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@actuallyautistic

It is not our job to respect people in positions of authority, it is our job to hold them accountable, and vote for people who will hold them accountable.

Respect is earned.

#ATTdown

The cops came to my house this morning claiming that my dog had chased someone on a bike. I told those idiots my dog doesn’t have a bike.

Nvidia’s new app doesn’t require you to log in to update your GPU driver

Removing little-used features also improved responsiveness and shrank the size.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/nvidias-new-app-doesnt-require-you-to-log-in-to-update-your-gpu-driver/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

The Federal Trade Commission has hit Avast with a $16.5 million fine over allegations that it told customers it would protect their security and privacy but then gave data about their browsing to a subsidiary called Jumpshot.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2024/02/ftc-says-avast-promised-privacy-pirated-consumers-data-treasure

The issue came to light in Dec. 2019, when Mozilla removed four Firefox extensions made by Avast and its subsidiary AVG after receiving reports the extensions were harvesting user data and browsing histories.

From the FTC's presser:

"Avast rebranded Jumpshot as an analytics company, which advertised that its “[m]ore than 100 million online consumers worldwide” would give Jumpshot’s clients “unique insights to make better business decisions.”

"Jumpshot further claimed to give its clients the ability to “see where your audience is going before and after they visit your site or your competitors’ sites, and even track those who visit a specific URL.” Of course, Jumpshot’s source of that massive amount of data about people’s browsing information – some of it highly personal in nature – that it sold to advertising companies, data brokers, individual brands, search engine optimizing outfits, and others looking for detailed information about consumers’ browsing histories was Avast, the company that pitched its products as a solution to intrusive online surveillance."

"According to the complaint, Jumpshot provided its clients with “extraordinary detail regarding how consumers navigated the Internet, including each webpage visited, precise timestamp, the type of device and browser, and the city, state, and country.” What’s more, most of the data included a unique and persistent device identifier, which allowed Jumpshot and its clients to trace individuals across multiple domains over time. The FTC says that included in the information Jumpshot sold was data about consumers’ visits to sites about religious matters, political candidates, health concerns like breast cancer, jobs at secure military facilities, student loan application information, dating interests, and sites of an adult nature. The complaint puts it this way: “The vast majority of consumers would not know that the Avast Software would surveil their every move on the Internet or that their browsing information might be sold to more than 100 third parties and stored indefinitely, in granular, re-identifiable form.”

https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-removes-avast-and-avg-extensions-from-add-on-portal-over-snooping-claims/

All trophies are participation trophies if you think about it.

This vegan pizza is a symbol of... individuality!

@donni

“The world is incomprehensibly beautiful; an endless prospect of magic and wonder.”

- Ansel Adams

Owners of public Mastodon servers, you might want to set your signups to approval mode to prevent spammers:

1. Log in on your server's website with your admin account
2. Go to Preferences
3. Go to Administration
4. Go to Server Settings
5. Click the Registrations tab at the top
6. In the "Who can sign up" menu select "Approval required for sign-up" (optionally also tick the box for requiring a reason)
7. Click "Save Changes" button

Spammers tend to exploit servers that allow instant signups.

Sexy is sexy.

If you haven’t seen any fediverse spam then thank the people who run your instance because they are doing a good job.

#Wife

really enjoyed this talk between Adam Conover and Yanis Varoufakis, former finance minister of Greece, about how what we have isn't even capitalism anymore, it's techno feudalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKzlB_jrOyk

"What inspires u to get out of bed every day?"
Me: my bladder mostly