It's right up there with "your call is very important to us" and "best of luck in your future endeavors".
Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
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Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It is possible to verify real users without training the AI models of monopolist webcompanies. Honest question: How?
I'm pretty sure that "verify real users" was about captchas. Solving that problem in general is probably impossible, I grant you that. However, reaching a good-enough solution for a particular site is often doable. In increasing order of strictness and complexity: - Use hidden/visible field shenanigans - Ask questions your audience should be able to answer (chess-captchas, maths-questions, etc.) - Require registratio…
I find it interesting that the proposed solution to "How do I not use a CAPTCHA?" is "Reinvent a CAPTCHA".
Although "Handle very private information instead" is an uncommon twist.
Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
#103Also stop saying "Before you go further..." we need to share your data with tens of corporations. /s Note to non-EU users: Techcrunch is completely blocking the page with a popup asking me to share my location and behavioral data (for advertising purposes) with a probably very long list of companies (something called "Oath" family). The logos shown are for Yahoo, Aol, Autoblog, Huffpost and Engadget. Nah. I'll skip a…
The company I founded helps companies increase transparency and controls for their end-users, make it more clear where your data is going and making it easier for you to actually make a decision on whether you want your data going to third parties
Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure that "verify real users" was about captchas. Solving that problem in general is probably impossible, I grant you that. However, reaching a good-enough solution for a particular site is often doable. In increasing order of strictness and complexity: - Use hidden/visible field shenanigans - Ask questions your audience should be able to answer (chess-captchas, maths-questions, etc.) - Require registratio…
I find it interesting that the proposed solution to "How do I not use a CAPTCHA?" is "Reinvent a CAPTCHA". Although "Handle very private information instead" is an uncommon twist.
You misrepresented the problem. The problem was “How do I not use a CAPTCHA that grabs your user’s data and is a blackbox to you”.
There are multiple solutions to this: - find a CAPTCHA solution you trust and host it yourself - build your own
If you say you trust google, you should write: We value your security and privacy, but seriously we have no idea what parts of our page really do
Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm pretty sure that "verify real users" was about captchas. Solving that problem in general is probably impossible, I grant you that. However, reaching a good-enough solution for a particular site is often doable. In increasing order of strictness and complexity: - Use hidden/visible field shenanigans - Ask questions your audience should be able to answer (chess-captchas, maths-questions, etc.) - Require registratio…
If you can think of it, someone can make a computer automate it.
Sure. On the other hand, I run a blog with a simple to answer question for multiple years now and I didn’t receive a single Spam comment that wasn’t of obvious human origin.
Once that stops to work I can bump it up a notch.
Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Oath websites and Medium are on my mental blacklists of sites I simply don’t bother with. The content isn’t good enough to care. It does mean I hit comment threads like this and can’t read the article. Oh well, I’m trying to reduce my internet time anyway.
Outline.com is great if you stumble upon some article you do want to read. Just put in the URL and it’ll strip away everything but the text and images. Here’s an example for the article for this thread: https://outline.com/RThZjn
There's a browser extension for it too. Outline has been super convenient when dealing with bloated news sites. Now I'm just thinking about how I'll get my browser to do this automatically for certain sites without having to click the outline button every time
Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
Tracking cookies provide incommensurable value to site owners for improving the quality of their web properties, which ultimately benefits users. Example abound: finding out where people are the most frustrated (high exit rates), what content drives the most interest (page views), what content is missing or inaccurate (high bounce rate and low visit duration for visitors coming from Google), how they are using the si…
I'm way more radical, I just look at what I'm making. It's kinda like if someone were to survey their audience before a concert on what they should play, that wouldn't lead to better art. Have you ever seen a youtuber talk about how they would prefer to make videos about X, but the audience wants Y, so they're half-assing this other thing instead? Not only does this not lead to improvement, I think the major improvem…
Beautiful sentiment. I'd love if more people applied some basic thought to their lives, instead of just wandering into the melting pot of dystopia. Not too long ago, people had the freedom to speak their minds without being crushed by the cookie-cutter opinions espoused by virtue signalers. I long for that, I long for when we relished intellectual stimulus, instead of just reaching for what's easy, and fits inside our comfort zone.
Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
#108Stop telling me what to stop saying
Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
#109Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Oath websites and Medium are on my mental blacklists of sites I simply don’t bother with. The content isn’t good enough to care. It does mean I hit comment threads like this and can’t read the article. Oh well, I’m trying to reduce my internet time anyway.
