milderworkacc

Where that hat rack is in my study, I have every right to assume it will keep my confidences.

And where that hat rack is the object of my ire, I can have confidence that I won't find myself on the wrong end of a commonwealth law regarding the use of a telephone.

He could get five (5) years for this, because of the 'using a carriage service' element. Tell me you've never uttered oaths or threatened your lawnmower when it won't start, and ask yourself if Husqvarna ought to be a mandatory reporter.

Seems pretty novel to me.

Well, here we have a man who frustratedly ranted at an inanimate object and was probably surprised to learn that the inanimate object in question has handlers who felt the need to read those rants, and pass them on to Interpol, probably with the intent of having our ranting man arrested.

My dog has never done that to me, so I'd call this story novel and concerning.

I agree. There are pretty clear grounds here to think about opening an investigation here into illegal tying, or a misuse of market power. Not sure if the FTC maintains a presence on here, but if you're listening...

I'm not sure if this meets the bar for substantive and thoughtful discussion, but this kind of corporate cowardice, enforced by unelected bureaucrats standing at the bully pulpit is only going to get worse as the noose tightens on the open web.

The combination of hardware attestation and walled garden "app stores" is the end goal of most policymakers in this area, and it happens to suit the monopolists in Google and Apple and Facebook down to the ground.

Perhaps a timely reminder that things do not always get better over time, and that we may have lived past the high point of secure communications in our lifetime.

It certainly feels like one at times!

Not sure where to start with this one.

Can anybody briefly explain what a “rot economist” is? Is it meant to be capitalised “ROT economist” which stands for something? Has my browser not rendered the characters correctly or something?

This story of course includes the now almost mandatory attack on e2e encryption, which according to this account when coupled with the people you know feature is “a dangerous tool” - with little explanation as to the nature and size of the danger.

This part is interesting: “Worse still, accounts that were less than 15-days-old now made up 20 percent of all outgoing friend requests, and more than half of friend requests were sent by somebody who was making more than 50 of them a day…”

The explanation leaves a lot to be desired though:

“…heavily suggesting that Facebook was growing its platform’s “connections” through spam.”

Doesn’t this make perfect sense where a new user joins Facebook with no friends to start with, then in the first few weeks of using it finds all of their friends and adds them?

The whole thing reads like a grab bag of grievances rather than a forensic takedown, shame.

Off topic but this is a real gripe of mine - analogue speedos that go all the way up to 240 kmph (~150 mph). I am only ever going to do half that speed, so why not just make the dial go to only 120/(80) and give the needle (and me!) twice as much precision!