av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 19, 2024 | Bluesky, Lästips, Mastodon, Threads
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Spotify’s decision to introduce comment sections under podcasts should surprise no one. For years now, apps have been ripping off each other’s most popular features. Where once apps adhered to their respective “things,” today they want to do it all: You can post Stories on YouTube, use AI search tools on Instagram, and shop for clothing on TikTok. And, as of last week, you can experience the thrill of seeing what random strangers think about your favorite podcasts on Spotify.
Wired
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 11, 2024 | Bluesky, Lästips, Mastodon, Threads
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Palestinier som ringer hem till Gaza på Skype har fått sina digitala liv förstörda, efter att Microsoft stängt sina e-postkonton utan förvarning.
BBC News har pratat med 20 palestinier som bor utomlands som säger att Microsoft, som äger röst- och videochattappen, sparkade ut dem från sina konton. Det totala antalet drabbade tros vara mycket högre.
I vissa fall är dessa e-postkonton mer än 15 år gamla och användarna har inget sätt att hämta mejl, kontakter eller minnen.
Microsoft säger att de har brutit mot dess användarvillkor – men kommer inte att säga hur – och beslutet är slutgiltigt.
BBC
av Mikael Winterkvist | jul 8, 2024 | Bluesky, Lästips, Mastodon, Threads
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Hemliga, krypterade och skyddade kanaler på telegram är digitala mötesplatser för LGBTQ+-communityn. Människor som annars har det mycket svårt i dagens Ryssland.
TIMOFEY SOZAEV LEFT Russia in September 2019. After nearly 20 years as an LGBTQ+ rights activist, cofounding several organizations, he found out, while visiting friends in the United States, that the Kremlin had become aware of his advocacy work. He didn’t go back.
It wasn’t an easy decision. Sozaev knew that not returning would mean “handing over everything that I love and that is valuable to me to the enemy: obscurantist homophobes, an inhuman political regime that will stop at nothing.” Still, while he was in the US, he realized he was experiencing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder: depression, hypervigilance, problems sleeping, poor concentration. They got worse as the day of his scheduled return approached. “My psyche and body just told me ‘no,’” he says. He applied for asylum.
Wired
av Mikael Winterkvist | maj 13, 2024 | Bluesky, Lästips, Mastodon
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2016 dök ett par 19-åriga kompisar från Winnipeg upp i reality-tv-programmet Dragons’ Den – Kanadas version av Shark Tank – för att söka finansiering för deras startup för musikstreaming, Musi. Aaron Wojnowski och Christian Lunny såg mer ut som studenter som övade på en presentation än entreprenörer som samlade in riktiga pengar, med baby-face och klädda i illasittande kavaj. Men det spelade ingen roll.
They were a couple of years out of high school and had bootstrapped a music streaming app that was already competing with Spotify. The judges were all interested, and two of them offered to invest.
Wired
av Mikael Winterkvist | apr 11, 2024 | Bluesky, Lästips, Mastodon
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I mer än ett decennium har DuckDuckGo kämpat mot Googles omfattande onlinespårning. Nu har det integritetsfokuserade webbsöknings- och webbläsarföretaget ett annat mål i sikte: den spretiga, röriga webben av datamäklare som samlar in och säljer din data varje dag.
Privacy-focused company DuckDuckGo is launching a tool to remove data from people-search websites, a VPN, and an identity theft restoration service.
Källa: DuckDuckGo Is Taking Its Privacy Fight to Data Brokers
av Mikael Winterkvist | dec 17, 2023 | Bluesky, Lästips, Mastodon
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A little over three years have passed since McDonald’s sent out an email to thousands of its restaurant owners around the world that abruptly cut short the future of a three-person startup called Kytch—and with it, perhaps one of McDonald’s best chances for fixing its famously out-of-order ice cream machines.
Until then, Kytch had been selling McDonald’s restaurant owners a popular internet-connected gadget designed to attach to their notoriously fragile and often broken soft-serve McFlurry dispensers, manufactured by McDonalds equipment partner Taylor. The Kytch device would essentially hack into the ice cream machine’s internals, monitor its operations, and send diagnostic data over the internet to an owner or manager to help keep it running. But despite Kytch’s efforts to solve the Golden Arches’ intractable ice cream problems, a McDonald’s email in November 2020 warned its franchisees not to use Kytch, stating that it represented a safety hazard for staff. Kytch says its sales dried up practically overnight.
Källa: McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine Hackers Say They Found the ‘Smoking Gun’ That Killed Their Startup
