Joint Letter Sent to Voice Concerns Over Bill C-22
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New Europol proposal pushes for deregulation and more AI in policing
Statewatch
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25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
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25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
Open letter from European civil society organisations on encryption and privacy threats in Canada’s Bill C-22
Access Now
Access Now - Open letter from European civil society organisations on encryption and privacy threats in Canada’s Bill C-22
Government surveillance after 9/11 is a hotter debate than ever
Washington Examiner
Government surveillance after 9/11 is a hotter debate than ever
Firefox 155.0 released
Firefox
Firefox
A List of ICE Subpoenas to Tech Companies
Electronic Frontier Foundation
A List of ICE Subpoenas to Tech Companies
Public wary of UK government ‘backdoor’ surveillance following Apple row, poll reveals
ComputerWeekly.com
Public wary of UK government ‘backdoor’ surveillance following Apple row, poll reveals | Computer Weekly
Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed
Ars Technica
Inaudible sounds used to fingerprint browsers catch AliExpress red-handed
Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets
Some Tech Companies Have Privately Pushed Back on ICE Subpoenas. They Should All Do More.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Some Tech Companies Have Privately Pushed Back on ICE Subpoenas. They Should All Do More.
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- on Why are games priced in € (EUR) the same as $ (USD)? in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
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on Why are games priced in € (EUR) the same as $ (USD)? in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
But for physical goods, the minimum price is what the store paid for acquiring or producing it in the first place. That isn’t a consideration for digital goods.
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on Why are games priced in € (EUR) the same as $ (USD)? in c/games@lemmy.world · 3d ago
Compared to many other currency conversions in the world, it is very close. When I read prices in USD, I think of them as euro prices in my head.
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on Why are games priced in € (EUR) the same as $ (USD)? in c/games@lemmy.world · 3d ago
Since digital copies cost nearly zero to make, prices of digital goods such as video games are completely arbitrary anyway; they are set to whatever people are willing to pay.
The conversion rate between EUR and USD is so ridiculously close to 1 that it makes sense to treat them as essentially equivalent. If you don’t, you’ll just spend unnecessary effort converting to and from numbers that aren’t round.
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on Microsoft director called AI scraping ‘the largest theft of labor in human history,’ while OpenAI head brands ChatGPT an ‘existential threat’ to publishers — revelations come from legal briefs filed… in c/technology@beehaw.org · 3d ago
And yet, the Internet also created the free culture movement. There has long been a vocal movement on the Internet for making copyright less restrictive. I have long been sympathetic to such; copying is not theft…
So I don’t find that outrageous in isolation, though I do find it hypocritical because Microsoft is otherwise very much not a company in favor of less restrictive copyright, certainly not as far as its own source code is concerned.
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on What do you use as a substitute for Microsoft Visio? Is it convenient to use? in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 4d ago
Wait, has that become open source again in recent releases? I remember it not being for a while, but the repo currently says Apache 2.0? Anyone know more about it?
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on Where Waterfox stands on AI and LLMs in c/firefox@lemmy.ml · 5d ago
Those things have been called AI long before 2022. In university I took a course whose name translates to “introduction to artificial intelligence” and while I don’t remember a lot about it, I do remember that one of the things we learned about there was neural networks.
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on Your Computer Might Demand Your Age Soon, No Matter Where You Live in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 17 Sep 2026
which is going to be all tech legally required to :(
I grew up in a time of technology being a liberating force that helped us live in a society more firmly based on individual rights.
I no longer live in that world.
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on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026
I’ve done it at my job.
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on Yeah use AI.. luddite in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 15 Sep 2026
you’re becoming dependent on a subscription service offered by a trillion dollar company that can increase the price tenfold at will, or cut you from the platform entirely
with local open weight models that is no longer an argument tbh
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on FOSS and Artificial Intelligence in c/foss@beehaw.org · 13 Sep 2026
I don’t see anything wrong with using AI for almost anything at all (including this), as long as there is human review every time. I do not see how the free software philosophy, by itself, either endorses or condemns AI.
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on Age verification mean end of anonymous account in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Certainly the pictures and videos on wikipedia which you chose to consider pornographic rather than neutrally informative have a different set of qualities then what you would find in the extreme sections of porn-serving websites.
Look into the Wikimedia Commons category “pornographic videos” and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Not linking to it because I’m not sure I’m allowed to do that here.
There is a middle ground. You can give partial access.
Hence why I wrote specifically about the open Internet. You are right: there are ways to give people access to only a selected part of the Internet. If parents decide to do that, fine; doesn’t have to concern any website operators, or any adults.
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on Age verification mean end of anonymous account in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Nobody is banning the youth from accessing wikipedia or a library or minecraft.
Wikipedia has pornographic images and videos in it (certainly in its media archive, Wikimedia Commons, and some of them are embedded in articles).
Library: ??? Are we still talking about the Internet?
