Black belt in Mikado, Photo model, for the photos where they put under ‘BEFORE’
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No, with this to what you say yes or no, you can set it in the browser instead in this Pop-up. All what you don’t want get blocked. This way you set it one time in your browser for all pages you visit. instead ov everytime in each page. The result is the same, but without annoying consent nags. With the GDPR all pages are forced by law to ask for your consents, before with this pop-up, and now following the consent settings in the browser. This is the only difference, less nags for the user. With the page permission settings and the adblocker, this crap anyway get blocked. So this consent window in any case is useless.
It’s not gutting it, it’s changing the system with same result. Instead of annoying cookie consent pop-ups, a setting in the browser with admissible cookies (same as in the pop-up) this way the unwanted cookies are blocked from the browser itself (apart of those which anyway get blocked by the adblocker and privacy settings). With this there isn’t needed anymore this pop-up. It’s a good idea, I think.
The Vaticane don’t fullfit the conditions to be an EU member, they have not signed the Declaration of Human Rights, nor have they officially condemned torture and the death penalty.
Aprivate tab protect nothing, it only prevents that other with access to your PC see which pages you have visited, the web pages see the same with or without privat tab. It’s often misunderstood what private browsing mean. If you want to browse private, there isn’t any other as using an Proxy or VPN, using Portmaster, Glasswire or Pi-Hole on desktop, adjust the site permissions in the privacy settings in your browser, than you can browse more or less private, if you also use an search engine which don’t log your activity. You can visit Browserleaks, there you can see how private you are.
Any webservice, like mail, cloud services and social platform, as even eg, Lemmy and other online platform, is forced to reveal the user data they have, if there is an court order a cause of an criminal investigation. Proton can’t in this case evade the info they have, it is the IP and the account data, content of the mail is encrypted, so they can give only encrypted data in this case.
This has nothing to do with privacy rights, this protect the privacy only from access of private data without an court order in the EU. In the same case as with this activist, also Tuta, Murena and any other private mail service would have done exactly the same thing as Proton.
If you are searched by law, never is a good idea to create an account anywhere. Drug barons use pen and paper for communication because of this.
Download an AI isn’t a so good idea, because to be reliable, it need a huge amount of data and processing power, which a normal PC don’t have. Downloaded AI which work locally are by definition very basic and limited. When selfhosted versions use online sources, they need a huge amount of bandwith. An reliable AI need an huge datacenter and webaccess, because this, the question for the user is the privacy of the AI service. The mencioned Apertus fullfit all the aspects of reliability and privacy. History of questions and results are stored locally, easy to delete, answers by own knowledge base or by permitting web access, with answers including the links of sources. 100% free to use and EU made.
Swiss PublicAI by Apertus, FOSS, made by the Swiss National Supercomputer Centre (CSCS) also used by the CERN. Possible selfhosting (~90 GB basic Data), up to 70 billion parameters, trained on 15 trillion tokens across more than 1,000 languages. Strict privacy centred.
Fuck US AI
https://www.swiss-ai.org/apertus
https://publicai.co/ (free account to be able for customize it, plug ins (nick, mail))
I never trust what people say about what they are or what they are going to do, only what they really do. But I think that Mamdani is an advance and better as Rpublican alternatives. Despite this, as Major he is very limited to do anything with a whole country gov, media and corporations against him.
The word National Socialism is misleading, it was invented by Hitler, which has nothing to do with socialistic philosophy, it’s the idea of an society of the elite, the most extreme version of capitalism neo-liberal, feudalism 2.0. If it had something to do with socialism, big corporations and billonairs wouldn’t foment and support it. Trump give the best example of National “Socialist” policy, emulating step for step the policy of Germany in the 1930th, cooking the frog with propaganda and misinformation, until it was and now it is almost to late to change. Even when Mamdani honestly try to change something, he has to defeat first all the media, judges, police forces full in the hand of these nazis, with a huge support of stupid (and armed) MAGA hillbillies, yihaaaa. That he won the ellection as Major are good news, but he’s alone against a country, even with people of the own party against him. Hard times with a little sparkle of light at the end of the tunel.
Naturally, because it isn’t encrypted, not so good for sharing sensible information, that is the only risk. Despite that you see my message in your console, it isn’t possible for me to access through this to your PC, nor that you can access to my data with it, apart of the sended text, which can see anybody with the finger link. But it’s a curiosity and the ancestor of the P2P, nice to prank your friends and for fans of vintage computing, because it’s way older as the internet we know. Apart it’s so old, that it isn’t anymore in the focus of govs and hackers, it’s like sending messages with Morse or with an FAX.
