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voracitude , (edited )

No, the concern is not what people will see on TikTok but what data TikTok is offshoring from their devices to servers in China. It's a massive surveillance operation.

Now, why would you be trying to dress this up as a free speech issue, I wonder?

voracitude ,

They've still been offshoring all data to China in contravention of direct orders to stop. Your right to be a moron doesn't extend to compromising national security, not sorry.

voracitude ,

Ahh, "but what about". Not "That's not true, here's proof". Interesting approach, even if ineffective.

voracitude ,

Putting on your seatbelt and not using your phone while driving is now considered a "challenge"?

Judging by the drivers in my area at least: fuckin apparently.

voracitude , (edited )

edit: since the well-akshullies are out already, I'll say this is massively simplified because anyone who cares about the actual cryptography or terminology can go read the fuckin docs; it's detail that isn't necessary here.

Wallet addresses are just the public part of a public/private key pair. You can generate another public key with the private key so the address is different, but your private key can still sign transactions for both addresses.

voracitude ,

I recommend you read BIP-44 since this has been a standard for years in Bitcoin. Your other crypto knowledge seems woefully out of date as well, from your questions in your other post. Time to brush up, I think.

voracitude , (edited )

What's stopping a carrier from simply E2EE everything from Verizon, and then using Verizon to transfer the data?

Nothing, if you're talking about using them as an internet connection. You're describing Signal and other E2EE applications, basically. If you're talking about SMS and traditional phone calls, no, those protocols don't support encryption because they're not built to. You can jury-rig it which I'll get to later, but otherwise, it's just not possible due to the tech.

the encrypted data could still be collected and sold, but it wouldn't matter if the encryption was setup properly, right?

Correct, as all they'd see is gibberish with no way to decrypt it.

if carriers simply don't support E2EE, couldn't carrier locked phones install the software (since most install software anyways) required to make E2EE work?

Yes, but not with "phone" functions like SMS and PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) calls. SMS character limits are arbitrary and make it impossible to encrypt content in a single message. Signal, back in the Text secure days, used to use MMS to carry encrypted text, or where MMS wasn't available they'd send encrypted chunks and decrypt in the app on the other end. There's a reason they stopped doing that, and a reason it's a rare feature in messaging apps: it's hard to build and maintain and have it be reliable.

PSTN, I don't know of any way to encrypt the call. Edit: Actually I guess over a traditional copper wire you could encrypt a voice call with an eletronic device that could encode your speech into audio, so it’d sound like a dial-up modem if you listened to it, and only another device with the decryption key could decode the audio back into speech, but there’d probably be some delay and I don’t even know if that’d be legal or allowed by the carrier’s TOS. We're still extending bits of the PATRIOT Act, right?

voracitude ,

Right. I was just thinking after I'd posted that over a traditional copper wire you could encrypt a voice call with an eletronic device that could encode your speech into audio, so it'd sound like a dial-up modem if you listened to it, and only another device with the decryption key could decode the audio back into speech, but there'd probably be some delay and I don't even know if that'd be legal or allowed by the carrier's TOS.

voracitude ,

Doctors when I donate my dick to science (I don't have to die, I'm not using it anyway)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/5cb8b7b0-64c8-45b0-ac4c-4b190fd520d7.jpeg

voracitude ,

They do, but a PiHole will stop those just as effectively as it does all other ads on your network 😊

voracitude ,

Okay this could unironically be the plot for an anime that I might even watch, and the title is perfection.

voracitude ,

I don't speak Spanish very well, but I didn't see names other than Freedom in the snippet of Contract you posted. The privacy policy should tell you who they are allowed to share your data with explicitly; read that and tell them who you don't consent to sharing your data with (edit: find the privacy policy on their site in English: https://freedominternet.eu/privacy-policy, the PDF link loads something but it's not a PDF)

Do you have any other options for internet service? Even if you get the promotional offers removed from the contract, you'll have to keep an eye out for offers from new organisations and if you get any, contact them to find out how they got your information if you can. Basically, they might sell your data anyway, so you'll have to be ready to protect yourself if they do.

voracitude ,

They might fix it if you ask them to go download the PDF from the link and send it to you as an attachment. Then they'll find out the link doesn't work for themselves. I think the URL being bad is more that they forgot to update it.

