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'Chicago Sun-Times' Slammed After Letting AI Generate Summer Reading List—Full Of Fake Book Titles

Need some good news about the fight against Corporations violating your privacy? This is a great ruling! This gives States big teeth to go against companies who violate state laws that protect privacy.

The key issue was whether Shopify’s actions were “expressly aimed” at California. Shopify argued that it was “mere happenstance” that its conduct affected a consumer in California ..."

Ninth Circuit Court:
"Pre-internet, there would be no doubt that the California courts would have specific personal jurisdiction over a third party who physically entered a Californian’s home by deceptive means to take personal information from the Californian’s files for its own commercial gain. Here, though Shopify’s entry into the state of California is by electronic means ..."

"... not “mere happenstance” because, among other things, Shopify allegedly knew plaintiff's location either prior to or shortly after installing its initial tracking software on his device as well as those of other Californians.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/ninth-circuit-hands-users-big-win-californians-can-sue-out-state-corporations

#EFF #Shopify

There are many #Friendica fans, and for good reason. Once you get past the learning curve from the difficult UI, you get to appreciate the extra benefits of built-in #Bluesky, #Lemmy/#Piefed/#MBIN, #Tumblr, and #RSS feed integration. It also has #Diasporia integration and some other protocol integrations. Of course, it's also a #Mastodon alternative.

Nobody ever mentions Friendica as being a #Threadiverse app, but it has Groups, which is built-in Threadiverse capability. If you follow a Community on Lemmy/Piefed/MBIN, for example, it gets categorized as a group and is placed into a separate section for the groups you are part of. Then you can read and post in the Group (Community/Magazine) just like you would on a Threadiverse application. You can also create public and private groups.

And there is no need to use a Bluesky bridge if the Friendica instance you are on has the integration turned on.

Here's an excellent 5-minute video showing Friendica created by @earthman@my-place.social for those interested in seeing how it works.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFGLRgnaeLc

Hey, Threadiverse! I'm looking for informed opinions on database choices.

I can stand up an Internet-facing application and have it use either MySQL or PostgreSQL. Which is the better choice, and why do you think so?

Thanks!

Dedicated to antisocial behavior of social media corporations, censorship, algorithmic bias, filter bubbles, privacy and psychological effects of mainstream social media.

Articles like:

• Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves
• Meta dumps fact-checkers
  -Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women ‘property’ and transgender people ‘freaks’

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The Digital Ocean outage on 28-Nov-2024 was caused by a mistaken clientHold put on DigitalOceanSpaces.com by Network Solutions, probably by one person, which continued for hours because a bevy of clueless VeriSign executives, notified in multiple escalations, didn't know who to contact to reverse this simple mistake that lead to a major corporation bleeding revenue and reputation.

Imagine if Network Solutions accidentally put a clientHold on your domain. You'd have to kiss your domain goodbye because a lot of VeriSign executives will not be helping you, even if they could.

"DigitalOcean is working with Network Solutions to understand what happened on their end that resulted in the clientHold being applied to our domain incorrectly. In addition, we are reviewing other domain registrars as possible new homes for our domains."

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/jm44h02t22ck