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NightLily, in Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts
@NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com avatar

Heldamned misinformation campaigns.

Five, in Netanyahu, Gantz agree to form emergency unity government

A position in the war cabinet has been left open for Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, who has refused to join the government if the far-right Religious Zionism and Otzma Yehudit parties remain in it.

Yeah, this is fucked.

Maeve, in Google Passkeys Now Offered as Default Login Option for Personal Google Accounts: How it Works | Technology News

My biometrics? It’s going to be a pita to change my billing email account but whatever.

khalil,

AFAIK biometrics are only used to unlock the device’s keychain. So, in other words, it’s no different than using fingerprints to unlock your password manager (via the device’s keychain that has your actual password).

Five, in Netanyahu, Gantz agree to form emergency unity government
Kalkaline, in Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts
@Kalkaline@leminal.space avatar

TikTok is listed on so many of these. Amazing how that platform continues to exist and people actually get their news from there.

Overzeetop,

Amazing how that platform continues to exist

There’s a lot of really engaging shot-form content on the platform; most people assume it’s just a firehose of what you see when you log in anonymously.

and people actually get their news from there

It’s a poor substitute for a healthy set of reading, but it’s also a way people put things happening “now” online. Not unlike choosing your broadcast or print media, the results can be really interesting or really misleading (or both; okay, often both)

Umbrias,

It’s also, like other social media, easily and continuously manipulated to social engineer your worldview. Please try to avoid getting your news from social media, especially tik tok, but also Facebook, reddit, Instagram, Lemmy, Twitter or mastodon, etc.

Overzeetop,

ALL media is easily and continually manipulated to social engineer your world view. If you can name an outlet which is free of sociopolitical bias on sociopolitical topics I’m all ears. Every act of commentary is exposing a position, whether it be left, right, corporate, status quo, centrist, or any other area of ideology. Not recognizing that every source has a bias is dangerous.

Umbrias,

While true, it’s a false equivalence. Getting news from multiple news sources is less controllable of you than getting your news from ‘multiple sources’ filtered through social media algorithms targeting you.

Further, you can often browse news in a private fashion. You can be fingerprinted, sure, but it’s easier to mitigate with multiple news sources than fingerprinting in social media, especially when you get to accounts on both. And lets be realistic, someone getting their news from tik tok is being tracked hard in ways they would have no way of predicting from multiple data sources and with phone information that they don’t realize they are providing.

Someone watching CNN or fox news or abcnews or what have you is not even close to being manipulated in the same way, even if they are being provided a biased data set.

Social media news is the worst of both worlds.

EmhyrVarEmreis,

What a nice wall of text just so I downvote it hehe

Umbrias,

If it makes you feel better! I won’t see it so no worries on my end.

OfficialThunderbolt,

Downvotes don’t work on Beehaw-hosted forums.

rab,

Amazing how tiktok is not outright banned in most countries. When I first heard of the platform years ago I thought for sure it would be banned everywhere yet here we are.

greaterthanstupid, in Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts
@greaterthanstupid@dmv.social avatar

please don’t think that i am claiming any of this is fake, but isn’t that also what a misinformation campaign would say?

DarkThoughts,

misinformation

noun

  • Wrong information; false account or intelligence.
  • Untrue or incorrect information.
  • Information that is incorrect.

Would be a pretty bad misinformation campaign if they were telling the truth.

potterman28wxcv, in Google’s AI Is Making Traffic Lights More Efficient and Less Annoying | WIRED

They are not making them more efficient. They are studying how to make them more efficient. It’s a really big difference because I am not yet ready to place my life in the hands of a CNN-based AI

dingus, in Google Passkeys Now Offered as Default Login Option for Personal Google Accounts: How it Works | Technology News
@dingus@lemmy.ml avatar

Gonna be real difficult to recover from if you lose the device with your passkeys on it or that device is broken.

Couple that with eSIMs and you are looking at a lot of headaches for the non-tech savvy.

Supposedly you can use a security key but they are pushing biometrics, yikes!

Wait until passkeys and all their issues have been solved by the major players.

Don’t lock yourself out of your digital life chasing something flashy and new.

stardreamer,
@stardreamer@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I might switch to it once bitwarden support comes out.

Worst case I lose my Google account. Which I only use for Android (no sync, no mail, no purchases)

Best case, Google no longer defaults to mobile 2fa and finally accepts i want to use totp every time.

Also, how would the biometrics requirement work if all im doing is storing the whole thing in a Bitwarden vault?

petrescatraian, in Google Passkeys Now Offered as Default Login Option for Personal Google Accounts: How it Works | Technology News

... And if your phone has no biometric authentication then fuck you!

dingleberry,

Such a bizarre thing to get mad at. What should they do? Ship you a $80 yubikey?

Edit: Oh wait! You think you can’t sign in without biometrics. That’s what happens when you spend too much time on Lemmy that mere mention of Google blows a blood vessel.

petrescatraian,

@dingleberry keep the option to have a password as fallback in situations like these?

AtaKe,
@AtaKe@lemmy.ca avatar

Or you can use the pin-code

petrescatraian,

@AtaKe if that's also a possibility then cool

DaDaDrood, in Netanyahu, Gantz agree to form emergency unity government

This has less to do with politics and more with insurance. Parties that don’t tag along are seen as unpatriotic and will become obsolete in the very near future. Parties that do tag along sign their names on the war manifest with blood. They can’t excuse themselves later when the world condemns the inevitable bloodbath and will help hold up their decision for eternity. If Netanyahu falls, they fall with him.

SeaOfTranquility, (edited ) in Misinformation about the Israel-Hamas war is flooding social media. Here are the facts
@SeaOfTranquility@beehaw.org avatar

Those are just technical details. Misinformation about the IDF-Hamas war is so insane, you can’t even look at “reputable” mainstream media outlets without getting ahistorical analysis, zionism or antisemitism. We are witnessing ethnic cleansing and cruel war crimes here because all the parties who had the possibility to prevent this decided not to. Instead of focussing on the historical context and the steps necessary to deescalate this conflict, the media is focussing on the question of which acts of violence are justified and which aren’t.

java, in AUR wants referendums on family and cash payments

Arch Linux touches every aspect of your life.

petrescatraian,

@java this is the cursed AUR

Rapidcreek, in Zelensky asks to visit Israel in show of solidarity

He’s a mensch

taanegl,

He also doesn’t want Ukraine to plotz.

Devi, in Netanyahu says Israel will ‘crush and destroy’ Hamas; every Hamas member is a ‘dead man’

And he’s doing that by genociding the entire population… that’s totally morally normal

StringTheory,

A “final solution”, as it were.

iHUNTcriminals, in Netanyahu says Israel will ‘crush and destroy’ Hamas; every Hamas member is a ‘dead man’

Nations suck. All of em.

mifan,
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How would a nationless world work?

pbjamm,
@pbjamm@beehaw.org avatar

By creating City States. Totally different.

iHUNTcriminals,

Every man for themselves and anyone that clicks up gets head hunted.

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