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I think some are missing the actual point here: Why does a software/hardware/driver concerned with drawing need to know what wifi-networks are available? That is tantamount to surv…

Edge is Chrome-based these days unfortunately. And they first leveraged their ad platform to feed people Chrome, then they broke the internet where they could for competitors to ga…

Yes. Yes. Yes. Contrary to popular believe Google IS Evil. I have no problem with people wanting to make money,but sabotage and strong arming opponents(e.g. captcha(once again refu…

Hmmm...... Nice spin playing on the hacker ethos here. Although information is in its name, it gets its full meaning from its suffix. MISinformation is the missing of information o…

> ... via warrant or subpoena to provide .... This is crucial. Legal due process. Also > ..... U.S.-based technology companies .... Other jurisdictions have something similar, ever…

Thank you. Yes, I have heard that saying being quoted some time ago. While I mostly exist on the other side of the water's edge... I am happy and hopeful that that is the case and …

I would generalize it. With radio, television and newspapers you have national sovereignty. The internet broadened that and introduced apps. So I would see this as a correction rat…

No. Feel free to educate me though. Only request I have, nothing older than 30 years please as I feel it may not be relevant any longer and before long we would argue about the ant…

I know that tactic and the response to this argument is: Two wrongs do not make it right. Just because the they did a wrong the others should be permitted to do it or continue doin…

>It's, not profiling, it's culture. You abandon all your safety nets in lieu of a increasingly individualistic society, and then costs of living increases as wages stagnate. The lo…

It is called a fortified democracy. And absolute democracy like the Weimarer Republik is a dangerous thing. All modern democracies are fortified these days. And it is good that the…

Well a lot of agencies do that out of the box because secure by design is not believed. Trust but verify. You see that when intelligence agents talk about cooperation between partn…

Let's be critical here: We should differenciate between spying(passive) and misinformation/manipulation(active) Mentioning propaganda you choose the latter. Pray tell what are thos…

Your thoughts leave out one thing: Radio and newspapers(including internet articles here in general) are a one way street. With Tiktok, you not only get access to the users device …

It is about connotation. I play Go against you. You are my opponent or, if it is a tournament, I could also call you my adversary(connotation is a bit stronger, less matter of fact…

> This is deeply, deeply wrong - China and Russia are natural opponents, they are two autocracies that deeply distrust each other and do not understand each other’s culture Well St…

Amount of text is seldomly a metric for good or bad texts, some stuff needs explaining. Especially when dealing with matters like this where others do not warrant their positions. …

> It goes back to the root issue, many westerners have long lost that disciplined to be an educated populace, to identify and defend against bias. to will themselves towards what t…

But you need to control the platform to siphon user data , have a foothold into everyone's phone and to peddle misinformation and entertainment instead of education (Chinese versio…

I think, also with respect to the comments to this comment, we need to appreciate the minute nature of this scenario and statement. Journalists and your everyone else enjoys free s…

My bad. (sorry I cannot help it) Comes to show though, if you want freedom and things the way you want to have them, you are just using the wrong OS :D

I don't know what the fuss is about. Right below the shellscript curl-thingy(I do think this approach should die) https://github.com/ollama/ollama/blob/main/docs/linux.md It is ava…

After what they have done with their AI approach I wouldn't even use them if they were to provide the last IDE available to mankind. It is also not new.

It is less the ads that bother me. Although, I do remember a time with TV where there was a commercial break every 30-45 min if you are luck and every 15 min when not. Didn't bothe…

Well a core-plugin can still be disabled just not uninstalled. The behavior of the plugin indicates bugs and for a plugin that exfiltrates data it is rater bad to not have gone thr…