According to Wikipedia it’s based on google authenticator. Is it known how much google code is still in there?

Anglo-saxon economics. Very short term goals, no viable survival strategy of the country.

Yeah, everybody with a phone can be followed… unless the leave the phone at home, forgeg toncharge it, …

For every high-tech problem there is a low-tech solution.

The web is decentralized, social media, which is a small part of it, just isn’t. (Which consumes loads of traffic)

For me there is no legitimate interest from sites. When they ask to track you, the answer is no for me. Required cookies that will break the site when you block them are bad enough, but can be useful for fora or sites where you order stuff.

In my case I’m pretty sure it’s a safe car in that respect. No remote communication module in the car and the dealer has no access to the software as well. I do my own maintenance and have been doing it for 5 years. The only camera that’s in it is the dashcam I fitted. No drivers assist that requires camera’s, no adaptive cruise control, not even a reverse camera for parking, just sensors. I’ve got no clue how it is with the next generation though.

Weirdest thing on this point is that my employer doesn’t want camera’s on the terrain around the buildings, but loads of contractors with Teslas can just park where they want…

Ah, ok, then I’m good with my '03 Volvo. It’s a GM remote diagnostic software bundle. No remote and no GM… That’s useful.

Very interesting site.

On Vivaldi I get:

• No blocking in settings: 39% (how?)

• only Ghostery active: 86%

• only uBlock active: 100% (ghostery still reports trackers)

• Vivaldi Max blocking, no add-ons: 53%

• Vivaldi max blocking + Ghostery: 93%

• All max blocing and on: 100% (same as just uBlock)
  uBlock reports 144 blocked
  Ghostery reports 53 blocked

Even with only uBlock I get a report of 144 blocked ads (96%) with 150 tests and the site showing 100% score Interesting. It’s a nice test site, but I think I can conclude in my setup that uBlock is the best blocker, but a combination of Vivaldi’s settings and uBlock is a minimum. No clue if ghostery ads anything, but the site won’t test everything as it’s impossible to do that in the ad war we’re in.

The biggest problem is that we, as humans, are fed all kind of nonsense to induce polarization. All news we hear is that it’s either black or white, capitalist or communist, Republican or Democrat. The biggest issue is the 2 points of vew most people see.

It even goes so far that in countries with a limited democracy (2 party system) a lot just refuse to see the other point of view, vote for ‘their party’ as the other is worse in their opinion,… (choose for the less bad one instead of a mninor one you really support, just to keep ‘the other’ from winning) For example, in the US the news is never independent, you either get a pro Republican or pro Democratic point of view. Social media keeps people even more in their bubble, so it’s even more ‘us against them’. Most forget that a good working democratic system can’t exist with only 2 points of view, you need at least 3.

Why do I say you need at least 3, as that way not a single, one-sided view, can dictate what is the truth. With a 3 way perspective, all will need to talk to each other to discover what is the real situation. That’s why the 3D world is useful as well. As we have history and science, I’d say we even need a 4th dimension to consider as well, time. What is good now may prove a bad idea for later generations and what seems bad now may be ideal later.

But alas, as long we we are fed the idea that either capitalism is good and communism is bad (or the other way around) and ignore a go between like say a liberal system with a socialistic base we’ll keep this mess. (same like the 2 party systems in US ans roughly in the UK) Same about ‘west vs china’.

Ok, the Dutch political system is broken up way to much. The last election in 2021, 37 parties were on the ballot of the 89 wanting to register) and we have a more fragmented set now (next election 22 november), but they are working together, as they need to. (even the biggest minority has to work together to get at least a few points of their program supported) That’s a result of 3 major parties each not being big enough to rule with only 1 of the others, so they either had to work together with each other (all 3) or find support from smaller parties, so the most extremist ideas (religion based state, denying abortion, closure of borders for refugees,…) were kept in check.

Between extreme left or extreme right views (which are pretty similar), there are loads of moderate views as well that need to be heard and could prove a a lot more beneficial to humanity then just one of the extremes.

Source images: imugr, I just downloaded them to scale the 2D version down.

Edit: to get back on topic, there was a comic I just can’t find that shows the biggest discrepancy of the anti-abortion movement. When unborn ‘All life is sacred’, but after birth, it’s ‘you’re on your own’. Unless a community doesn’t want to solve the latter (make sure everybody can have a good and healthy life, they have no say what so ever in the 1st matter. (and even if they do solve the latter, it’s still that way) Alas there are to many people that force their view upon others. (and no, pro choice doesn’t mean you have to have an abortion, they just state that it’s your choice, not somebody else’s)

Nop, the red neck states are forcing women to get a child they don’t want.

It’s pretty simple in the civilized world, when you don’t want an abortion, don’t get one. Don’t think you can decide over other peoples medical procedures.

Alas, the US has left the civilized section of the world due to a loud-mouth that has some court appointments. Russia already left when Putin came to power, Israel is following, Hungary and Poland are on the same route (or already out, no clue on their state) As a species we’re doomed when we don’t watch out.

Nice, forced spying on customers…

I can’t wait to chat with others via fediverse.