French75

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on Say it ain't so · c/politicalmemes · 0 pts · 69d

He's not wrong. The dems will spend years investigating, refuse to prosecute, and conclude by congratulating themselves and blaming Reagan.

I don't want to paint a false equivalence between parties here, but this had co-sponsors from both Dem and GOP and had strong bipartisan support. So yeah... put forth by the pedo parties.

What's fascinating about this is that major tech companies already monitor and record most internet users online activity, so it's not the tracking that's new, it's who is demanding it and why. In other words, governments like the taste of surveillance capitalism so much that they are mandating it.

I doubt that Amazon is slow rolling it. Demand for EV trucks is insane. I was working on procuring some in a different industry a couple years ago, and we just could not get them in any meaningful quantity. Lead times were years out. I think we actually got one during the time I was on the project.

on Router recs please :) · c/selfhosted · 4 pts · 127d

I bought a minipc and put OPNsense on it. Its been just over a year now. Very flexible, very easy, and rock solid.

on Cloudflare or Tailscale? · c/selfhosted · 2 pts · 130d

I used wireguard, then switched to Pangolin. Wireguard was simpler and worked better with mobile apps though. I'll prob switch back for most apps.

To clarify, i reread, and the article does say they are buying the data from Fog Data. I've read elsewhere that Fog Data logs location data from installed apps using location services. I don't know if that's the only method Fog Data uses. If it is, turning off location services should significantly impair this approach. Airplane mode would not, though it would probably prevent radio triangulation like you describe.

My comment was that there are a lot of ways that phones record location data, and no single countermeasure stops all of them. In addition to apps using location services, the phones themselves track you in a lot of different ways. For example iPhones continuously monitor and log location data even when the phone is off. They use BTLE mesh when other methods are unavailable.

Isn't this what every major social media site does? It's certainly what security and privacy experts have been warning us about for years.

Once can hope LinkedIn pays a heavy price for this, but they've probably done it intentionally knowing the value 100x exceeds the likely penalty. This will probably end up with all of us being offered to join a class action where our settlement is a free month of LinkedIn premium.