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Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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Post by MikeTheGreat »

EdwardDiego wrote: post #89
kapitanjakc wrote: post #84

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Cross site cookies are required for educational content sharing via LTI. Every time I enable that feature, I have to write essays to client's security team for allowing it. So frustrating.

Sorry, what's LTI?

"Learning Tools Interoperability": https://www.imsglobal.org/spec/lti/v1p3/

From the page: "The IMS Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI)® specification allows Learning Management Systems (LMS) or platforms to integrate remote tools and content in a standard way."

If you haven't used an LMS ("Learning Management System") it's kinda like WordPress for teaching - teachers create course materials without needing to know HTML.

I'm not super familiar with LTI, but it looks like the company that does this also does the Common Cartridge spec (which I'm more familiar with)

To answer your question:

Let's say that I'm teaching at course at University A using the Canvas LMS. At the end of the quarter the teacher asks the LMS to "Export The Course", which produces a file in the Common Cartridge format (essentially a .ZIP file with XML manifests and any supporting files bundled along with it). Later if you wanted to copy that course into an LMS then you can upload the Common Cartridge format and it should just work (at which point you can copy the course contents, in part or in whole, to the new course).

I'm guessing the LTI is the same idea, but for the LMSs to talk to each other while they're running.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

celdon25 wrote: post #34
eqvinox wrote: post #21

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Respect and endorsement are not the same thing. Also, when tolerance is the goal, there must be an intolerance against intolerance - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

The problem with that is that the definition of intolerance tends to get weasel-worded into whatever argument suits the trolls.

Not only that, the necessary resolution to the paradox is inherently narrow.

Suppose you have some fools who assert that their opponents' ideas are too dangerous to be heard and have to be censored. Actually doing this is itself too dangerous to allow because once the censorship is in place it would be used to quash dissent and suppress the truth and people would be punished for challenging the prevailing dogma, even when they're right.

But to prevent the harm you don't need a system to prevent people from proposing the harm, you need a system to prevent them from enacting it. It doesn't require censorship, it requires a robust system of checks and balances for protecting fundamental rights, so that the people who propose censorship or violence are thoroughly incapable of bringing them about.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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Post by AnthonyMouse »

manuelmoreale wrote: post #96
plonk wrote: post #86

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Other media is frustrating because it's always heavily filtered, has an agenda, and always talks like a PR release. It's like they're trying to keep some image of a respectable paper and so have to write in that stupid title - subtitle that repeats the title - first paragraph that repeats the subtitle - 30 paragraphs in complete disorder, half of which are a waste of time format Edit: someone on Twitter obviously als…

Here's the thing, I agree. But also, you do know that the various news sites have an agenda. It's a fact. And the way you work around it is by reading from multiple sources that have different agendas and form your own opinion based on that. The random Twitter user though? Who the fuck knows. He might be in just for the lols. Maybe they're just bored. Maybe they're actually knowledgeable. You just don't know.

> Maybe they're actually knowledgeable. You just don't know.

You also don't know this about random newspaper reporters. Even the "most respected" outlets have let print some real whoppers.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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Post by manuelmoreale »

adra wrote: post #94
manuelmoreale wrote: post #83

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I doubt the general public uses Firefox with strict tracking turned on (unfortunately)

Let's be honest, the general public isn't using Firefox, isn't using x.com and has never heard of hacker News and if taught, they'd be afraid you were trying to scam them. We live in a pretty deep filter bubble.

Absolutely agree on that and I personally always try to keep in mind that HN is a weird bubble when it comes to tech but especially when it comes to things related to either money or society.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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Post by squarefoot »

manuelmoreale wrote: post #96
plonk wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Other media is frustrating because it's always heavily filtered, has an agenda, and always talks like a PR release. It's like they're trying to keep some image of a respectable paper and so have to write in that stupid title - subtitle that repeats the title - first paragraph that repeats the subtitle - 30 paragraphs in complete disorder, half of which are a waste of time format Edit: someone on Twitter obviously als…

Here's the thing, I agree. But also, you do know that the various news sites have an agenda. It's a fact. And the way you work around it is by reading from multiple sources that have different agendas and form your own opinion based on that. The random Twitter user though? Who the fuck knows. He might be in just for the lols. Maybe they're just bored. Maybe they're actually knowledgeable. You just don't know.

> And the way you work around it is by reading from multiple sources that have different agendas and form your own opinion based on that.

This, especially now that we're approaching the day when everyone could ask their personal AI to build a fake, albeit plausible, image of someone doing something wrong.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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Post by jfernandezr »

input_sh wrote: post #71
dbg31415 wrote: post #56

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Been 3-4 months since it worked with Firefox Focus.

Do you log in to the site with Firefox Focus?

Firefox Focus works great. I have it set as the default browser in iOS and use it for browsing sites and opening pages from Feedly or other applications. As soon as I close it, say goodbye to cookies and all tracking info. It's like a private browsing browser.

If I need to go to a site and log in, then I use Firefox with standard protection (and then use the built-in password manager). But I do 95% of browsing in mobile that I want private, so FF Focus is a gift.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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Post by manuelmoreale »

AnthonyMouse wrote: post #113
manuelmoreale wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the thing, I agree. But also, you do know that the various news sites have an agenda. It's a fact. And the way you work around it is by reading from multiple sources that have different agendas and form your own opinion based on that. The random Twitter user though? Who the fuck knows. He might be in just for the lols. Maybe they're just bored. Maybe they're actually knowledgeable. You just don't know.

> Maybe they're actually knowledgeable. You just don't know. You also don't know this about random newspaper reporters. Even the "most respected" outlets have let print some real whoppers.

Agree but if I have to bet on one or the other I'm not putting my money on the Twitter user.

And you can apply the same reasoning to literally everything. You know nothing about this random doctor who's going to perform surgery. Should you perhaps let some other random guy on twitter that claims to be a surgeon do it? After all even doctors from "most respected" universities made some stupid mistakes.

It's good to be skeptical in life, I'm not arguing against it. But at some point you have to trust at least something otherwise it's impossible to go through life.

Re: X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

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Post by manuelmoreale »

squarefoot wrote: post #115
manuelmoreale wrote: post #96

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's the thing, I agree. But also, you do know that the various news sites have an agenda. It's a fact. And the way you work around it is by reading from multiple sources that have different agendas and form your own opinion based on that. The random Twitter user though? Who the fuck knows. He might be in just for the lols. Maybe they're just bored. Maybe they're actually knowledgeable. You just don't know.

> And the way you work around it is by reading from multiple sources that have different agendas and form your own opinion based on that. This, especially now that we're approaching the day when everyone could ask their personal AI to build a fake, albeit plausible, image of someone doing something wrong.

Yeah I think the most useful skill we should start teaching is critical thinking. Because it's going to be an absolutel mess navigating the digital space in the near distant future.
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