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12 votes
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The real reason why Facebook and Google won’t change
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The super-fast logistics of delivering blood by drone
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Right to repair legislation is officially being considered in Canada
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The route of a text message, a love story
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How an investigation of fake FCC comments snared a prominent DC media firm
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The microphones that may be hidden in your home
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Microsoft workers protest army contract with tech 'designed to help people kill'
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Privacy vs "I have nothing to hide"
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YouTube just demonetized anti-vaccination channels
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You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook.
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Nine months ago, Facebook promised a new privacy tool that's nowhere to be found. Sources say it's a key example of the company's “reactionary” way of dealing with privacy concerns.
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By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers
@jensimmons: By summer 2019, the Firefox browser will also block, by default, all cross-site third-party trackers, strengthening privacy without your having to do a thing." https://t.co/cqpQbSe9Ko
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Nike’s self-lacing sneakers turn into bricks after faulty firmware update
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Google ends forced arbitration for employees
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Factors that affect the reliability of SSDs, and how they compare to HDDs
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"She never looks back": Inside Elizabeth Holmes's final months at Theranos
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Google Maps can now guide you to drug disposal locations
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Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly
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Is anyone here taking online courses e.g. Udacity, Coursera, Udemy, EdX, etc.? What do you think of them?
Is anyone here taking online courses e.g. Udacity, Coursera, Udemy, etc.? I just finished the Udacity AI Programming in Python course not long ago, and it was with a bit of gnashing of teeth...
Is anyone here taking online courses e.g. Udacity, Coursera, Udemy, etc.? I just finished the Udacity AI Programming in Python course not long ago, and it was with a bit of gnashing of teeth towards the end. :[ The funny thing is, it wasn't (just) because it was technically challenging, but mostly learning-related anxiety and procrastination.
I'm curious about what others in the Tildes community are learning via massive open online courses (MOOCs), and what you think about them.
- How have online courses helped your career/personal goals (or did not meet expectations)?
- What do you think can be done better by these course providers or other entities?
In a meta-sort of way, I'm building a platform called MindsMatch help other learners finish their online courses faster. We are looking for users to alpha-test if you are interested!
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2.7 million medical calls breached in Sweden due to an unsecured NAS
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Managing my passwords with KeePassXC and friends
13 votes -
Highlights and transcript from the first of Mark Zuckerberg's "public discussions on the future of technology and society"
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What are the essential dos and don'ts of digital security for the average person?
Thanks to all of you who gave me guidance in the thread about password managers. It got me thinking I should expand the question to overall best practices regarding security, just in case I have...
Thanks to all of you who gave me guidance in the thread about password managers. It got me thinking I should expand the question to overall best practices regarding security, just in case I have any other important blind spots.
What are the essential do's and don'ts of digital security for the average person?
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Old school message boards
I assume most of the people that post in Tildes came from Reddit (or they used Reddit primarily). Does anyone else primarily post on something other than Reddit? As an example, I primarily post on...
I assume most of the people that post in Tildes came from Reddit (or they used Reddit primarily). Does anyone else primarily post on something other than Reddit? As an example, I primarily post on Something Awful. I think what attracted me to Tildes is what initially repulsed me from Reddit. I absolutely hate the idea of my opinion being drowned out simply because it was downvoted. Tildes has a bit in common with Something Awful in that sense. Something Awful is a more 'traditional' format. Each post follows the other and there isn't any mechanic for a community to hide or collapse a post.
Additionally, it seems like the few punishments that occur here are a bit more open and transparent than Reddit. That is similar to SA, where they have something called a 'Lepers Colony' to see punishment reasons. Tildes appeals to me because even though it has a hint of Reddit, the discussions are a bit more focused just like SA.
If you do post on older message board, which ones do you post on, and why do you like it?
Like I mentioned I primarily post on Something Awful (Games and C-Spam subforums). I also used to post on GameFAQs and the resulting spinoff called LUElinks. I enjoyed each of these because they were a little bit more rough than other message boards, but they weren't a wild west like some of the anonymous options that existed.
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Federated Wiki (think git, but for wikis/blogs), introduced using a card metaphor. Try it out!
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Samsung reveals Galaxy Fold and S10 5G
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On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding in plain sight
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Startpage's Anonymous view allows us to view web pages anonymously.
The new Startpage.com Anonymous View feature has been tweaked since it was first released at the end of last year. Startpage.com developed Anonymous View to fix a major privacy gap with any...
The new Startpage.com Anonymous View feature has been tweaked since it was first released at the end of last year.
Startpage.com developed Anonymous View to fix a major privacy gap with any private search engine: once you click on one of the links you find and establish a direct connection with the third party website, you're back in the Wild West of Tracking. This website can see who you are, place cookies on your browser and track your behavior, including the links you click on and pages you view. This defeats part of the benefits of private search.
Anonymous View fixes this privacy problem AND fixes the perennial problem of proxies that only display part of a page or break without JavaScript. Anonymous View uses JS while protecting your privacy -- even preventing fingerprinting by masking your user agent information
PS : This is from a reddit post
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China's Communist Party requires millions of people to tune into 'Xi Jinping thought' every day
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Is a password manager essential?
I feel like it's impossible to remember passwords that are long, random, and unique for every service. I have too many accounts. On the other hand, I don't like the idea of giving up control of my...
I feel like it's impossible to remember passwords that are long, random, and unique for every service. I have too many accounts.