I've had to make compromises to get internet service here in the US; I hoped the EU might be better but maybe not. Sorry mate!

Have you considered starting your own ISP? 😅

ajsadauskas , to Fuck Cars
@ajsadauskas@aus.social avatar

If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.

So.

The CEO of ExxonMobil just said this in an interview: "We’ve waited too long to open the aperture on the solution sets in terms of what we need, as a society, to start reducing emissions."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Who's the most influential voice on climate change? Who's to blame for inaction on climate change?

According to the CEO of ExxonMobil, it's environmental activists.

No, really:

"Frankly, society, and the activist—the dominant voice in this discussion—has tried to exclude the industry that has the most capacity and the highest potential for helping with some of the technologies."

Oh, and the CEO of ExxonMobil also apparently thinks consumers are to blame for climate inaction:

"Today we have opportunities to make fuels with lower carbon, but people aren’t willing to spend the money to do that."

Gets better.

He thinks unnamed 'people who generate emissions' should pay for it. (Rather than, say, major transnational oil companies.)

"People who are generating the emissions need to be aware of [it] and pay the price. That’s ultimately how you solve the problem."

https://fortune.com/2024/02/27/exxon-ceo-darren-woods-interview-pay-the-price-for-net-zero/

Worth including a quick reminder here that Exxon-Mobil made a US$36 billion profit in 2023: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/exxon-beats-estimates-ends-2023-with-36-billion-profit-2024-02-02/#:~:text=HOUSTON%2C%20Feb%202%20(Reuters),higher%20oil%20and%20gas%20production.

Not gross revenue.

Profit.

So, remind me again. Who knew about climate change before most of the public?

"Exxon was aware of climate change, as early as 1977, 11 years before it became a public issue... This knowledge did not prevent the company (now ExxonMobil and the world’s largest oil and gas company) from spending decades refusing to publicly acknowledge climate change and even promoting climate misinformation."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/

And just who, exactly, stood in the way reducing emissions all these years?

"ExxonMobil executives privately sought to undermine climate science even after the oil and gas giant publicly acknowledged the link between fossil fuel emissions and climate change, according to previously unreported documents...

"The new revelations are based on previously unreported documents subpoenaed by New York’s attorney general as part of an investigation into the company announced in 2015. They add to a slew of documents that record a decades-long misinformation campaign waged by Exxon, which are cited in a growing number of state and municipal lawsuits against big oil."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/14/exxonmobil-documents-wall-street-journal-climate-science

@fuck_cars

voracitude ,

You may want to add some information about all the subsidies the oil industry still gets, year on year, while the US government slashes subsidies for renewables: https://e360.yale.edu/digest/fossil-fuels-received-5-9-trillion-in-subsidies-in-2020-report-finds

The only way the oil industry can even remain viable, let alone competitive, is to prop it up with an unfair advantage in government money.

voracitude ,

These are a hell of a lot funnier than the original comics

voracitude ,

Better, buy a lottery ticket with it. That way it might be worth as much as the ash you'd have anyway, but there's a chance you'll become a millionaire.

Or Bitcoin, but fair warning: you might find yourself tempted to start a rap career, and that's almost never advisable.

voracitude ,

They undeleted a bunch of content that they had no right to undelete, and are using EU citizens' data without consent. They're in violation of GDPR, and the EU is going to take a very dim view of that indeed.

voracitude ,

If you're in the EU, I hope you have documentation of that. Could prove useful.

voracitude ,

Au contraire. If they didn't delete the information when asked to under the GDPR, and they get caught deleting evidence after a suit was filed (civil by one of us, criminal by the EU), they're in even bigger trouble. Reddit would have to be very careful to cover their tracks, and they won't be careful enough.

