I suspect “yes” comes with strings attached, which is why I’m sticking to the other option. But it’s likely I already agreed to the strings when I agreed to my company’s demand that we use Teams.
Also I don’t want to give some manager at Microsoft the satisfaction of adding my click on “Yes” to their stats.
Every single time I open Teams it pops up a dialogue asking if I want to try Copilot. There’s no “No” option, just “Yes” and “Maybe later”. If you click “Maybe later”, it asks again the next day. One day they’ll just assume “Yes” and not ask.
And this is at work for a company that has demanded we jam needless AI into all our applications.
They’re offering a helpful guide so others don’t have to spend ages figuring it out for themselves. There’s no need to react so negatively.
It’s not that they’re especially fragile. It’s really only when you combine them with a sync process. I once had a sync go wrong and it resulted in the contents of a vault being unreadable. Because all you have are a bunch of encrypted files with meaningless names and a flattish structure, which Cryptomator interprets and mounts as a different directory structure, when something goes wrong it’s not easy to know where in the vault files the problem lies. You can’t say “ah, I’m missing the documents folder so I’ll restore that one from backup” like you could with an unencrypted directory. And if you’ve made changes since the last vault backup you can’t just restore the whole vault either. You could mount a backup of the vault from a time when it was intact, and then copy files across into your live copy, but I feel safer having a copy in another format somewhere else. Not necessary, I guess, but it can make recovery easier.
It depends how the backup is encrypted. Most backup solutions will give you an encryption key, or a password to a key, that you have to keep safely and securely somewhere else. If you have an online password manager or a Keepass database in cloud storage, that would be a reasonable place to keep the key. Or on a USB stick (preferably more than one because they can fail) or a piece of paper which you mustn’t lose.
compressed with AES-256
I guess you mean encrypted.
Cryptomator is good but it’s important also to keep backups of the unencrypted content of the Cryptomator vault that are not encrypted by Cryptomator. (You could encrypt the backups with another system.) Cryptomator vaults are more fragile than the underlying file system, and it’s easier for a glitch in the sync process to corrupt them so they’re unrecoverable. I have lost data due to this in the past. So it’s best to make sure all the contents of your vaults also exist somewhere else, encrypted in another way.
From Discord’s age verification page, under “Privacy and Data Security”:
Q: Is my data stored when I use Face Scan or Scan ID verification?
A: Discord and k-ID do not permanently store personal identity documents or your video selfies. The image of your identity document and the ID face match selfie are deleted directly after your age group is confirmed, and the video selfie used for facial age estimation never leaves your device.
So is that a lie?
The article suggests that if VPNs are banned, businesses will have to find other ways to secure their connections and that would be expensive. But it’s not even clear that anything could do that job without, by that very fact, counting as a VPN according to this bill and/or others like it. Effectively, they’re proposing an end to all securely tunnelled connections across the internet, and that would just make the internet useless for a lot of things businesses (and the rest of us) need to do.
This was exactly the concern of the TV and movie writers who went on strike. Instead of being paid writers’ wages they’ll be paid much less as editors to clean up AI slop, while effectively doing the same job because what it writes is so bad.
It’s fascist eugenics and they all see themselves as the Übermensch. They’re really ignorant but too ignorant to see it, and their wealth and the way they surround themselves with like-minded people and ass-kissers ensures they’ll never learn.
Also, their whole sense of self-worth ties in with the story that they got where they are through merit, not luck. And the willingness of society to listen to success stories of the wealthy and ignore stories of the non-wealthy means they benefit from its myth-making and financial survivorship bias.
Epstein clearly had other deeply messed up shit going on too though.
Leaked emails show that Epstein was using Barak to seek out opportunities in the surveillance industry and build connections with powerful figures around the globe, including American businessman Peter Thiel, the former director of Israeli signals intelligence, and two people in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s circle.
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Meanwhile, he invested his wealth in bizarre projects, including a ranch to breed women with his DNA and “efforts to identify a mysterious particle that might trigger the feeling that someone is watching you,” according to The New York Times.
Whole new dimensions of creepiness from Trump’s best friend.
Actually, I’d be surprised if the US govt didn’t already have access to twitter.
Edward Snowden basically proved they did with his revelation of the PRISM program plus the NSA’s use of backdoors in 2013.
I’ve moved Linux SSDs (not Debian) between disparate machines a number of times and it has always just worked. There’s a good chance Debian will just run too.
You’re free to distribute your app wherever you like, but no one will be able to use it.
So this is the ID check… When do we get the full body security scans and cavity searches?
Probably why Google is also taking steps to make custom ROM development significantly more difficult. They evidently want to kill off all Android ecosystems except the ones they control and watch.
Nebula seems promising. It’s reasonably priced and because they charge money there are no ads. I can afford it while I can’t afford the amounts people ask for on Patreon. But I don’t know whether it can scale up while paying the creators enough and keeping the price to users low.
That’s my thinking but I suspect it probably does this anyway.