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Uh, they DO still make dumb phones. And people still buy them.

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Yep. They even made a new 3310.

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Because hosting shit yourself isn't free, and most people aren't up for taking financial losses for their projects.

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And how do they make their money?

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It is literally either follow this law or cease operations here. Both would end in the song being blocked anyway.

Mind you, I wish we were that level of strict when it came to our data privacy laws.

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and the government would have to explain precisely why they decided to ban all Google services over a song about freedom.

They wouldn't explain shit. This is an authoritarian government we're talking about; they have near total control of what information gets to their populace.

More likely they'd just accuse Google of supporting terrorism, and make a show of raiding their offices and jailing their local executives.

I don’t think the people in charge would last long if that happened, considering how integral Google’s services are to many people’s lives.

This is China we're talking about. Chinese equivalents to nearly every big tech service are more than present and accounted for, even often preferred by the local populace. Hong Kong is a little different, but the CCP still exerts near total control there.

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Yeah but they're called talent for a reason. The senior talent are generally better than the juniors at what they do.

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Until they make the wrong call and it bites them on the ass.

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Woodworking and rock climbing scratch the problem solving itch in different ways, on top of the creative (in woodworking) and physical exercise (rock climbing) itches common in most people.

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Would it be a crime to have access to the software, or would they need to catch the criminals with the images and video files?

Problem with the former is that would outlaw any self hosted image generator. Any image generator is capable of use for deep fake porn

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The problem is the cat's out of the bag.

Open source image generators already exist and have been widely disseminated worldwide.

So all you'd end up doing is putting up a roadblock for legitimate uses. Anybody using it to cause harm will not be seriously impeded. They can just pick up the software from a Russian/Chinese/EU host or less official distribution methods.

It would be as effective as the US trying to outlaw the exporting of strong encryption standards in the 90s. That is to say, completely ineffective and actually harmful. Enemies of the US were still using strong encryption anyway.

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It's not specific to e-girls. Can be twitch streamers, bloggers, etc

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But it is true that these kinds of unintentionally racist differences in commentary are often done by white people. Not all white people but a large enough subsection of that population to become a general problem.

That's what the comic is pointing out.

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That's actually got a solid reason behind it.

It's because the OSK is just another program as far as Android is concerned. It can't directly look into the application, per Android specifications, but it CAN record key presses, even for passwords. It even receives context hints based on the metadata on the input box, so it knows when you're putting in a password. Then it can send your data off to unknown servers.

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There's also the fact that on Win/Mac/Linux, you're interacting with the bank via a browser and not a bespoke app.

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That it is, but at least it's not sending your card details to me.

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Zygist is a way of hiding the fact that you have root access . Likely your bank changed absolutely nothing.

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And desktop mode doesn't help?

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Ah. That'll do it.

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Android's Do Not Disturb feature is also like this. You only get notifications from calls, alarms and apps you specifically allow.

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There will always be garbage, pants-on-heads stupidity on these platforms. I doubt the women saying this even believe what they are saying, it's all to drive engagement via outrage

Threads is automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed (mastodon.social)

For anyone wondering if Threads and Facebook at large will be a fine neighbor in the space and compatible with other apps/services in the fediverse: they’re already automatically hiding comments that mention Pixelfed https://mastodon.social/@dansup/112126250737482807

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Stage 1 of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

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The point isn't for other fedi users. It's to deter Threads users from becoming proper fedi users. It used to be those popups only appeared when something genuinely touchy came up. Now they're used for anything the parent company doesn't like as a scare tactic but people don't realise it. Google does this too with Play Protect.

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The government is already the one who makes that decision. The only thing new here is a line being drawn with regards to social media's push towards addiction and echo-chamberism.

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It ain't about people they don't like, it's about a powerful corporation known to be abusive, psychologically manipulative and unafraid to break laws so long as it benefits them.

You wouldn't want such an entity under your roof either

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Right now, sure. Will that always be the case?

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Then give them a URL link to a good instance.

Do you really expect Threads to provide a fair, uncompromised experience of the Fediverse when it's actively against their interests to do so?

Apex Legends streamers surprised to find aimbot and other hacks added to their PCs in the middle of major competition via anti-cheat software (www.pcgamer.com)

Wow it finally happened. So glad I switched to steam running on linux mint last week. I refused to install helldivers because it wanted to install some no holds barred god level permissions anti-cheat software. Windows 11 was the last straw for me. Good times.....

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EAC doesn’t open up ports into your network as far as I’m aware.

No but the game code does. And that game code also interacts with EAC. You can argue it's a bug in Apex Legends, and it would be that too, but the fact is that EAC shouldn't be executing arbitrary commands based on what the game code has given it, so if that possibility exists in EAC, it is still an RCE in Apex Legends and a kernel privilege escalation flaw in EAC.

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I understand the main thing was Yuzu was apparently offering builds that work with unreleased games (which how tf does that work)

Leaks and breaking release date is how it works.

UK Trial: Pornhub's Chatbot Halts Millions from Accessing Child Abuse Content (www.wired.com)

A trial program conducted by Pornhub in collaboration with UK-based child protection organizations aimed to deter users from searching for child abuse material (CSAM) on its website. Whenever CSAM-related terms were searched, a warning message and a chatbot appeared, directing users to support services. The trial reported a...

