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Did a little bit of digging on that one, before being bought by Bayer, the Cutter biological division was responsible for another pharmaceutical disaster. They accidentally (?) sold 120 000 doses of polio vaccines containing the live polio virus.

Meta will face daily fines of €89,500 if it doesn’t comply with the order.

Bet they can write it off as expenses.

Where I live it’s much more complete than google maps, especially in the countryside.

I can think of a way to help with the problem, but I don’t know how hard it would be to implement.

Create some sort of trust score, where instance owners rate other instances they federate with.
Then the score gets shared in the network. Like some sort of federated whitelisting.
You would have to be prudent a first, but not do the whole task yourself.

You could even add an “adventurousness” slider, to widen or restrict the network based on this score.

Hello. The post you mentioned was made as a warning, to prove a point. That the fediverse is currently extremely vulnerable to bots.

user ‘alert’, made the post then upvoted with his bots. To prove how easy it was to manipulate traffic, even without funding.

see:
https://kbin.social/m/lemmy@lemmy.ml/t/79888/Protect-Moderate-Purge-Your-Sever

It’s proof that anyone could easily manipulate content unless instance owners take the bot issue seriously.

dude, it’s important.

A few persons control a large amount of bots. They can manipulate upvotes, downvotes. Silence opinions they don’t like, boost the ones they support. They can flood everyone’s feed with whatever topic they like. They get to choose what is important, what people get to think about. They can harass any single user, by downvoting posts or being generally unpleasant all the time, and giving the impression that the community agrees. They can create a fake impression of consensus on any given topic.

Now that bots basically pass the Turing test, they can get you to almost never interact with a real person, but instead with machines who never actual learn, listen or change their mind. That sort of thing could erode anyone’s opinion of their fellow humans. That could make one think that there’s no possibility of common grounds with their adversaries.

Don’t underestimate the bots, they’re responsible for most of the political turmoil of the last decade.

Depends what you mean by security.
If you mean privacy, no such thing exists. All browsers snitch on you, and trying to actually have a private life will land you in jail soon enough.
If you want to do online banking, any of the big three will do if updated regularly.
I’d choose firefox as a symbolic protest against tech oligarchy.

I use it from time to time. The tech is getting better.
But it’s very hard to find anything interesting on it.
They REALLY need to focus on implementing content filter and discovery tools.
Right now it’s a lot noise and reposted videos. The search function doesn’t work at all.

I think the platform could be viable with a decent, verbatim search function; a tag-based browsing system, and the ability to visualize the federated instances and browse any of them as local.

It’s still possible to find interesting videos by browsing an instance focused on a specific interested as local.

Philistines!

Change is hard. In Europe we wanted to drop daylight saving time, but nobody could agree on which hour to keep. So it’s here to stay. Sigh.