Now people are telling me when it is (and isn't) "OK" to block.
No. My feed, my rules. I'll block whenever I feel like it. You can do the same thing. It's fine.
Software craftsman. Mozilla's Chief Product Officer. Former Twitter, Meta, Microsoft. Seattle-based, Bay Area bred. Fan account of @imhelendt. 🦇
Now people are telling me when it is (and isn't) "OK" to block.
No. My feed, my rules. I'll block whenever I feel like it. You can do the same thing. It's fine.
@Jeremiah 🙏🏼❤️
25 corporations pretending to honor Pride month have donated $18 million to anti-LGBTQ+ politicians since November 2022.
Ignore the marketing and follow the money.
Awww!! 😭
#RIP Baseball legend Willie Mays has died, the San Francisco Giants announced on Tuesday night.
"It is with great sadness that we announce that San Francisco Giants Legend and Hall of Famer Willie Mays passed away peacefully this afternoon at the age of 93," the team posted.
The state of search in 2024:
Google: "We threw away decades of search knowledge and Internet indexing and just made an answer up :blobfoxgoogly:"
Bing: "Here's 100 tangentially related pages from 2010 that I only included because your query appears in a tag cloud in the website's footer"
DuckDuckGo: "Here are the Bing results, only with ✨privacy✨"
Reddit: (this user has deleted their entire post history using PowerDeleteMyShit. Fuck /u/Spez)
Yahoo: "Oh thank god, someone's actually using our search engine! No, we're not just Bing!" *frantically trying to cover up the giant Bing sticker* "NO DON'T GO TO GOOGLE!!!!"
Yandex: "Here are all of the Russian-owned resources on this topic. Only Russian sources are trustworthy. Everything else is fake ne—I MEAN, misinformation"
Kagi: "We'll give you what Google used to give you for free, for the low low price of $10/month!"
Ask.com: [hoarse screaming and clawing noises can be heard from the ground beneath a headstone that says "Here lies Jeeves: 1996-2006"]
Having given up on Facebook years ago because of my concerns about privacy, I rarely login now.
This is a heads up about Meta, privacy, and your data.
From 26 June 2024, Facebook will use your photos, posts, and other info to train its AI.
You can opt out...but Meta has intentionally made it complicated!
Here is a detailed “How to opt out” with screenshots.
Two new studies published in the journal of Science this week offer a deeper insight into the spread of misinformation on social media, offering evidence that it not only changes minds, but that a small group of committed “supersharers” — predominately older Republican women — were responsible for the vast majority of the “fake news” in the period looked at.
The studies, by researchers at MIT, Ben-Gurion University, Cambridge and Northeastern, were independently conducted but complement each other well. @TechCrunch has more.
You can also read the full reports here:
@stevetex right under your post, from the NYT:
For Trump, ‘Guilty’ May Not Matter
The conviction may be a mere bump in the road. It could even be a political accelerant. #press
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/30/opinion/trump-guilty-verdict-defense.html?utm_source=press.coop
Prediction for tomorrow’s NY Times headline:
“Trump convicted of committing 34 felonies; here’s why that’s bad news for Biden”
I received a mysterious aerospace computer from the early 1970s, probably for navigation. It is crammed full of flat-pack integrated circuits surrounding a core memory module. Let's take a look inside... 1/17
“…that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
A. Lincoln
Important Warning About Windows Recall ⚠️:
If you communicate with someone
who might be using the upcoming Microsoft's Windows Recall feature, be extremely careful about what information you share with them.
Regardless of what secure application you use, be especially careful about sending:
- Intimate photos
- Passwords or other sensitive information
- Medical conditions
- Personal details, even through secure emails or secure encrypted chats
- Financial information
- Video chats, even encrypted ones
This feature will unfortunately extract your information from whatever secure software you might have used and store it on this person's computer in a possibly less secure way.
Of course this person could manually take a screenshot of all of this anyway, but this feature makes it that even a well-intentioned person might either not be aware it is on, or might wrongly assume it is secure enough.
This feature isn't fully released yet, but it might be soon. More information:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/microsofts-new-recall-feature-will-record-everything-you-do-on-your-pc/
#Privacy #Microsoft #Recall #WindowsRecall :2001:
Mozilla Says It's Concerned About Windows Recall https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/05/22/1939244/mozilla-says-its-concerned-about-windows-recall?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon
The Register quoted some of my concerns with Windows Recall, including… “From a browser perspective, some data should be saved, and some shouldn't. Recall stores not just browser history, but also data that users type into the browser with only very coarse control over what gets stored.”
@GossiTheDog it’s like they got a focus group of cybercriminals together when making this
Update: Once again, turning the computer off and on again has done wonders (also, I have downloaded Firefox)
@scalzi lmk if Mozilla can be of service getting you up and going w Firefox