Re-rendering 4k videos (or of any other quality fwiw) with ads included would probably incur more electricity costs than they could ever make through the ads. TV could afford to do this since they transmit the same program and the same ads to everyone. Youtube targets them per user, so they'd need to render the same video, in high quality, every time any user clicks on it.

when are they gonna learn that any client-side restriction or hindrance can and will be defeated? sleep(5000) is kinda like them throwing a fit, not actually trying to punish anyone. obviously we'll find a way to avoid waiting the 5s, do they think we'll just give up?

what is it with chinese-made games and extremely invasive anticheats

hijacking update channels is a possibility but as the other guy said very unlikely

I don't think it's paranoid to not want any intermediary to know what you're talking about, even if all you're talking about is innocuous things like groceries.

Besides, they don't have to "waste time" on anything. They've got computers to collect it all.

Of course, like you said, Signal or Matrix are potential solutions for that, but you still need to get both sides to agree on using them. SMS have the advantage that everyone has a phone number and can thus use them. Upgrading to RCS will secure this insecure-yet-very-popular medium.

Is there zero risk or do you think there is zero risk? Text messages can absolutely be intercepted by your service provider

Yeah, he learned it from the Russians

Because as we all know Chinese companies never collect people's data

Why not both? Digital is obviously better but analog is painfully simple hence it'll probably be the medium used for transmitting emergency alerts

Stop trusting your messaging platform and use this other messaging platform! Matrix can be less secure than Signal if used improperly

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yeah like hell i will. remember to protect yourself with something like fawkes when posting pictures of your face online, fellas.

Looks like Spain is still trying to revive this but so far it's a proposal to start a discussion on whether it should be introduced, so still far from actually becoming law. Like I said, keeps haunting us every now and then.

November 17, 2021

Thankfully outdated but keeps coming back to the parliament/commission every now and then. Someone should just kill it already, I mean it's pretty obvious it's in direct contradiction with Article 7 of the Fundamental Rights Charter of the EU

now that the government separated the UK from the EU they should put propellers up their asses and push their pathetic island between russia and china if they wanna pass laws like that

Fine is just the warning. Noncompliance can get the company kicked out of France/EU.

These days yes, which is a shame. But it was used primarily as payment before the financebros caught wind of it.

Classified information or $10 manual again?

not certain if i understand your comment correctly but crypto has been used primarily as a form of payment for years before the recent boom. not for groceries or other "real life" stuff, sure, but online people did start to warm up to cryptocurrencies as a payment option.

as long as they're not treated in here like investments but rather private ways of payment i say crypto live

you don't understand they're queens and need to be protected because they cannot do it themselves!!!!!!!

some people need to get off the blackpill

Until we stop the practice of drawing imaginary lines on the planet and regulating which side each person is allowed to be on, nearly every travelers and pretty much all the boarder control apparatus is going to want to spend as little time and money on one another as possible.

Amen to that

They could eventually cross reference the exits to arrivals

Why isn't a passport enough for that? Each one has a unique ID number, why not use that as reference but instead rely on privacy-invasive biometric data collection? You can just tap your passport on a scanner and it'll read the machine readable part on both arrival and departure, then have facial recognition/fingerprints be verified if you wanna be 100% sure the passport holder is who they say they are. Many e-passports have this data embedded inside them on a chip, thought that was the whole point.

What the hell do these guys get out of it? Does someone at CBP jerk off to thinking about the amounts of personal data they collect? How do they use it? Or is it just a database of people's data "in case we need it in the future :3"? wtf...

Not even leaked, just declassified. It's basically a press statement saying "oh we're chill now please store your data in the US"

"Private" and "email" should really not appear in the same sentence. The email protocol was not designed with privacy in mind, so any company offering you a "private" email service is simply pandering to the privacy-conscious crowd. Yes, some may promise to store your messages with "zero access encryption" and end-to-end encrypt messages between users of the same service but unless you're only messaging those users (not gonna happen) copies of all your messages will be hanging around on much less secure/private servers.

Tutanota, Protonmail and Lavabit are currently the most known services promising private email (I have personally opted for Protonmail because it's free and does not require invites) but you're making a mistake if you want to use email for any sort of private or confidential communication. Use mail to create an account on with a service designed with privacy in mind, sure, but don't try and twist email into something that it isn't - you will regret it.

My general philosophy with email is to use a service which would go out of business if it was found out that they've been giving 3rd parties access to your messages and even then don't store anything sensitive on mail. The ones mentioned above will do fine for that.

They will... when they finally get invented. For now though, law enforcement will have to do annoying things like "following the word of law" and convincing judges who clearly do not understand the national security implications of kids going to the wrong school to give them warrants.

I doubt Firefox will give in. Much more likely is that websites start blocking it until you cannot use the internet without Chromium

Yeah, Matrix should be in the middle. Telegram is tech normie but in the east.

What in the name of fuck is that bill. That's one of the worst pieces of legislation I've seen in a longer while. Companies and open source communities will immediately catch that an employee is trying to sabotage their system on behalf of the government by means of code review and version control history. The programmer will be questioned, then likely fired or ostracized in case of open source works and the code will hit the bin. This idiotic... thing will accomplish nothing but harm their own citizens who will now be treated like potential therats and denied employment opportunities.

On a funnier note, every time Australia introduces some horrible tech-related bill I remember this beautiful clip summarising just how well politicians understand technology.

"A bit" is an understatement, that title is complete clickbait garbage

I understand your point but that is the worst attempt at discussion I've ever seen lmao

"Too lazy to formulate an argument, look one up yourself"

Sadly yeah

unsure if this is what you're looking for but https://plaintextsports.com/

They won't keep your cookies or SessionStorage but extensions will stay on across all containers. If you wanna test websites in a clean environment you should probably create a new profile or download another Firefox modified for developers (can't have enough foxes in your computer amirite) altogether

For what it's worth Brave and Opera do extend the base Chromium functionality quite a bit. No idea why they couldn't have done it with FF/Gecko though.

I wouldn't go so far as to call it "terrible for privacy" but yeah, that is a flaw.

The fediverse caught regulators on the back foot, as new tech tends to do. Yes, legally speaking they admins should anonymize or delete the modlogs and comments/posts, but is it technically possible on lemmy considering content is distributed across multiple instances? No idea. Your best bet is to email the administrators of your home instance. Also mind GDPR rights only apply to you if you're a citizen of the EU.

I just recently found out that Americans do in fact have data caps even on landline. Recommend watching this episode of Patriot Act, it made me realize just how shitty ISPs are in America, all in the name of profit.

The only thing ISPs adjust is your bandwidth, offices with many computers need more and have to pay up.

And yeah, @mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world. Unlimited means unlimited. Go download your... whatever it is you're downloading.

I am not a lawyer, but I am very sure that is a violation of the GDPR and highly illegal.

Sadly not. GDPR mandates that user content be deleted or anonymized and replacing your username with "Deleted User" seems to satisfy this requirement, even if everybody knows it's you who sent them. FWIW Reddit doesn't delete your comments either, but at least they don't prevent you from deleting them via a script.