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That was supposed to be private, I'm using DW as a note dump because I am trying to get away from using Google Docs.
And that brings us to something that was being discussed yesterday on Mastodon:
( Adobe is appropriating people's images uploaded to the Creative Cloud. )
Also, though I'm having trouble finding the post with the screenshots for this: Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Edge have built-in keyloggers that are enabled out of the box!
In short: are you using a post Web 2.0 service to create things or store or manage those creations? Are you using basically anything from Adobe or Microsoft? Then according to those companies, you don't own any of it. They do, and they have a right to appropriate it at any time. They have the right to spy on you at any time. You agreed when you installed their products.
I'm fully expecting the same thing to be the case with Google Drive. I don't trust it. I don't trust "post Web 2.0" things anymore. I'm in favor of rolling everything back to pre-2012, frankly, at least in regards to my own use. Pre-2008 if I had my preference.
People are starting to realize that they're essentially signing everything away. Your media that you create, Or that you bought and paid for? That belongs to the companies whose products you buy to create or interface with that media. Your private data? You signed that away when you signed up for whatever was the New Shiny Internet Walled Garden post 2008. Mastodon feels like a course correction because, like the old php forums, or Livejournal (and its "descendant" Dreamwdith) it's an open-source tool where instances or servers are created and administrated by actual users, not by a corporation or corporate figurehead.
I don't use my real name on Facebook. I knew they were selling my data when I started getting telemarketing calls and emails asking for that fake name. There have been so many times recently when I offhandedly mentioned something, only to see it pop up in banner ads on Google or Facebook because our smartphones are actively listening to us.
People just treat their privacy like it's the cover charge for using these systems.
It goes without saying that I've deactivated my Twitter account. I'm only still on Facebook because there are people I would lose contact with who are kind of disturbingly defensive about how they "won't be forced to migrate to yet another platform" (or revert back to an older one) just to keep in contact with me.
The fanfic I posted a massive note-dump for was for a Daniel Craigverse James Bond/Hannibal Extended Universe crossover fic. The first two films in the Craigverse are grounded in reality for the most part, but those that followed were (in my opinion) reaching Moonraker/Die Another Day levels of technical implausibility by No Time to Die, starting with Skyfall.
People think the threat is coming from a nanoswarm plague or an evil secret satellite system. Not from the cellphone in their pocket, listening to their every word, or the software programs and social media sites they use every day - and of course the bulk of our entertainment is playing to this. But these are the themes I want to explore.
Current mood:
And that brings us to something that was being discussed yesterday on Mastodon:
( Adobe is appropriating people's images uploaded to the Creative Cloud. )
Also, though I'm having trouble finding the post with the screenshots for this: Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Edge have built-in keyloggers that are enabled out of the box!
In short: are you using a post Web 2.0 service to create things or store or manage those creations? Are you using basically anything from Adobe or Microsoft? Then according to those companies, you don't own any of it. They do, and they have a right to appropriate it at any time. They have the right to spy on you at any time. You agreed when you installed their products.
I'm fully expecting the same thing to be the case with Google Drive. I don't trust it. I don't trust "post Web 2.0" things anymore. I'm in favor of rolling everything back to pre-2012, frankly, at least in regards to my own use. Pre-2008 if I had my preference.
People are starting to realize that they're essentially signing everything away. Your media that you create, Or that you bought and paid for? That belongs to the companies whose products you buy to create or interface with that media. Your private data? You signed that away when you signed up for whatever was the New Shiny Internet Walled Garden post 2008. Mastodon feels like a course correction because, like the old php forums, or Livejournal (and its "descendant" Dreamwdith) it's an open-source tool where instances or servers are created and administrated by actual users, not by a corporation or corporate figurehead.
I don't use my real name on Facebook. I knew they were selling my data when I started getting telemarketing calls and emails asking for that fake name. There have been so many times recently when I offhandedly mentioned something, only to see it pop up in banner ads on Google or Facebook because our smartphones are actively listening to us.
People just treat their privacy like it's the cover charge for using these systems.
It goes without saying that I've deactivated my Twitter account. I'm only still on Facebook because there are people I would lose contact with who are kind of disturbingly defensive about how they "won't be forced to migrate to yet another platform" (or revert back to an older one) just to keep in contact with me.
The fanfic I posted a massive note-dump for was for a Daniel Craigverse James Bond/Hannibal Extended Universe crossover fic. The first two films in the Craigverse are grounded in reality for the most part, but those that followed were (in my opinion) reaching Moonraker/Die Another Day levels of technical implausibility by No Time to Die, starting with Skyfall.
People think the threat is coming from a nanoswarm plague or an evil secret satellite system. Not from the cellphone in their pocket, listening to their every word, or the software programs and social media sites they use every day - and of course the bulk of our entertainment is playing to this. But these are the themes I want to explore.
Current mood:
