Indeed in Netherlands I already encountered an e-receipt-only fiasco at a cafe. They forced me to order and pay by app as a cloud order (no cash.. no paper menu either). I had a degoogled phone so I could not do Playstore and their captive portal did not work on my phone anyway. So a staff member had to lend me their phone just to be able to order. Then the order was trapped in their account. The receipt becomes more important when paying by card so I can check it against the bank statement later. They had no printer. Only e-receipts. And their app could not handle entering another email address than what the staff member already entered for their own account -- assuming I were even willing to give them a (disposable) address as I oppose feeding Google on general principle and their email provider was Google. They could not handle pulling out a notebook and writing out a receipt.

Throughout the whole fiasco the staff must have been wondering “what’s wrong with this person? How can someone be walking around in public without a recent smartphone and all the Google services?” Probably wondered if I was part of an organised crime gang.

I’m also excluded from my public library’s Wi-Fi for not carrying a subscribed SMS-capable phone to get past the captive portal. So WTF, to get wi-fi service (financed with public money) you must already be equipped with tools that are generally redundant with wi-fi to begin with. They seem to be excluding the people who would need wi-fi the most from wi-fi service.

I do in fact do that. It’s very useful. But the breach notice came by postal mail.

(edit) In fact, it would have been cheaper for them to send the breach notices by email. I suspect they chose postal mail precisely to conceal from victims who the data source was due to people’s use of email aliases.

There is a slight renaissance of feature phones (aka dumb phones) lately. The main drive is self-control. People trying to shake free of an addiction. Tech illiterates of course like smart phones as well but you have the security factor backwards. The smartest consumers favor feature phones precisely for their superior security.

So I believe feature phone users largely fall into the following demographics:

• social media addicts looking for escape
• tech-literate street-wise people who understand the vastness of the attack surface and risks of smartphones with knowledge about mass surveillance programs and loss of control (this demographic does their e2ee comms from a PC)
• tech illiterates

(edit) To a lesser extent:

• (policy/child protection)? I think I heard some schools (and districts thereof) are banning smartphones from very young children
• those who simply have no compelling use case
• pro-environment ethical consumers who oppose e-waste and the ecocide from the designed obsolescence that impacts all smartphones (even Fairphone needs to make progress here)
• the extreme poor. The US has a “Lifeline” program to give gratis smartphones to poor people, but I’m not sure they’re all aware of it, or whether the program keeps up with the chronic need for software updates that require hardware replacements (designed obsolescence)

I wonder if there are any states using this to find out who is searching for information on abortions now that Roe v. Wade was flipped.

I can see your point in many situations but when I say I am the one b*tching (myself… in the 1st person), in this context I am not saying I am acting badly myself. So the “women are bad” narrative doesn’t follow. In this case the word merely serves as a more expressive complaint.

If someone were to talk about someone else b*tching, it might well be what you’re saying, as they are complaining about someone else complaining & maybe they oppose that other person complaining or their aggressive style thereof.

General overview:

https://git.kescher.at/...

The problem with linking to a Cloudflare resource is that it’s a walled garden that excludes some people. It would be like directing people to a Facebook link that’s only reachable to members. Not all subscribers or visitors of https://programming.dev/c/latex necessarily have a Facebook account, for example. Likewise, nor do they necessarily satisfy the gate-keeping demands of Cloudflare.

Those who do pass Cloudflare’s entry criteria are mostly unaware that their traffic is decrypted by Cloudflare (not #Stackexchange), thus giving CF a full view of everything you do on the site.

Indeed it saves bandwidth -- which is particularly important for those with a limited connection. I like it as well because so many images actually downgrade the UX anyway.

It’s a better carbon footprint to nix images but then we get punished for it by anti-bot websites. Bots also neglect to fetch images so I get hit with false positives for robots more frequently.

(Not sure if mentions work on Lemmy.. mentioning @aibler@lemmy.world for good measure)

I’m not sure you understand. When you say “O365”, that implies desktop apps. When I say I did an MX lookup, that means the MX server is (foo).mail.protection.outlook.com, which means the email traverses MS assets in the clear regardless of what software they use.

FWIW, unrelated, it’s notable that o365 was studied¹ by the Dutch gov and found² to violate GDPR due to telemetry data kept in the US.

1. https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/...
2. https://www.zdnet.com/...

I think the common term for “internet-izing” is #digitalTransformation. That’s the language used in the EU as they enact policy that ultimately cattle-herds people into a forced digital transformation. The quasi antithesis of that which wiser people support would be:

• right to be offline
• right to be analog
• right to unplug

I kind of favor right to be analog because it also somewhat implies a right to cash and to be unbanked.

