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Modern cars: a privacy advocateās nightmare
The Mozilla Foundation has tested cars from 25 manufacturers for compliance with data protection regulations and the results were devastating.
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Die Mozilla Foundation hat Autos von 25 Herstellern auf die Einhaltung von Datenschutz Ć¼berprĆ¼ft, das Ergebnis fiel vernichtend aus.
I wonder whether they install their own SIM cards or whether it is mandatory to pair a cell phone with the car?
If the data (can) be read out in the car workshop, there is nothing to prevent data misuse.
So I always have to park my car in front of a church so that they donāt notice that Iām visiting my favorite table dance bar around the corner. Now, of course, only on Sundays 
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The car manufacturers are crazy.
This is why I drive a 1998 ādumbā truck! 
1998 Linux LX470 user here! Iāve done some modifications because I go offroading and camping a lot!
Linux/programming/Garuda isnāt my only hobby 
Thatās disappointing about dropping the Gnome edition as Iāve been using Gnome more than KDE recently
Developers and 3rd-party projects that use MLS to detect a usersā location, such as the freedesktop.org location framework GeoClue, which is used by apps like GNOME Maps and Weather, have only a few months left to continue using the service.
New API access keys will not be granted going forward (and pending requests deleted), Mozilla say. In late March, POST data submissions will return 403 responses. Finally, on June 12, all 3rd-party API keys will be removed and MLS data only accessible by Mozilla.
Oh hell !!!
Example videos are here
Both of these have a potential to boost gaming on Linux.
First and foremost ā there is no need for unnecessary panic! If diving into the settings to download and install an external global theme isnāt your first move after getting the impressive Plasma 6 desktop environment set up, youāre in the clear. Secondly, itās important to note that the KDE team is on top of the issue. Hereās the scoop.
Š Reddit user alerted (for reference here and here) about a significant issue with Plasma 6. Installing a specific external global theme triggers the execution of ārm -rf /ā in the background. This command, known for its simplicity yet potential for extensive damage, wipes all data on the drive, including any additional mounted drives.
Thatās the first thing I did. However, that was not a very impressive global theme. I like Vivid-Magna-Dark-Global-6 with a little Kvantum goodness much better!
But! It coulda been me. Possibly. I installed Plasma 6 while running Testing repos (they made me), so I had a slightly sooner exposure than those running Stable.
But, thank Gord! Linux software, whether it comes from legitimate repositories, the AUR or the KDE Store, itās generally much more secure than whatās generally available in other Operating Systems.
emenel @emenel@post.lurk.org](emenel (@emenel@post.lurk.org) - post.lurk.org)
If you had code on GitHub at any point it looks like it might be included in a large dataset called āThe Stackā ā If you want your code removed from this massive āaiā training data go here:
I found two of my old Github repos in there. Both were deleted last year and both were private. This is a serious breach of trust by Github and @huggingface.
Remove all your code from Github.
CONSENT IS NOT OPT-OUT.
Edit ā thanks for all the replies. More context here: see shy jo: "I am disappointed in Software Heritage. They maā¦" - Hachyderm.io
Also the repos i found of mine iām sure were private, but even if they were public at some point, for a brief time, in the past that isnāt my consent to use them for purposes beyond their intent.
Edit 2 ā I see this made it to HN, which is a level of attention I do not want nor appreciateā¦
For all those wondering about the private repo issue ā No, I am not 100% sure that these ancient repos werenāt at some point public for a split second before I changed it. I do know that they were never meant for this and that one of them didnāt even contain any code.
If my accidentally making a repo public for a moment just so happened to overlap with this scraping, then I guess thatās possible. But it in no way invalidates the issues, and the anger that i feel about it.
