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Oh that didn't take long. Worldcoin went live and then announced they will work with governments on the retina scanning, facial recognition project.
"Worldcoin will expand its operations to sign up more users globally and aims to allow other organisations to use its iris-scanning and identity-verifying technology, a senior manager for the company behind the project told Reuters."
https://www.reuters.com/technology/worldcoin-says-will-allow-companies-governments-use-its-id-system-2023-08-02/
"Worldcoin will expand its operations to sign up more users globally and aims to allow other organisations to use its iris-scanning and identity-verifying technology, a senior manager for the company behind the project told Reuters."
https://www.reuters.com/technology/worldcoin-says-will-allow-companies-governments-use-its-id-system-2023-08-02/
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Hey peeps,
I'm very excited to be releasing Pt 1 of a new series next week, this one diving further into mobile privacy/security - and will focus on phone backdoors, how they work, the relationship with contact tracing, and how they're being used by phone manufacturers themselves!
I would appreciate y'all spreading the word everywhere when we post the series, our community is thankfully on-top of these issues but the majority of people are blissfully unaware - we may have to venture on proprietary social media to spread the word.
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NewPipe, the best mobile front-end for Youtube made important fixes and improvements in yesterday's release.
- Fixing Youtube's blocking of 'Stories' in a workaround
- Improviing download speed
- Allow seting volume / brightness gestures
- New tabs at the bottom of screen
+ And much more,
Read the release notes
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A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android. - TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
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Chill, you don't have to tell your drivers to go that fast. π
At 5 p.m. local time, an officer noticed a car zipping past other drivers near a high school, the police report says, and determined the vehicle was speeding at 100 mph.
The officer caught up with the car, but the driver continued to speed for several miles. Though the driver slowed down, he drove through a red light, the report says.
When the driver turned to avoid a closed bridge, βThe Google vehicle lost control and drove through a yard and then into a creek where it became stuck,β the report says.
The police department used a Florida driver's license to identify the driver, who βstated that he worked for Google and was scared to stop,β the news release said.
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When I gave up Windows almost a decade ago, I remember having to sacrifice gaming. Of course Linux has made leaps and bounds in supporting Steam and its games, I've played a few of my favorites but gave that up too in favor of spending time working my craft.
Now Steam gamers on Linux have surpassed those on macOS. Its a sign of the times!
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I had to make this video as a warning to everyone who has opposed the past two years of authoritarian overreach. Now is the time to do everything we can to resist the CBDC and the digital ID, which I believe will usher in a new level of tyranny beyond anything we can currently comprehend. Please share this far and wide as a warning to others.
Awareness is our greatest tool in this fight. Thank you free thinkers!
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You may remember our last post on ChromeOS overtaking the desktop Linux market. I posed the question, how can we take some of the market share back and replace ChromeOS with Linux?
Now the Chultrabook project offers a way to flash your Chromebook's firmware with Coreboot so you can install different operating systems. But be warned, this is not a simple process, some Chromebooks are not supported, and some things may not work properly after the conversion - please read the guide in full. I think its some of the best documentation I've seen.
When installing Linux the following distros are recommended:
Arch Linux
Fedora
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Pop!_OS
Debian 12 (Bookworm)
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Replace your Chromebook's operating system with one that respects you.
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I was reading this opinion piece on TheRegister today where the author makes the point that ChromeOS has 4.15% of the market while Linux has 3.08%, and that is something that shouldβ¦
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I was reading this opinion piece on TheRegister today where the author makes the point that ChromeOS has 4.15% of the market while Linux has 3.08%, and that is something that shouldβ¦
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Robert F Kennedy Jr. Sues Google and YouTube Over Constant Censorship
Kennedy uses the findings of collusion between the government and Big Tech to allege First Amendment violations.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., prominent Democratic presidential hopeful, is taking YouTube, and its parent company Google, to court. The lawsuit filed Wednesday pertains to alleged violations of Kennedyβs First Amendment rights, as he contends his speeches and interviews were expunged inappropriately from the platform. As the presidential primary elections loom, Kennedy boldly predicts this tactic of stifling discourse will persist.
We obtained a copy of the lawsuit for you here.
Highlighting this act of censorship includes Kennedyβs speech at Saint Anselm College, as well as his interviews with Jordan Peterson and Mike Tyson. The lawsuit argues these content removals are a blatant disregard for his constitutional rights and echo a worrying trend of suppression across the breadth of the campaign.
