Mastodawn

So Duo (the multifactor authentication service that #infosec loves) has integrated with Persona (the privacy destroying, Peter Thiel backed, AI-linked, facial scanning and mapping "identity verification" software)

You know the recent Discord snafu that received such massive pushback and caused so many people to leave Discord that they've dropped their identity verification?

Yeah, that Persona.

Duo integrates it into Duo Premier, Duo Advantage, and even Duo Essentials...

...which means many working class folks will have no option but to be enrolled into and use Persona...

...or be fired.

https://duo.com/docs/identity-verification

#Duo #Persona #Privacy #Discord #AI

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Denice Feb 27

@tinker why do they have to ruin everything ughhh

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Christoff, the human Feb 27

@de3ev @tinker it is beyond exhausting, what's a word for being ground down with anxiety and "are you f*cking serious?! really?!" every day?

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Denice Feb 27

@christoff @tinker society will collapse because of these idi*ts

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Christoff, the human Feb 27

@de3ev @tinker I mean post-apocalyptic stories and novels are one of my favorite genres, but didn't think I'd be getting a front row seat.

But hey, I got a unique seat! Got to see the rise of the Internet and commodity technology to AI to corporations owning everything, including people's lives via their livelihoods and medical care, with no hope of things changing on the horizon. If anything, prepare for it to be much worse :(

It's a lot. I don't get how people are making it cause I'm barely

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Tinker ☀️Feb 27

@christoff @de3ev - I loved loved loved cyberpunk.... but yeah, living in a more mundane boring version took its appeal away from me.

Big way I am making it is through solarpunk (for this VERY reason). I need something to hope for and something to build towards. So it's solarpunk literature, art, and in my actual life - building solarpunk apparatus and community.

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Denice Feb 27

@tinker @christoff

If we think about it, we are just living in borrowed time. Not to be negative and all that. But, if you stop and realize it, its just a very short time. If these billionaires only realize how short this life is, they'd make this world a better place.

I am not sure if they have moral compass to realize that kind of stuff. But anyway, it sucks

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LisPi

@de3ev @tinker @christoff > If these billionaires only realize how short this life is, they'd make this world a better place.

It actually makes even less sense to make things worse if one assumes they'll live forever, because then one actually has to deal with the consequences of it.