Tagged: Akkoma
@ForeignSubstance My thinking is that the license agreement doesnât even matter. Expecting deletion of data, or even assuming that it can confidently be done, is the fallacy.
Thinking I now want to visit a hard drive destruction site to see how they do it. đ
@Robert_R_Freitag_II Yes, Iâve always been fascinated by how willing people are to delude themselves if thereâs a chance of quick financial gain, however unethical, or absurd, the premise may be.
Twenty years ago i applied for a job as a web strategist. The ad was an incredibly perfect fit for me. Despite my confidence I wasnât even called to an interview.
I questioned this in an email and asked if they perhaps would reconsider. Whereupon the manager asked that my cv and application be returned to me.
This was all through email, so the idea they thought they could âreturnâ my application was hilarious to me. They only created yet another copy.
Today I see people making the same logical errors with regards to moving data.
When you request an archive or move data out of your cloud drive and then close your account with a provider, you havenât âtaken backâ your data.
You have to expect your data to still be stored with them in many backups. Youâve just created yet another copy,
This is the nature of digital.
@g I'm surprised at myself for not thinking about this either. I keep seeing the need for everyone to just have a personal encrypted personal storage box for all their data.
Much like https://solidproject.org/
Usability and access just needs to improve.
@ambivalena Ja det Àr för jÀkla otÀckt vilken liten kontroll man har över sin egen information. Man Àr sÄrbar hur man Àn gör.
When you turn in any of your devices for repair, how worried are you about your data being compromised and copied?
"Researchers at University of Guelph in Ontario, Canada, recovered logs from laptops after receiving overnight repairs from 12 commercial shops. The logs showed that technicians from six of the locations had accessed personal data and that two of those shops also copied data onto a personal device. Devices belonging to females were more likely to be snooped on, and that snooping tended to seek more sensitive data, including both sexually revealing and non-sexual pictures, documents, and financial information."
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/half-of-computer-repairs-result-in-snooping-of-sensitive-data-study-finds/
@iamdavidobrien Beautiful. Thank you for pointing me to it David.
@Kolombiken Thanks for sharing. I got no notification for a new follow though, which would be expected.
Have to run some tests now with my secret Mastodon account đ
@Kolombiken Perhaps. It's a bit concerting that they decided not to support ActivityPub, the W3C standard, and have opted for Mastodon specific APis.
I just found out that I also can not be followed by someone using Ice Cubes. It simply blocks anything that isn't Mastodon.
One concern that suddenly hit me is that if @ivory app doesn't allow people not using Mastodon software to log in, will they allow to click follow on people who are not on Mastodon?
Hardcoding a block for certain ActivityPub/Fediverse software seems like it can cause all sorts of both technical and exclusionary issues.
@Silhelm Ibland tÀnker jag pÄ hur det var för 25 Är sedan nÀr man tecknade prenumerationer via en förfrankerad talong pÄ 18x6 centimeter. Alla villkor som gÀllde stod pÄ talongen.
För att det ska kunna jÀmföras med idag sÄ skulle det skickas hem en katalog pÄ 20 sidor tillsammans med talongen, som man ska godkÀnna och som man behöver anlita en jurist för att förstÄ.
Det Àr ett helvete att det har fÄtt gÄ sÄ hÀr lÄngt och att det tydligen inte finns nÄgra som helst ramar de mÄste hÄlla sig inom. KonsumentvÀgledaren sa i princip att det inte finns nÄgra grÀnser alls för hur lÄnga avtal man kan lura in folk i. "Det Àr inte prövat."
Tomorrow (Jan 25) Iâm on Swedish national radio getting worked up about the subscription terms for Swedenâs most renowned financial newspaper, Dagens industri.
Wrote about this in February of 2020 (yes, 3 years ago) and they are now finally being investigated by the Swedish Consumer Agency.
Hundreds of people have contacted me over these years to express distress over the large sums of money they are being locked into paying.
For Swedish speakers who want to hear me rant, the program is PlÄnboken and the time is 10am, just after the hourly news. My bits are pre-recorded.
My original post:
https://axbom.se/dagensindustri/
Det hĂ€r att organisationer som skadar konsumenter kan komma undan med âvi tittar pĂ„ detâ Ă„r efter Ă„r efter Ă„râŠ
"Vi har försökt göra det tydligare.â
I 3 Ă„r. Akta er för att anlita kommunikatörer frĂ„n Dagens industri som inte förstĂ„r att orden âbundet avtalâ skulle göra det lĂ€ttare att förstĂ„ att det Ă€r ett bundet avtal.
Att ordet âtillsvidareprisâ enligt konsumentvĂ€gledare inte Ă€r en skyddad term Ă€r ju bara bisartt. Man fĂ„r sĂ€ga vad man vill och det fĂ„r betyda vad man vill.
(De anvĂ€nder alltsĂ„ bland annat âtillsvidarepris" för avtal som Ă€r bundna i upp till 3 Ă„r). Det blir fan ingen pĂ„följder den hĂ€r gĂ„ngen heller. Har dock inte sett Konsumentverkets utredning Ă€nnu.
âNi kanske skulle skriva âbundet avtalâ redan i annonsen?â
âJa vi fĂ„r titta pĂ„ om det kanske skulle göra det tydligare, annars fĂ„r de ju den informationen i bekrĂ€ftelsen efter att de tecknat avtaletâŠâ
Det Àr goddag yxskaft pÄ hela den hÀr historien. Att vuxna mÀnniskor kan sitta och lÄtsas att det Àr nÄgot som Àr osÀkert. Ja, kanske att det skulle bli tydligare om vi skriver vad det faktiskt Àr, det som folk inte verkar ha förstÄtt i 3 Är.
Vi fÄr titta pÄ det.
@eric
đ Awesome. Tried and tested. Wonât have time to dive into this for real until the weekend though.
@mxbck @arpcomics
- Raindrop.ai for links
- Bear for quick notes
- Simplemind to sketch out broader ideas
In case anyone is wondering, the @ivory app will currently only work with Mastodon servers, no other Fediverse software.
I got the error message âCouldn't Create Account. We currently only support Mastodon servers.â
@arpcomics
The idea is still the same đ. A widget (that all blogs in the webring implement) where the reader can page forward and backward between blogs, or jump to a random one.
@eric
@arpcomics @eric
Iâm now looking at this nice kit from @mxbck
Seems similar to your setup Eric.
https://mxb.dev/blog/webring-kit/