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...but that’s the point, of course. It’s a hazing ritual. If you get through you’ll be invested in the system, convinced you’re elite and that you worked hard for your success. And you’ll be hard to convince otherwise because if you were wrong, then what was all that pain for?

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And from the Vice article that broke the story: "Among the thousands of other data points, vehicle location data is transmitted on a constant and near real time basis while the vehicle is operating." vice.com/en/article/k7adn9/car

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Because some people still share this thread: Tusky has been reinstated after my appeal.

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Your car is broadcasting data about where you go and what you do. And now a surveillance contractor wants to sell this data to the U.S. military, including "real-time locations of specific cars in nearly any country on Earth."

vice.com/en/article/k7adn9/car

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I love language. Image source i.redd.it/7syim1p0e6n61.jpg, no idea what thread, I don't use Reddit.

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Oh also I forgot to mention what opensnitch was. It's similar to Little Snitch on Macs, but for Linux. It tracks outgoing network connections and throws up prompts so you can allow/deny them. github.com/evilsocket/opensnit

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Data Double Dipping: When Companies Mine Paying Customers

"While companies should protect their customer’s privacy by default whether their product is free or not, it’s particularly discouraging to see that many companies out there are double dipping on their customers."

puri.sm/posts/data-double-dipp

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😡 NFT - I'm in total ideological conflict with the idea AND the technic.
Today I saw my art " Yin and Yang of world hunger" (license: CC non commercial/non derivative) on OpenSea platform posted by someone. What a shame. #nftart is open door to all type of scam...

#nft #capitalismenumérique #cryptoart #nfts #blockchain

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Running git 2.28 or later? Take 10 seconds and enter the following into your terminal to set the default branch in new projects to main not master:

git config --global init.defaultBranch main

Actions matter more than words. So here’s a simple action you can take to show that you care.

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App Showcase: Tootle

"Social media can be a great way to engage with friends and family. But most of the popular services and apps track their users."

puri.sm/posts/app-showcase-too

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When you forget your password - Absolutely true if you don't use a password manager!

My Password is: *****

#humor #fun #password #computer #internet #fail

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People in the 60's: I hope the government hasn't wiretapped my phone.

People in 2021: Hey wiretap, what's a good recipe for pumpkin soup?

miragenews.com/study-reveals-e

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@matrix I felt as a Nheko developer I had to reply to this quote:

> Diesen Clienten ist gemein, daß Sie keinen E2EC, Audio- und Videochat Support haben.

While Nheko on the PinePhone certainly has issues and I can't get the camera to work at all atm on the distribution I'm using, here is receiving a voice call in an e2ee room (calling out works too):

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RT @thepine64@twitter.com

Video calls on the #PinePhone! You can now hold a video conference call using Matrix @element_hq@twitter.com in Firefox.

Article (in German): marius.bloggt-in-braunschweig.

🐦🔗: twitter.com/thepine64/status/1

Why are companies able to get away with calling them "smart speakers"? That's emphasizing completely the wrong aspects of the devices. They're more "smart microphones" or "smart listening devices". The magic is in listening in to everything and sometimes using a speaker to respond.

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