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  • What's the most privacy way to host an e-commerce store

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  • I guess this depends how you define privacy. One solution may be Particl, but I haven't tried it so far.

  • Tor Project and Mullvad release Mullvad Browser, "Tor Browser without the Tor Network" a privacy browser for VPN users

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  • I just stumbled upon that, too, and am wondering how this compares to Librewolf (+VPN) ...

  • What questions does humans still do not have answer to ?

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  • A probably highly topical question these days: Are computational word-sense disambiguation and computational word-sense induction possible?

  • "The Russian government is cowardly and wrong": whistleblower reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics

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  • Yep, I also hope they publish the entire data set somewhere.

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    "The Russian government is cowardly and wrong": whistleblower reveals Putin’s global and domestic cyberwarfare tactics

    www.theguardian.com /technology/2023/mar/30/vulkan-files-leak-reveals-putins-global-and-domestic-cyberwarfare-tactics
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    Russia tightens persecution of a crucial human-rights group

    www.economist.com /europe/2023/03/23/russia-tightens-persecution-of-a-crucial-human-rights-group

  • Although TikTok is privately-owned, refusing control from the Chinese government might not be a safe option for executives, says researcher

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  • Fair. The article is not specifically about TikTok, though. For example, it mentions the case of Whitney Duan and her ex-husband (here's an article about it) who wrote a book about that topic. One book review reads:

    The Chinese Communist Party depicted in Shum’s firsthand account is the epitome of capitalist excess, with the sons and daughters of high-ranking party officials going on global shopping and gambling sprees, spending the vast sums their parents and relatives amassed through rampant corruption, influence-peddling, ruthless political maneuvering and backstabbing.

    But just read the book yourself.

  • Mental health startup Cerebral admits to sharing patient data with Facebook parent Meta, TikTok, and Google

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  • Yes, it's bad if people are that naive, and it's even worse when others appear to exploit the despair of people. The app has 32 permissions and contains 4 trackers that openly say that they would collect behavioral data and advertise their trackers using slogans like "we help marketers make better decisions".

  • Belgium also bans TikTok on government phones

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  • dont think its controversial to think that governement officials shouldnt have any form of social media on their government issued phones. Its insane that governements have worse digital practices than a lot of mid size businesses

    Yes. And what makes this thread even more weird is the fact that Tiktok is not even available in China. ByteDance offers a similar service, Douyin, that looks and works just like it, but the Western version is unavailable, and not just for government officials but the entire population.

    Furthermore, a lot of other social media is blocked in China not just for officials but for the entire population, e.g., Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat and many others. Not that I think these apps are needed, I just don't understand the critics for blocking Tiktok here.

  • Belgium also bans TikTok on government phones

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  • Belgium also bans TikTok on government phones

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  • Meta mulls a Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ that will be interoperable with Mastodon

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  • LOL

  • Instagram takes Yoti facial age estimation to Europe, Australia, Canada, Japan

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  • Yeah, especially from Facebook and other big tech. They never sell user data. Never. Pinky swear.

  • Jounalist Finder

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  • Report calls UK austerity since 2010 'exploitative', with costs fell on women and the lower paid, ca

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  • This is strongly related: ‘It makes me want to cry’: inside crumbling courts as judges wrestle with rise in rent eviction cases

    Edit for an addition:

    In a lobbying campaign targeting politicians, press, the Bank of England and the government, Ben Beadle, the chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA), had in recent months warned “landlords are selling because of punitive taxation” and of “decimated” supply hitting tenants. [...]

    But Beadle this month told an industry webinar: “Actually the truth is that while some landlords are leaving the sector, this sector is actually still increasing. That’s not terribly helpful to our argument to be honest with you. But in the context of cost of living and rising costs we have to tell that story and link the two.”

    Source: Landlords accused of ‘making up stories’ in drive to change UK tax rules

  • The biggest obstacle to saving rainforests is lawlessness

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  • A new study published just yesterday:

    For the first time researchers have proven a clear correlation between deforestation and regional precipitation. [...] The paper, published in the journal Nature, adds to fears that the degradation of the Amazon is approaching a tipping point after which the rainforest will no longer be able to generate its own rainfall and the vegetation will dry up.

    People living in deforested areas have long provided anecdotal evidence that their microclimates became drier with lower tree cover.

    Here is the link to the article, here the link to the study.

    Edit for additional article: Overconsumption by the rich must be tackled, says acting UN biodiversity chief

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  • I don't know the person who wrote this post, but accusing someone of extremism (no matter if it's left or right) because of linking to a news article like this is unnecessary to say the least.

    The linked article describes more than "a few incidents". I think we all read about the death of Mahsa Amini because she refused to wear a hijab or about the 16-year-old Asra Panahi who was beaten to death for refusing to sing pro-regime anthem.

    It's rather a systemic opression as women and girls as well as other minorities are treated like second-class citizens in Iran, and the situation in 2022 has worsened.

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  • A few isolated incidents? How women and girls are treated in Iran has been covered by multiple media "in the west" and everywhere else. You can also ask Iranian women who were able to emigrate and learn more about these "few isolated incidents".

    And, no, this is not a cultural issue nor a ideological one.

  • Russia’s aggression threatens efforts to protect nature beyond Ukraine, researchers say

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  • The cited study provides a lot of evidence. Just in case you don't have time to read it or don't trust the source for whatever reason, have a look here, here, here or here, for example.

  • Alex Morgan rips ‘bizarre’ potential Saudi sponsorship of Women’s World Cup

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  • Compare Alex Morgan's statements now to her male colleagues' behaviour during the football world cup in Qatar last year ...

  • After viewing this website, one can never say that some protests and news stories are not staged eve

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  • This is not new. It happens offline and online (fake product reviews to promote your item, or faked bad reviews on your competitors'). We encountered that for the first time in the early 2000's. What's new about it is maybe that they advertise it so openly.