"Self defense"
"Bro full self driving is 5 years away bro trust me bro"
Professional procrastinator, PhD
The point is that it's a loophole in privacy laws so they don't have to outright tell people that they collect personal or identifying information. So they can legally mislead people by claiming it's anonymous telemetry in hopes that users don't actually look into it or understand the implications.
You shouldn't get to participate in an international organization while murdering the aid workers employed by said organization.
This is just another attempt to destroy the UN.
Burh Israel literally, explicitly called for the UN to be destroyed, and named them a terrorist organization (and of course also played the antisemitic card).
Ad firm money.
Maybe I'm just cynical, but my first instinct when I see stuff like this is they have a secret contract with an advertiser and are selling this information.
Like if you're going to use Arch btw, go all the way and use actual Arch.
Those are absolutely ways of covertly identifying your device while technically not counting as "personal information" under privacy laws.
It's not fucking over Microsoft, it's prevent Microsoft from fucking us over. Microsoft is not the victim in this.
Oh but when I feed at 40 times the theoretical limit my doctor calls me "unhealthy" and "you're eating yourself to death"
Does Israel not see how similarly to Hitler they're acting?
Or is that the point and their express intent is to perpetuate their very own holocaust against people they themselves deem the Untermensch?
I mean, I know the answer, but
And as always, the majority response to this will absolutely be something along the lines of "I support writers but you can fuck right off if you expect me to inconvenience myself in the slightest most superficial way in solidarity with you because actually having to modify my behavior in the simplest way is where I draw the line."
It's not about if it's successful or not, it's about the US having dug in to this and wanting to keep up the tough facade they so desperately want other countries to fear.
You want to defederate from the largest Lemmy instance, the poster child, and the mascot of Lemmy? Good luck. They are Lemmy now.
Don’t care. If I gave a shit about the biggest instance because it has the most users, then I would have stayed on Reddit which has orders of magnitudes more users and to put it in the linked comment's words, they still are link aggregators in the the commenter thinks .world "are" Lemmy. The whole damn point of federation is your instance is not locked into what the biggest instance wants to do.
Trusting your security to Google is literally like trusting a fox to guard your hen house.
It won’t be a problem until .world starts demanding mutual defederation (i.e. instances federated with .world have to pledge to defederate from instances .world deems problematic)
If they do that, the fediverse will absolutely not take that shit sitting down. Obviously it would depend on what exactly their criteria for problematic is, like if they don't want you federating with actual neonazi and white supremacist instances I doubt most instances will disagree with that for obvious reasons, but if they have the audacity to deem things like socialism or anti-Zionism problematic or something overly broad like that, I have no doubt that tons of instances not even explicitly on those sides will defederate with .world in protest. People join federated social media specifically because they oppose bullshit like this that regular corporate social media try to pull.
Don't care. If I gave a shit about the biggest instance because it has the most users, then I would have stayed on Reddit which has orders of magnitudes more users. The whole damn point of federation is your instance is not locked into what the biggest instance wants to do.
Think about it. It was released (read: forcibly shoved down our throats) by Google and came out of nowhere when there were zero problems with the decades old and extremely well researched incumbent image/video formats that the web was already using (i.e. jpg, png, gif, mp4, etc). Google has confirmed ties to the US three-letter agencies through PRISM, as well as AFAIK all but confirmed ties to the Israeli government. BlastPass was reportedly apart of Israel's Pegasus hacking suite for years before the vulnerability went public, and was actively exploited by Israel to track down political dissidents. It's also the worst type of vulnerability there is, a buffer overflow resulting in arbitrary code execution, meaning once you exploit it you can do literally anything to the target device, from an image format, the type of file most people would never suspect to be capable of doing that (and indeed most developers never suspected that either, considering how everyone from Mozilla to Apple seemingly just took Google source code and incorporated it into their own software, no questions asked).
Maybe I'm just overly cynical, but I'm having a really hard time believing that such a critical vulnerability in such a widespread code base would be accidental, especially in the age of automated testing, fuzzing, and when the industry generally has a very good understanding of how to prevent memory vulnerabilities. The vulnerability was there since they very beginning of the standard and we're to believe one of the largest software companies simply failed to spot it for years? I don't think Hanlon's Razor should apply to companies like Google because they have a long and shameless pattern of malice and have long exhausted their benefit of the doubt.
I have a sneaking suspicion that WebP was planned as a Trojan horse from the start to backdoor as much software as possible, and Google sold the exploit to the US and Israel govts. Why else would Google so relentlessly push an image format of all things unless there was some covert benefit to themselves? (An image format that's not even patented/licensed mind you so they're definitely not making money that way.)
What do you think?
"It's not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!"
If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.
"It's not like the government is forcing you to buy a car!"
If you live in a city with parking minimums, yes they fucking are.
You're walking home late at night from the bar because you've had 11 shots of tequila but you still made the conscious decision not to drive for the safety of others.
You're crossing a stroad.
Someone "in a hurry" decide to run the red light and hits you at 70 km/h (because of course they were speeding, why wouldn't they?), doesn't see you because you're hunched over while you're walking and it's really dark and the person is driving a giant SUV with shit visibility.
Cars are one of the largest source of fatal pedestrian accidents in a major city. How much more likely are you to get into an accident if you're drunk and is less able to pay attention to cars breaking the rules and putting you in danger? Walking safely in most cities is a task you need to be sober for because you have to walk super defensively.
You're walking home late at night from the bar because you've had 11 shots of tequila but you still made the conscious decision not to drive for the safety of others. You're crossing a stroad. Someone "in a hurry" decide to run the red light and hits you at 70 km/h (because of course they were speeding, why wouldn't they?), doesn't see you because you're hunched over while you're walking and it's really dark and the person is driving a giant SUV with shit visibility.
Cars are one of the largest source of fatal pedestrian accidents in a major city. How much more likely are you to get into an accident if you're drunk and is less able to pay attention to cars breaking the rules and putting you in danger? Walking safely in most cities is a task you need to be sober for because you have to walk super defensively.
They definitely have a boomer for a social media manager