P2P don’t need really an server or selfhosting, content’s are pointing direct to the user devices. The drawback is that your device must be online when the receptor want to retrieve the content. There is nothing which store the content in between. The advantage, more privacy impossible, out of the reach of any third parties, not even the ISP.
There is also something similar, like eg. Croc, which allows even the transfer of any content this way, full encrypted like the others, same as the others is download and use it.
P2P is always the safest form to communicate and share content, as it was since the beginning with the paleolytic finger command from 1971, which still can be used for text transfer (most Linux, Unix like Mac and Windows)
Eg, write in your command line finger zerush@happynetbox.com
There is also Chitchatter, an encrypted P2P communication platform, ephimere, no account, similar Otr
It’s nothing new, steganographic encryption is used as long I remeber, to hide messages into texts, images, videos and even music. There are a lot of tools out there which everyone can use. The advantage is, that an normal encrypted message can cause suspicions, but not so an inocent selfi from the beach, a cat photo, an mp3 of an summerhit, or an “unencrypted” text message, all these can be a container for hidden messages. It can also be used for invisible watermarks for an copy protection, but also for evil uses in autoexecutables malware in images or mp3 files, as seen in the past.
https://stegoshare.sourceforge.net/
https://github.com/Jpinsoft/DeepSound
https://github.com/syvaidya/openstego
https://www.ssuiteoffice.com/software/ssuitepicselsecurity.htm
https://github.com/KuroLabs/stegcloak
https://github.com/fabienpe/MP3Stego
and several more, I listed only the free and OpenSource apps
(Fucking paywall article)
Summary
A catastrophic data breach at Discord’s third-party vendor Zendesk has exposed sensitive user information, including ID documents and selfies uploaded for age verification[1][2]. At least 70,000 people were impacted by the breach, with hackers leaking users’ driver’s licenses, approximate locations, real names, and emails[2:1].
The hackers are attempting to extort Discord and have already shared leaked selfies of users posing with their IDs in a Telegram group, along with a spreadsheet containing detailed information on a thousand users[2:2].
This breach validates critics’ concerns about tech companies collecting sensitive identity documents, particularly in light of recent age verification requirements in countries like the UK[2:3]. As one security expert notes in Gadgeteer, “a password is easy to change, but an ID document is often a nightmare to change, and the ID number anyway stays the same”[3].
Discord says it is working with affected users and authorities but won’t give in to the hackers’ demands[2:4].
Yes, iy’s always to use with a grain of salt. As said, it ads a security layer, but can be an privacy hole, despte that mail directions are easier to track as phone numbers, at least in the EU, you can’t be mapped back to an user, this is only possible in crime investigations by the police with an court order. Mail adresses on the other hand are unique identifiers which are way easier th track, except you use an disposable mail or alias. Anyway, eg.in Vivaldi 2FA is safe and apart optional, as also the account itself, only needed when you want to use sync or the use of Vivaldimail, blog and other services it offers. In much other services it’s also only an option.
2FA is an important security layer, if the service, after sending you the activating SMS with the code, delete your number (normal in serious services), it’s also not an privacy problem. In big us corporations on the other hand, it is, eg.Google store tour number and also probably share it, there 2FA is not an option. Instead a number, some services also admit alternatively a second e-mail account to receive the activation code, there, if you have doubt, you can use an disposable mail, so there isn’t any privacy problem.
Upgrading is always needed in every OS, because with the time are appearing new exploids and other malware which need corresponding paches in the OS, if not these security holes becomes bigger and bigger. There are also new web system which need an update of the OS to not loose compatibilities. These updates anyway are done mostly automaticly- In Windows with an advice that an update is in the queue and it will be installed in the next reboot. Luckyly in last Windows a thing of 3-5 minutes, often less.
Updates are only irrelevant, if you use the OS exclusively local, eg. an old Windows XP in LAN for the intern use in a company with their own soft, an Vintage fan to play some old games in an old PC without internet access, or an automatism in a factory, which also don’t need more than a very basic OS, without any extra features than for what it is made for.
I know, it’s normal that after a good Windows release always follow an crappy one, independent from the bloatware which it always have. W7 good, W8 crap, W10 good, W11 crap…, but at least, for an advanced user possible always to gut all of these trash and even eliminate this crappy Fisher Price UI in W11, which try badly to imitate the UI of an Mac, eliminating, I don’t know why, a lot of setting to customize the UI, needing scripts to do it.
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This always happens when those who create laws are senile old men who confuse a remote control with a mobile phone or corrupt politicians, paid by lobbies, instead of experts in the corresponding subject.