I can’t even read a lot of news lately cause first thing I’m presented with is a full screen notice demanding I click “agree” to some obscure legal agreement.
John Richard
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- John Richard@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•is anyone else tired of being asked to sign up for an account to use xyz website?English4·8 hours ago
- John Richard@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras | The surveillance cameras have become another flashpoint of growing bipartisan anger against tech industry excess.English511·8 hours ago
At what point do we stop voting for the people putting up the flock cameras, and start voting for those that have comprehensive plans to address real issues?
- John Richard@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequenceEnglish1·7 days ago
No, a much better comparison is that his backyard is already wide open. Whenever you go there he takes you all around his backyard. There are no signs saying you shouldn’t go to certain parts or fences stopping you. You go there to look at other parts and he still takes you there. Then one day he gets mad and says he himself took you to a part of his backyard that he didn’t want to, and rather than put up a better fence, he’s going to have you arrested for trespassing with multiple felonies… no warning, straight to prison!
- John Richard@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequenceEnglish103·7 days ago
Lol, doesn’t matter if you have expensive lawyers. What matters is that you have counsel that goes to church with the judge or plays golf at the country club with them, or knows people that do. Or you’re a Zionists genocide supporter and pedophile like Alan Dershowitz.
- John Richard@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequenceEnglish271·7 days ago
Fuck Congress and the DoJ as well. How the fuck can Reddit still have Section 230 protections after what spez did?
- John Richard@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequenceEnglish23·7 days ago
But he did have access via university. Besides, my understanding is he was scraping research journals, many of which would not have been possible without grants from tax dollars. Meaning the mere fact that the research is publicly funded means the journals should also be public.But they didn’t even prove he distributed them. For all we know, he was planning to have an AI use them for training and apparently that isn’t a problem.
You do realize as well that almost every site you visit makes API requests. And you can then use the same API to request other data directly. And the difference between “public” and unauthorized access often comes down to whether you used the same API that your browser would call, but instead decided to make other calls to it directly.
- John Richard@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Grok Calls for Assassination of Elon Musk, Accusing Him of PedophiliaEnglish11·13 days ago
Musk made multiple implications that Trump was a pedophile and that is why he was hiding the Epstein files, only to then go back to giving him money and hanging out with him. If you donate money to someone you think is a pedophile that makes you a pedophile. Simple as that.
In my blue state district, Democrats voted for the genocidal incumbent who receives big money from AIPAC and that voted to fund ICE. It’s amazing how the media can shift everyone’s attention to a very small handful of elections, and then also use those elections to make people think progressives are winning big while also labeling them all DSA. You have much to learn my friend about the games being played and that will be played.
I live in a so-called “progressive” blue state. Multiple red states have better privacy laws similar to California’s CCPA, more consumer protections, etc. Anyone can call themselves a progressive and that word in itself means almost nothing… heck, they give countless handouts here to Amazon and Microsoft, and a large number of people that claim to be progressives work for those same companies while living in gentrified neighborhoods where they make being homeless essentially illegal now.