resist1984 @resist1984@social.privacytools.io
Joined Mar 2019
@The_ogier can we get a link that's not in #CloudFlare? Something that is suitably open to the general public?
@curufuin @cdmnky this is not at all a smart hill to die on when Pete's victory would mean removing the most seriously dangerous and destructive current #POTUS from the power he abuses. Most particularly considering that an attempt at bringing back the draft short of extreme circumstances would fail. To vote against Pete in the general #election2020 over an unlikely narrative is profoundly foolish.
@eff "...not compatible with a free society" -- good wording. I'm going to steal that when talking about #CloudFlare, #Google, #Amazon, etc.
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Even Amazon employees are starting to revolt. As one employee says, Amazon Ring surveillance doorbells are “not compatible with a free society.” https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-engineer-says-ring-should-be-shut-down-immediately-2020-1
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@garbados (without a twitter middle stop, this is the article)
Privacy campaigners bid to beat police facial recognition plans by wearing ‘dazzle’ makeup
Wearing makeup has long been seen as an act of defiance, from teenagers to New Romantics. Now that defiance has taken on a harder edge, as growing numbers of people use it to try to trick facial recognition systems.
Interest in so-called dazzle camouflage appears to have grown substantially since the Metropolitan police announced last week that officers will be using live facial recognition cameras on London’s streets – a move described by privacy campaigners and political activists as “dangerous”, “oppressive” and “a huge threat to human rights”.
@freakazoid It's possible that archive.org has started shipping j/s that causes the visitor to grab the page and feed the page to archive.org. That would explain the current behaviour.
@freakazoid Maybe something changed with how archive.org operates, but for quite a long time my plugin would redirect me to an empty archive page asking me if I want to save it. I click "save", and the page retrieval worked. That means archive.org was directly accessing the website, not me. But it no longer works, and now the captchas are being stored by archive.org.
@freakazoid anyway, I'm trying to understand your original statement. You seem to be saying an FF plugin can grab the CF site, but something is missing here b/c the site inherently mistreats #Tor users. How does that work?
@freakazoid you "scrape" the screen off to get at the underlying data. Consider the scraping lawsuits that come from Ryanair & Southwest airlines. The whole point in scraping those sites is for consolidators to present the flights side-by-side with competing airfare. The graphics are discarded, the data is harvested.
@freakazoid you mean helping archive.org scrape? I'm confused.. I think of scraping as harvesting and parsing the data, whereas I think what archive.org does is simply mirroring.
@freakazoid I hope (perhaps naively) that by accessing the content of a #CloudFlare site via a caching/archival site, it will generally reduce their income.
@freakazoid It's useful to see the content of the CF site, but it's important to do so without connecting to the site. Websites often profit from traffic by way of ads. So I prefer not to contribute traffic that advertisers would count.
@freakazoid my FF extension automatically redirects #CloudFlare sites to archive.org. Which extension are you talking about? AFAIK a distributed headless browser doesn't solve the problem.
@kensanata @grimmware @rysiek @kravietz to send a msgs back and fourth over a long term calls for both sides to install something special or unconventional (e.g. magic wormhole, Wire, etc). But you still have to make initial contact to negotiate that - to ask them to install something. Fax is more reliable than email for that initial contact.
@kravietz @rysiek @grimmware @kensanata on rare occasions, the recipient I need to contact is using an email service that does not DNSBL residential IPs & where the service is not gmail, hotmail, outlook, yahoo, or other such PRISM junk. In those cases I send an encrypted PDF - assuming I can find a different channel to xmit the password.
@kensanata @grimmware @rysiek @kravietz To be clear, the thesis is not "fax is better than everything". The thesis is "fax is more reliable than email".
@kravietz @rysiek @grimmware @kensanata anything you do in email is subject to the tens of reliability pitfalls mentioned in this article https://oasis.code-cat.com/posts/1833714. Magic Wormhole does nothing for most of those issues. Indeed there are many superior options to email/fax/pstn, but you only have those options if the other party uses them to begin with.
@kravietz @rysiek @grimmware @kensanata copy-paste is both possible & non-essential. If a recipient wants to copy & paste, OCR makes that possible. I OCR most docs I receive as bitmaps as a standard practice.
@kravietz @rysiek @grimmware @kensanata Have a look for yourself. I suggest writing a letter in #latex or libre office, exporting it as PDF, and running the #ghostscript command I posted.
Joined Mar 2019