A focal point in Kennedyβs legal argument centers on an allegation of government overreach. Kennedyβs filing condemns the Biden administration for orchestrating what he views as a thorough attempt to silence dissenting voices. It clearly states, βthis complaint concerns the freedom of speech and the extraordinary steps the United States government has taken under the leadership of Joe Biden to silence people it does not want Americans to hear.β Furthermore, it underscores that Kennedy is far from the only casualty in this censorship campaign, but his case stands out given his ongoing challenge to President Biden for the Democratic Partyβs presidential ticket.
SOURCE: ReclaimTheNet
Kennedy uses the findings of collusion between the government and Big Tech to allege First Amendment violations.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., prominent Democratic presidential hopeful, is taking YouTube, and its parent company Google, to court. The lawsuit filed Wednesday pertains to alleged violations of Kennedyβs First Amendment rights, as he contends his speeches and interviews were expunged inappropriately from the platform. As the presidential primary elections loom, Kennedy boldly predicts this tactic of stifling discourse will persist.
We obtained a copy of the lawsuit for you here.
Highlighting this act of censorship includes Kennedyβs speech at Saint Anselm College, as well as his interviews with Jordan Peterson and Mike Tyson. The lawsuit argues these content removals are a blatant disregard for his constitutional rights and echo a worrying trend of suppression across the breadth of the campaign.
A focal point in Kennedyβs legal argument centers on an allegation of government overreach. Kennedyβs filing condemns the Biden administration for orchestrating what he views as a thorough attempt to silence dissenting voices. It clearly states, βthis complaint concerns the freedom of speech and the extraordinary steps the United States government has taken under the leadership of Joe Biden to silence people it does not want Americans to hear.β Furthermore, it underscores that Kennedy is far from the only casualty in this censorship campaign, but his case stands out given his ongoing challenge to President Biden for the Democratic Partyβs presidential ticket.
SOURCE: ReclaimTheNet
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How many studies do we need to take EMR seriously? Bill Cadwallader & Ramiro discuss 5,000+ peer-reviewed studies on the health risks of prolonged EMR exposure.
Watch the full interview: https://tbot.life/ur0wo
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How many studies do we need to take EMR seriously? Bill Cadwallader & Ramiro discuss 5,000+ peer-reviewed studies on the health risks of prolonged EMR exposure.
Watch the full interview: https://tbot.life/ur0wo
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A team of security researchers at TU Berlin college announced a new attack on Tesla's AMD based infotainment systems, which allows them to run arbitrary software on the vehicle, gains root access to the car, and unlocks software-locked paid features.
The team says the jailbreak is unpatchable, it uses a voltage fault injection attack against AMD's Secure Processor.
They will present their findings and process at the Blackhat USA 2023 Conference next week.
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If you're a developer, you may have heard of the Vim text editor, a legendary piece of software that improved on the original vi editor distributed in Unix systems. Released in 1991 and still maintained today, vim is used by millions and remains one of the most popular text editors of all time.
Vim's creator Bram Moolenaar has passed away at 62. His family announced (Google Groups link) his passing on August 5th:
It is with a heavy heart that we have to inform you that Bram Moolenaar passed away on 3 August 2023.
Bram was suffering from a medical condition that progressed quickly over the last few weeks.
Bram dedicated a large part of his life to VIM and he was very proud of the VIM community that you are all part of.
Bram was also the creator of the 'charityware' concept, where people could only vote on software features if they donated to a charity of the developer's choice.
Check out Bram's personal website to get a feel for who he was.
Rest in peace Bram, and thank you for your service to all of us!
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You may know about web crawlers or web robots, which can be used to index web pages for search engines and scrape data for individuals and platforms like ChatGPT.
You can 'disallow' crawlers from scraping your site (provided they'll listen) by updating your site's robots.txt
To add GPTBot to that list, add the following to robots.txt
User-agent: GPTBotFrom Open AI's documentation
Disallow: /
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What Is A Robots.txt File? Best Practices For Robot.txt Syntax
Robots.txt is a text file webmasters create to instruct robots (typically search engine robots) how to crawl & index pages on their website. The robots.txt file is part of the robots exclusion protocol (REP), a group of web standards that regulate how robotsβ¦
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You'd expect to make human connections on a dating app, but AI is being driven forward to 'assist' us:
- Match gave an update on a recent earnings call, Match owns dating apps Tinder, OkCupid, and Hinge
- Several new AI features were announced
- They are testing AI scanning and recommendation for your 'best picture', to take the stress out of picking one
- They've already been using AI on the backend
- In a survey, half of single men would consider using a chatbot to talk to matches, and 51% of women said they would use it to have multiple conversations
I bet the next thing we see is an 'dating assistant' AI that'll help you write messages, eventually it'll be AIs talking to other AI's. This directly contributes to the 'feebleness' from using technology and AI, we're literally unable to express ourselves.
