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Isn’t this a dinner & donation issue? That’s how American government works now.

You only get takedown notices for negative content. It’s the new and improved Free Speech Censorship®

I just go idle for a week or two and it works again. It seems like a soft IP block. I use a IPv4 address for yt-dlp so CGNAT sort of works in my favor here.

A flash preloader was my first real tech job! As I recall, they stiffed my last paycheck and went under later.

But it was incredibly fun and I made connections that steered my career to a new direction for the next decade.

I don’t necessarily oppose the use of AI as a tool for humans to utilize, but I do have issues with it dictating policies or control over human beings. By the people, for the people, absolutely does not include AI. (Sorry Data, not yet)

Also, any prompts and prompt instructions should be public with results. It is just way too easy to fuck up.

I found one of these fakes on the shelves at CVS!

I’m pretty proud I got something banned after a letter.

I kinda teared up on that article. What hope they had.

For all wondering, this was written in 2007, speculating on the future. It flat out starts by saying they know they’ll be wrong by making these guesses.

They thought we’d have a lunar colony by 2022. Instead we gave ourselves two shots to the feet and looking at the shiny down the barrel.

There are basic, basic permission controls and hiding info from non-admin users. But it’s nasty for a big setup.

I imagine it would be implemented in the future, but priorities aren’t there yet.

I agree though, would be a nice feature to have.

If not user data and network security concerns, what? Why the ban/sale song and dance?

Wasn’t the whole thing about China scooping up loads of data?

So give a copy of that data to one of the worlds largest advertiser/online markets and license behavioural data from the “baddies”. Yeah, that’ll fix everything.

Everybody loses.

I tried to update my lemmy instance and it all went so horribly wrong. DB never came up, errors everywhere, searching implied I updated to a dev branch sometime in the past (not a dev, don’t think I did) and it’ll be console and DB queries for a fix.

Ran out of time and overwhelmed, I restored backups and buried my head in the sand. Nope, not now. Future, yes, but oh not now.

If you’re considering life360, you’ve already lost the privacy game.

There are different levels of privacy to consider.

Apps: limit number of apps or essential only. Many have built-in trackers for developer kickbacks. Even developers don’t know the full extent of how the data is used.

Device settings: harden the phone by checking all the privacy settings. Install an ad/tracker blocking VPN app.

Evesdroppers: Your phone is a radio transmitter. Companies know this. Your mobile company may have privacy settings and track phones independently of any device settings or app. Also, bluetooth loggers are placed around high traffic areas, such as stores, to record precise location and movement. Disabling wifi, Bluetooth, or Mobile may be considered depending on level of privacy paranoia*.

There may be some privacy respecting tracking options (well, as a family anyway) over on the selfhosted lemmy community if you’re ready to go down that rabbit hole.

•It’s not paranoia if it’s real.

Welp, I know what I’m doing Sunday.

Never crossed my mind and sounds amazing. Sorry poor, overworked NAS, you’re hosting another something.

Same boat here. I chose Plex because the apps were everywhere. Smart TV’s, phones, web…

I can switch, no problem. I don’t want to have to teach my parents a new app. OMFG!

That’s a good litmus test. If asking/paying artists to train your AI destroys your business model, maybe you’re the arsehole. ;)

Well… Shit.

There are so, so, so, many ESP32’s in not just my house, but practically everyone I know.

There outta be fines for this BS.

Personally, that crosses my mind. But I came over in the reddit revolt and saw lemmy as a fresh start. Privacy isn’t easy, but at least make them work for it.

Also, I figure (if it hasn’t happened already) some federated instances out there are nefarious, set up to harvest data.

We just had a helicopter doing low passed over our house and watching the flight on a tracker, it was clear it was casing chosen neighborhoods. The lengths someone went to sell whatever info they grabbed means it’s highly valuable. The fediverse is open and waiting for it to be datamined.