BearOfaTime

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Thoughts on HumHub? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

Your family isn't dumber than average.

Uu tech folks tend to forget/overlook that most people are clueless as to how mobile devices work. I have IT friends who know practically nothing about the Android file system, or how apps store (but don't sync) data, for example. And these are people designing/implementing/supporting complex systems.

Most people can't be bothered if there's more than one or two steps. I can't walk my "70 year old uncle" through configuring an app on his phone, over the phone. The stuff he says he sees make no sense at all. I'm like "no, that's not what you should see, what did you click on"?.

Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Oh, access to everything will happen.

The owners will just charge us for every viewing of every episode.

Beware Hollywood’s digital demolition: it’s as if your favourite films and TV shows never existed in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 points 1 hour ago

Yep.

I rip them, then store the discs in a cool, dark, dry place.

Everything I rip is backed up. It's pretty clear what's happening.

And in 20 years they'll start "selling" everything by the episode online.

Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

Laser is your long term answer. Brother seems to be the brand today.

Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Lol, so true!

Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 1 hour ago

Also, don't buy inkjet.

My first inkjet was an HP bubblejet, about 1994. My last was some garbage about 2000. Since then I've refused to own one.

My 1997 laserjet (that I bought used in 2008) just died. I bougt a color laser on Craigslist for $50. And my current BW laser is a 2014 HP, that just got it's second cartridge.

You can't give me an inkjet.

Meta fined $101 million by Ireland for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

"mistake"

I call BS. The reviews I've gone through for trivial stuff would've exposed this.

This was intentional.

Meta fined $101 million by Ireland for storing hundreds of millions of passwords in plaintext in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 3 points 2 hours ago

Christ, the hell I would've gotten, in the 90's, if I'd done something like this.

Would you support such a national divorce? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Apple quietly deletes nearly a hundred VPNs that allowed Russians to get around censorship in c/technology@lemmy.world
Watch out, Microsoft Outlook could soon give away when you're sneakily working from home in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I would never allow non-corp equipment to connect to our network.

Question about Firefox - any way to open specific sites as if they were an app or program (similar to an option in Chrome)? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Pretty sure if you set the path in the shortcut to the Firefox executable and passed the URL as a parameter it'll open it.

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Recent Study Seems to Indicate ADHD IS Related to a Nearly 3x Greater Risk for Dementia (lemmy.world)
 

Cross-posted from Health

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Project Liberty (www.projectliberty.io)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by BearOfaTime@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml
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From their About page:

Project Liberty is stitching together an ecosystem of technologists, academics, policymakers and citizens committed to building a people-powered internet—where the data is ours to manage, the platforms are ours to govern, and the power is ours to reclaim.

I just heard Frank McCourt on a podcast plugging his book "Our Biggest Fight".

It was great to hear someone with a voice talking about the problems we see with user data and social media, especially the problem of the Social Graph (the map of all your social connections, which includes weights and values).

Their solution to this problem was to develop a social networking protocol that enables any compliant app to use (think how email works - a standard protocol, SMTP), but encrypted and user data controlled by the user. They call it DSNP - Decentralized Social Networking Protocol.

I see both sides of their approach, I'm kind of ambivalent, lots of concern here long-term.

They've already acquired MeWe and have converted some users to this protocol. He wants to buy the US side of TikTok (if it becomes available) and convert it to DSNP, which would encrypt about 30 million US accounts.

I'm always cynical about stuff that sounds promising, but I don't have the tech background to really dissect what they're doing. Anyone understand this better?

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Healthcare Social Graph Scoring - Talk About Dystopian. (www.symplur.com)
 

I have no idea where to even start to combat such things. Healthcare professionals must appease the masses of their peers.

I've seen this first hand in the corporate world, where it's called a 360 review. It's a popularity contest.

While there's value in the idea of such reviews, they're ripe for abuse. It codifies an environment of dishonesty - where people who are good at masking (err, sociopaths anyone) excel.

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