Doc Edward Morbius ❌​

Google have created a wet-market of malware and spyware distribution. It’s on fucking Google to fucking fix this shit and mothefucking fast.

https://joindiaspora.com/posts/17221891

#google #malware #spyware #wetMarket #surveillanceCapitalism #dontBeEvil

I hold this truth to be self-evident: That corporations which inst...

I hold this truth to be self-evident: That corporations which institute systems for their express benefit are and should be held directly accountable for the negative consequences of those systems You might have heard that 500 Chrome extensions secretly uploaded private data from millions of users (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/02/500-chrome-extensions-secretly-uploaded-private-data-from-millions-of-users/). Which highlights a point I've been making for years: that browser extensions (and related services such as Android and iPhone app stores) are cesspits and disasters in the making. With numerous associations to cesspits and their consequences quite deliberately made. An apologist for Google (after the obligatory denial of being an apologist for Google) writes: I don’t think it’s right to hold them to account for things uploaded to their server. It is the end-user’s responsibilty to make good decisions and avoid bad ones. Woah, buddy! We fucking know this ...

Feb 15, 2020 at 7:49amWeb
Show threadkickFeb 15, 2020
@dredmorbius It's always so weird to see you quoting someone before realizing it's a quote; "Wait, that doesn't sound like...oh! It's in the post that was linked."
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Feb 15, 2020
@kick If I may quote myself, "I quote myself often".
Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Feb 15, 2020

@kick I also *quite deliberately* avoid preambling content to the maximum extent feasible. Especially something I'd like to see gain traction.

The practice of premeptory through-clearing and mubling -- "In my <Day-of-week> blog post...", "I don't know if this belongs here...", "Can I ask a question..." (this drives certain friends to a frenzy) etc.

Just. Fucking. Say. It.

I _usually_ indicate quotes with a trailing "-- <source>" line.

Here I quote me so excluded that.

#SausageMaking

Show threadStrypeyFeb 15, 2020
@dredmorbius are GH, GL, Notabug, Codeberg, and other code forges responsible for all possible uses of any piece of code its users upload?
Show threadArnaud GomesFeb 15, 2020
@strypey @dredmorbius They are designed for collaborative development, not software distribution. A better analog would be npm.
Show threadStrypeyFeb 15, 2020
@nono anyone who hosts source code is distributing software. Plus, code forges have usually distributed official releases in binary form. These are often linked free project homepages, a practice going right back to #Sourceforge.
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Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ❌​Feb 15, 2020

@strypey Yes.

To the extent that if they're operating at a scale at which it's not possible to effectively police the service and keep it clean, *then the scale is too large*.

Put in the terms of the city-size thread I just wrote: k > n*log(n) is the critical point.

See also: attractive nuisance.