Okay, and?
The voting laws in Alaska are already upheld by the Alaskan supreme court, and Republicans love to play the “well, this isn’t technically against the rules” when they pull stunts, so I’m all outta fucks.
As a man with two daughters, I’ll never forget Republican hypocrisy about timing to nominate judges WRT Merrick Garland and Amy Coney Barrett.
The alt-right playbook says rules only matter when they can be used against your opponents.
If you’re still using a data drive formatted as NTFS, and you’re not using Windows anymore, it’s best to change the filesystem.
Linux NTFS drivers are pretty good, but it’s still reverse engineering a proprietary filesystem. Sometimes it misbehaves.
If you’re using something like ExFAT then ignore me.
She had made several healthy decisions in regards to a situation she was in, it was her Dad invading her privacy that blew this up.
I suppose if you want to hold corporations wholly blameless, the dad isn’t the worst person to blame. But it’s not like those brochures are sealed. Or have you never received a brochure in the mail?
You’re really going to call the dad reading a non-sealed advertisement brochure “invading her privacy”, but Target building a shopping behavior database isn’t invading anyone’s privacy?
there’s some people out there who will always be assholes and taking away this particular tool will not solve anything.
“Aww nuts, we can’t wave a wand and fix literally every problem at the same time, why even bother trying?”
We can’t prevent murder either, but we can recognize that people have a right to not-be-murdered. IDK why it’s not easy to understand that I vehemently disagree with the implied notion that I don’t have a right to digital privacy, and that is wholly at odds with the entire advertisement industry.
In the end, it’s your right to open your private life to companies so they can try and advertise to you. But that data isn’t innocuous, and it will one day be used against people.
I’ll keep running my network ad blocker and script blockers.
The thing people actually get angry about is the predictive ad which feel like it removes their autonomy.
Negative, it is the farther reaching effects of this data-mining hellscape that bothers me.
It’s not a matter of my autonomy being removed, it’s a matter of privacy. Full stop. This is the very first time in human history where people’s lives aren’t private. Your attention is a commodity traded on the open market, whether you want to be or not. And that’s the part I have a problem with.
Today, it’s being too aggressive marketing to pregnant teens. Tomorrow, it’s your insurance company buying your advertising profile, analyzing your past shopping habits to determine that you’re at a high risk for Chron’s Disease, and jacking your rates up over it.
You said it yourself, the line must go up. It’s not just about charging fair prices for goods and services, it’s about separating people from as much money as possible, by any means necessary.
Data aggregation can be weaponized against you. How many times do you think people struggling to make ends meet get shown ads for predatory loans? Or gambling addicts getting shown sports betting ads?
It’s like the guy today complaining that his TV is always listening to him. Yes, because Samsung can make a few cents for putting a Domino’s ad on the TV when the word pizza is said. Of people talking in front of their TV. Of Hundreds of thousands of people.
In the days of AI chatbots, is this really a far fetched idea? Just pipe the data into an AI and tease anything useful you possibly can out of it. The computers handle the raw data processing, you just collect what comes out the other end.
After all, the line must go up.
You don’t like personalised advertising not because it feels invasive, but because you’re scared of being predictable and\or manipulable.
No, I specifically don’t like targeted advertising because it’s invasive.
If it was an individual following you around learning what you do and what you like/want, you could charge them with stalking. But because it’s not just one person, it’s a multi-billion dollar company working for a privacy invading industry, it’s suddenly OK?
Go fuck yourself.
Okay, that’s fun and scary at the same time.
The article links to a webpage,
https://emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/
That shows if your browser is still using those certs, and though it says Firefox has already updated, maybe it hasn’t reached mobile yet as it shows I’m using them all still.
I guess I won’t connect to anything important for a few days.
I have been coerced before, by my ex wife.
Long story made short, if she wanted sex and I didn’t, and I said no, it would always pan out the same way. We’d start at “Did I do something wrong?” And end up at “everyone hates me and I should just go ahead and kill myself.” So I stopped saying no even if I didn’t want to, because honestly it was faster to just give her what she wanted.
As a man, it feels so minor compared to what everyone else will associate with sexual abuse, but my therapist tells me abuse is abuse and that nobody would question it if the genders were reversed.
It’s had effects even 5 years after we’ve separated, but I’m getting better. Learning to take up space again.
Depending on the amount of data, you might be able to shrink the existing NTFS partition, create a partition next to it of the proper filesystem type, move the data between the partitions, delete the NTFS partition, and expand the replacement.
But I wouldn’t attempt that on ant data you care about unless you have backups. I’ve done things like that a lot working in the tech industry, and sometimes things just break.