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This app installed without my permission. There is barely any info about what this app is for. I have all my settings turned off so it asks my permission before downloading anything, and this app still manage to get installed without consent. This is a very shady thing to do. This and another 2 apps also from google (e.g. SafetyCore) that just installed without permission. If my settings mean nothing, this is very worrying. No heads up, nothing.

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Released on : 2025 Jan 28
Downloads : 1,000,000,000+
... is it a tool for Google to replace or control encryption keys used in applications ?

Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/02/26/google-starts-scanning-your-photos-without-any-warning/
from post :
https://lemmy.world/comment/15360201

also in the Forbes article :

Per one tech forum (
https://gbatemp.net/threads/psa-to-all-android-users-google-quietly-installs-spyware-on-android-devices.667542/

GBAtemp.net - The Independent Video Game Community
)
this week: “Google has quietly installed an app on all Android devices called ‘Android System SafetyCore’. It claims to be a ‘security’ application, but whilst running in the background, it collects call logs, contacts, location, your microphone, and much more making this application ‘spyware’ and a HUGE privacy concern. It is strongly advised to uninstall this program if you can.

... →
Remove the following 2 spywares :
1).
Android System SafetyCore : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.safetycore
2).
Android System Key Verifier : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.contactkeys

Prevent installation of 1) SafetyCore :

@[email protected]
https://lemmy.world/comment/15345614
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outdated v2.0 :

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https://github.com/daboynb/Safetycore-placeholder/releases/download/v2.0/

...Safetycore-placeholder(dot)apk

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v3.0 now available :
https://github.com/daboynb/Safetycore-placeholder/releases/tag/v3.0
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Ant mill (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Collective behavior leads to both collective intelligence and collective stupidity. This also applies to artificial intelligence (artificial neurons) and biological neurons (in my opinion).
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26059204

An ant mill is an observed phenomenon in which a group of army ants, separated from the main foraging party, lose the pheromone track and begin to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle.

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Lemmy, the best social media so far, has easy to solve fundamental design flaws (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Best for user experience :

User want material that is :

newly published, and
classified using a hierarchy of methods.

Lemmy has :

communities
post
comments and
votes

which constitutes such a hierarchy of classification and engagement tools.

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Design Flaws + Solutions

Notwithstanding the following :
Despicable//illegal posts should absolutely be deleted. Same from likely comments. But aside from that ...

Features creating user disengagement and disinterest :

Arbitrary deletions :
Since not following communities rules results in posts being deleted. Since this includes active conversation inside such posts. Since such community rules are quite arbitrary and difficult to judge by moderators. ... There has to be a better way than deleting such posts in such circumstances.

Design proposal :

Post unlinking // relinking :
A better design would allow moderator's action (or even bad enough vote totals) to unlink an off-topic-post from a community without deleting it from the instance (site).

Multi-linking of posts :
Better yet, a single post could be simultaneously linked to many communities even across many instances while maintaining one single global space of conversations.

Automatic anti-duplication
Creating duplicates of a post should be prevented automatically ... what should be prevented is the creation of new post linking to the same web page (same URL) as an already existing post does ... unless maybe with special permissions or if made after a long enough elapsed time.

New design's benefits :
This should result in a better user experience by grouping all discussions from one topic inside a unique post ... not dividing into multiple concurrent discussions, almost simultaneously, inside different (( posts // communities // instances )) what is in fact a single topic.
This would also provide peace of mind against arbitrary deletions.

Benefits for moderators
This would also decrease some drama (user to moderator feuds) and simplify moderator's work.

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Budapest Memorandum (was supposed to keep Ukraine(+) safe from Russia, USA and others, since 1994) (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from:

originally posted by :
@[email protected]
in community :
[email protected]
deleted post in politics :
https://lemmy.world/post/25880650
Also deleted at : https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/1827324

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The Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances comprises three substantially identical political agreements signed at the OSCE conference in Budapest, Hungary, on 5 December 1994, to provide security assurances by its signatories relating to the accession of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). The three memoranda were originally signed by three nuclear powers: Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom. China and France gave somewhat weaker individual assurances in separate documents. The memoranda, signed in Patria Hall at the Budapest Convention Center with U.S. Ambassador Donald M. Blinken amongst others in attendance, prohibited Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom from threatening or using military force or economic coercion against Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, "except in self-defence or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations."...

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[unmoderated] Con artist, con man, conservative ... see a pattern ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This community really needs moderation 🤣

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Rues et trottoirs n'ont pas été déblayés ! Restez à la maison, surtout si vous êtes déneigeurs 😋 (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In 2025, the military faces a choice: stand with the people or a growing tyrannical government (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Anticipation story : in 2025 in the USA, the military has to decide whether to side with the people or with a growing tyrannical government.

