Re: Schneier, Data and Goliath: no hope for privacy

On Tue, 18 Feb 2025, Eli the Bearded wrote:

In comp.misc, Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:

Indeed, so long as you block all FB's scripts and images on
otherwise unrelated websites. Although I don't tend to make close
friends so I don't need to worry about controlling their FB usage.

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Doesn't stop people from posting about you on FB. (Or worse, posting
photos of you on there.)

That's an absurd argument. In no world, in no universe can you reasonably expect people to not talk about you, think about you, write about you, if they so choose.
Publishing photos and videos of you, without your consent, on the other hand, is illegal, and can be punished severely. I have on several occasions asked web sites to remove information about me, sometimes they do it, sometimes they don't. I found a workaround by de-registering myself from the country I live in, and this removed my data from a hueg nr of linked systems.
Then I can just live as a non-registered person, and that works quite alright to be honest.

Quite mysteriously, all sorts of otherwise respectable open-source
software developers are happy to use GitHub even though it's owned
by M$. So even having ditched their software long ago, M$ are now
very hard to avoid online if, ironically, you want to use, and
especially work on, open-source software. I find that truely
unfathomable, but others barely seem to see my problem with it.

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Many, I suspect, started using Github before Microsoft bought them in
2018. Lately I've been seeing people advocating for a switch to
Codeberg. I started using it recently, but haven't moved my old projects
there, at least yet.

You are a good man!

Elijah
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doesn't use public repositories for much anyway
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