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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Worse, Apple and Google are *still* holding the coats of FB and Bytedance and other companies that subvert browser choice and enable more pervasive tracking on the web through so-called "in-app browsers":
@owa has the best explainer on what mobile OS vendors are doing to your choice in browsers when you aren't looking:
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
This adds to the incoherence of saying "privacy is a human right" while consistently failing to sell devices that promise it to folks who aren't rich. Apple's whole market model is based on only selling hardware when it can make 30+% after service costs. That makes 80+% of the market a no-go zone.
Privacy, as defined by Apple, isn't for the poors.
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zoe@zoeoconnell.co.uk ("Zoë O'Connell") wrote:
British Medical Association calls anti-trans Cass Review “unsubstantiated”. https://www.bma.org.uk/bma-media-centre/bma-to-undertake-an-evaluation-of-the-cass-review-on-gender-identity-services-for-children-and-young-people
This is major: the BMA is the major union for doctors in the UK and not a niche group, most doctors are members.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Privacy online isn't solvable without legislation. We need laws to drive the price of reidentification high enough to make it commercially infeasible. This is because technical interventions cannot credibly prevent fingerprinting without neutering basic functionality.
It's perverse that the only folks to build such a browser is the Tor project, and Apple prevents them from bringing those benefits to iOS while marketing privacy:
https://infrequently.org/2024/07/misfire/#fn-a-truly-private-browser-4
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Yikes. “Severe thunderstorm warning”…that’s not good, he says, as the sky falls on him with a roar.
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thiswomanswerk@blacktwitter.io ("Andrea is still here") wrote:
"I looked for 30 minutes and I couldn't find any racism on mastadon" is sending me...mbic that should be your sign to recognize that the call is coming from inside the house
#MassaDon is at it again
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OutOnTheMoors@beige.party ("CrazyMyra") wrote:
The only two bathrooms necessary
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punklawyer@mastodon.sdf.org ("PunkLawyer") wrote:
#NSFW: INCESTUOUS-MINDED GRIFTER URGED DAUGHTER TO PRODUCE #IVANKASEXTAPE LIKE #PARISHILTON
“The thing with Paris hurt Ivanka a lot,” a friend told New York Magazine. “He was heartbreaking to her at times.”
The piece said that she “buried her feelings and moved on,” thinking her father’s feelings about women were “complicated.”
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bhawthorne@infosec.exchange ("Brian Hawthorne") wrote:
We are clearly entering the “indistinguishable from magic” phase of the “Any sufficiently advanced technology” model. Semi-conductor nano crystals excited by single wavelength light to attach to PFAs and defluorinate them.
https://newatlas.com/environment/pfas-toxic-forever-chemicals-100-percent-break-down-overnight/
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unlobito@woof.tech ("harley!") wrote:
this is what a senior software engineer looks like
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wonderofscience ("Wonder of Science") wrote:
Stunning images of Jupiter captured by the Juno spacecraft during a close flyby in October 2018.
Video credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gerald Eichstädt
#space #science #nasa
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bwhitman@hachyderm.io ("Brian Whitman") wrote:
Tulip is now available to all! It's been a wild ride getting here. It's an incredibly low-cost fully open Python computer with an excellent synthesizer, MIDI, CV, etc. Make stuff in code. Please join us! https://tulip.computer/
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DeliaChristina@sfba.social ("Delia Christina") wrote:
Colleague: yeah, must be some weird cold we're having in July.
Girl, it's Covid.
You and your husband have Covid.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
At @freedomofpress we’re hiring a Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) consultant to help us develop a monitoring and evaluation framework for our digital security training courses. Are you a good fit, or know someone who is? Check out the job description and please share the posting widely! https://freedom.press/careers/job/?gh_jid=4443012005
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w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:
Due to "anti-democratic actions by the Georgian government," the US is pausing more than $95 million in assistance to the country in the Caucasus, announces Secretary of State Blinken.
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
“Being obsessed with repressing women is goofy. Trying to watch what LGBTQ+ people do all the time is abnormal. Punishing people who don’t have biological offspring is creepy. It’s an incel platform, dude. It’s SUPER weird. And people need to know.”
~ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as quoted by Robyn Pennacchia
#Trump #JDVance #weird #Republicans
/9https://www.wonkette.com/p/aoc-correct-again-trump-and-jd-vance
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gtconway3@threads.net ("George Conway") wrote:
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xyzzy@mastodon.sandwich.net ("Text Adventure") wrote:
You enter a sweet-smelling, dark orange room. There is a POTTED PLANT near the window. You see a CUP OF COFFEE here, in the window. There is a BUSINESS EXECUTIVE here, shredding confidential documents.
Exits: SOUTH SOUTH DOWN
#bot
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
"Now that the media no longer has Joe Biden’s age to consume our every waking moment, the endless stream of bizarre things Trump and Vance both say and do is suddenly getting the scrutiny it deserves.
The 'Trump and Vance are weird' strategy is brilliant because it is multi-purposed."
~ Todd Beeton
#Trump #JDVance #weird #Republicans
/6https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/kamala-harris-donald-trump-weird
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cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Oooh! Shannon Curtis added another track to their "80s Kids" back on the 5th:
https://shannoncurtis.bandcamp.com/track/dancing-in-the-dark
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axbom@axbom.me ("Per Axbom") wrote:
Organisations when they hire consultancy services: “We need a company credit check and report to ensure your finances are stable and that this will be a sustainable relationship.”
Organisations when deciding on using OpenAI: “We understand you spend $700,000 per day and need $5 billion a year to survive as a company, which is way more than any company has ever raised in history. Please take our money. We will integrate your tool into all our tools now. The lottery is our favorite way of investing in our own future.”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Shut 'em up, shut 'em up good.
Mastodon FeedI've tried #VisionPro demo in an Apple Store (they have lots of available slots in the UK, BTW)
- It's heavy. When it doesn't crush my sweaty cheekbones, it makes my neck hurt.
- Resolution is the best I've seen, but at best a 1440p monitor equivalent. Text is ok, but a downgrade from a real 4K monitor.
- Spatial vid from iPhone is low res and barely any 3D.
- Apple's professional 3D content looks low res, and has wobbliness of 3DoF, like all VR
- FOV is average
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brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson") wrote:
On third party cookies: @slightlyoff says “The TAG missed a critical opportunity to call for legislative fixes to the technically unfixable problems it failed to enumerate.” https://infrequently.org/2024/07/misfire/ I (and we, at Vivaldi) completely agree. As we wrote at the weekend, "Politicians must grab the bull by its horns, put on some dry pants, and step up to fight for a better web. Banning profiling is what’s needed." https://vivaldi.com/blog/the-norwegian-minister-of-finance-is-peeing-in-his-pants-to-stay-warm/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
JD stands for Jerectile Dysfunction
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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:
Noting that it enrages Trump when he's called weird, Oliver Markus Molloy says,
"If you want to break the spell that a fascist cult leader like Trump or Putin has over his brainwashed minions, destroy the hyper-masculine 'magic aura' of the fascist strongman.
Destroy his ability to give them a dopamine rush.
How? Show that you’re not afraid of him. Disrespect him. Make fun of him."
#Trump #JDVance #weird #Republicans #fascists
/5https://maganazi.substack.com/p/i-made-some-anti-trump-memes
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Willy Brown: “Oh yeah, if the public is fascinated with your antics, you survive,” he said, before lowering the boom. “It’s unfortunate, but you can’t really tell the voters they’re idiots.”
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kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:
If it actually happens, what an incredible prisoner swap this will be. I'm still waiting for news about Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva…
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sitting/waiting in “central jury room”… Law of the Multiverse: everything takes longer
![[Screenshot of a bluesky post commenting on a twitter post] @paleofuture.bsky.social: AI Folks have now discovered "thinking" @stephsmithio: Sometimes in the process of writing a good enough prompt for ChatGPT, I end up solving my own problems, without even needing to submit it.](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/112/881/713/374/698/801/original/d87fd59835c56eb6.png){kind=link}
