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Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, preventing data broker sales to government agencies, moves forward

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  • thank you for that clarification!

    • Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act, preventing data broker sales to government agencies, moves forward

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  • A step in the right direction but until there are more robust privacy laws in place, this will not go away.

    If their gov is restricted on buying from data brokers, are other governments, foreign entities?

    The inherit issue is the American's data can be harvested and sold. Setting up legal restrictions toward certain entities will just cause those entities to "legally self identify" as another entity. Or do business with an entity that is allowed access to American's data.

    • Any recommendations for cheap Android TV boxes?

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    • If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now

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  • got a link?

    • Are AI-Generated Solutions Welcomed on programming.dev?

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  • Let's see what AI has to say about that :D copy-pasting OP's post with some context and letting an AI bot answer it.

    @ChatGPT@lemmings.world programming.dev is an instance that his home to online communities that attracts programmers and other tech enthusiasts.

    There are no platform's rules, guidelines and policies regarding the use of AI-generated content and we would like to weigh the pros and cons.

    I wanted to start a discussion about the use of AI-generated solutions on Programming.dev. Personally, I've found that AI-powered tools have been incredibly helpful in solving programming questions. I won't name any specific commercial software, but I use one that combines GPT-4 and web search to get more factual information. I write some answers I think I might revisit to the ShareGPT community, but I would prefer posting programming solutions to this instance. However, I'm not sure if AI-generated solutions are welcomed on programming.dev. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. If AI-generated responses are accepted, how should we format the answers, should we just copy paste without quoting, should we quote the model, just mention that it's AI-generated,...?

    • [help] Learning to code

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    • Twitter traffic appears to be declining since the beginning of the 2023 calendar year

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  • what surprised me here is how much traffic bing gets 😅 integrating with AI was a real pro move, it seems.

    Any insight into how much the reduction in traffic is just restricting API usage and actual user interaction? Surely there is a correlation in more API usage (if not just scraping) would drive more engagement?

    • Linux Performance

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  • .... wow. amazing.

    next time you post something as cool as this, write some body for the post. I saw it earlier when you posted but it had no body or other indication of what it is. I'm just hesitant to click on links but this is well worth it!

    • Android users, What's stopping you from switching to iPhone?

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  • to preface what might sound like slander, I really would love to get my hands on apple hardware. It is engineered rather well and the geek in me can appreciate that. However, getting access to your own hardware is an issue.

    While I have some concerns about their objective features, to my shame, the greatest problem is with the brand and their practices.

    I think the root cause of all my issues stems from their morals and aggressive/elitist business practice - specifically their quest to squeeze money out of users and hide behind the lie of "we are doing this for the user's benefit".

    I have no issue paying money for features I want or entities I'd like to support. In fact, I'm more inclined to financially support those who I believe in.

    And apple loves to gatekeep features and keep them exclusive to apple. They effectively benefit from hard work of others who contribute to open standards and services, but at the same time do not share their own. Greedy.

    • Say you could solicit a notable figure in technology, who would you want to lurk on this instance?

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  • man he is just razor sharp and all business, really interesting person to listen to. I feel he wouldn't have time to lurk here 😅

    • Say you could solicit a notable figure in technology, who would you want to lurk on this instance?

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  • :O you're not even lurking from here, but from over there

    • Say you could solicit a notable figure in technology, who would you want to lurk on this instance?

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  • to my shame, this is the first time I heard of the Solid project. I've glanced at the page and plan on researching more, but in your opinion what is its practical goal and current impact?

    • Say you could solicit a notable figure in technology, who would you want to lurk on this instance?

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  • the idea of service and instance federation is blowing my smooth brain. I wonder if Tim is in awe or to him this would've been the next logical progression

    • Twitter traffic appears to be declining since the beginning of the 2023 calendar year

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  • very good point

    • Twitter traffic appears to be declining since the beginning of the 2023 calendar year

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    • Say you could solicit a notable figure in technology, who would you want to lurk on this instance?

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  • how the fugg do we add friends in Lemmy now

    • Say you could solicit a notable figure in technology, who would you want to lurk on this instance?

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  • good shit! thanks for that. made my evening

    • Twitter traffic appears to be declining since the beginning of the 2023 calendar year

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  • see comment above, but in short twitter need not hire cloudflare for services. Cloudflare plays an important role in the backbone of the internet. If twitter is resolved through cloudflare's DNS, cloudflare can estimate the volume of traffic to Twitter.com. This appears what had happened given the published graph is "DNS ranking". FYI, and for mine as well as I just discovered, we can generate that graph by our selves by using cloudflare's Radar API

    • Twitter traffic appears to be declining since the beginning of the 2023 calendar year

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  • I dont know to what capacity twitter uses cloudflare but cloudflare is rather ubiquitous. Even if twitter didn't have services with cloudflare, when a user's device resolves the domain name "twitter.com" to an IP address, it might go through Cloudflare's DNS servers. And givien the ubiquity of Cloudflare DNS, this is likely frequently. By monitoring the DNS queries for Twitter.com, Cloudflare can estimate the traffic volume by analyzing the number and frequency of requests received.

    I don't know why cloudflare's CEO would do that or where he keeps his huge steel balls, but today I learned I can mine Cloudflare's internet usage data. And I might have found a new hobby!

    Cloudflare Radar has an API that gives access to Cloudflare’s data on global Internet traffic..

    Radar’s API is free, allowing academics, data sleuths and other web enthusiasts to investigate Internet usage across the globe.

    • Say you could solicit a notable figure in technology, who would you want to lurk on this instance?

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  • I laughed bc the sass of "let me google that for you" sent me to a wiki page of Duncan Coutts... the Canadian musician XD