SaltSong

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[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 27 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure that the main reason Google funds Mozilla is to be able to avoid claims of monopoly on browsers. I don't think we can have it both ways.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If only someone had warned people that mass surveillance would be used for purposes that most voters are opposed to.

Most laws of the limits of surveillance are based on the understanding that it requires time, effort, and expenditure of limited resources to observe someone. We don't require a warrant for publicly available information, like a cop following you around, and writing down where I go all day, because we understand that no police department is going to spend an officers time like that for no reason. It's a self-limiting decision. Similarly, the records of such observation would be limited in scope to the period of time that I have an officer assigned to me. They can't decide today that they want to have been observing me last week.

But with cameras and data storage, booth of those limits are removed. It costs nothing to observe and record where I go all day. Further, they can decide today that they want to have observed me last week, and just pull the data out of the archives.

With this in mind, the general understanding of "publicly available information" needs to be reconsidered, and the laws about what the government is allowed to collect and store about me needs to be updated.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've failed those before, probably because I move rather mechanically. I've tried deliberately putting delays and random mouse movements while don't them.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 11 points 1 day ago

I was looking forward to it, but then I got here, and find that it suits me.

[–] SaltSong@startrek.website 7 points 2 days ago

You need a standardized banana, not some random banana.

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