evacide 1 year ago

If you hear a scream across the internet right now, it is the sound I am making while reading the Internet Archive v. Hachette Books appeal, which IA has lost:

WIRED

The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case

Hachette v. Internet Archive was brought by book publishers objecting to the archive’s digital lending library.

evacide 1 year ago

I am waiting on analysis from Brazilian lawyers before I weigh in on how legal Brazilian court's decision to block X is, but I can safely say that the fines for individual users accessing the site over a VPN are crazypants.

evacide 1 year ago

This is your regular reminder that Google spent billions of dollars a year making their search engine the default while Google search results became increasingly tainted, nonsensical, and useless.

evacide 1 year ago

After years of being informed that I am in the pocket of Big Tech (alas, without making a Big Tech salary), I would like to announce that, like the Olympians, I am ready to be sponsored by Parmesan cheese.

evacide 1 year ago

I have been tremendously lucky in my career, but I have absolutely seen men get paid more for the same or less work with the same or fewer qualifications and I have seen men praised as geniuses for behavior that gets me called a bitch.

evacide 1 year ago

Microsoft says they are making a bunch of changes to Recall to mitigate the many, many security and privacy problems that researchers have found over the last week:

The Verge

Windows won’t take screenshots of everything you do after all — unless you opt in

Microsoft promises changes to Recall after security concerns.

evacide 1 year ago

When AirTags first came out and I warned that they were Apple's gift to stalkers, so many Apple fanboys told me that I was overreacting.

404 Media

An AirTags Stalking Sting Operation

A man allegedly involved in a Russia-based smuggling operation is accused of placing at least seven AirTags on his ex-wife's car to surveil her.

evacide 1 year ago

Who are the "supersharers" of fake news on Twitter? Republican Middle-aged white women living in Arizona, Florida, and Texas. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl4435

evacide 1 year ago

If you, a white person, feel the need to disguise yourself as a black person for any goddamn reason, how about you just don't?

evacide 1 year ago

One day I will do a massive thread of just the worst digital privacy and security advice that people have given in my mentions.

evacide 1 year ago

Threat models matter. When a platform/service/app tells you they are “private” or “secure” always ask “from whom?” Criminals, domestic abusers, law enforcement, data brokers, and intelligence agencies are all different attackers with very different capabilities.

evacide 1 year ago

When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.

evacide 1 year ago

"Cisgender is a slur" has some real "people pointing out racist behavior are the real racists" energy to it.

evacide 1 year ago

I see that everything is going fine over at the Hellsite.

evacide 1 year ago

I have spent this week declining work requests that are unreasonable in scope or that make me uncomfortable and I would like a goddamn medal.

evacide 1 year ago

Buying a new car in 2024 is a goddamn privacy nightmare, part 3591 of an endless series:

Sherwood News

How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas

I was the first person to ask my Honda dealer how to turn off data sharing. It didn't go well....

evacide 1 year ago

If you're the person who stole the package from my foyer, I hope you're enjoying Police and the Empire City: Race and the Origins of Modern Policing in New York.

evacide 1 year ago

This website says you should send it a photo of your partner's penis and they will tell you if they have an STD, using the power of AI. This is so misleading, inaccurate, dangerous, YIKES, that I assume it is an elaborate joke. https://www.calmara.ai

evacide 2 years ago

You know what I absolutely do not want? A humanoid robot stumbling around my house, using the power of AI to confidently but incorrectly do my chores. #tormentnexus

TNW | Deep-Tech

Domestic humanoid backed by OpenAI raises $100M

1X has raised €100mn to bring a household humanoid to the market. Named Neo, the robot bears a strong resemblance to Tesla's Optimus.

evacide 2 years ago

No, I don't want to know your "skincare secrets." Your skincare secret is that you are fifteen years younger than I am.