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Danes launch bid to 'buy California' after Trump's Greenland threats (www.dailymail.co.uk)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Danish campaigners are proposing to buy California from the United States and turn it into a territory of Denmark in response to Donald Trump's bid to acquire Greenland. The 'Denmarkification' campaign says it seeks to crowdfund $1 trillion to purchase the US state, after which it plans to instill it with Danish values and make the most of its sunny weather and resources. (...)
(...) Bosses from Danish toy giant Lego would run talks between the US and Denmark, Dutoit told Politico, because 'dealing with children throwing tantrums over missing bricks has made them experts in negotiation.' (...)

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[solved] Blocked Users list : full at aprox 250 entries (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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i cannot add more blocked users so i went one by one through that list ... starting from the first one i blocked. Not surprisingly, looking at each account, they are either Banned or have No Activity Since ~1 year.

Eventually there could be some site maintenance for [ Banned + Empty ] accounts so to clean our block lists accordingly ...

Some other optimization of this type could be made ... i believe it would free the server from useless work since the server have to compute removing according to Long Block Lists ... this task could be heavy in server work ...

What do you think ?

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[solved] Do you know about the upcoming February 5th event ? (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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is it well known and do people talk about it ... like in the mainstream media ?

[solved] in the media :
https://www.newsweek.com/50-states-anti-trump-protest-nationwide-february-5-details-2025300
( thanks to irelephant )

What To Know
The movement has a website at 50501movement.carrd.co and is active on Instagram, Reddit, Bluesky, Discord and Signal.

[caution]

https://bsky.app/profile/ecmclaughlin.bsky.social
(see comment below by @[email protected] )

Listen,
for folks who don’t know, I was a part of a small organizing team that led to a mass mobilization in 813 cities worldwide in 2019.

I am not talking out of my ass.

You should be VERY VERY VERY careful in this environment about sharing flyers for events that identify NO organizer

See also :
GeneralStrikeUS.com
proposed by : @[email protected]

[solved] by : @[email protected]

interface to reddit community: https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/50501/
spreadsheet with info on this and other protests: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1-rraq_sRU6n-rvGj45AxscxouGVcH03efhMQHJYzc6w/edit?gid=900690167#gid=900690167

Click to show start times

Start times:

Start Times By State (current as of 1/31/2025):

Alabama: No information
Alaska: 12:00 noon
Arizona: 12:00 noon
Arkansas: 12:00 noon
California: 12:00 noon
Colorado: 12:00 noon
Connecticut: 12:00 noon
Delaware: 12:00 noon
Florida: 12:00 noon
Georgia: 11:00 AM
Hawaii: 12:00 noon
Idaho: 12:00 noon
Illinois: 12:00 noon
Indiana: 12:00 noon
Iowa: 12:00 noon
Kansas: 12:00 noon
Kentucky: 12:00 noon
Louisiana: 12:00 noon
Maine: 12:00 noon
Maryland: 12:00 noon
Massachusetts: 12:00 noon
Michigan: 12:00 noon
Minnesota: 12:00 noon
Mississippi: 12:00 noon
Missouri: 12:00 noon
Montana: 12:00 noon
Nebraska: 12:00 noon
Nevada: 12:00 noon
New Hampshire: 12:00 noon
New Jersey: 12:00 noon
New Mexico: 12:00 noon
New York: 12:00 noon
North Carolina: 1:00 PM
North Dakota: 12:00 noon
Ohio: 12:00 noon
Oklahoma: 12:00 noon - 4:00 PM
Oregon: 12:00 noon
Pennsylvania: 12:00 noon
Rhode Island: 12:00 noon
South Carolina: 12:00 noon
South Dakota: 12:00 noon
Tennessee: 1:30
Texas: 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Utah: 12:00 noon
Vermont: 12:00 noon
Virginia: 11:30 AM
Washington: 12:00 noon - 2PM
Washington DC: 12:00 noon
West Viriginia: 12:00 noon
Wisconsin: 12:00 noon
Wyoming: 12:00 noon
https://redlib.northboot.xyz/r/50501/comments/1ifb26m/start_times/

Parody site ClownStrike refused to bow to CrowdStrike’s bogus DMCA takedown by A_A in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 259 points 1 year ago

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where the effort instead increases public awareness of the information.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Trolls Used Her Face to Make Fake Porn. There Was Nothing She Could Do. Sabrina Javellana was a rising star in local politics — until deepfakes derailed her life. by A_A in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 148 points 1 year ago

ideally, fake content should have no impact whatsoever on anything, and, people giving importance to it should be the ones seen as weirdos.

Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower by A_A in c/[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 165 points 1 year ago

what they did :

"Our product takes in a full blow of air and separates it," said team member Leen Alfaoury. "Some of that air comes out as it is, and part of it comes out shifted. The combination of these two sections of the air makes the blower less noisy."