But also, if the parents decide that it’s part of growing up they can just give their kids access to porn.
Yes. Giving kids access to the open Internet is giving them access to a repository of nearly all human knowledge and endeavors, including (but not limited to) porn. If parents believe their child isn’t yet developmentally ready to be exposed to all human knowledge and endeavors, they shouldn’t be giving that child (unsupervised) access to a worldwide information system whose entire purpose is to provide access to exactly that.
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on Age verification mean end of anonymous account in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Just saying that there are ways to do it right.
No, there is no way to do “censoring access to information for young people” right. That remains an entirely illegitimate goal no matter which mechanisms you invent for doing it in a privacy preserving manner.
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on Anyone else seeing that unhinged "UK phones require digital ID or get child-locked" screenshot making the rounds? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 9 Sep 2026
Haven’t heard of anything about this being done on a device level.
Then you simply missed a few news stories:
- theguardian.com/…/starmer-tech-firms-ultimatum-bl… from 3 months ago
- ispreview.co.uk/…/government-look-to-impose-manda… from today
This is why countries need constitutions that limit what laws governments are allowed to pass. This is approximately the prototype of something governments just shouldn’t be allowed to ever do.
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on Blur your house in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 30 Aug 2026
The en.wikipedia.org/…/First_Amendment_to_the_United_… is a part of the US Constitution that prohibits laws violating certain specific rights, two of them being the freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Many other countries have some equivalent to this too.
The relevance here is that taking photos of public spaces is part of freedom of speech and of the press.
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on The German army is trying to attract recruits at Gamescom, the world’s biggest video game convention in c/games@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
I don’t know anyone who was on the fence, and decided to enlist after visiting the army booth at Gamescom lol
The idea is, like of most marketing, probably more that some people might not have been very aware that it was an option and that there are these kinds of jobs in the army.
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on German LibreOffice has a message for me in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
No, the translation I was referring to didn’t say “Kursive”, it said “kursiv”, I definitely remember that. That was the episode with Cypress Creek and Hank Scorpio where Bart is asked whether he never learned cursive…
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on German LibreOffice has a message for me in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 29 Aug 2026
“Kursiv” really just translates back to “italic” despite being a cognate of “cursive”. Outside one bad translation of a Simpsons episode, I have never heard connected handwriting referred to as “kursiv” in German.
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on You wouldn't download furniture in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 28 Aug 2026
An SQL clause walks into a bar. It walks up to two tables and asks: “Can I join you?”
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on Nitter(X/Twitter frontend) project received cease and desist in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026
Of course, there are many .onion websites that can’t be accessed through the clearnet, that’s kinda the point of them.
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on It's quite the burden knowing I'm always the smartest person in any given room. in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 25 Aug 2026
This would actually not meet the criteria of free and open source software if it were real.
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on Is "banning" social media outright stupid? in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
mass surveillance
A slightly better argument than “ineffective”, but still not the central reason why it’s bad. I can think of ways to make it work without mass surveillance, but I’m not writing about them because I don’t want to give any politicians who may be reading this any ideas.
banning SM for kids -16 alleviates them being cyberbullied
So that they can get bullied IRL instead, very much better amirite… /s
exposure to violent or sexual content
You see, I remember being a minor and adults trying to keep me away from violent or sexual content. I still do not see what the fuck is supposed to have changed on my 16th or 18th birthday or whenever that it would be ok afterwards, but not before?!
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on Is "banning" social media outright stupid? in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
We should not argue against it on the grounds that it is ineffective. That just implies that it needs to be made more effective.
We should argue that democratization of information sharing is a good thing for society, and anyone wanting to reverse it is an authoritarian enemy of a free society.
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on Is "banning" social media outright stupid? in c/privacy@lemmy.world · 20 Aug 2026
Social media makes sure politicians and other powerful people cannot control very well what information people less powerful than them receive. No surprise that politicians may want to ban it (first for kids, maybe later for everyone?).
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on The Gemini Protocol in 2026: growing, but still not setting the Internet aflame in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Aug 2026
I thought the goal was precisely not profit? 😂😂😂
But yes, this is exactly what I meant.
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on The Gemini Protocol in 2026: growing, but still not setting the Internet aflame in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Aug 2026
“Web” means HTTP and HTML.
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on The Gemini Protocol in 2026: growing, but still not setting the Internet aflame in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 16 Aug 2026
I fail to understand the point of this.
If the goal is to be able to deliver documents without any JS, cookies, tracking, etc., then why not just deliver documents that way through the web? No one is forcing anyone to put those things on any website.
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on I need a new hobby, I'm going to set up my own Lemmy instance. Am I an idiot? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
I would not do that without first looking into applicable laws regarding legal liability for content and requirements to remove things. Depending on where in the world you are, this can be a minefield.
A disc as well as its packaging still cost money; also, a physical store needs to pay rent and salaries.