Do you know what I should look for? Is it the version number? I recall Lemmy was forked to Lenny, but not sure how to recognize Lenny instances.

(btw, fwiw, I wouldn’t use sh.itjust.works because that’s even more nannied [by Cloudflare]).

Sorry I do not know if BBC interviews are transcribed.

But FWIW it will air again on BBC World Service at 02:32 GMT tomorrow and the next day (which could be useful for those on limited internet connections)

Ah, so I guess there would be no updates to the story. Patient walked in the end because the hospital demanded indemnity from late notifications.

That link is unreachable from secure networks (tor). I can’t quite work out if you’re talking about a digital national passport, or a COVID “passport”. I suspect you mean the former.

I see no problem with border control forcing people to present a passport (or particular form thereof) if they have one. But a citizen is (or should be) absolutely entitled to enter their country, full stop. If they have no documentation at all, it would be an abuse of their rights to deny them entry on that basis. We might expect a citizen without docs to face a long inconvenient process to verify their citizenship, but it’d be a perverse injustice to deny them entry. IMO a passport should be a convenience, not a requirement.

I recall either Australia or NZ was refusing entry of their own well documented citizens if either they had COVID or were unvaccinated (I forgot which). Regardless of their COVID situation there is no good reason for denying a citizen entry. It dilutes the purpose and meaning of citizenship. Anyway, this is why I cannot be sure what passport you’re talking about.

There are bug reports and then there is user support. There’s some confusion because I filed a bug report in a user support community (because there is no bug reporting community).

Indeed the user support solution is to either request that the admin to change the slur filter config, or change instances. But the purpose of the thread was to report a bug in an in-band way (without interacting with a Microsoft asset [#deleteGithub]).

but it is still considered misogynistic

Men and women both use that word and when a woman uses it, it’s not misogyny because it’s directed at a specific woman (not a demonstration of hatred of women generally). It usage has murky origins but it can’t be assumed that the author is even conscious of that. The bot is making a blunt blanket decision that it can’t, and it assumes the worst of people.

The other two bugs I mention are bugs regardless of how justified or true the positive detection is.

The bad news is the GDPR is mostly just symbolic. I’ve complained over dozens of GDPR offenses & got no justice from it.

In a lot of cases, they can accommodate everyone but simply neglect to.

E.g. the public parking service was originally offline, thus proving they had the resources to accommodate offline people. They recently decided to take that away and exclusively serve online people. If they somehow lost resources and have to choose one or the other, choosing offline option accommodates more people because online people can also function offline (but not vice-versa). I’m also not sure how resources fall short, because you don’t get to reserve parking for free. You pay a fee to reserve parking, so the people are bringing the resources to cover their own request.

The online option is more exclusive than the offline option. Lines are being drawn in ways that create inequality. If they need to save money, they can save money in ways that have equal impact. E.g. instead of a public school excluding some people from education entirely, they can shorten or eliminate gym classes so equality is maintained amid resource shortages.

Indeed people with malicious intentions will get around the filter anyway. It’s the non-malicious authors who get burnt by this filter.

This page covers a lot of Cloudflare issues:

https://git.kescher.at/...

The 2nd link on that page goes to:

http://cryto.net/...

which details the traffic exposure to #Cloudflare as a consequence of Cloudflare holding the keys & terminating the tunnel (thus performing the decryption). Indeed the padlock is misleading as most users believe the tunnel goes all the way to the source website.

edit: BTW, I see that you are on #lemmyWorld. You might be interested in knowing that that’s also a Cloudflare site. Cloudflare sees your login credentials, your IP address, and everything you do with your lemmy account. As far as gatekeeping goes, Lemmy World has been manually configured to be less exclusive than default-configured sites like stackexchange. E.g. I am blocked from stackexchange but not from lemmy world.

The solution → use Tor (theoretically)

I simply did a search for Moroccan couscous recipes. Results:

• 6 results blocked by #Cloudflare (default config; naïve admins)
• 2 results blocked Error 462 Not allowed (proactively anti-tor admins)
• 1 result blocked by #Imunify360 (naïve admin)

Only TWO out of 11 results on the 1st page were usable and they were at the bottom of the page. It’s as if cyber criminals are all out to take down recipe sites. Most people are pro-Cloudflare & anti-robot, which enables tor-hostility to happen on such a large scale, ultimately neutering people from sensible self-defense.