jdp23

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by jdp23 8mo ago
What screenreaders are you using to test the models with?
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by jdp23 1y ago
Really interesting paper, and thanks for the followon points. The over-optimism is indeed a really important takeaway, and agreed that it's not tool-dependent.
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9 things the Social Web Foundation could do to prioritize safety in the fedvirse(privacy.thenexus.today)
5 points by jdp23 2y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 2y ago
Agreed. Although based on the downvotes HN doesn't see it that way, who could have predicted?
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by jdp23 2y ago
Yes, it's very typical. There are almost never any consequences for actions like this.
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by jdp23 2y ago
While it has some good features (data minimization) it's also got some major weaknesses -- for example state attorneys general say they wouldn't be able to enforce it, it preempts existing stronger privacy laws in states like Cali
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by jdp23 2y ago
A new draft was released last week -- the committee markup's on Thursday. https://iapp.org/news/a/new-draft-apra-released-ahead-of-27-... has a summary. https://punchbowl.news/wp-content&#x2
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by jdp23 2y ago
Paul Graham, 2020: "Lambda School will teach you programming faster than most colleges. And it not only works well remotely, but was designed to from the start." [1] Paul Graham, 2022: "Of 1277 students who graduated from Lam
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Federal Privacy Legislation Update: The American Privacy Rights Act (APRA)(privacy.thenexus.today)
2 points by jdp23 2y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 3y ago
Yep. When I get upgraded to an SUV I exchange it for something along the lines of the car I had originally reserved. I've asked them to put something in my file saying "don't upgrade to SUV" but it appears beyond the
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Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's Plan for ActivityPub and the Fediverse(privacy.thenexus.today)
4 points by jdp23 3y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 3y ago
Defending RIghts and Dissent has an form to contact Congress on FISA Section 702 renewal https://secure.rightsanddissent.org/a/protect-liberty-act It asks legislators to vote NO on the Intelligence Community's fak
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by jdp23 3y ago
Yeah, that's one of the big ways that it's stronger than California's law (where the private right of action is limited to data breaches). [Another way is that it's opt-in, with an additional authorization for sale of da
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by jdp23 3y ago
It's very good in that it's significant progress over other US-based laws. Then again if you compare it to the much stronger privacy protections in the EU, there's still a looooong way to go. It's true that California&#x
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by jdp23 3y ago
It's a very good point, I haven't seen a lot of discussion of the role of Experian et al in KOSA. In the US, it seems like it's mostly being driven by "child-safety" orgs, some of whom are well-intentioned but just
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by jdp23 3y ago
The new version that just dropped today is even worse. Evan Greer has a good Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/evan_greer/status/1684303837874593794 And, there's a committee vote on KOSA tomorrow, so if you
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by jdp23 3y ago
Of course Meta hasn't been prevented from adopting an open standard. The section on "The next step in embrace-and-extend, coming soon to a standards working group near you" goes into more detail.
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by jdp23 3y ago
As the article says, "So Meta and their supporters aren't going to give up on their plans to embrace and extend the fediverse just because of the pushback." The section on "The next step in embrace-and-extend, coming soo
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Meta now says Threads' ActivityPub integration is “a long way out”(privacy.thenexus.today)
5 points by jdp23 3y ago|7 comments
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by jdp23 3y ago
Yeah when there are multiple causes it's hard to know how much each contributed. AcitivityPub's also meant to be extended, there are FEPs, and it's likely that the working group will come up with a new version as well. That s
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by jdp23 3y ago
I wasn't objecting to your point so much as you calling their summary a fair point. They stopped reading the article before they got to the example of non-public information in it, so mischaracteried it, which doesn't seem fair t
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by jdp23 3y ago
Agreed that these other issues were a problem for XMPP. Christina Warren made this exact point on Mastodon a few hours ago -- in response to a post from Evan Prodromou that talked about the role that spam and harassment played and how he an
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by jdp23 3y ago
The article explicitly says that talking only about public posts ignores other privacy risks, and has an example related to a followers-only post. Knowing that, do you really think his point is fair?
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by jdp23 3y ago
Blocking Threads is necessary but not sufficient. I should probably be clearer about that in the article.
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by jdp23 3y ago
Thanks for the explanation, that all makes sense. I don't care about the votes (or karma), it was really about whether it would impact it's ranking and visibility, clearly it's been thought through!
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by jdp23 3y ago
It's certainly a challenge. Mastodon's development tends to prioritize mastodon.social (Eugen Rochko is BFDL of the software platform and also runs mastodon.social) -- for example, the mobile app now signs people up by default on
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by jdp23 3y ago
I should have been clearer about how this relates to general issues. I added a sentence "Of course, Meta's far from the only threat out there, but as I discuss in 'Threat modeling Meta, the fediverse, and privacy', look
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by jdp23 3y ago
Did you even read the article? This is about data going to Threads from people who aren't on Threads.
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by jdp23 3y ago
There's a lot of discussion about that! Here's a very good article on the EEE threat. https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-netwo... Personally I think it's more an "embrace, extend, an
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by jdp23 3y ago
That's true -- and my more detailed threat modeling post has a big public service announcement saying "don't share information on the fediverse that you want to keep secret" -- but there's a lot of information that&

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