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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

A little comparison

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[-] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago

Well, this tells us that more privacy minded people with a background or interest in technology tend to be more present/engaging on Fediverse platforms. Not really surprising.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

No, it tells us that this one post was more popular.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine anything terrible or distopian happening from this.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

But it has 10k impressions!!!!! which means that 9k bots scrolled past it and a couple of people had it loaded on their app.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Same idea as new-reddit with its 'views'. It doesn't make sense how some post on a local subreddit gets a few hundred impressions immediately, even when posted at 4am. Meanwhile the actual organic comments on the same post follow the average human wake/sleep cycle

I wonder if advertisers are also fooled by those numbers, or if they use a different way of measuring

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Hey don’t look at me I don’t even go on Reddit anymore

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Wait, reddit has views now?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A sample size of 1 isn't really meaningful.

Also, this post is refuting a claim that isn't really being made? At least not literally.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I love the different attitudes the first line of the posts has.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I don't understand the point the posts are trying to make. If an attacker can get at the SQL database, they must have remote access, i.e. the system is compromised somehow. What's stopping them from getting at anything else? Why should we concerned about the database specifically?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

More and more games are shipping with mega sus kernel level anti cheat which can (and does according to their EULA) take screenshots and files from your PC to make sure you "aren't cheating".

Valorant, for example, is made by riot, owned by tencent, owned by the Chinese government, and has a nasty kernel anti cheat in it.

So this means that with essentially no effort or changes the Chinese gov can just take this file and related screenshots of everything you do wrapped in a bow

And they 100% will do this.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A little rabid, but entirely likely.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

and the US goverment already has your data!

I don't know why everyone is so afraid of China getting their data. I mean the US is not good either.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the point might be that any other program on your pc can access that db. Which would obviously be very bad. If that is the case I would think it would be patched.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The twitter post is a reply, not even it's own post.

this post was submitted on 25 May 2024
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