDPR data, basically due to fundamental legal issues. Our politicians and industry do not want to really apply it, but it's just a question of time till the current DC-Brussels circumvention strategy lands before the ECJ again, and it's only a question how explicit the court will be next time in its opinion.

publicvoit, to random German
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ist für dir Menschen, die stolz darauf sind, in der Schule schlecht in gewesen zu sein. 🤔🫣

yacc143,
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@publicvoit
„Gleichbleibende Preise schon seit Jahren trotz Inflation und Krisen“

Ich glaube, die Guten haben das Konzept Inflation nicht begriffen.

Teri_Kanefield, to random
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social avatar

I am going to answer this question for everyone:

https://mastodon.social/@timothyjohnson@mastodon.sdf.org/112349635246409685

My answer is here:

https://mastodon.social/

Remember:

There were possible crimes, but tax and reporting crimes are not election interference.

There is also a circular thing with Cohen and Pecker telling the court that they expected Trump to pay back the hush money payments.

If they expected to get paid back, it was a loan to Trump and not a contribution. Right?

yacc143,
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@Teri_Kanefield 🤷
Wouldn't the sloppy accounting, and deducting his private hush money payments as a business expense, count as criminal?

yacc143,
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@Teri_Kanefield

“”” As you likely understand by now, falsifying business records is normally a misdemeanour offence in the state of New York. But it becomes a felony when committed to further or cover up another crime. “””

“Jurisdiction-specific stuff”

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/the-conspiracys-the-thing?r=1zr8b&triedRedirect=true

Just like, the civil fraud judgment relies on a NY-specific law and fraud definition. Thus driving legal commenters from all over the US nuts because the NY fraud is different from the common one they learnt in school.

yacc143,
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@Teri_Kanefield Ah, but he is not indicated under the Federal statute, but under a NY statute that has some funny “if you commit a crime to cover up election manipulation, this is a severe aggravation factor and makes it suddenly a felony” language.

Again, we've got NY specific law, in this case criminal law, that is different in the fine print from other jurisdictions.

(E.g. the statute the civil case in NY was tried on seems not require injured parties for fraud, does it?)

dangillmor, to random
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Arizona voters elected a serious attorney general in 2022.

She's gone after the Trump world election fraud scams in a big, big way, charging major pols, lawyers, et al in the fake elector scheme.

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/24/arizona-fake-electors-indictments/73184206007/

Looks like the Arizona Republic wisely dropped its paywall on this huge story.

yacc143,
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@dangillmor That's so unfair, reality is coming after Donald's alternate reality with its alternate facts.

jeffjarvis, to random
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I wish all news sites would add what the Austrian Die Presse just added to its design: Click the little clock and you get the latest news in a reverse-chronological stream: a river of news, as @davewiner has long wished for, without promotion, repetition, and so-called news judgment.
https://www.diepresse.com/18372705/die-presse-digital-im-neuen-design?ref=home_aktuell

yacc143,
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@jeffjarvis Well, Die Presse as such is right-wing enough, so I cannot agree that it's without judgment.

jeffjarvis, to random
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Galloway glibness: "People are opting out of America..,Young people aren't having sex.They're not meeting, they're not mating. The pool of emotionally and economically viable men shrinks every day, which lessens household formation...Our kids are more axious, more depressed, more obese, more addicted...We are producing too many of the most dangerous person in the world & that is a young, broke & lonely young man....I would like to see in the senior year of college [a course in] mating dynamics."

yacc143,
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@jeffjarvis Let's give this condition a name, I propose: “Terminal phase capitalism depression”

jeffjarvis, to random
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Haberman thinks she's channeling Arendt--"the mundanity of the courtroom has all but swallowed Mr. Trump"--but gives this defendant empathy when she should offer us Schadenfreude.
Trump’s Trial Challenge: Being Stripped of Control https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/21/us/politics/trump-trial-analysis.html?smid=tw-share

yacc143,
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@jeffjarvis

"The process, they believe, is its own punishment."

🤷

Being a defendant is a burden. Funny how they notice only the billionaire is hit.

But that's how the justice system works. Defending yourself is risky, expensive, burdensome. Read it up, DA all over the US have used this to make offers that many defendants simply cannot refuse.

But hey, '16-20 a certain DJT had the opportunity to work on justice reforms to make the system more just and humane.

ChrisMayLA6, to random
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Whatever we might think about how migration is handled across Europe (in in the UK), one significant result is the underemployment of skilled migrants;

the Migration Policy Institute has a whole subsection on what they refer to as 'Brain Waste' - given the skills shortages across the world & its economic impact(s), we seem to be acting against our best interests because we are (politically) suspicious of migrants;

Its a political myopia of the worst sort!


https://www.migrationpolicy.org/topics/brain-waste-credential-recognition

yacc143,
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@alexanderhay @ChrisMayLA6 No politicians, but especially conservatives hate intelligence.

And the UK class system is based traditionally in heritage. Obviously, you can see how intelligence that can hit to a certain level randomly any family, is incompatible with the UK system? How can it be that some peon might better than a duke? Some foreign, dark-skinned peon?

Sounds like High Treason, “undermining the line of succession”?

craiggrannell, to random
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Literally every day now, mini-G comes home from school and at least one boy will have been an arsehole to her to some degree. She’s 9. But, hey, ‘boys will be boys’.

Last time we mentioned this, we were told she ‘needs to be more resilient’. When we suggested victim blaming wasn’t good, we were told things will get worse at secondary. When we said, OK, what specifically should she do, we were told… she should be more resilient. She was shouting today. The boy just carried on being a dick.

yacc143,
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@craiggrannell Considered speaking with the teachers/school about this?

(In our case, it was “easier”, actually the school called us, to inform us that our beloved daughter was being mobbed.)

craiggrannell, to random
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Just read on MacStories that Delta is #1 in the US App Store. Last I looked, it’s #1 in the UK App Store. But, sure, no-one cares about emulators on iPhone. (Something certain commentators have been claiming for a long time now, presumably because Apple didn’t want emulators on iPhone.)

yacc143,
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@craiggrannell A well run private prison does have a system of privileged trustees (who e.g. run the prison radio station). And guess what, these trustees tend to tell all the inmates how lucky they are that they are in this best of all prisons, if squeeze your eyes a bit, you can claim you are just in a walled garden.

Side note: My wife today during our grocery run classified Apple together with Boeing, Tesla, Apple, these American bullshit companies.
Not sure how to take that.

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