• ASDraptor@lemmy.autism.place
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    19 days ago

    Don’t think this will only affect the us. This can be used against anyone living in a country that’s friendly with the turd.

    Leave twitter. For your own safety.

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    19 days ago

    Super serious job of CEO for three different billion dollar companies is so time consuming that he has spare time “to work” as a head of a government department, as well.

    This makes me think that maybe CEOs don’t actually do that much.

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      That’s were the real AI job losses will be.
      A chat bot agent to deal with most of managers concerns, and a dashboard of tickets for those the agent can’t reply to. The last remaining CEo sits Infront of their dashboard and views tickets, get background and relevant info, and makes a decision based on what’s presented.

      Seriously, imagine 1 person having the responsibility, being well compensated, and has literally everything presented in front of them like some homer-simpson-working-from-home type thing.
      So many VP and CEO salaries could be saved, and let people get back to actually doing useful work.

      I’d hate to be the AI “prompt engineer” that spends their day typing “you are a CEO of a fortune 500 company…” type system prompt, tho

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        It’s so funny that you think the humans that temporarily exist as the extension for the insane mega hate entities that are trying to destroy the world are controlling the vehicle that they are in haha

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    19 days ago

    Twitter has been a right wing revenge honeypot since melon head took over.

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    Just stop using Twitter. I’m so glad I erased myself from the Internet and I would encourage others to do the same. Thought crimes are actually going to be a thing, because America is now fully fascist. Some people will find out what it’s like to live in a fully authoritarian country. Don’t be one of them if you can avoid it.

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      Twitter and all of the other sites you left still have your data. It’s just not public. The internet is forever unless the company literally nosedives and all of their servers are wiped. And even then, there might be some backup on someone else’s servers.

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          I’m saying it’s too late to erase yourself from the internet. The best you could do is not make it worse for yourself, which would involve quitting Twitter.

          But if there was any indication on any social media site that you’re queer, even if you think the data has been erased, you could be in big trouble soon.

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            Well I never really used Twitter much and stopped years ago. And I realize I cannot totally erase myself but I did a pretty exhaustive job a few years ago. Trying to maintain as much privacy as I can. I can’t erase the past but I can abate my concerns moving forward

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    19 days ago

    whatever data anyone has (google, facebook, your employer, your bank, the credit bureaus) basically belongs to trump’s nsa, fbi, cia, etc now

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    19 days ago

    Worth remembering that if you send something to an external website, what they do with it is completely outside of your control.

    Trust no company with your information.

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    19 days ago

    I post photos online, and despite the fact that the platforms (Tumblr, and I think Pixelfed too?) scrub exif data, I do it manually anyway.

    Pro tip:

    exiftool -overwrite_original -All= file.jpg
    
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      If it’s a photo on my phone, I have location tagging turned off… but I definitely take a screenshot of the photo anyway. The lower quality doesn’t matter to me if I can easily just remove EXIF data.

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      Keep in mind that we’re in an echo chamber here. We see and read stuff that most people don’t care to know about, and we communicate amongst ourselves without considering the people who are outside of our echo chamber. In the same way people last week were googling about Biden dropping out of the election, a lot of people don’t know what’s happening with a lot of things around them. It doesn’t make them bad people, just ignorant.

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      On modern phones, it will tell you if it’s using them. And you can block permissions.

      however, given who is the owner, right now the best course of action is to consider xitter as a compromised app and treat it as malware/spyware

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    If you don’t think every major US site has been freely giving your data to the government for 20+ years, you’re painfully naive. US law has never required a warrant for this type of thing due to the Third Party Doctrine.

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    19 days ago

    TBF, any of the big players are rife to capitulate to fed demands with the admin changes. Keep that crap out of Facebook, X, Google, Microsoft, unencrypted chat.

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    19 days ago

    I hope I live to see it turn into a soulless pile of bots reposting porn clips for D-grade advertising agencies with no human users.

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    I did.

    I’m on Mastodon and Bluesky. My family is the only reason I’m still on Facebook.

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        Same here. Facebook I am still on only because of a handful of people I know are there.

        Don’t take this wrong, but I am going to pick on this statement in particular. This is mainly the reason that we are all in the position we are in right now. No one can be the least bit inconvenienced and are allowing third party companies to just rape our privacy and then turn around and sell it to the highest bidder. I mean hey, I have a handful of people I know too, and I just use the phone to connect with them. If you have facebook loaded on your phone right now you are giving them all the data they can scape about you just to keep in touch with a handful of people. I am willing to bet the app is running right now collecting data on where you are at this exact moment, how long you have been there, if any data they have access to has changed like contact info for anyone in your contact list and not just your handful of people, calls you make or receive, etc. I could go on and on down to the level of how long your screen stays unlocked. Everyone I speak with about social media has an excuse of why they continue on with total disregard for their own, and other’s privacy. Yes, people I know that are using facebook exposes me to their system by proxy. I don’t know what it’s going to take to wake people up out of this, but it sure looks gloomy and as long as people are making statements like this, and not actually taking action nothing will change. Again, sorry to pick on you in particular, but damnit, it’s not that hard to keep in touch with people and not supply some company with a treasure trove of YOUR data.

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      19 days ago

      Tell them they can find you someplace else.

      If you insist that I breathe burning tire smoke to hang out with you, then you’ll stop insisting that so we can hang out somewhere else, or you can hang out without me.