Poplar?

Off to spread 5G 40MHz conspiracy theories.

I’m curious what you work as? Sysadmin?

You can view some profiles (authwall for others) and some show all content (tried it out with bbc and forbes), others drop relatively recent content while some others only show ancient content from a year or more ago.

The latter two were when I tried opening the twitter pages for some smaller podcasts I follow.

Here’s a related, interesting example for BlueSky, on generating disguised links and preview cards (with content the url doesn’t actually contain) for anyone curious: https://github.com/qwell/bsky-exploits

The article mentions there are aleady a few issues, some quite old. The article is useful for raising awareness and hopefully getting the fix prioratized higher.

Deepfakes are being used to personalize political messages in India, here’s a fun article on it which also points out an instance all the way back from 2020: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/20/deepfake-democracy-behind-the-ai-trickery-shaping-indias-2024-elections

It also mentions using deepfakes to target constituencies speaking different languages, to defame opposing parties, and even creating deepfakes to cast doubt on legitimate videos:

Ahead of the state election in November, the caller requested that Jadoun alter a problematic but authentic video of their candidate – ​​whose party he did not disclose – to make a realistic deepfake. The aim: to claim that the original was a deepfake, and the deepfake the original.

I’ve a few times shared personal information to people I am friendly with in public chats, accidentally or while not putting much thought into it. I imagine there are others like me who wouldn’t want to be doxxed.

I can’t imagine how bad things must be for amateurish mistakes like that to have gotten through to the actual app.

Why not a worker’s cooperative? Plusses include no executives earning insane salaries or stockholders to please.

You defend cookies in general. But the person youre replying to might have meant third-party cookies by “invasive cookies” ?

In the case of Google, the effect on advertising bringing in “slightly less money” is an understatement :)

Why not switch over progressively? Each time I notice a service I’m logging into was registered using my gmail account, I change it (if I’m free).

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https://github.com/edankwan/penis.js/

Webop. Who decided to place the little camera there.