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Re:Signs you're following a fake Twitter account on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:22AM (#22557142)
I think it was in a video with to mscott where woman from twitter talked about this, yes false positives are a big problem when detecting fakes. But Twitter is working hard to keep bad bots / fake accounts away. There was no last time, right now people are working on banning fakes. It a 24/7 game.
Re:Tails 4.4 on Thursday March 12, 2020 @10:16AM (#22557078)
Thx for making Tails, the world doesn't know what you did for it.
Re:Greenland and Antarctica ice loss accelerating on Thursday March 12, 2020 @09:27AM (#22556547)
Weather is so big that I, a small human, don't have any influence. My actions have no impact on the sky.
Many browsers start "freezing" the user agent.

But the user agent isn't that important when we talk about tracking.

https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/467#issuecom...

There was a similar discussion last week (or so). It was basically said that even if "the media" does track us, it's still a good thing "they" allow some autors to write about privacy.

That's my (new) opinion on this.

Re:My First AWS “Free Tier” Hosting Bill Was $990 on Tuesday February 25, 2020 @08:15AM (#22412890)
That's why I still rent VMs for a fixed price