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Fundamental questions arise on whether we truly require privacy. One might question the necessity of privacy, thinking, “Why would someone like me need to hide something? Am I a criminal or a celebrity?”. However, there are genuine reasons why anyone should be entitled to confidentiality, regardless of their status. Privacy is a fundamental right and a matter of personal liberty. As privacy activists assert, it’s about ”liberty versus control”. Liberty requires security without, security plus privacy.

As the link details, this is a project by Google to add a system not only to web clients, but also to web servers, that performs Device Attestation so that the website can control how, and if, a web browser or a machine in general can visit it.

As expected from Google, this is basically a combination of DRM and Anti-Adblock. They try to sell it as a way to """"only"""" perform nonidentifying checks, but in the same document in their section of open issues they leave to the air how to prevent their users (websites) from using it to discriminate web browsers that don't complain with certain criteria (such as "be Google Chrome").

There are various Issues opened already to let these people know the evil they are creating. One notable is here (28), and this social media thread follows the more general issue.

Over the last 3 weeks of our data (June 21 to July 12, 2023), we saw a weekday daily tweet count drop from the 1,272 pre-Elon average to just 333 tweets a day, which is about a 74% drop in weekday tweets. The 2-week rolling average (including weekends) dropped down to 272 tweets over the final 2 weeks. When I attempt to remove automated CVE announcements (bots), the drop is even more significant, dropping from over 500 a day down to 66 over the last two weeks, an 87% decrease in CVE-related tweets.

Relevant HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36780739

From the discussion it seems most of the infosec people have moved over to Mastodon already which is nice.

Relevant HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36709895

More Links https://www.ghacks.net/2023/07/12/twitter-block-threads-links/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/twitter-blocks-links-to-rival-threads-while-ceo-downplays-reports-of-traffic-decline/

https://9to5mac.com/2023/07/11/twitter-is-blocking-threads/

Relevant HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36673040

Geddit is an open-source, Reddit client for Android without using their API. Many devs are working smart to bring us the content without API. Nitter is back, now Geddit.🍻

My dad told me to look into something called "parallel computing" but I don't really understand what it is or how to put it into practice.

I have a raspberry pi 4, and two windows computers.

I can wipe the raspberry pi and one windows computer, but I am looking to run games (that can't currently run with just the one computer) on the other windows computer.

I apologize if I'm being dumb, I don't know as much about computers as I'd like.

This article explains the types of software with examples.

They allege that OpenAI's ChatGPT and Meta's LLaMA chatbots were trained on datasets that included their copyrighted books, without their permission. The datasets in question were allegedly obtained from "shadow library" websites like Bibliotik, Library Genesis, and Z-Library. These websites are known for distributing pirated content.

For those not aware nitter is an opensource twitter frontend which has no ads or javascript.

Now it also bypasses the rate limits and other restrictions.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/580985

This article includes a brief description about digital marketing, types of digital marketing and the advantages.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/923025

lemmy.world is a victim of an XSS attack right now and the hacker simply injected a JavaScript redirection into the sidebar.

It appears the Lemmy backend does not escape HTML in the main sidebar. Not sure if this is also true for community sidebars.

cross-posted from: https://social.fossware.space/post/123876

In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like "headphone status" and "screen density."

Threads (Meta's counterpart to Twitter) just launched today on both Android and iOS supposedly but when I go to the Play Store, it shows me this message (see screenshot). Anyone else have this issue?

The Orange Pi 5B is a versatile single-board computer that offers impressive performance at an affordable price. With its Rockchip RK3588S 8-core 64-bit processor, it delivers a powerful computing experience, making it an excellent alternative to the Raspberry Pi 4^2^.

Key Features and Specifications

• Rockchip RK3588S 8-core 64-bit processor (quad-core A76 + quad-core A55)
• Main frequency up to 2.4GHz
• 4GB/8GB/16GB/32GB LPDDR4/4x memory options
• Support for 8K video codec
• Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5.0 with BLE support
• 32GB/64GB/128GB/256GB eMMC storage options
• USB 2.0/3.0, HDMI 2.1, Gigabit LAN port, TF card slot, and Type-C power supply

The Orange Pi 5B provides a wide range of interfaces, including HDMI output, GPIO interface, M.2 PCIe2.0, Type-C, Gigabit LAN port, 2x USB 2.0, and 1x USB 3.0^4^. It supports various operating systems, such as Orange Pi OS, Android 12, Debian 11, and Ubuntu 22.04^1^.

Performance and Benchmarks

In the Geekbench 5 benchmark, the Orange Pi 5B scored 1016 for single-core and 2869 for multi-core, significantly outperforming the Orange Pi 4. Its power consumption is higher than other single-board computers, consuming 3.3 watts at idle and 7.3 watts at full load[^8^].

Conclusion

In conclusion, the Orange Pi 5B is a powerful and affordable single-board computer that offers a wide range of features and impressive performance. With its versatile interfaces and support for various operating systems, it is an excellent choice for a variety of applications, from edge computing and artificial intelligence to smart home solutions and more^4^.

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