Reached for comment, a spokesperson for Telegram disputed that data is stored in plain text on the company’s servers, saying “everything stored in Telegram’s cloud is securely encrypted.” The spokesperson also said, “This kind of FUD is not surprising, coming from a minor competitor (and typical for this one). That said, we can confirm that we have neither developers, nor [servers] in Russia and we don’t see any of the mentioned risks.”
More Ukrainians should also look into the Matrix protocol as it is end to end encrypted, the service is decentralized and the company that is behind the protocol is based on the UK.
The app element is good app to get started.
Ukraine could have multiple matrix servers for everyone to use.
5 for civilians. 8 for military branches and 3 for government.
maybe they feel it's not safe enough. client is called DSI Merkury 2.0 if you want to look it up more closely
e: lol it's just element clone, they even left original theme in the same shape. it has forced 2FA and as governmental app could be tied to governmental qualified electronic signature infrastructure (every citizen can get one for free) but not sure about it
UK citizens can also opt out, as the Data Protection Act 2018 is the UK's implementation of GDPR and confers all of the same rights.
In my opt out, I have also reminded them of their obligation to delete data when I do not consent to its use, so since I have denied consent, any of my data that has been used must be scrubbed from the training sets and resulting AI outputs derived from the unauthorised use of my data.
Sadly, having an Instagram account is unavoidable for me. Networking is an important part of many creatives' careers, and if the bulk of your connections are on Instagram, you have to be there too.
Forgive me for the pessimism, but I sincerely doubt that they honour any opt-outs. Meta has shown time and time again that they'd rather just pay fines as business expenses instead of abiding by law(s).
I mean, I guess maybe someone could take a picture of me and upload it to Instagram and label it or something. And it's possible to infer that two people are associated by having a picture containing both them that you run facial recognition or something on. I guess you could kind of think of that as being "my data" in an indirect sense.
“These features and experiences need to be trained on information that reflects the diverse cultures and languages of the European communities who will use them.”
No, they do not, these features and experiences don't need to exist at all.
The idea is neat but the infrastructure needed is the real revolution waiting to happen. They make bricks that stay industrial levels of hot for long periods of time.
How do the bricks get heated? Does that scale easily?
Do heated bricks get transported or heated onsite?
Can existing industrial hardware like kilns, forges, and steam generators use these bricks with little retrofitting?
This is a tech to watch but don't anticipate an overnight (or even during the decade) switch to hot bricks.
Forsberg said his only concern was whether Electrified Thermal Solutions would be the ones to bring the technology to fruition, noting that many clean energy technologies have been invented in the U.S. only to gain commercial success in China.
Recent government funding has given the company a significant boost.
In January, ETS received a $5 million U.S. Department of Energy grant to help build its first commercial-scale demonstration project at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, an independent organization that provides contract research and development services to government and industrial clients.
It's only partly about the money adding up from all these streaming services. The other element is that usenet, a NAS and the *arr apps provide a vastly better experience. I can hear about a movie I'm interested in and grab it straight away, usually up to full BluRay quality or, if it's not released yet it will grab it when it's released. When new TV episodes are available it just grabs them automatically and adds them to my Plex library.
I've switched to collecting discs, it feels more viscerally satisfying, like vinyl, plus not having to deal with shitty rips, or ISP tracking (i forgot to turn my VPN on once and they literally suspended my service and made me call and grovel to the guy on the phone), or worrying about drives failing (my biggest fear which seems somewhat inevitable for everyone). having a case and art in your hands feels nicer than clicking on a file. plus used blu rays are very cheap.
I totally get that, I buy physical media too. It’s worth mentioning that I used to torrent but stopped because I share the same concerns.
With Usenet there’s no uploading, just an encrypted connection to a server somewhere that’s hosting the files so I’m not making material available. That’s how you can get in trouble.
My NAS drives are in a RAID config, it’s not bulletproof but if I lose a drive I won’t lose data.
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