Interesting that big layoff like these are not getting enough coverage in the media, and even here on HN it does not generate enough responses. It sounds like everyone is happy and well. Bear in mind you will most likely get decimated as well. These are huge numbers, and no federal or local politicians are asking what is happening.
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masterfooo commented on E-books are becoming tools of corporate surveillance fastcompany.com/90996547/... · Posted by u/the-mitr
That is exactly why I have thousands of offline books in my offline library and I use a no internet/wifi Android ebook reader to read them.
masterfooo commented on The Humane AI Pin Launches Its Campaign to Replace Phones bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/aryanvdesh
Is it safe to put a gsm device around your heart?
masterfooo commented on Can I remove my personal data from GenAI training datasets? knowingmachines.org/knowi... · Posted by u/randomlogin
I don't get it, you put that information on the internet, you have no expectation to privacy. But now maybe you learned a lesson, and you won't publicly share things you don't want people to see?
That is an assumption. No one has ever agreed on such concept on paper.
masterfooo commented on Neeva: Ad-free, subscription-based search engine launches neeva.com/... · Posted by u/mrry
Then why the hell it exists?
Is Google search engine open-source?
masterfooo commented on Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality rr-tw5.github.io/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
Looks broken on Firefox Mobile, only the panel is visible.
masterfooo commented on Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality rr-tw5.github.io/... · Posted by u/thunderbong
I'm still looking for a good note taking solution for work.
I prefer something with a degree of spatial orientation, i.e persistent physical location/hierarchy. With the right organization it seems like tiddlywiki can do that.
masterfooo commented on We’ve decided to rename Riot blog.riot.im/the-world-is... · Posted by u/anotherevan
Will this change affect the apps on mobile as in a if we have to install new apps and start all over with key verifications?
masterfooo commented on Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites mtlynch.io/stripe-recordi... · Posted by u/mtlynch
I am not an attorney. This is not legal advice.
Based on a plain reading of the law, several things about CalOPPA stand out to me. For one, it's not clear to me that the mouse movements in question qualify as "personally identifiable information". Mouse movements are not a first or last name, physical or email address, SSN, telephone number, or any contact method I am familiar with (maybe you know a way?).
Second, it seems to me that opt-out, right to inspect and update, and more are all contingent upon the data being PII within the scope of CalOPPA. Perhaps you can help me with something I've overlooked that would show me where I've erred?
Further, what do you think the correct legal and ethical way for Stripe to use mouse movement data would be? From your comment I can guess that you believe it should be treated as PII. Is that correct?
Yeah? It is clearly personally identifiable. In fact it is pyschologically identifiable when Stripe can associate that with your name, credit card, Ip address, time of the purchase, the vendor, type of the item, how you get to the store, the items you are paying for, how much time you spent on the item or the store, which links you clicked, the browser you are using, the device you are on, your location etc. Do you want me to list all the possibilities they are recording?. You are out of touch with reality here.
masterfooo commented on Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites mtlynch.io/stripe-recordi... · Posted by u/mtlynch
Stripe cofounder here. The question raised ("Is Stripe collecting this data for advertising?") can be readily answered in the negative. This data has never been, would never be, and will never be sold/rented/etc. to advertisers.
Stripe.js collects this data only for fraud prevention -- it helps us detect bots who try to defraud businesses that use Stripe. (CAPTCHAs use similar techniques but result in more UI friction.) Stripe.js is part of the ML stack that helps us stop literally millions of fraudulent payments per day and techniques like this help us block fraud more effectively than almost anything else on the market. Businesses that use Stripe would lose a lot more money if it didn't exist. We see this directly: some businesses don't use Stripe.js and they are often suddenly and unpleasantly surprised when attacked by sophisticated fraud rings.
If you don't want to use Stripe.js, you definitely don't have to (or you can include it only on a minimal checkout page) -- it just depends how much PCI burden and fraud risk you'd like to take on.
We will immediately clarify the ToS language that makes this ambiguous. We'll also put up a clearer page about Stripe.js's fraud prevention.
(Updated to add: further down in this thread, fillskills writes[1]: "As someone who saw this first hand, Stripe’s fraud detection really works. Fraudulent transactions went down from ~2% to under 0.5% on hundreds of thousands of transactions per month. And it very likely saved our business at a very critical phase." This is what we're aiming for (and up against) with Stripe Radar and Stripe.js, and why we work on these technologies.)
You got caught, spin it as much as you want. This has nothing to do with fraud. We know you got caught because of the speed of your response. This is called damage control, there is also a more scientific name for it called plausible deniability.
I am disgusted with this form of surveillance. I will make sure that I won`t use Stripe in the future and force vendors to use something else.