John Smith

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/technology/2024/07/30/495219/texas-and-tech-giant-meta-agree-to-1-4-billion-settlement-over-violation-of-state-privacy-laws/

Can more states and countries please sue Meta for this and bankrupt them into the ground?

@icing@chaos.social I like to think we're closing the back doors and zero days nation state actors had found and not reported.

@nuclearplayer@fosstodon.org don't forget normalising scanning random qr codes which are known to be used for credential harvesting and malware injection

I'm so fucking tired of being forced to perform free labour to train AIs just to use the internet all the while its pretending to "make sure I'm a human" as if the entire reason the internet is the way it is now wasn't always because of webcrawling bots.

@cwebber if wario is a libertarian and he's the opposite of Mario does that mean Mario is a fascist? ... Currently reinterpreting Mario RPG. Mario literally is a strongman. Toad kingdom don't like Mario they're putting on a fake smile when he's around. Bowser isn't "kidnapping" peach he's rescuing her and trying to keep her from mario who physically assaults bowser to get her back.

@Daojoan@mastodon.social also extend this to politics.

@psylo related to #browsergate ?

Did we all miss the midnightbsd leads intention to comply at the start of march?

@jorge so I think these are 2 separate issues with 2 different sets of solutions. Your point about % uptake indicates a different issue, which is that windows dominates the market because it comes preinstalled. Given I've never had a system I haven't had to troubleshoot if this problem is solved the distro just has to be "good enough". The second issue of making *switching* to Linux easier on new users is a different issue with different solutions.

@flexghost the only reason I disagree is it humanises zuckerberg

@insecteuthanasia sounds like a history problem your friend needs therapy for that you walked into through no fault of your own.

@Em0nM4stodon don't just focus on privacy. Focus on the fact that age verification actively makes kids unsafe by making them targetable (not just the worst cast but also scammers given they're less savvy to social engineering) by malicious agents by allowing api's to ping their os level age data.

@eff@mastodon.social can we make more of the fact that creating OS level age identification signals allows children to be specifically targeted by malicious actors (best case scenarior being scammers due to children being more vulnerable to soceng, but also much worse cases eg roblox). The law being promoted as "protecting children" may actually put them in real danger.

@nixCraft@mastodon.social This is the definition of extortion