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#DeleteFacebook trends in response to Cambridge Analytica
We all moved on from MySpace. We can move on from Facebook too." This was a typical message found on Twitter in the wake of accusations over Cambridge Analytica using personal data from 50 million Facebook users to influence the US presidential election in 2016. After reports of Cambridge Analytica using Facebook's user information came to light, people began to urge others to either #DeleteFacebook or #BoycottFacebook in response.
[...] A spokeswoman for Privacy International warned that privacy concerns extend beyond Facebook as "your data is being exploited all the time". A person on the technology subsection of Reddit agreed, saying removing Facebook "doesn't solve the long term problem [because] consent to data use is very weakly protected online right now". And one Twitter user seeking regulation of Facebook said having the ability to delete an account is "a privilege".
This is a campaign we can all get behind, regardless of your position on election interference and influences.
Previously: The Cambridge Analytica Files
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday March 21 2018, @03:36AM (7 children)
If you have Docker, it's a *little* simpler, but not much.
I started playing with the Bitnami VM, but it's not a clean install on many hypervisors. Even then, there's some significant configuration to do.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday March 21 2018, @10:51AM (6 children)
Containers are for pansies. Real admins not only juggle dependencies for multiple projects, they do it on slackware. Without using a package manager.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:55PM (2 children)
Now who's the pansy? Real Admins use bare metal! I mean they etch their own circuits onto the bare metal. None of this factory fab stuff. And input their code directly in binary via positive and negative 5v DC currents.. None of this machine language crap. And have levers to push and pop the registers.
Slackware! Bah! Geez! Kids today! I tell ya! Next thing is you'll be whining for a monitor -- no one needs that when you have an oscilloscope.
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 3, Funny) by terryk30 on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:54PM (1 child)
Oscilloscope?!- pshaw! You want a real feel for what's going on, you send it out full-voltage RS-232 with alligator clips on your tongue.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Thursday March 22 2018, @02:22AM
Okay. You got me. I'm definitely a pansy. I have a very sensitive tongue!
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday March 21 2018, @04:58PM (1 child)
I thought real admins run Linux From Scratch.
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday March 21 2018, @09:27PM
In theory yes. In practice, none of them have managed to compile all the damn dependencies manually yet...on the upside, the first Real Admin Running Gentoo (TM) has just managed to get his box to boot from the HDD instead of the LiveCD! Of course now half of world needs updated, but eh, that's life.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 21 2018, @06:53PM
Or a GUI.