voracitude ,

Disappointing on the face of it, but not entirely unexpected. This will be an aggregate effort from members of the community; the next step is to write your local politician and ask why the response from their watchdog was so milquetoast?

voracitude ,

There's not; your eyes see the vague white lines formed by the lighter boxes, but when they're in your peripheral vision your brain is filling in the missing information, and because they're so close in location, colour, and thickness to the straight lines, your brain conflates the two. This results in exaggerating the white lines so you're more aware of them than when you're looking straight at them and can see the outlines of the white boxes clearly, and the white and green lines seem to blend when they're both in your peripheral vision.

voracitude ,

That's really interesting! We need to see if we can replicate that. Everyone get drunk and look at the picture! We need different states of inebriation, too. C'mon people 👏 Citizen science!

voracitude ,

Replace "an old man" with "an old man who betrayed his oath of office and our country", and watch the like/dislike flip instantly!!!!

Fixed that for you. Stop pretending like treason is okay.

voracitude ,

Would you believe that the people in a democracy look poorly on attempts to overthrow that democracy? Shocking stuff, but it's true.

Unrelated, I do have questions. I find myself wondering where you came by your taste for leather. Did you acquire it later in life or were you born with a boot in your mouth? And is the brain damage from licking up all the polish, or being dropped repeatedly on your head?

voracitude ,

In my defense, those were both your mother's fault and you didn't knock before you walked in.

voracitude ,

Show me on the doll where the orange man hurt you

It was right in the democracy. He thought it was my pussy; he's not particularly bright.

voracitude ,

Unappreciated wit is, thankfully, a tragedy you'll never have to experience.

Alternately: Your boos mean nothing, I've seen what you cheer for

voracitude ,

Thanks, but I didn't need that confirmed by someone who doesn't know what treason looks like. As to the ballot, it's no skin off my nose if you want your state to waste every electoral college vote they're allotted.

voracitude , (edited )

Oh, he didn't need to be charged; it's been ruled that he fomented an insurrection in the Courts, and that's treason. Now that gets kicked up to SCOTUS for review, but here's where you're in trouble: if any higher Court including the SCOTUS wants to overturn that ruling, they're going to have to show their work as to why, and they can't, because it's simple fact as shown by the video evidence of the day and sworn testimony by everyone who didn't hide behind the Fifth Amendment.

Now. I don't expect you to accept any of that, but it's dangerous to go alone, so take this block. It won't help you, but much like everyone you've ever cared for I'll be happy never thinking about you again. Okay okay, that was excessive; I didn't really mean it. I'm sorry.

voracitude , (edited )

Huh. I can't seem to block you from this instance; I don't know if that's a lemmy.world problem or a sh.itjust.works problem. Ah well, since we're still here: https://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2023/12/23SA300.pdf

  • A large group of people forcibly entered the Capitol, overwhelming law enforcement officers on site.
  • The mob was armed with a wide array of weapons, including metal bars from police barricades and officers' batons and riot shields.
  • The mob violently assaulted police officers throughout the day, using actual and threatened force.
  • The mob coordinated and demonstrated unity of purpose, marching through the Capitol, chanting threats against members of Congress and Vice President Pence.
  • Upon breaching the Capitol, the mob pursued its intended target—the certification of the presidential election—reaching the House and Senate chambers within minutes.
  • The mob's unified purpose was to hinder or prevent Congress from counting the electoral votes and certifying the 2020 presidential election, effectively halting the electoral certification process.

The transfer of power happened in spite of Trump, not because he didn't make the attempt. Rebut the Court, not me. But this would require you to read, which I know you won't do, and argue in good faith, which you aren't and won't.

