envy2

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by envy2 16d ago
This. There should be no intermediary liability protections for any paid or monetised content: as soon as a platform is either charging for placement or paying the creator, they should be treated as a publisher and held responsible.
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by envy2 2y ago
This is exactly what Trump and Musk would want, privatization of what should be (and were) government services. No one — and I mean no one — should profit from the provision of what should be core government services, like tax filing or hea
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by envy2 2y ago
No. But they could ban American companies from providing services directly to that French publisher (e.g., a US company couldn't print books for or sell paper to that French publisher). However, a US law could not stop me from legally
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by envy2 2y ago
You are significantly overestimating the level of recordkeeping by random sellers of used and/or ultra-cheap phones. Manufacturers, major retailers, and carriers may keep this information, but bodegas and street vendors certainly do
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by envy2 2y ago
Let's be realistic. Porn, the subject of this discussion, is not illegal in the US; this is about age verification laws that apply to the website operators, who then self-block users from particular states. No one is going after Cloudf
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by envy2 3y ago
No. This is driven by a huge reliance on foreign migrant labor, which is overwhelmingly male.
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by envy2 3y ago
And how many 60+ year olds know how to do that? Don't forget using private browsing / incognito mode; cookies will link your accounts immediately irrespective of VPN/SMS use. Oh, and credit card + billing address, if the goal
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by envy2 3y ago
Sorry to hear. As someone who works for a non-Google Big Tech company, you will get nowhere on this trying to work with Google (or any other Big Tech) support. If you believe your mom (and anyone using her account) definitely did not violat
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by envy2 3y ago
Yes, ad-supported social apps collect a ton of data. But the Apple privacy widget list is just a catch-all since people can post anything and Meta uses post content for ad targeting. Have you gone through Apple's onboarding flow recent
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by envy2 3y ago
Yes.
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by envy2 3y ago
Would be nice if either CitizenLab or Apple had published some IOCs...
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Meta introduces CM3leon, a more efficient image generation model(ai.meta.com)
37 points by envy2 3y ago|3 comments
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FTC Proposes Blanket Prohibition Preventing Facebook from Monetizing Youth Data(ftc.gov)
36 points by envy2 3y ago|15 comments
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by envy2 3y ago
I think this is just a standard API access prompt. The GitHub Next page clearly indicates it is (C) GitHub Inc and the blog post makes GitHub's control clear.
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by envy2 4y ago
> You don't know if the place you are storing it is doing so in plain text, storing a decryption key right next to it, etc. Any service that is storing passwords in plain text is probably not implementing 2FA in an safe way, either.
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About CompuServe(compuserve.com)
15 points by envy2 4y ago|14 comments
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WhatsApp launches end-to-end encrypted chat backups(about.fb.com)
4 points by envy2 5y ago|0 comments
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by envy2 5y ago
Deleting a FB account is already trivial. Instructions here (essentially, press "Permanently Delete Account" in settings and put in your password to confirm): https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674
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by envy2 5y ago
Companies shouldn't put themselves in this position: they should simply refuse to have a local presence or local employees in authoritarian-leaning countries.
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by envy2 5y ago
I know aloe vera is often said to be useful in clearing benzene and formaldehyde from the air as a houseplant: perhaps this is being picked up from the environment, rather than any production issue per se?
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by envy2 5y ago
You don't rub gasoline into your skin. This is not hard to understand.
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by envy2 5y ago
I find it rather odd that you can describe yourself as "aggressively liberal" and then go on to defend discrimination against an entire ethnic group because of one government's admittedly problematic actions. The CCP does no
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by envy2 5y ago
It seems likely that low wages are contributing to this shortage. There's lots of evidence that once employers bump wages to $15+ an hour, the have little difficulty filling roles. This report from Pittsburgh is a good example: https:
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by envy2 5y ago
No, he's talking about the politically-charged issue of people discussing services to help voluntary migrants get into another country. But, at least in the case of Facebook, advertising/offering those services isn't allowed[
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by envy2 6y ago
This "download random script from internet and execute" thing is a terrible idea, even moreso to put in bash_profile...
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by envy2 6y ago
Excellent. Looks like they've removed the tests for RIAA member videos as the only change, which I assume helped get this restored: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/commit/1fb034d029c8b7...
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by envy2 6y ago
This is straight up FUD. Yes, you can change a printable ballot form that you then have to PRINT OUT AND RETURN before it is counted. This is no more an "exploit" than a printing a blank ballot, filling it in, and sending it in un
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by envy2 6y ago
It's always been fairly easy to just get a multiple entry "Non-B" visa instead of relying on visa waiver, and then no questions asked.
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by envy2 6y ago
Sure, but then [employee]'s payment methods should be removed along with them. If they were using the company / boss's card or PayPal, then surely the company / boss should be able to add it back again without too much u
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by envy2 6y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the economic reality of the modern music business for labels. They make their money off streams, not people "buying" music; they have no real incentive to let people stream music for free as a

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