Idzie
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Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.
@evacide
One of the many reasons to be against #ageverification software
It gives the wrong people & companies tons of data, often #biometric ones
Therefore we transfers #power exactly the wrong people & #corporations
And as we can know latest since #Edwardsnowden companies do share data with governments
The cornerstone of the #chinese #surveillance #state is #realnameregistration
Don't give #biometrics to #evilcorp, especially not for cheap thrills
Do not hand data to #fascists
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw::paw:
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I got a proper dictionary of oracle bones!, but I’m amused that it’s labeled “PRACTICAL Dictionary of Oracle Bones” as if I might find ancient prophecies lying on the ground as I go about my business and need a quick no-nonsense decode
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I got a proper dictionary of oracle bones!, but I’m amused that it’s labeled “PRACTICAL Dictionary of Oracle Bones” as if I might find ancient prophecies lying on the ground as I go about my business and need a quick no-nonsense decode
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Chip Butty
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This is one of the best explainers of Chinese ‘languages vs dialects’ I’ve seen
I basically understand most Min languages (especially southern ones) and Mandarin; the rest of them not at all
This is one of the best explainers of Chinese ‘languages vs dialects’ I’ve seen
I basically understand most Min languages (especially southern ones) and Mandarin; the rest of them not at all
Chip Butty
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I Was Trapped in #Chinese #Mafia #Crypto #Slavery | Hacklab @wired
🧐"It began with a message in WIRED #technology journalist Andy Greenberg's inbox, sent fr a lawless stretch of #Laos bordering #Myanmar & #Thailand. A computer engineer fr India, trapped far fr home inside an isolated compound, forced to work long hours luring western victims into fake crypto investments. Tis is how he exposed te never-before-seen inner workings of a modern #forcedlabor operation" #scammer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcNaWmmn0A
I Was Trapped in #Chinese #Mafia #Crypto #Slavery | Hacklab @wired
🧐"It began with a message in WIRED #technology journalist Andy Greenberg's inbox, sent fr a lawless stretch of #Laos bordering #Myanmar & #Thailand. A computer engineer fr India, trapped far fr home inside an isolated compound, forced to work long hours luring western victims into fake crypto investments. Tis is how he exposed te never-before-seen inner workings of a modern #forcedlabor operation" #scammer
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zOcNaWmmn0A
Beardy Star Stuff 🏴🌹🇵🇸
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@dennyhenke@social.coop
Totally agree.
But, to be fair, #European #history is full of violence and resource theft, too.
And while I'm not much deep into #Chinese and #Russian internal history, I guess they are not much better (even excluding the last century, I mean).
To dismantle the #US-led world order is urgent.
But we should be careful to not just replace them with another oppressive empire.
Totally agree.
But, to be fair, #European #history is full of violence and resource theft, too.
And while I'm not much deep into #Chinese and #Russian internal history, I guess they are not much better (even excluding the last century, I mean).
To dismantle the #US-led world order is urgent.
But we should be careful to not just replace them with another oppressive empire.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/116029489613320355
100% agreed with the sentiment of a boycott of the US.
But, let's acknowledge that the violence of the US started 250 years ago (really 534 years w/ Columbus) with genocide of the indigenous people of these continents. Then continued in slavery and violent foreign interventions as far back as the 1800s.
Violence and resource theft is a foundational element of US domestic and foreign policy. Trump is just being more open about it. Let's be totally honest about this history!
Any boycott, to be honest, needs to go far beyond Trump and acknowledge what came before and what would come after. Trump and his regime is a big red, pussy zit that's rupturing all over itself and everyone else.
Now is the time for a full reckoning with 70+ years of US hegemony. The global community, Northern and Southern nations, have an opportunity to begin a re-balancing of the global order.
A better, more fair and sane world will be one where the US is demoted. No better, no more powerful than any other.
@dennyhenke@social.coop
Totally agree.
But, to be fair, #European #history is full of violence and resource theft, too.
And while I'm not much deep into #Chinese and #Russian internal history, I guess they are not much better (even excluding the last century, I mean).
To dismantle the #US-led world order is urgent.
But we should be careful to not just replace them with another oppressive empire.
Totally agree.
But, to be fair, #European #history is full of violence and resource theft, too.
And while I'm not much deep into #Chinese and #Russian internal history, I guess they are not much better (even excluding the last century, I mean).
To dismantle the #US-led world order is urgent.
But we should be careful to not just replace them with another oppressive empire.
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw::paw:
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another page from 非人哉 "Inhuman!" that amused me because I'm a Halloween stan:
"Happy Halloween! The office is holding a festive little pumpkin carving contest. Here you go."
"H-HALLOWEEN?! Sir, did you forget we're all CHINESE spirits? You expect us to know what to do with a pumpkin?! Do we look like vampires and werewolves to you?!"
"... When did you guys learn how to do that?"
another page from 非人哉 "Inhuman!" that amused me because I'm a Halloween stan:
"Happy Halloween! The office is holding a festive little pumpkin carving contest. Here you go."
"H-HALLOWEEN?! Sir, did you forget we're all CHINESE spirits? You expect us to know what to do with a pumpkin?! Do we look like vampires and werewolves to you?!"
"... When did you guys learn how to do that?"
Saw on #LinkedIn a European tech expert claiming that the #US is "by far the worst in the world in terms of privacy violations"
I honestly feel like #Asia doesn't exist to a lot of Europeans. Do they really not know how bad privacy and data laws are in many countries here? Have they not heard of the #GreatFirewall or how #Chinese users have basically zero data privacy?
Lots to critique in the US and of big tech, but that's not the way to do it.