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MAGA World’s Belief In Their Made Up Claim That Biden Is ‘Censoring’ Conservatives On Social Media May Kill KOSA by sem in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] sem@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 weeks ago

As I can understand from EFF articles, the problem is not only in MAGA guys and their conspiracy but in KOSA proposal itself.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/new-us-house-version-kosa-doesnt-fix-its-biggest-problems

Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months by sem in c/opensource@lemmy.ml

[-] sem@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 month ago

For me the problem is more in GPL violation: they distribute blobs under GPL3, user made a request of the source code by creating an issue, but they ignored that request. It is not only about "you have to fix it" versus "just fork it" imo.

Decided to start paying predominantly cash again by sem in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] sem@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 months ago

I'm starting to use more cash for daily spendings. The rise of surveillance pricing is terrible, better to hide qt least some of information from my bank.

*Permanently Deleted* by sem in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] sem@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Privacy is a spectrum, not dichotomy. It is enough, imo, to reduce the amount of usage of google/amazon services significantly instead of blocking it.

OpenAI announces SearchGPT: its new AI search engine by sem in c/technology@lemmy.ml

[-] sem@lemmy.ml 51 points 2 months ago

If someone missed that: it returned a wrong answer even in the demo video.

https://lemmy.world/post/17961641

Anyone can Access Deleted and Private Repository Data on GitHub. by sem in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] sem@lemmy.ml 67 points 2 months ago

The title is very click bait imo. It is not about any private data. It is a very specific case of deleted fork of the public repository. It is a bug, of course. But it doesn't look so serious as I was thinking when saw the title.

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FTC Issues Orders to Eight Companies Seeking Information on Surveillance Pricing (www.ftc.gov)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by sem@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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After reading such news I have an obvious question. Does anyone know a PayPal-like service, that allows to hide the destination of my transactions from Mastercard / bank, but with a good privacy policy? Or how else can I restrict the usage of my financial data by mastercard or bank?

Autodesk is a monopoly! We need FOSS for AutoCAD desperately by sem in c/foss@beehaw.org

[-] sem@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 months ago

What is wrong with an existing FreeCAD? It seemed to me that the project is very active

Apple announced RCS with a whimper when it should have been a bang by sem in c/technology@lemmy.world

[-] sem@lemmy.ml 62 points 4 months ago

What android application supports RCS except Google Messages? So, for me it is not about "allowing iOS users communicate with Android users", but about allowing communications between iMessage users and Google Messages users.

Android's new anti-theft features by sem in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] sem@lemmy.ml 30 points 5 months ago

Automatic AI-powered screen lock for when your phone is snatched. Theft Detection Lock is a powerful new feature that uses Google AI to sense if someone snatches your phone from your hand and tries to run, bike or drive away.

Does it mean, that "Google AI" will running 24/7 in background, measuring how I use my phone, with an access to accelerometers data and location data?

Dutch court convicts engineer to 5 years for maintaining crypto mixer Tornado Cash by sem in c/privacy@lemmy.ml

[-] sem@lemmy.ml 34 points 5 months ago

That is absolutely crazy. I wish the strength to go through that for Alexey Pertsev!

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What is the most appropriate way of tracking web traffic? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by sem@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I have my personal blog, made with Hugo and hosted on GitHub pages. Initially I did not turn on any kind of web tracking / web analytics, because I do not like tracking at all. But I want to make my blog better and to achieve it, I need a feedback loop about traffic. For example, what are the most popular publications, or how many people view my blog from mobile devices, etc.

So, my question is, what is the most appropriate (ot the less evil) way to track a web traffic?

An answer "there is no good way to do it without breaking user's privacy" is acceptable too, I did not decide yet turning on the analytics. Instead I'm interested in an opinion of the community.

Thanks in advance!

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Threat of mining to African great apes (www.science.org)

submitted 6 months ago by sem@lemmy.ml to c/green@lemmy.ml

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tldr: Green transition, like switching to electric vehicles and use renewable energy sources, requires a huge amount of minerals. One of the main sources of these minerals is African continent. Researchers found big overlapp of that mining with areas of big apes. Almost 200.000 of apes are in a risk area, based on the estimation:

We estimated that more than one-third of the entire great ape population in Africa—nearly 180,000 individuals—could be directly or indirectly threatened by mining now and in the near future. Apes in West Africa could be most severely affected, where up to 82% of the population currently overlaps with operational and preoperational mining locations and their 50-km buffers

Another problem is that mining companies working there are not pay attention to ecological consequences of their business:

only 5% of the 400 assessed companies had carried out science-based nature and biodiversity impact assessments of their operations and business models

The comments speak for themselves by sem in c/memes@lemmy.ml

[-] sem@lemmy.ml 132 points 9 months ago

I'm not sure that lemmy users are different in this from user of Reddit/HackerNews/Facebook/etc.

Putin: West put ethnic Jew to rule in Ukraine to 'cover glorification of Nazism' by sem in c/worldnews@lemmy.ml

[-] sem@lemmy.ml 91 points 1 year ago

As a russian I can say that Putin is definitely crazy. He always was crazy a littlw due to his KGB past, you know, some tendency to overestimate impact of special servies and conspiracy. But I guess that the last drop was a covid pandemic when he sitted alone in bunker for a year in a total isolation. He totally out of mind. I do not think that one should seriously look at his speeches. Also, as a native russian speaker I watched a video interview and can proove that the translation is cirrect. He really said it...

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Any imdb-alternative? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by sem@lemmy.ml to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Is there any android app or web app with movie ratings and reviews? Android app would be better. Alternative to imdb? I want to be able to fast check the rating of movie or list of actors. I know about wikipedia app but it's interface is not focused on movies. Thanks in advance!