As to your second topic: Of course, as long as you'll agree that whatever sentence Biden gets Trump also gets but to greater scale, to reflect the difference in both the number and sensitivity of the documents retained. See, that's the difference between Democrats and Republicans: we're willing to hold our leaders to account and we expect them to be subject to the same laws the rest of us are.

voracitude , (edited )

Read the ruling I linked and all the cited case law in it. Here's some relevant portions:

The question thus becomes whether the evidence before the district court sufficiently established that the events of January 6 constituted a concerted and public use of force or threat of force by a group of people to hinder or prevent the U.S. government from taking the actions necessary to accomplish the peaceful transfer of power in this country. We have little difficulty concluding that substantial evidence in the record supported each of these elements and that, as the district court found, the events of January 6 constituted an insurrection.

It is undisputed that a large group of people forcibly entered the Capitol and that this action was so formidable that the law enforcement officers onsite could not control it. Moreover, contrary to President Trump’s assertion that no evidence in the record showed that the mob was armed with deadly weapons or that it attacked law enforcement officers in a manner consistent with a violent insurrection, the district court found—and millions of people saw on live television, recordings of which were introduced into evidence in this case—that the mob was armed with a wide array of weapons. The court also found that many in the mob stole objects from the Capitol’s premises or from law enforcement officers to use as weapons, including metal bars from the police barricades and officers’ batons and riot shields and that throughout the day, the mob repeatedly and violently assaulted police officers who were trying to defend the Capitol. The fact that actual and threatened force was used that day cannot reasonably be denied.

Substantial evidence in the record further established that this use of force was concerted and public. As the district court found, with ample record support, “The mob was coordinated and demonstrated a unity of purpose . . . . They marched through the [Capitol] building chanting in a manner that made clear they were seeking to inflict violence against members of Congress and Vice President Pence.” And upon breaching the Capitol, the mob immediately pursued its intended target—the certification of the presidential election—and reached the House and Senate chambers within minutes of entering the building.

Finally, substantial evidence in the record showed that the mob’s unified purpose was to hinder or prevent Congress from counting the electoral votes as required by the Twelfth Amendment and from certifying the 2020 presidential election; that is, to preclude Congress from taking the actions necessary to accomplish a peaceful transfer of power. As noted above, soon after breaching the Capitol, the mob reached the House and Senate chambers, where the certification process was ongoing. Id. This breach caused both the House and the Senate to adjourn, halting the electoral certification process. In addition, much of the mob’s ire—which included threats of physical violence—was directed at Vice President Pence, who, in his role as President of the Senate, was constitutionally tasked with carrying out the electoral count.

If you want the links and citations, they're in the PDF; the text is largely unedited, I just removed paragraph markers and numbering. But you're not sorry, and you don't respect anyone. You'll deny and deflect and trot out any meaningless tripe in response to actual evidence, because you don't want to live in this reality. That's why I don't want to engage with you anymore. The best you've got is a "nuh-uh 🤡". Good luck with that, and good day.

voracitude ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1163cf1f-2193-47ba-b445-69800253d22e.webm

voracitude ,

Didn't know I was looking for this but glad I found it, thanks for putting it together!

voracitude ,

Because if Italy needs anything, it's more corruption of their political offices. Berlusconi was GOAT, you know. /s

voracitude ,

From everything I've read and heard, Linus cures head wounds in reverse.

voracitude ,

I don't fight the truth, king 🙏

voracitude ,

That's weird, I've always thought of floppies as pretty durable. The 3.5" ones anyway; the older larger ones were flimsier. On the 3.5" ones the little metal cover would get bent sometimes, or occasionally crushed if someone put one in a back pocket and forgot before they sat down; but in my career I've had a lot more thumbdrives broken off in the port than bent/crushed floppies. How did you find most of yours broke? Maybe I had an abundance of clumsy colleagues... or maybe I joined the IT workforce too late to have witnessed the tsunami of broken floppies!

voracitude ,

Work in IT as long as I have and if you don't learn not to judge, you at least learn not to bother judging 😋

voracitude ,

Throwing my +1 behind Hetzner, it's so much more bang for your buck than with a VPS and I've been pleased with the stability and uptime I get out of my auction box.

voracitude ,

Pffft, just download some more RAM. You'd download a car, wouldn't you? 😂

voracitude ,

Man wait til you hear about Gmail

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