On the other hand, I don't like the idea of giving up control of my passwords to a password manager and using the ones it generates and stores. It feels weird that I wouldn't "know" my passwords.
Is this a hangup I should just get past? What do I do if I need to login somewhere but cannot access my password manager?
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Exposed Chinese database shows depth of surveillance state
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Are certain message boards like Tildes, Reddit etc. social engineering?
The active development of Tildes and the feedback/discussions about features and mechanisms had me thinking. Is the conscious design and moderation of forums for public discourse a manner of...
The active development of Tildes and the feedback/discussions about features and mechanisms had me thinking. Is the conscious design and moderation of forums for public discourse a manner of social engineering?
I know the connotation of social engineering is usually negative, as in manipulating people for politics. But it's a double edged sword.
Most recently I was reading this feedback on removing usernames from link topics and while reading the comments I was thinking of how meta this all is. It's meta-meta-cognition in that we (well, by far the actual developers) are designing the space within which we execute our discourse and thinking. To paraphrase the above example: user identification can bias one's own impulse reaction to content, either to a beneficial or detrimental end, so how do we want this?
The moderation-influenced scenario is a bit more tricky because it can become too top-heavy, as in one prominent example many of us came from recently... But I think with a balance of direction from the overlords (jk, there is also public input as mentioned) and the chaos of natural public discourse, you could obtain an efficient environment for the exchange of ideas.
I'm not sure what my stimulating question would be for you all, so just tell me what you think.
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OnePlus made me buy my Pixel 3. Anyone else have bad experiences with OnePlus?
This is going to sound like a total rant, but I just don't know what to do anymore. I've been completely screwed by OnePlus and they really just don't care. I bought a OnePlus 6T back at the end...
This is going to sound like a total rant, but I just don't know what to do anymore. I've been completely screwed by OnePlus and they really just don't care. I bought a OnePlus 6T back at the end of November and received it in early December. It has barely worked for about two weeks since then. The ticket I have open with them is ridiculously long. And then they just went dead silent on me. I assumed I was being ignored. I even got the perma-hold ignore on the phone too. But today OnePlus finally replied after 27 days!! During all this time I just went out and bought a Pixel 3XL and I am tickled pink with it.
If anyone wants a good laugh at my expense you are welcome to read my story on my site read my story on my site.
From the bottom of my heart - be careful spending your money with OnePlus.
*edit - formatting
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In China, some parents seek an edge with genetic testing
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OpenAI researchers, scared by their own work, hold back “deepfakes for text” AI
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How did the police know you were near a crime scene? Google told them
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Huawei cloning Apple parts, rewarding employees for tech theft
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Facebook charged with misleading users on health data visibility
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Emoji are showing up in court cases exponentially, and courts aren’t prepared
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A deep dive on the recent widespread DNS hijacking attacks
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Is the phrase “patent troll” defamatory? NH Supreme Court may decide
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Data privacy bill unites Charles Koch and Big Tech
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Farmworker vs Robot: Agricultural workers of the future may soon be made of tech and steel. Can a robot pick a strawberry better, faster, and cheaper than a seasonal farmworker?
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There's no good reason to trust blockchain technology
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Chromium team to make changes to Manifest V3 in response to ad-blocking extension developers’ outrage
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Etsy sellers say their bank accounts were emptied in major billing snafu
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Future of personal security and privacy, upcoming trends.
A few years ago I got into improving my knowledgebase of personal security - theory and tools - but it didn't go much farther than reinforcing everything with 2FA and setting up a password...
A few years ago I got into improving my knowledgebase of personal security - theory and tools - but it didn't go much farther than reinforcing everything with 2FA and setting up a password manager, plus setting up a VPN and full disk encryption.
It seems like we're amidst a rising tide of data breaches due to, IMHO, laziness and cheapness on the part of many companies storing personal data.
So, recently I've embarked on my second journey to improve my own security via habits and software and teaching myself. Privacytools has been a super helpful resource. My main lesson this time is to take ownership/responsibility for my own data. To that end, I have switched to KeyPass with yubikey 2FA (still trying to figure out how to get 2FA with yubi on my android without NFC), moved over to Joplin for my note taking (away from Google and Evernote) and also switched to NextCloud for all of my data storage and synchronization. I'm also de-Googling myself, current due-date is end of March when Inbox is shut down.
So my question / discussion topic here, is, what are everyone's thoughts on the future of practical personal security and privacy? More decentralization and self-hosting? That's what it looks like to me. Blockchain tech would be cool for public objects like news articles, images etc. but from what I understand that has zero implication for anything personal. The other newish tech is PGP signatures, which I'm still having trouble implementing/finding use for, but surely that will change.
There is this topic but that ended up just being about encryption which I think is a no-brainer at this point. I'm more so looking for the leading edge trends.
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Why aren't smartphones like PCs where you have choice over your OS and get updates directly from OS vendor?
I can install Linux or Windows or even BSD on my laptop without much hassle, and get the updates directly from the OS vendors. This isn't the case for smartphones. You don't have choice over your...
I can install Linux or Windows or even BSD on my laptop without much hassle, and get the updates directly from the OS vendors.
This isn't the case for smartphones. You don't have choice over your OS. You don't even get android updates directly from Google, and have to wait for device manufacturers to release the updates. Why is it so?
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Flickr will soon start deleting photos — and massive chunks of internet history
27 votes