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To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules. (mullvad.net)

The most common argument used in defense of mass surveillance is ‘If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear’. Try saying that to women in the US states where abortion has suddenly become illegal. Say it to investigative journalists in authoritarian countries. Saying ‘I have nothing to hide’ means you stop...

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It was Edward Snowden who said that "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

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Symmetrical transparency.

sqgl OP ,

News today: vote has been postponed.

sqgl OP ,

And good news in Australia (despite the disingenuous headline).

sqgl OP ,

But the Australian eSafety Commissioner isn't giving up her "won't someone think of the children" rhetoric.

sqgl , (edited )

My admin friend told me that all email is now secure and encrypted by default.

Of course you have to trust whoever is hosting your email though. Don't trust Gmail, yahoo, hotmail etc

sqgl OP ,

The guy was having a funny geeky bitch. He was laughing at himself. He doesn't expect Apple to change anything.

EDIT: I think you are right, that last paragraph of his is weirdly serious. Would have been pure comedy without it.

sqgl OP , (edited )

I suspect the ranting author failed to appreciate that Bluetooth is probably cheaper to implement for the audio because regular headphones require three wires while power supply only requires two. Ingenious really.

EDIT: Proper wired headphones would also require a soundcard in the dongle.

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Misleading title. He did not win the appeal.

He won the opportunity to have an appeal hearing.

It is last week's news anyhow.

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Aren't ads dispersed throughout the discussions? If not, then why not?

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I prefer promotion of humility and a lifestyle which puts the emphasis on values relationships, nature, personal time etc, for instance...

In August 2020 the Chinese
government launched "Operation empty plate", a campaign to
stop food and beverage waste and cultivate frugality.

However banning materialist fetishes will probably do more good than harm anyhow. Slippery slope though.

SOLVED: If I pay for Proton Unlimited, do I get unlimited aliases through SimpleLogin's API or only through Proton Pass (kbin.run)

I'm gonna be paying for Proton Unlimited soon, which gives me unlimited email aliases through Proton Pass. Currently, however, I use Bitwarden and a SimpleLogin API key to generate aliases. Does paying for Proton give me unlimited aliases through SimpleLogin since SL is owned by Proton?...

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But you only get two IP addresses on each device, right?

"Split tunnelling" lets you use your regular ISP for some apps but Proton for others. So you can use different browsers to appear to be two different people on a single web site.

sqgl ,

Yes on Android I can do split tunnelling too as well as 4G. So a total of four IP's (not three).

It is annoyingly inconsistent that the Android app split tunnelling is done via an exclusion list but the laptop app does it via an inclusion list.

sqgl ,

I'm biased towards paragraphs.

Otherwise, good point: understanding the other side is a good way to somehow being able to work together.

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The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of the word liberty.

Quoted from Abraham Lincoln

sqgl ,

He probably was drawing the analogy with the landowners exploiting black people.

And black sheep are rejected by the flock apparently.

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TBH I didn't understand your soulism comment or how it is connected with your original comment.

I was really just supporting your original comment.

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That Lincone guy who said it was a famous dude for being smart and shit. Could be hype eh?

sqgl ,

So I looked it up....

Soulism is a school of anarchist thought which argues that reality, the laws of physics, and the limitations of our bodies are unjust heirarchies which must be abolished.

https://www.reddit.com/r/serioussoulism/

I think I am done chatting with this person after mistakenly embarking in good faith. You spotted the evangelical kookiness quicker than I did.

sqgl OP ,

Not posted here when I checked before posting and I just checked again, searching for Apple then sorting by new.

Maybe the previous person removed the word Apple or it was a different publication which didn't mention Apple in the headline?

sqgl OP , (edited )

They are lemmy.world but we are discussing this in lemmy.ml.

Here is my app (Boost) not finding those articles. It is only looking at lemmy.ml.

Screenshot from Boost app

sqgl OP ,

I still don't understand the whole federation thing. Does your app combine the "Privacy" group from lemmy.ml with that of lemmy.world and other lemmy instances?

sqgl OP ,

Wasn't too rude. I still am not sure I understand federation between instances.

And I just realised now that my app has a proper crosspost option (which I should have used). Nobody picked me up on that.

sqgl OP ,

What happens if you do a search like I did in my screenshot?

sqgl OP ,

Including mine I presume. Not the beehaw one I "crossposted" from. I will post about it on the Boost group, thanks. The developer won't like being outdone by Thunder.

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CCTV pointing at politicians not citizens

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Sad Clippy

sqgl ,

There was a free version of virtual desktops already available.

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SimpleX uses Signal protocol but without needing your phone number.

Meta gave Netflix and Spotify access to users private messages (arstechnica.com)

in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."...

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I'll see you on Wire.

Or SimpleX

sqgl ,

The bar for "genocide" keeps getting lower. The word is getting devalued.

Are there tools that exist to anonymize writing styles?

I feel like with the rise of AI something that anonymizes writing styles should exist. For example it could look for differences in American versus British spelling like color versus colour or contextual things like soccer versus football and make edits accordingly. ChatGPT could be fed a prompt that says "Rewrite the following...

sqgl ,

Just ask ChatGPT to paraphrase.

sqgl ,

Fair point. Depends on what the document is used for I suppose — whether such security is an issue (vs simply anonymising the style).

sqgl ,

You could for example become a ham radio operator and IP can be used there but you could only talk to other hams and encryption is not allowed plus other rules.

TIL.

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/s/z81QC0XvaF

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Speakerphone makes me self-conscious in public

I would feel self conscious if people looked at me thinking I was crazy, talking to myself.

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In Australia both internet telephony and mobile are sometimes laggy and garbled. This never happened with landlines.

sqgl ,

Landlines were self-powered. They did not require mains. But if the blackout was because a tree pulled down the power lines then there was a good chance it pulled down telephone wires too.

sqgl , (edited )

No need for glasses. Just make sure the face paint is done dazzle style.

sqgl ,

Is the web site sharing with them or does it make you share with them so that your CPU does most of the processing and uploading to each advertising lead leech?

This would explain why we need more and more powerful/expensive phones just to keep browsing.

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How much of that do script blockers protect you from?

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Every geek I knew in the early 90's was naively evangelizing about the internet ushering in a new age of enlightenment.

I was too, I admit. Am now optimistic about the benefits of a UBI but, with the above humbling experience, guardedly so — the unintended consequences might be impossible to predict.

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A study has undermined the greed angle.

Turns out that (amongst OECD countries) GDP per capita is not correlated with indicators of happiness at all. What is correlated is the degree of income equality...

and here is the great part...

Even for rich people. They too have better lives where there is more equitable income distribution. One day they will hopefully realise.

https://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson_how_economic_inequality_harms_societies

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Brin was married to her sister Anne, the biotech analyst.

In fact him and Larry Page started up Google in Susan Wojcicki's garage in Menlo Park. Perhaps in gratitude he later funded her it is not mentioned in his Wiki.

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Hashing won't fix sloppy typos/grammar.

How much would hash digsets digests be shortened if the whole alphabel alphabet was used ?

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