Hirom @ Hirom @beehaw.org

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Drink water

The list of "restrictions" for refusing to verify your age include privacy-friendly tweaks that I would consider as perks. Those would make great defaults for everyone.

Ads are no longer personalized

Digital wellbeing tools (such as “take a break”) are enabled by default

Reminders about privacy are shown when uploading a video or commenting

Video uploads are set to private by default

LOL

Given the duration of the outage, I guess the company has both a complex computer system that's all networked, and doesn't have a solid disaster recovery plan.

God forbid YouTube becomes biased toward factual information.

“The pressure in Europe is enormous,” he said.

War crime and genocide tends to create this kind of pressure. Not applying pressure would be a moral failure, doing business as usual is wrong under the circumstances.

He warned that cutting off dialogue could have long-term geopolitical consequences.

Netanyahu and its government have ignored multiple calls from multiple sources to allow more aid, minimize civilian casualities. It has damaged an EU building in Gaza.

They've demonstrated they're not listening to those calls. It's well past time to impose sanction, put real economic and diplomatic pressure.

One doesn't cancel the other.

“In Europe, the demand for electric cars is significantly below industry forecasts,” it said. The plant, which makes an electric version of the Explorer SUV, would move to one shift per day instead of two beginning in January, the company said in a statement.

Hopefully they'll consider making smaller and cheaper EVs, instead of the more expensive SUVs. Europe is not the USA.

Trump and his lackeys were quick to adopt cancel culture.

Neat.

DNS over Quic would be nicer, but that's still a move toward more privacy.

Yep, using ChatGPT is a way to increase one's environmental footprint.

And the energy cost doesn't appear to be fully passed to users yet, as OpenAI isn't profitable yet. There are even free LLM services. So users don't have an insentive to prefer less polluting alternatives, such as classic search engines.

Another downside is that Google is no longer releasing the source code for monthly security updates, only for quarterly ones. This, in conjunction with other delays in OS source code, means most custom ROMs can’t ship monthly updates anymore. Add this to the pile of other things that make it harder to mod your Android phone in 2025.

Great, Google is making AOSP-based, Google-free ROMs less secure. To accomodate corporate partners that are unable to do monthly bug fixes.

Privatizing Profits and Socializing Losses, brought to you by the fossiel fuel industry.

Please don't give Loeb more attention. He's fantasizing about aliens every time a comet enter the solar system.

Nice. I hope it makes Signal suitable for public official required to archive communications.

Currently signal users probably have no backup, or use a Signal fork that support archiving in a less secure way.

Privacy Badger go beyond blocking cross-site cookies:

Privacy Badger comes with other advantages like cookie blocking, click-to-activate placeholders for potentially useful tracker widgets (video players, comments widgets, etc.), and outgoing link click tracking removal on Facebook and Google.

Privacy Badger can detect canvas-based fingerprinting, and will block third party domains that use it. Detection of other forms of fingerprinting and protections against first-party fingerprinting are ongoing projects. Of course, once a domain is blocked by Privacy Badger, it will no longer be able to fingerprint you.

https://privacybadger.org/#How-is-Privacy-Badger-different-from-Disconnect,-Adblock-Plus,-Ghostery,-and-other-blocking-extensions

What happens when it detects tempering? Does it cause one syscall to fail, or a kernel panic?

I quikly gave up on correting those bots. Either you're lucky and made a prompt that induced it to generate a decent answer. Or you're not, and there's no point in correcting it. In that case you're better off doing whatever you were going to do without a LLM.

Providing feedback isn't much, but it's better than nothing. Closing an account and going to a competitor is another option, if competitors were not as bad.

I can't talk directly the person responsible, the employee is more likely to be able to.

I was once an employee in a similar situation, getting feedback/complaint from a customer. As an employee you can't do much if you alone think management is making a dumb decision. But if a (enough) customers thinks and say it, employees who agree may jump on that occasion and ensure that feedback gets noticed by management.

It's sad that gouvernments require adhering to some corporation's terms of service, and tracking, to access public service.

Public service are a right, it shouldn't be a choice between public service and privacy, but it's also important to have access to healthcare. It's fine to both complain about an app, and to use it to avoid being excluded.

I try to use alternatives (websites, physical mail, phone) instead of apps whenever possible. When a provider announced their website would be retired and told customers to install apps, I email them to request they send monthly invoice by snail mail. They're required by law if requested, at least here. And it's probably more costly to them.