technology

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/01/they-need-us-we-dont-need-them-the-fall-of-twitter-is-making-the-and-grifters-desperate/

aye aye aye again with the triggering?

I refuse to link this

Can't wait to see what he does next.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2007644/esrb-plans-to-scan-kids-faces-to-enforce-ratings-system.html

The NSA have approached lawmakers charged with its oversight about opposing an amendment that would prevent it from paying companies for location data instead of obtaining a warrant in court.

Introduced by US representatives Warren Davidson and Sara Jacobs, the amendment would prohibit US military agencies from "purchasing data that would otherwise require a warrant, court order, or subpoena" to obtain. The ban would cover more than half of the US intelligence community, including the NSA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and the newly formed National Space Intelligence Center, among others.

The House approved the amendment in a floor vote over a week ago during its annual consideration of the National Defense Authorization Act, a "must-pass" bill outlining how the Pentagon will spend next year’s $886 billion budget. Negotiations over which policies will be included in the Senate’s version of the bill are ongoing.

In a separate but related push last week, members of the House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously to advance legislation that would extend similar restrictions against the purchase of Americans' data across all sectors of government, including state and local law enforcement. Known as the "Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act," the bill will soon be reintroduced in the Senate as well.

A government report declassified by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence last month revealed that US intelligence agencies were avoiding judicial review by purchasing a "large amount" of "sensitive and intimate information" about Americans, including data that can be used to trace people’s whereabouts over extended periods of time. The sensitivity of the data is such that "in the wrong hands," the report says, it could be used to "facilitate blackmail," among other undesirable outcomes. The report also acknowledges that some of the data being procured is protected under the US Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, meaning the courts have ruled that government should be required to convince a judge the data is linked to an actual crime.

Steam started crashing on verifying installation after an update. I made a half-hearted attempt at solving the issue, lasting about forty minutes before it occurred to me that there was a better way.

I installed Debian Bookworm and declared that I was insufficiently 31337 to use the AUR safely.___

Not a bad idea, but it would mean needing to use Opera GX. So I kind of hope it gets cloned to other browsers in the same way that Private/Incognito/"Porn" Mode has. Speaking as someone that works on lots of non-corp/business computers. This would be perfect for lots of people, and not even just for the obvious use-case.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/26/23808331/twitter-x-ads-advertising-incentives-verification-brands

There was a mild uproar recently about Firefox adding a feature that could allow mozilla to push out extension blacklists or something, or disable extensions entirely for a specific site (for "security" of course). I'd read the details but all I have is a reddit link and all the libreddit instances are ratelimited rn: r/MozillaInAction/comments/14rt5jx/firefox_115_can_silently_remotely_disable_my/

so I just saw an HSTS popup and was reminded: there's already a sorta analagous feature that restrict's the user's ability to make their own decisions on privacy/security matters: HSTS. It prevents users from loading a page without working HTTPS even if they want to take that risk, and it is controlled by the site owner entirely, the user has no say.

Gamers owned.

Zen 2 AMD chips are affected by this one.

With the way sites seem to be deleting and pulling things off the internet or locking it behind ridiculous paywalls (only to then delete it like Infinity Train)

How do you cope with the fear or anxiety that comes with losing those things?

It's just something I've been struggling with lately, especially in how to put it to words. Some of the stuff I like is garbage, but it's really distressing when I think of something to show someone and I find that it's been deleted or the search terms I'd used before only link to ads or , which at this point is .

I think there's a degree of acceptance I should reach about the loss of information, but it just feels so wrong right now. In a time and at a technological level where that doesn't have to happen.

But even amid all the complaining about cars getting stuck in the Internet of Shit, there's still not much discussion of why the car-makers are making their products less attractive, less reliable, less safe, and less resilient by stuffing them full of microchips. Are car execs just the latest generation of rubes who've been suckered by Silicon Valley bullshit and convinced that apps are a magic path to profitability?

Nope. Car execs are sophisticated businesspeople, and they're surfing capitalism's latest – and last – hot trend: dismantling capitalism itself.

Now, leftists have been predicting the death of capitalism since The Communist Manifesto, but even Marx and Engels warned us not to get too frisky: capitalism, they wrote, is endlessly creative, constantly reinventing itself, re-emerging from each crisis in a new form that is perfectly adapted to the post-crisis reality.

But capitalism has finally run out of gas. In his forthcoming book, Techno Feudalism: What Killed Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis proposes that capitalism has died – but it wasn't replaced by socialism. Rather, capitalism has given way to feudalism.

Man Just Needs to See Your Pretty Little Eyeballs to Protect You from His Own Invention, Seriously It Will Only Take a Second, Just Let Him Have a Peek at Those Peepers for His Database