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[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

GDPR explicitly exempts government entities. Still, way better than not having it IMO.

Regulating governmental intrusions into privacy would take a completely separate and probably much larger bill.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Tor.

And the correct term is anonymizing proxy. Having the term VPN overloaded to mean two completely distinct things is rather annoying and/or confusing.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

I'm fairly sure I've seen an NNTP based imageboard that distributed it's content through that protocol and different instances had overlap of boards. That's about the closest match to federated system you're going to find with this model I think. Interesting concept. Not something I'd want to interact with personally though.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 2 points 11 months ago

EU is not doing it yet, however there is strong push from interested parties within and outside of the EC:

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content

Including illegal use of targeted advertising / misinformation campaign:

https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/111226868912928077

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Look at https://simplex.im/ then. It's work in progress but the design is good.

But I'm glad to have a better Signal client too.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

It's been doing the exact opposite and implementing more targeted advertising after several previous monetization attempts (including a cryptocurrency integration) flopped.

Similarly the feature set is increasingly locked behind "premium" paywall.

It's headed in no good direction if you ask me.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Issue #3580: Make Show Read Posts More Relevant
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3580

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Only when requested via special form I believe.

I should prepare a guide on how to take your data with you when quitting Reddit.

For instance when you want to be able to prove that it's your account without disclosing your legal name publicly on Reddit you may use keyoxide.org for cryptographic proof. I think I'll talk to keyoxide folks about a method of obfuscating those proofs so they are harder for Reddit to systematically delete.

I understand not everyone will be willing to go to court for this, but at this point I want enough of us to be able to to get them fined enough for every platform to notice.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I call BS on that. Large-scale content scraping was already against the TOS to begin with. And you can't kill off slow stealth scraping without also blocking search engine crawlers. Or at least not without hurting the searchability.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Making it a Searx plugin would probably do better in terms of making it accessible to a lot of people.

I wonder how good are various ActivityPub instances at searching. Having pregenerated fulltext indexes of public content available for download could go a long way to make building search engine easy and fast.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

State authorities aren't bound by GDPR. That's something that's explicitly stated in it.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, this is great news. I expect there will still be uncomfortably many dubious black boxes left there. But it's certainly a step in the right direction. For me the sticking point with AMD was always shoddy SW/FW/drivers shipped with superior (compared to their biggest competitor anyway) hardware design. It's good to see them conceding that and outsourcing to open source community rather than some dubious third party.

Though for the time being if you want truly open firmware get a POWER chip instead. If you can afford it.

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