DataKnightmare @dataKnightmare@octodon.social

IRS sues Facebook for $9B, says company offshored profits to Ireland
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/facebook-faces-tax-court-trial-over-ireland-offshore-deal

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> Google is now banning the popular Linux browsers named Konqueror, Falkon, and Qutebrowser from logging into Google services because they may not be secure.
>
> [...] a browser may be blocked from signing in for the following reasons:
> - Don’t support JavaScript or have Javascript turned off.

So Google says that not only is JavaScript not harmful, it actually __improves__ your security.

This has to be the hottest take I've seen this year.

I saw a video on the HP85 personal computer from 1979 and it really got me thinking about how we do computing today.

How easy it it for the average user to sit down at a computer and do some computation?

I guess that the closest thing we have to a general purpose numbercruncher for most people is... Excel/Calc/Google Sheets?

That's absolutely not the direction HP, etc thought computation would go in 1979, I'm sure.

The only known bilingual palindrome:

Anger? ‘Tis safe never. Bar it! Use love.

Spell that backward and you get:

Evoles ut ira breve nefas sit; regna!

Which is Latin for:

Rise up, in order that your anger may be but a brief madness; control it! https://t.co/exdO437ZEA #linguistics

On Scraping Mastodon:

If they hadn't misunderstood the difference between a name of a field and the social and cultural implications of it's usage, this paper wouldn't have been written.

https://medium.com/@maloki/on-scraping-mastodon-dffd83139bc1?source=friends_link&sk=b9f05757ded901310fedbef75d845cab

“The deployment of connected home security cameras that allow footage to be queried centrally are simply not compatible with a free society. The privacy issues are not fixable with regulation and there is no balance that can be struck. Ring should be shut down immediately and not brought back.”

— Max Eliaser, SDE II

https://medium.com/@amazonemployeesclimatejustice/amazon-employees-share-our-views-on-company-business-f5abcdea849

@kick That's simply how information works.

So with pervasive recorded fungible, manipulable, queryable, records, on tremendous numbers of people, you don't know what future motives, contexts, norms, values, power structures, etc., will be.

The problem with Google's policy of getting right up to the creepy line, is that that creepy line moves.

So does the Surveillance Data Risk Line.

And we don't know what parts will move which way for what people and data.

@enkiv2 @kragen @freakazoid

RT @nextinpact
Pour l’ONU, WhatsApp « n’est pas considéré comme un moyen sûr » de communiquer https://www.nextinpact.com/brief/pour-l-onu--whatsapp---n-est-pas-considere-comme-un-moyen-sur---de-communiquer-10986.htm?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=lebrief

I just realised

"Startups" are "just turn it off and then on again" for computer companies.

Trump contro Apple: l’iPhone del pilota che ha ucciso tre persone va sbloccato. La posta in gioco https://www.valigiablu.it/trump-fbi-apple-crittografia/ #DirittiDigitali #dirittidigitali #crittografia #Fuoridaqui #cyberwar #apple #Post #FBI #Usa

Poi c'è una cosa che è venuta maturando negli anni in Internet: una crescente giustificazione delle intrusioni da parte delle aziende nella vita degli utenti, riassunta nell'idea del "che mi importa? Tanto non ho niente da nascondere."

E invece no. Proprio perché non ho niente da nascondere nessuno ha diritto di intromettersi nella mia vita.

Se avessi fatto qualcosa sarebbe la polizia ad indagare, non G. FB. Tw. o chissà chi. E visto che non ho fatto niente, dei privati cosa vogliono da me?