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Never encountered this, same platforms. What do you mean by broken?

Anyone have a method/script to detect these via ps or similar?

In a previous job I had an alias to monitor for and kill Tanium, though now I don’t even know what I’m looking for.

It will likely lead to centralization.

If third-party cookies and device fingerprinting are blocked, then how can you track users who saw an ad twice, before deciding to buy?

You can’t with much certainty, unless they’re using Chrome, and you’re Google.

For the NYT who can rely on “brand” (as opposed to “performance”) advertising this isn’t a big deal. They can charge a lot just to show the image on their site. They have strong enough prestige that many advertisers will not require a third-party arbiter of tracking or impressions.

But I worry that the direction of change will favor Google as an advertising behemoth, and extend their influence over the web and publishing.

Care to talk about your motivations? Why Michigan?

Talk to your colleagues.

There are internal mailing-lists for employees who care about this, as well as environmental issues. The lists also have plenty of people who are only there to sneer and astroturf; being on the list is unlikely to get you into trouble.

A much less useful but worthwhile activity is participating in Amazon shareholder meetings and voting on resolutions, and perhaps more importantly, encouraging your colleagues to do the same.

> I'm not aware of anyone in my circle seeing such agencies as being "nannying". I'm of the opinion that the Food Standards Agency improves life for everyone in the UK. I would rather put up with a little bit of nannying if it means I don't get food poisoning from restaurants.

Is food poisoning from restaurants currently a problem for you? How will mass surveillance help?

> I used to be all for freedom of speech and anti-censorship, but these days I've seen too many friends and family fall for miss-information. My university-educated brother-in-law believes in all the "5G causes COVID-19" nonsense. He even sent me a video on YouTube from a "Top American Doctor". Sigh.

What are you suggesting the state should do to/for your friends and family who’s opinions you dislike?

Do their views mean that they are undeserving of human rights?

What was it that made you move, and what is it that will make you stay?

Easily my favorite library music compilations, excellent selections of enjoyably ‘slightly-off sounding’ tracks.

I’m a big fan and current user, though I’d really like to use something FOSS. And, while iOS payments are a good prompt to support the author (I’m trying to get better at donating to Free Software developers), the in-app upsells for features are pretty annoying.

That said, it’s one of the most used apps on my phone.

Surprisingly, at least for the Bay Area, the money doesn’t even seem to be that good: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=Palantir,Google,Facebook&tra...

> Because you thunk governements having power over currency is a good thing?

I don’t have too strong an opinion, but certainly it’s a well-understood thing.

What specifically is bad about it? The ability for governments to seize money or interfere-with/surveil transactions looks like it will be preserved via Libra’s KYC/AML surveillance/protections.

I suppose for people with very large amounts of money, they might disagree with their government’s currency policy re: inflation/deflation. But for those people, a huge range of investment products exist to hedge.

In cypherpunk terms, what’s dreamy about a crypto currency with no anonymity, that shifts power from international democratic governments to private US corporations?

“Hm, works in Chrome. Are you using Chrome?”

Who or what is N?

You can pay Google and still be the product (you’re certainly not their primary customer). And it’s quite possible for Google to do things which I don’t like (“something wrong”) and to simply not tell anyone.

This said, I personally used gmail for years (and still do for work), but these days I just want that business model out of my personal life.

How does this compare to Spotify’s ‘Song Radio’ feature?

How do you think the propriety systems work?

Bit how many hours do you work for 1/6th of the salary?

Websites?

The thing you use daily will always be the most familiar. I’ve gone from your position, to the opposite; now the switching-costs of moving away from Emacs to an IDE put me off.

There do have to be real benefits to make it work. For me it was some very specific things I wanted to do for data analysis that weren’t possible in an IDE at the time, and the other benefits (org-mode, tramp etc.) just sort of compounded.

It’s certainly been a process though. And I wouldn’t have got here if I didn’t find fiddling with editors an enjoyable thing to do, while waiting for a database-query/drinking-buddy-to-leave-work/partner’s-Netflix-binge-to-conclude etc.

I also dislike how they’ve conformed to Facebooks notion of privacy (it’s private if only Facebook can see and use it, not others), as opposed to the traditional definition of retaining individual decision-rights over disclosure.

Reminder that the European courts are currently restraining the UK from the worst of its surveillance plan, as they’ve found it to be incompatible with the Human Right to Privacy.

All signs point to the UK taking an increasingly authoritarian attitude to the net post-Brexit.

They’re not mentioned in the article, but org-mode does have syntax for source blocks (a little uglier than Commonmark/Github-flavor markdown’s blocks in my opinion, but it does the same thing and works well).

Anyone have any idea what causes this? Establishing a more complicated type of connection type for streaming (excuse my networking ignorance), or something DRM related?

Seed a torrent!

Another server option is something based on ~2012 Opterton chips which have been freed, such as:

https://store.vikings.net/libre-friendly-hardware/the-server...

At least with the X200 you can run Libreboot, a fully blob-free subset of coreboot. The AMT stuff can be flashed off the chip.

> Using Apple Card on Android is pointless... you could continue using your physical card... but without the majority of the cash back or security benefits why would you?

I’m mainly interested in the card for the privacy benefits, but would love to get rid of my iPhone (and wouldn’t want to use a card dependent on carrying one).

Does anyone familiar enough with transactions know if the physical card would still be generating virtual numbers for each transaction if you’re not carrying an iPhone?

> ... pay for Facebook and Google... by sharing data for ad targeting... The GDPR specifically forbids that option.

All I can say is that this is not my lived experience of Google and Facebook in the EU. This is also not those companies’ interpretation of that law (nor a common one).

There are real arguments against the burden the GDPR puts on companies who hold/process significant PII (which I am sympathetic to), but this is not one of them.

> ... powerful bureaucracy that does only the things that you want.

The same could be said of any democracy. My point is that there is no democratic basis for Article 13. It’s only getting support because IP law is too boring and abstract for most people to get worked up about.

Article 13 is terrible not because it’s terrible for start-ups, it’s terrible because it’s terrible for people.

I’m pretty close to the rough-end of GDPR in my current job, but it represents real benefits for millions of people. If you asked them what’s a reasonable way to treat their data, I believe the GDPR is close-ish to what a lot of Europeans would want. Or, at least a shift in the right direction.

Article 13 on the other hand is what you get if you ask rights-holders groups what they want, and poses a direct threat to freedom of expression for millions of Europeans.