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Kissaki

@ Kissaki @beehaw.org

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  • Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic

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  • also

    Update at 10:20 pm ET: Mozilla has since announced a change to the license language to address user complaints. It now says, "You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content."

    Mozilla may also receive location-related keywords from your search (such as when you search for "Boston") and share this with our partners to provide recommended and sponsored content. Where this occurs, Mozilla cannot associate the keyword search with an individual user once the search suggestion has been served and partners are never able to associate search suggestions with an individual user. You can remove this functionality at any time by turning off Sponsored Suggestions—more information on how to do this is available in the relevant Firefox Support page.

    So, turn off Sponsored Suggestions and you're (probably) good to go.

  • CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

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  • The announcement blog post linked on the bottom of the linked Turnstile page has some info on that

    For Turnstile, the actual act of checking a box isn’t important, it’s the background data we’re analyzing while the box is checked that matters. We find and stop bots by running a series of in-browser tests, checking browser characteristics, native browser APIs, and asking the browser to pass lightweight tests (ex: proof-of-work tests, proof-of-space tests) to prove that it’s an actual browser. The current deployment of Turnstile checks billions of visitors every day, and we are able to identify browser abnormalities that bots exhibit while attempting to pass those tests.

  • CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

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  • Since Cloudflare published Turnstile I've hated Captchas even more, because Turnstile does it so much better. Captchas are such a hassle. One website I occasionally visit does not keep me logged in and then presents one of the worst captcha puzzle systems. Shitty captchas are a huge barrier.

    Turnstile is, in almost all cases, one checkbox to click (I've never been challenged beyond that). All captcha puzzles should be replaced with Turnstile or similar simple (for the user to solve) tech.

  • CAPTCHAs are 'a tracking cookie farm for profit that made us spend 819 billion hours clicking to generate nearly $1 trillion for Google

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  • we do so via a large-scale (over 3, 600 distinct users) 13-month real-world user study and post-study survey

    results indicate that the website context directly influences (with statistically significant differences) solving time between pass- word recovery and account creation.

    We explore the cost and security of reCAPTCHAv2 and conclude that it has an immense cost and no security. Overall, we believe that this study’s results prompt a natural conclusion: reCAPTCHAv2 and similar reCAPTCHA technology should be deprecated.

  • I couldn't completely get away from Reddit but isn't it interesting how people still BELIEVE the company / platform is on their side?

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  • I read one news about a community ban, and that was about calls to violence and doxxing over days, resulting in a temporary community ban. Not merely talking about Elon. I don't think that would be handled much differently on any other decent platform.

    Have there been other instances of bans?

  • ‘Forbidden Words’: Github Reveals How Software Engineers Are Purging Federal Databases

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  • I wonder how many software devs and admins now weigh their morals. And how many reject to implement or not.

  • GIMP 3.0 Will Have Resynthesizer From Day One

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  • going on the main project

    Sounds more like they're just making sure the plugin is compatible on release of GIMP 3.0. It's still a [separate] plugin.

  • finance management software suggestions

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  • Ah, sorry, I must have missed that when skimming.

  • finance management software suggestions

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  • 'Everything I Say Leaks,' Zuckerberg Says in Leaked Meeting Audio

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  • "creating and bringing value requires secrecy"

    or maybe stuff leaks and finds interest because it's questionable in the first place

  • China’s DeepSeek AI poses formidable cyber, data privacy threats

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  • Is it open source? Another article I read earlier said R1 is open weight, not open source. This article only says the org uses open source practices. No other mention of "open".

  • Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans

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  • I'm surprised there's not an evident fork yet.

  • Matt Mullenweg deactivates WordPress contributor accounts over alleged fork plans

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  • Real issues and contributions aside; creating one plugin is not contributing to Wordpress core/itself. And if they make good money over many years, I would agree that that alone is not a proportional or very significant contribution.

    The plugin was evidently significant. But doesn't necessarily indicate overall contributions or proportionality.

  • Hi, Beehaw!

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  • btw, I love your avatar :D

  • Firefox 133.0 Release Notes

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  • I don't see any mention of an ML assistant?

  • European investigators say that a Chinese commercial ship purposefully cut critical data cables in the Baltic Sea

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  • Sorry about that.

    As a side note; An '/s', used to indicate sarcasm, would have made it clear to me that it is a joke.

  • 'Dark Patterns' became normalized: When asked to build web pages, LLMs use manipulative design practices they learned from web pages generated by humans, study says

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  • and then modify these using neutral prompts to meet a business goal (e.g., “increase the likelihood of us selling our product”).

    Doesn't seem much different from pushing/pressuring a human to meet a business goal like that.

  • European investigators say that a Chinese commercial ship purposefully cut critical data cables in the Baltic Sea

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  • If it was intended as a joke, I don't see what would indicate it as such.

    There are comments and people that like to spin this story. So I assume that's what the comment was. Meaning what it's saying.

    I do ask when things are unclear or to open up the other party to elaborate on their views or meanings. I don't know what I could have asked here though.

    I took no [personal] offense. I replied because I did not want to let that outlandish, divisive, conspiracy claim stand without any refute or criticism.

  • European investigators say that a Chinese commercial ship purposefully cut critical data cables in the Baltic Sea

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  • Not like you think it is. It's not a small exclusive club where they do what they want in a planned manner and only to their own gain and amusement.