SoupBrick

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[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 27 points 5 months ago

The Eternal Victim

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I have seen the engineering failure that is the cybertruck, no thanks.

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 51 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (6 children)

Oh no! Big tech company bought out my barely functioning, small, energy inefficient AI business! Whatever will I do with these wads of cash!

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 1 points 10 months ago

Most likely people downloading malware.

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Situation investigation/rundown from a cyber security expert.

https://youtu.be/jHf6dkgXfVg?si=Sq2EzgRbRpqYhr2v

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net -1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Oh cool! Now the govt can create data collection regulations and ban TikTok if an investigation shows they are in violation of those laws! Oh yeah, I forgot it is just foreign adversaries potentially collecting US data that is the problem. Thank goodness they are strong arming TikTok into selling itself to a pre-existing media company instead!

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 70 points 10 months ago (8 children)

From the article, the data collection hinges on a bot going into a public server then scraping the history. Still a problem that Discord should act on, but it looks like there is no need to worry about private servers.

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Which forces Tiktok to sell or be banned, correct? The issue I see is: why not just create regulation for the root problems instead of just focusing on that app? The only reason I can see, is that their priorities do not lay with protecting people, but forcing a foreign business to sell it's IP to strictly American companies. Wether that decision has to do with the intentional or unintentional promotion of the US's direct involvement in the genocide in Gaza or just Big social media companies lobbying for the removal of a competitor, we can only speculate. Both sides are doing their best to push this bill, when have the (R)s collectively banded together to create positive change? The point being, reading the bill is cool and all, but you do have to ask, "Why target a specific company instead of the alleged problems of foreign adversaries getting their hands on our data?" If we had hard data collection and selling regulations, it would not only allow them to ban predatory apps (foreign or domestic) but also ensure sensitive data cannot even reach our enemy's hands.

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

What are your sources saying the reasoning for the bill is?

https://archive.is/Iu8yu

https://archive.is/hu22e

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 12 points 11 months ago (4 children)

So they are going to put in place some hard data collection and selling regulation, right? Right?

[–] SoupBrick@yiffit.net 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can't wait for people to start inserting disruptive code using white colored text in their resumes.

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