kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

@dump_stack Nice, I don't remember reading about this Firsov case before 😂

But well, half of Russian gov has properties in Europe and USA, and spend vacations there, why would criminals be any different?

That's the dilemma of earning money in a country where the law is personal whim of a tsar - it's unwise to keep your earnings in the same country 🤷

@dump_stack

Usually yes, but as your business grows, the ambitions tend to grow as well 😉

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Seleznev

@lukem Mazafaka started in early 2000's when these were still a thing 😀

Why would even anyone need extensive Internet surveillance laws if the cybercrime actors are imbeciles? 🤔

> cybercrime community are now discussing moving away from using emails

> authentic information, which he was able to use to link several Maza users to public social media profiles

> usernames, emails, account passwords, and social media IDs (ICQ, Skype, AIM, MSN, and Yahoo)

https://therecord.media/maza-cybercrime-forum-hacked-user-data-dumped-online/

@Wetrix

Google is lying, as usual - they say this just as they start adding a new user tracking feature called Federated Learning Component into Chrome 🤦‍♂️

https://social.privacytools.io/@kravietz/105831451478305776

P.S. this article is quite neutral but in general rt.com is just as reliable as "Pravda" was in Soviet times 😉

New Chrome feature Federated Learning Component intends to provide ad-tech industry with data on user behavioral traits but in aggregated way, so that #privacy impact on individual users is slightly reduced.

https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:components/federated_learning/

I have just started using FluffyChat for #Matrix comms on #Android and it's so comfortable I just switched to it on all devices and set up LiberaPay donation 👍

https://fluffychat.im/en/fdroid.html

@themactep@fosstodon.org They don't care, it's the client's device that burns CPU rendering this crap 🤷

@themactep@fosstodon.org I guess they're cloaking the Sponsored tag to avoid detection by ad-blockers?

@jeroen @matrix @session

You don't include competing products that also tick all boxes in such comparisons 😂

@petros

For direct donations the only direct payment method is probably cryptocurrencies like BTC or ETH, which come with their own issues such as volatility, poor user experience and huge transactional costs.

The first can be resolved by using a stablecoin such as DAI, the second still limits your donors to people who have MetaMask installed and are relatively fluent in the cryptocurrency concepts. The last one however is basically a show stopper for micropayments.

@petros

In WM and BAT all metrics such as impressions are collected by the intermediary (Coil and Brave respectively).

Some people may not like it, but advertising is a service where you sell impressions/engagement and customer expects some QA metrics to know what they're paying for.

@petros

There are two currently:

https://webmonetization.org/ - implemented by Coil
https://basicattentiontoken.org/ - implemented by Brave

I don't see any fundamental moral issues with any of them. On the server side you basically declare your BAT/WM id and that's really it, no tracking code etc.

9 March 1931, a summary (in Polish) of Soviet "Pravda" article ranting about Mahatma Gandhi being a reactionary traitor and suggesting he should now be very careful about attempts on his life.

#ussr was just angry about peaceful resolution of years of protests which culminated in Gandhi–Irwin Pact in 1931.

Original in German - that "make an ass of myself" isn't a very precise translation, probably "...I'm ridiculing myself" or something like that would be better:

"Es ist möglich, daß ich mich blamiere. Indes ist dann immer mit einiger Dialektik zu helfen. Ich habe natürlich meine Aufstellungen so gehalten, daß ich im umgekehrten Fall auch Recht habe."

The most important quote from Karl Marx:

"It’s possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way."

15 August 1857, letter to Engels

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112023654/https://marxists.catbull.com/archive/marx/works/1857/letters/57_08_15.htm

#marxism