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  • FTC Issues Orders to Eight Companies Seeking Information on Surveillance Pricing

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  • There is Privacy.com that gives you virtual cards to use for purchases. Money go from your bank account to them. Destination is visible on payment description still, but it may fool bank's algorithm. Or you can get paid plan from Privacy.com and mask destination completely.

  • Europe limits anonymous cash payments to €3k and all cash payments to €10k. Pirate party reacts.

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  • Government: Only criminals use cash and crypto! Privacy advocates: Actually, this is not true... Government: makes cash and crypto illegal what do you say now, punks?

  • The UK says it conducted a 'groundbreaking' trial of a laser beam weapon that can neutralize targets for $0.12 a shot

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  • For a less than you pay for a cup of coffee, you can evaporate 10 or even 50 people!

  • Denmark to charge farmers €100 a cow in first carbon tax on agriculture | Coalition government agrees annual levy on emissions from livestock after months of fraught negotiations

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  • Raising the cost will reduce demand, and prompt producers to either reduce supply to avoid overproduction or find a way to keep costs down.

    In first case, there will be less cow farts, and less meat and milk on the tables of poor people. There will be public health consequences, but emissions will be reduced.

    In the second case, the government will get more taxes, emissions will be the same, and there will be possible public health issues due to lower meat/milk quality resulted from cost cuts.

    In both cases, big manufacturers will likely keep their profits, small farmers will be impacted more and may go out of business, and public health will be at risk.

    Where am I wrong? I have no economic expertise and no data, and the government should have both, at least in theory.

  • Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it?

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  • I guess there is a chance to see some of code, but I doubt about it being properly open sourced.

    While we’re publishing the binary images of every production PCC build, to further aid research we will periodically also publish a subset of the security-critical PCC source code.

    Source: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

  • Do you think people would be okay with 'Recall' if Apple did it?

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  • Apple's PR is better. With Microsoft all news titles were like "OMG Windows will take screenshots of all you do and send it to AI", and with Apple it's more like "Apple is carefully adding AI to their products, respecting user privacy as they always have been".

    Of course, when one looks into technical details they would find that MS Recall is strictly local and runs only on special hardware that people don't even have yet.

    Apple Intelligence does send your data to cloud and scans everything you have in Apple ecosystem, not just screenshots. Of course they say it's done in very privacy respecting ways, and provide a lot of technical information to back this claim. But at the end it's closed source and is subject to change at any time.

    Having said that, Apple users are used to and value that Apple magically takes care of everything, so they are happy to pay premium for Apple's products whatever the company does.

  • PSA: Alternatives for the most popular lemmy.ml communities

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  • World-first tooth-regrowing drug will be given to humans in September

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  • Natural teeth roots promote bone regeneration around them, while implants don't. Therefore bone loss with age is worse around implants

  • Does self-hosted VPN make sense?

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  • Yay, I can get some targeted ads about data center hardware!

  • TIL China now has a 3 child policy.

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  • People's Breeding Dungeon

  • Does self-hosted VPN make sense?

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  • Mullvad has a feature to add random noise into traffic patterns, actually

  • Does self-hosted VPN make sense?

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  • This is a good point. Maybe setting up a VPN at home would the good option for when I'm on the go

  • Does self-hosted VPN make sense?

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  • Thanks for the suggestion, but anonymity is not my goal with VPN. I known about tor etc, and it is not working well for everyday web surfing

  • Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT

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  • Well, reddit is doing fine so far. Shareholders are happy

  • Moving away from Nextcloud AIO, where do I start setting up a Nextcloud instance WITHOUT Docker?

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  • I'm running Nextcloud from a Turnkey LXC template that's available in Proxmox. Runs solid, I have no complaints for performance or stability. But upgrades are manual and very involved. It's not too complicated, but there is always something that needs extra attention or troubleshooting. I also wasn't able to figure out Turnkey migration toolset that they suggest to use for major upgrades, such as to new version of OS.

  • KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?

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  • I second this. It makes total sense - computer memory is a volume to be filled with data. They ain't call parts of a hard drive volumes for nothing.

  • Adding TV to bedroom without using mainstream smart device

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  • I have Odroid-N2 with CoreELEC. Works as my media center in living room, but I use it only to stream video from my jellyfin server.

    The only problem I have is that I have to control it from a phone app, not a remote. There are ways to do that, but I couldn't be bothered

  • Google Gemini refuses to answer questions about deaths in Gaza but has no problem answering the same question for Ukraine.

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  • This could be caused by the training dataset cutoff date. These models are not being trained on real time, so they don't have information about recent events. War in Ukraine is lasting longer than 2 years already, and the current Gazan conflict is relatively recent. My quick search didn't find what Gemini dataset cutoff date is.

  • Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service

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  • A company would use a Microsoft 365 plan that includes Outlook for Office 365, not a Windows Mail app. An the MS365 agreement would come with protections of company data from sharing with advertisers.

    In other words, I wouldn't worry if my company used Outlook. But never log in to your private mailbox from a corporate device.