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  • This seems incredibly interesting, but the idea of a ‘general purpose syncing service’, in the way he describes it, makes my head scream’security concern’. In general the way it’s described the format is not fixed for these services so your data might as well be encrypted in any arbitrary way I think?

    But knowing this wouldn’t this kind of general purpose syncing service need some way of identifying what data it is even syncing? Unless you encooperate something grand like the signal protocol (as in encrypted anonymous messaging) you d always run a security risk if the service you use for syncing is not self-controlled?

    If anyone has more insight on this I’d be very interested, it seems like a very good concept.

    It sounds to me like anything other than p2p local syncing with some protocol is a confidentiality no-go.







  • zweieuro@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldBig Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"
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    In general the article seems to be a summary of current legislative actions that are ongoing between big tech and EU. Though in the article it’s worded with the much more fitting ‘game of chicken between EU and Big Tech’ rather than something like the title, but I guess “drop dead has a better ring to it”…

    I general the article has a lightly optimistic tone, which I very deeply hope holds true.







  • […]Plants vs. Zombies Jordan Adams, and Director Partnerships at EAX Matthew Angeleri.

    Adams would also send female coworkers pornographic videos and even reference them in EA Slack conversations

    While that seemed like an act of goodwill, Angeleri privately sexually harassed said female coworkers and even followed it up with videos of himself having lewd acts performed on himself.

    Why the article can’t just state what the allegations are and at whom is just annoying, so here you go.

    What confuses me a bit is the sentence just before the allegations to Angeleri:

    As for Matthew Angeleri, he invited his female coworkers to stay at his home with his wife while visiting Vegas where they were given free room and lodging. While that seemed like an act of goodwill, Angeleri privately sexually harassed said female coworkers and even followed it up with videos of himself having lewd acts performed on himself.

    Like… What? What is the logical connection between these two sentences? There could be months or years between those two events? How do these two relate? This reads as two completely separate events. So one could just be an act of goodwill and afterwards he decided to be a prick. Or, first the was a prick and then felt bad and offered the coworker a place to stay?

    And if the two events were concurrent that makes it immensely more creepy.





  • /u/Chainweasel@lemmy.world explains this well, though I got a different take on the analogy.

    Imagine you are trying to put air into a deflating balloon that’s about to ‘loose form’ that’s essentially what you are trying.

    Put just enough air (energy/mass) into the star and it will stay stable, loosing as much as you put into it.

    Too little and the star will dissolved, in this example you’d fully absorb it.

    Too much and you are essentially infusing a star with so much mass that it explodes all over again.

    If you are trying to stabilise a star this way, ideally, it would never even begin to go nova.