Outline.com is great if you stumble upon some article you do want to read. Just put in the URL and it’ll strip away everything but the text and images. Here’s an example for the article for this thread: https://outline.com/RThZjn
Firefox has a built-in reader view that I like to use on particularly offensive websites.
Re: Stop Saying, ‘We Take Your Privacy and Security Seriously’
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm way more radical, I just look at what I'm making. It's kinda like if someone were to survey their audience before a concert on what they should play, that wouldn't lead to better art. Have you ever seen a youtuber talk about how they would prefer to make videos about X, but the audience wants Y, so they're half-assing this other thing instead? Not only does this not lead to improvement, I think the major improvem…
Beautiful sentiment. I'd love if more people applied some basic thought to their lives, instead of just wandering into the melting pot of dystopia. Not too long ago, people had the freedom to speak their minds without being crushed by the cookie-cutter opinions espoused by virtue signalers. I long for that, I long for when we relished intellectual stimulus, instead of just reaching for what's easy, and fits inside ou…
> Anyone who doesn't want to belong to the mass need only cease to go easy on themselves; let them follow their conscience, which cries out to them "Be yourself! You are none of those things that you now do, think, and desire." Every young soul hears this call night and day and trembles, for when it thinks of its true liberation, it has an inkling of the measure of happiness for which it is destined from eternity. As long as it is shackled by the chains of opinion and fear, nothing can help it attain this happiness. And how bleak and senseless this life can become without this liberation!
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
> Do not preach the straight and narrow way while going joyously upon the wide one. Preach the wide one, or do not preach at all; but do not fool yourself by saying you would like to help usher in a free society, but you cannot sacrifice an armchair for it. Say honestly, "I love arm-chairs better than free men, and pursue them because I choose; not because circumstances make me. I love hats, large, large hats, with many feathers and great bows; and I would rather have those hats than trouble myself about social dreams that will never be accomplished in my day. The world worships hats, and I wish to worship with them."
> But if you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose which your life is to make manifest then do not sell it for tinsel. Think that your soul is strong and will hold its way; and slowly, through bitter struggle perhaps the strength will grow. And the foregoing of possessions for which others barter the last possibility of freedom will become easy.
> At the end of life you may close your eyes saying: "I have not been dominated by the Dominant Idea of my Age; I have chosen mine own allegiance, and served it. I have proved by a lifetime that there is that in man which saves him from the absolute tyranny of Circumstance, which in the end conquers and remoulds Circumstance, the immortal fire of Individual Will, which is the salvation of the Future."
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
I once read a story in our school text book, I wish I knew the author. It was about some new kind of prison without walls, but instead prisoners had an implant that gave them increasing shocks up to incapacitating them if they moved too far away from the prison. This one prisoner kept trying to escape, at one point getting so far that a truck driver brought him to a doctor, who then called the police IIRC, and at the end, the prison director was talking to the prisoner, asking why do you keep trying, you know it's absolutely impossible, why not just accept it? And the prisoner said, because when I accept it, you won. Right now, I win. We never read that story in class, but it impressed the fuck out of me. Life is short and fickle either way, might as well live it as me, right? And if everybody saved themselves, maybe the world would be saved, but even if the world goes to shit, I can still save myself. That is, only I can ruin myself. I can be shut up, but I can't be made to say "yes". I can't say that's good enough, but that's a good start.
> Finally, it is the act itself that matters. When instrumental reason is the sole guide to action, the acts it justifies are robbed of their inherent meanings and thus exist in an ethical vacuum. I recently heard an officer of a great university publicly defend an important policy decision he had made, one that many of the university's students and faculty opposed on moral grounds, with the words: "We could have taken a moral stand, but what good would that have done?" But the moral good of a moral act inheres in the act itself. That is why an act can itself ennoble or corrupt the person who performs it. The victory of instrumental reason in our time has brought about the virtual disappearance of this insight and thus perforce the delegitimation of the very idea of nobility.
-- Joseph Weizenbaum, "Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment To Calculation" (1976)
And while punk may be generally dead, as long as it still exists in China, nobody is allowed to give up! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bk4EspwLpzc
Godspeed to you. Or as that one scroller text in an Amiga demo said: grab life by the balls, like a ninja!