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  • Hands on: a walkthrough of the educator-centric Apple Teacher portal

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    You have like a thousand tabs open in your browser. O_o
    I closed a few before taking screengrabs. 

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

    fastasleep

  • If you don't want to delete your Facebook account, here's how to cut back

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    dysamoria said:
    Facebook tests my limits of tolerance with their website's bugs too.

    Wait. Not "tests". What's the phrase I'm looking for...?

    "Vastly exceeds".

    That's it.

    Between Apple's iOS Safari text editing bugs, and Facebook's own constant buggy functionality, it's the most hostile experience for attempting meaningful communication I've yet experienced. But then, Facebook is not meant for meaningful communication. It's meant for exactly the thing we are currently complaining about: data collection. Even without the scams, the business model is antisocial.

    But as I said in the "kill your account" article, I can't just casually delete my account, as much as I would like to. Not without losing contact with the wider scope of people I keep up with there (because, no, everyone doesn't want to send email to each other; it's hard enough to get my close friends to email me). If only there was a replacement for Facebook that was more like a proper forum, and who's business model wasn't data collection... but then, you won't see people spending money to subscribe to a social platform that isn't going to be abusing them, especially in an economy of wage slaves... because "free" beats "subscription" any day, even when you tell people that it's not actually free.
    You're not alone. It's very hard to delete the account, because there are people you will lost contact with. Backing up your FB archive will give you their contact info, but it's not a replacement.

    We've had a few different attempts at replacements, but none with any traction. Diaspora - https://diasporafoundation.org/ or Mastodon - https://joinmastodon.org/ - but neither have really caught on.
    watto_cobra

  • If you don't want to delete your Facebook account, here's how to cut back

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    ireland said:
    How do we know the security of this extension?
    Good point.

    I should have mentioned that, as well as the idea of disabling and removing the extension once used. After all, if you've gotten all the data out, you don't need the extension again.

    Here's what makes me feel comfortable about the extension:

    1. you never provide the extension any login information.
    2. you have to navigate to your Facebook activity log in order for it to be able to function at all.
    3. all it's doing is scripting the page to select and delete / unlike / etc. versus the very manual clicking of Edit>Delete, one by one for each item.
    You're absolutely right to be concerned. This was the simplest and most limited way I could find to address it. 
    cgWerkspotatoleeksoupwatto_cobra

  • AppleInsider Podcast interviews Annemarie Dooling on Facebook, T. Greg Doucette on warrant...

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    mavemufc said:
    #WheresNeil
    I miss him, too.
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  • Ex-Apple employee explains wide Google location data warrant by NC police

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    I don’t mind the geolocation data being given to the police, as long as there is a warrant.  What I do question is it’s effectiveness in solving crimes (like the one mentioned). There’s going to be an enormous number of people passing through the location...

    On the other hand, if the police already have a suspect and he say “I was at home during that time” checking the geolocation data absolutely makes sense...

    The police have been doing this for a very long time.  You'd be surprised at how many private security cameras are in place, and used to help identify criminals.  The bombers at the Boston Marathon were identified within hours of the incident that way, although the cameras belonged to the City.
    Actually, this series of warrants are new, not something that's been going on "for a very long time," and there's a very real question that they violate the 4th Amendment, because they may be too close to a General Warrant, which the amendment says cannot be issued. That's going to have to be tested. Why not listen into the podcast and see what Doucette has to say about it?
    spheric