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So...pornhub has actually had problems with CSAM. It used to be much more of a Youtube-like platform where anyone can upload.

Even without that aspect, there are a looot of producers that don't do their checks well and a lot of underage actresses that fall through the cracks

EU Commission fines Apple over €1.8 billion over abusive App store rules for music streaming providers (ec.europa.eu)

The European Commission has fined Apple over €1.8 billion for abusing its dominant position on the market for the distribution of music streaming apps to iPhone and iPad users (‘iOS users') through its App Store. In particular, the Commission found that Apple applied restrictions on app developers preventing them from...

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Conversely, not being on a platform with a very considerable amount of their current userbase could cost them massive amounts of subscribers, and possibly allow competitors to take their place.

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I’m confused now. What is a “reader app”?

This is some of Apple's own terminology. It applies to any application who's main purpose is to serve up audial, visual or text-based media.

Apple allows these apps to access existing accounts via apps but not create new ones.

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Anybody gonna tell them that gloved Mickey isn't public domain?

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Lobbying in the EU is not the same as lobbying in the US. In the EU, lobbying is simply being an advocate group that is consulted whenever issues in their domain arise, with everyone understanding their partiality.

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And she got arrested and stripped of her power because of it. In the US that's just normal business and perfectly legal.

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Someone would need to know what accounts you have (which are not stored on my email)

Aren't they?

Access to your emails means access to your messages. If I see you get a lot of Amazon email, I can reasonably assume you have an Amazon account.

Most services send you emails at least on registration.

then know the password to access them.

Nope. Because I have your email account. And the usual method for resetting a password is via an email sent to your email account. That I've already compromised.

That’s if they are able to bypass the 2fa I have set on each account that offers it.

That last part is a pretty big asterisk. Sites that offer it are in the minority still. That also assumes your 2FA method isn't email.

And it’s also too bad for them, because I use different email address per account, which can be rotated and changed (if the damn site allows you to update your email).

You do realise the average person will never do this, right?

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I literally am a security expert and the only thing I change between accounts is my password, which I put in a password manager.

With that said I do have other usernames/email addresses that I use if I'm doing something that I don't want attached to my public persona. These can also be stored in the password manager so all is still good.

But individual email addresses per account is overkill and a management nightmare, with a very minimal security tradeoff. I'm not exactly expecting a state sponsored attack on my email after all.

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Since I use a password manager, it’s quite easy to manage, just like different passwords for each account. No difference.

Yeah, but for the actual mail, do you forward the emails to one address? Or do you set up Outlook/Thunderbird to sync all of them? Manually checking all of them would be quite laborious and you might miss the occasional important email if you don't check regularly.

Gender pay gap means women work first two months of the year unpaid - so today is Women's Pay Day (www.thecanary.co)

New Trades Union Congress (TUC) analysis reveals Women’s Pay Day – the day when the average woman stops working for free compared to the average man – is today, Wednesday 21 February. In some industries and in some parts of the country where the gender pay gap is wider, women effectively work for free for even longer...

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People keep spreading the myth that Jack and Jane in the same job working the same hours at the same company during the same year earn $1 and 70c respectively

Sometimes that is what happens though.

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Your own article states that Google has problems assigning women to appropriate pay bands, assigning women to lower pay bands despite having similar qualifications to their male counterparts.

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That is unfortunately how marriage works. When you get married, your incomes become one shared pot, and if that pot has been seen not paying its way, that pot then gets punished.

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Not only that, they set a precedent that will hugely discourage the use of LLM chatbots too. Great for us humans though

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Because these routers went out to everybody. Tech heads and idiots alike. It is far easier for ISPs to simply remote in than rely on the consumer who may be an idiot.

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Ditto. I went one step further and put OpenWRT on mine.

Messed up thing is, some ISPs make it an absolute bitch to make this work.

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So if we're not talking about ISPs sending this out, then the reason that remote access gets turned on by default is incase the company sysadmin couldn't physically get to the device, and they assumed the company had a firewall.

Companies almost always prioritise OOTB setup and operationality over security when it comes to defaults.

How to constructively protest against AI voice transcription at work?

As a medical doctor I extensively use digital voice recorders to document my work. My secretary does the transcription. As a cost saving measure the process is soon intended to be replaced by AI-powered transcription, trained on each doctor's voice. As I understand it the model created is not being stored locally and I have no...

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Look to your local health privacy laws. Most countries have that tightly controlled in such a way that this use of AI is illegal.

Your question is not a legal one, but a legal argument can be a very persuasive one.

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Not OP but if I were him/her: Leakage of patient data. Even if OP isn't responsible, simply being tied to an incident like this can look very bad in fields that rely heavily on reputation.

AI models are known to leak this kind of information, there are news articles all over

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I mean, 2 girls 1 cup would have never been on any TV station. Real decapitations probably not either. Some of the graphic war footage we see today, some of it might be on TV but the real gory stuff, not really.

That stuff was available. You just had to go out of your way to go see it. The same mostly applies to today's internet.

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