Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Dec 2022
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A study finds 11 data brokers selling data on Americans' mental health information, including on antidepressants and insomnia, likely acquired from app makers (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-health-data-brokers/
http://www.techmeme.com/230213/p13#a230213p13
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The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says Americans once again reported record losses of $1.3 billion to romance scams in 2022, with median losses of $4,400.
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I got an e-mail from Apple today; Upgrade to macOS Ventura. With a link how to upgrade. And the compatiblity list told me what I knew - my machine is not supported for Ventura. So, does it mean Apple knows my OS but not machine model? Else the mail should have encouraged me to buy a new machine also, not only tell me the great (?) things I will not get. Anyway, my upgrade path is likely to Linux Mint instead! #Apple #macOS #LinuxMint #Linux #WalkingToLinux
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Reference to sexual abuse
Ten years ago, Congress was told of a data broker selling a list of "rape sufferers." No laws have reformed the practice since - and, in some ways, the health-data trade has gotten worse.
"They’re building inferences and scores and categorizations from patterns in your life, your actions, where you go, what you eat — and what are we supposed to do, not live?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-health-data-brokers/
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Marketplace Pulse: in a first, Amazon's average cut of each sale reached 51.8% in 2022, up from 48% in 2021, 45.8% in 2020, 40% in 2017, and 35.2% in 2016 (Spencer Soper/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-13/amazon-amzn-takes-half-of-each-sale-from-2-million-small-businesses
http://www.techmeme.com/230213/p11#a230213p11
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The harassment campaign shows that if there is audio of you speaking available online—podcasts, streams, YouTube—you could also be a target of AI-generated voices.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93axnd/voice-actors-doxed-with-ai-voices-on-twitter
#CYBER #aivoice #deepfakevoice #deepfake #artificalintelligence #AI #harassment #doxing #Twitter
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New: Data brokers are selling extremely sensitive info on Americans' mental health. One company advertised the names and home addresses of people with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress or bipolar disorder
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/13/mental-health-data-brokers/
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Learn the art of malicious compliance: doing exactly what you were asked, even when it's wrong https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/13/who_me/
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Original tweet : https://nitter.pussthecat.org/TheRegister/status/1625049449855700993
Right and there is no reason whatsoever it needs to do that. Just paste the URL into my message as plain text and let it go at that. If the recipient trusts me they will open the link, if not they won't, but there is absolutely no reason Thunderbird has to be looking at it when I'm still in the process of composing the message!
It's bad enough that whoever I use as an email provider will look at that link but at least they may have some justification in trying to stop malware embedded in images. But it is none of Thunderbird's damn business what links I may be thinking about sending to another person.
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@Lunatech @thunderbird This is a concern even when composing messages. For instance: When inserting an image URL, #Thunderbird 102 makes at least...
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@Lunatech @thunderbird
This is a concern even when composing messages. For instance: When inserting an image URL, #Thunderbird 102 makes at least 2 HTTP requests to the remote image server before the message is even sent!
@Popehat Well if you are taking advice from a church about your marrige you're already doomed, so might as well duck out and go play D&D and have some fun. That will at least help lower her expectations, which is a good thing!
(Seriously, taking advice from a church was one of the biggest contributing factors to me and my ex-wife getting divorced many years ago. If you need marriage counseling, go to a real professional marriage counselor and get good advice! Just sayin')
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#OpenAI may be new and scary, but soon it will be seen as a resource like any other. Get your scaries out now or you'll be like that high school teacher you once had who was terrified of Wikipedia.
@thunderbird The one thing I really want on #Thunderbird is the ability to disable ALL telementry and other unknown connections. The only place Thunderbird should be connecting to is my email provider's POP and SMTP servers. If it wants to connect to anything else there should be a way to get a full explanation of where it is going, why it is going there, and ther ability to block that connection if it is doing things I don't want it to do. I definitely do NOT want it trying to sync anything to any online cloud service!
(Yes, I know some people prefer using IMAP, that's fine. And if there is a connection that ONLY checks for updates to Thunderbird and does nothing else that would be fine too, but as it is Thunderbird just wants to connect to various thunderbird.net, mozilla.com, and firefox.com addresses with no explanation of why or what it's doing, so those get denied in Little Snitch.)
Basically Thunderbird needs to be much more transparent about what it's connecting to, and give users the opportunity to opt out without having to use external connection blockers. The "just trust us" mentality that many developers have just doesn't cut it in these times, particularly for anyone who values #privacy.
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Jesus doesn’t get Republicans.
I doubt he gets Evangelicals either.
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ICYMI: Animals reported sickened as more details come out on toxic Norfolk Southern tanker derailment in eastern Ohio https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/02/11/pzct-f11.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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I don't know how many people are aware of this fact, but #Israel doesn't have a constitution, & it only really has 2 branches of government: the executive and judicial (the prime minister controls the legislative chamber).
Now the PM, #Netanyahu, is trying to dissolve the independent judiciary (including their supreme court) to make it subject to political hirings & firings with zero oversight from anyone other than the majority party, which must only garner 61 out of 120 legislative votes.
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If you dig through history, you will never see the good guys burning books.
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@charlotteclymer
Oh there's "self described Christians" that walk THEIR walk in Jackboots and hidden swastikas & hand signals. That's the group that's Anti-LGBTQ+ & is playing the deception game cleverly.
The "He Gets Us" ad is sponsored by a Hate group & extremist #Christofascists who are also connected with Hobby Lobby's David Green--a conservative christian with a myriad of scandals. Don't fall for their Fascist Republican Jesus. It's really bald faced Anti-Christianity at its core.
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