I’d appreciate it if everyone could just stop burning fossil fuels, please. Thank you for your cooperation.
Just think of all the other things that could benefit from a “protective waiting period” to enhance your safety.
Turning off location tracking, using a web browser other than Chrome, using a mail server other than Gmail, visiting duckduckgo.com — if Google really cared about your privacy and security they’d add a 24-hour delay to all these dangerous activities.
A car is pretty much the last thing you’d want to have a network connection. I’d sooner hook up my refrigerator and let it send analytics data to Frigidaire.
In reality the flash drive mostly exists to be an extra air-gapped backup.
end-to-end encryption enabled by default
“By default” doesn’t even seem good enough. Can you imagine making or using a password manager that isn’t end-to-end encrypted? Why on earth would anyone ever do that? Anyway I’ll stick with my encrypted text file on a flash drive.
It’s obviously the right idea, Cory’s been saying it to anyone who will listen for months if not years, but it would depend on governments doing something. How can it possibly happen then, if there aren’t powerful corporate interests hiring lobbyists to say it in a way that politicians can hear?
Yeah I would prefer to move my data from the cloud to my personal computer. With fully automated cloud-based end-to-end encrypted backups, of course. Even web apps have good access to local storage now. If I want to share my personal data with someone, I can send it to them.
I’m sure there are a few applications where something more complicated is required. Neither lemmy comments nor biometric data from a “smartwatch” are among them.
Meanwhile, my totally legit probably-not-a-front-for-Chinese-spies current VPN is now blocked by citizenlab.ca. Had to use tor to get there.
Paid and freeware but either way non-free, unfortunately.
Why would anyone want to do that? Wouldn’t it be more fun to hide your super-secret image in the innocuous-looking threads dot net profile text of hundreds of users?
I’m shocked! — shocked to find that LLMs aren’t superhuman intelligences that will soon enslave us all. Other things they’re not good at:
Still they are amazingly clever in some ways and pretty good for coming up with random ideas when you’ve got writer’s block or something.
They’ve been warning us about the dangers of a Cyber Pearl Harbor since 1991 but I’m not too worried: Computer systems have become much more flaky and unreliable than they were then, so we’re much better prepared for none of them working.
I was a user for a while. Never did figure out if they were just a small team of well-meaning people who didn’t know how to run a business properly, or a front for something. Good prices though, and reliable service for the time I was there. Their web page seems to indicate they got acquired by Malwarebytes, I’m not sure if that makes them less trustworthy, or more.
Makes sense to me. AI bullshit generators may be worse than useless for most of the things people try to do with them, but they might just be the perfect tool for rationalizing the systematic looting of formerly productive companies by private equity.
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It might. If some day they don’t control the browser, whoever does control it might be hesitant to build in features that are only there to spy on users for Google. Cookies do at least have some other uses.
This has been going around all over lemmy and I still had no idea what the actual news (if any) is supposed to be. So I did a diff against the 2022 version of this Mozilla blog entry. The differences:
Changed “Starting today, Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection to all Firefox users worldwide” to “Firefox is rolling out Total Cookie Protection to more Firefox users worldwide.”
Added mention of Android.
Changed “recent stories” to just “stories”, since the reporting on this is no longer recent.
The somewhat whimsical image from the 2022 version has been replaced with one that to me looks more generic and illustrates the technology less clearly, with more irrelevant detail in the alt text and no credit for the artist.
Changed “Today’s release” to “The release”.
2022’s “Bringing Total Cookie Protection to all Firefox users is our next step towards creating a better internet, one where your privacy is not optional” changed to "While bringing Total Cookie Protection to more Firefox users has been one significant step in this journey, we have still kept our sights on an even safer, even better internet. And starting in 2024, all our users can look forward to Firefox blocking even more third party cookies. That’s right; we are taking big swings to adopt new cookie partitioning and clearing mechanisms so that users can browse with fewer cookies that won’t stick around as long and will result in an even better browsing experience. Just another step on our road towards creating a better internet where your privacy is not optional.
That’s why the DNA for all my clones is meticulously transcribed by hand by the children in my sweatshops in Sri Lanka. They’re given every motivation to be accurate.