Anyways - PSA that dating apps are moving in the direction of automated AI scanning for user's photos.
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The Survival Podcast w/ Jack Spirko: How Apps Sell Data
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Ramiro talks about the hidden trackers and analytics libraries inside an average app on popular app stores. These analytics are aggregated by data brokers and then sold off.
He points to alternative app stores while highlighting the article Phones: Who Can We Call On? on the official TBOT website: https://takebackourtech.org/phones-who-can-we-call-on/
Watch the full interview: https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/ramiro-romani/
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Ramiro talks about the hidden trackers and analytics libraries inside an average app on popular app stores. These analytics are aggregated by data brokers and then sold off.
He points to alternative app stores while highlighting the article Phones: Who Can We Call On? on the official TBOT website: https://takebackourtech.org/phones-who-can-we-call-on/
Watch the full interview: https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/ramiro-romani/
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PayPal Becomes First Major Fintech to Launch Dollar-Backed Stablecoin
Payments giant PayPal said on Monday it has launched a U.S. dollar stablecoin, becoming the first major financial technology firm to embrace digital currencies for payments and transfers.
While stablecoins - crypto tokens whose monetary value is pegged to a stable asset to protect from wild volatility - have been around for years now, they are yet to successfully make headway into the mainstream consumer payments ecosystem.
... Prior attempts by major mainstream companies to launch stablecoins have met fierce opposition from financial regulators and policymakers. Meta's, then Facebook, 2019 plans to launch a stablecoin, Libra, were foiled after regulators raised fears it could upset global financial stability.
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Payments giant PayPal said on Monday it has launched a U.S. dollar stablecoin, becoming the first major financial technology firm to embrace digital currencies for payments and transfers.
While stablecoins - crypto tokens whose monetary value is pegged to a stable asset to protect from wild volatility - have been around for years now, they are yet to successfully make headway into the mainstream consumer payments ecosystem.
... Prior attempts by major mainstream companies to launch stablecoins have met fierce opposition from financial regulators and policymakers. Meta's, then Facebook, 2019 plans to launch a stablecoin, Libra, were foiled after regulators raised fears it could upset global financial stability.
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I've touched down at the Extraordinary Technology Conference! Feels good to be around the frontier of science and healing technology for the benefit of humanity.
I'll be conducting interviews and working on content for new videos while i'm here, expect some cool posts over the week.
Blessing,
Ramiro
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Brave's new search API will give you auto generated text from search results, this article outlines observartions around the service including outputting copyrighted text, and providing no way to reject Brave's web crawlers.
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An important legal case between Epic Games (creator of Fortnite) and Apple has taken a surprising turn. Epic Games had sued apple for disallowing other apps to link to payment methods outside of Apple's ecosystem. Apple forces any transactions on iOS through its In App Purchases service where it retains up to 30% cut.
Thinking about iOS's 58% market share in the United States and worldwide, this rule has a huge impact to both developers and users. Popular Nostr client Damus, recently neuterered the crypto tipping feature on their app (although I heard there's a workaround).
A judge ruled that Apple had violated California's Unfair Competition Law, but now that ruling has been given a stay - which puts a hold on that ruling and gives Apple 90 days to put in a petition.
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Supreme Court says Apple can keep its App Store payment rules for now
The delay will let Apple petition for an appeal.
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Breezy Weather is a weather app with a strong focus on design, with a simple, clean UX, smooth animations, and Material Design all over, plus lots of customizability.
Some very cool features include:
- Forecasts up to 16 days
- Air quality, allergen, ephermeris
- Realtime weather conditions
- Multiple weather sources (more than i've ever seen!)
π€ Check it out
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GitHub - breezy-weather/breezy-weather: A feature-rich weather app with good visualizations and more than 50 sources.
A feature-rich weather app with good visualizations and more than 50 sources. - breezy-weather/breezy-weather
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nRF Sniffer for Bluetooth LE is a useful tool for debugging and learning about Bluetooth Low Energy apps.
The nRF Sniffer for Bluetooth LE allows near real-time display of Bluetooth LE packets. This helps the developer to identify and fix issues by allowing a view of what is happening on-air.
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