Worth remembering if you're a wanted fugitive.
I can't leave Twitter again unless I go back.
I don't think trying to convince people is going to do anything anymore. Everyone who was ever going to leave Twitter already has. Anyone who still uses Twitter after everything that's happened will immediately dismiss this Toot or anyone saying anything resembling it as baseless fearmongering. What's the point?
most people shut it out and go "lol I don't care, it doesn't effect me"
If you explain the effects of late term musk-ism they'll probably care more. Though then again I thought eating pets in Ohio was a joke and here we are...
Super serious job of CEO for three different billion dollar companies is so time consuming that he has spare time "to work" as a head of a government department, as well.
This makes me think that maybe CEOs don't actually do that much.
That's were the real AI job losses will be.
A chat bot agent to deal with most of managers concerns, and a dashboard of tickets for those the agent can't reply to. The last remaining CEo sits Infront of their dashboard and views tickets, get background and relevant info, and makes a decision based on what's presented.Seriously, imagine 1 person having the responsibility, being well compensated, and has literally everything presented in front of them like some homer-simpson-working-from-home type thing.
So many VP and CEO salaries could be saved, and let people get back to actually doing useful work.I'd hate to be the AI "prompt engineer" that spends their day typing "you are a CEO of a fortune 500 company..." type system prompt, tho
Even before... all this... anyone still on Twitter was an asshole.
Stop visiting the Nazi bar.
Worth remembering that if you send something to an external website, what they do with it is completely outside of your control.
Trust no company with your information.
Just stop using Twitter. I'm so glad I erased myself from the Internet and I would encourage others to do the same. Thought crimes are actually going to be a thing, because America is now fully fascist. Some people will find out what it's like to live in a fully authoritarian country. Don't be one of them if you can avoid it.
Twitter and all of the other sites you left still have your data. It's just not public. The internet is forever unless the company literally nosedives and all of their servers are wiped. And even then, there might be some backup on someone else's servers.
I post photos online, and despite the fact that the platforms (Tumblr, and I think Pixelfed too?) scrub exif data, I do it manually anyway.
Pro tip:
exiftool -overwrite_original -All= file.jpgIf it’s a photo on my phone, I have location tagging turned off… but I definitely take a screenshot of the photo anyway. The lower quality doesn’t matter to me if I can easily just remove EXIF data.
Twitter has been a right wing revenge honeypot since melon head took over.
whatever data anyone has (google, facebook, your employer, your bank, the credit bureaus) basically belongs to trump's nsa, fbi, cia, etc now
And the stasi! Don't forget the stasi!
If you’re still hanging out with Nazis you deserve whatever happens to you.
Keep in mind that we're in an echo chamber here. We see and read stuff that most people don't care to know about, and we communicate amongst ourselves without considering the people who are outside of our echo chamber. In the same way people last week were googling about Biden dropping out of the election, a lot of people don't know what's happening with a lot of things around them. It doesn't make them bad people, just ignorant.
TBF, any of the big players are rife to capitulate to fed demands with the admin changes. Keep that crap out of Facebook, X, Google, Microsoft, unencrypted chat.
No idea why anyone that's not racist, sexist, or has a reasonable level of intelligence is still on that site.
My friend was way into it for news directly from journalists and had been on the site since the beginning. As soon as Trump's victory was secure he deleted his account and moved to BlueSky.
Time to leave that site to the deplorables and move on.
I knew a journalist who said she used it for work. Apparently that's just where a critical mass of people refuse to leave.
But also she'd send me stupid memes from Twitter.
If you don't think every major US site has been freely giving your data to the government for 20+ years, you're painfully naive. US law has never required a warrant for this type of thing due to the Third Party Doctrine.
Can twatter app not also track location, and use mic & cam at will?
Facebook messenger. Every keystroke is recorded. Go ahead, as for your data from Facebook. Every keystroke is logged.
Facebook Messenger is the worst way to be communicating right now.
Now is the time to migrate yourself and your people to WIRE or Signal. Your messenger people will likely only move once, if ever.
One way to encourage this is by simply refusing to be available by text on anything but WIRE or Signal. They will eventually give in and use it. You can still FaceTime, and for free, via Signal or WIRE.
I hope I live to see it turn into a soulless pile of bots reposting porn clips for D-grade advertising agencies with no human users.
I did.
I'm on Mastodon and Bluesky. My family is the only reason I'm still on Facebook.
Tell them they can find you someplace else.
If you insist that I breathe burning tire smoke to hang out with you, then you'll stop insisting that so we can hang out somewhere else, or you can hang out without me.
Same here. Facebook I am still on only because of a handful of people I know are there.
Same here. Facebook I am still on only because of a handful of people I know are there.
Don't take this wrong, but I am going to pick on this statement in particular. This is mainly the reason that we are all in the position we are in right now. No one can be the least bit inconvenienced and are allowing third party companies to just rape our privacy and then turn around and sell it to the highest bidder. I mean hey, I have a handful of people I know too, and I just use the phone to connect with them. If you have facebook loaded on your phone right now you are giving them all the data they can scape about you just to keep in touch with a handful of people. I am willing to bet the app is running right now collecting data on where you are at this exact moment, how long you have been there, if any data they have access to has changed like contact info for anyone in your contact list and not just your handful of people, calls you make or receive, etc. I could go on and on down to the level of how long your screen stays unlocked. Everyone I speak with about social media has an excuse of why they continue on with total disregard for their own, and other's privacy. Yes, people I know that are using facebook exposes me to their system by proxy. I don't know what it's going to take to wake people up out of this, but it sure looks gloomy and as long as people are making statements like this, and not actually taking action nothing will change. Again, sorry to pick on you in particular, but damnit, it's not that hard to keep in touch with people and not supply some company with a treasure trove of YOUR data.
Interesting, I remember years of libs ruthlessly mocking right-wing users (and the lefties who agreed) for thinking Twitter and other social media was dangerous. Now all of a sudden we all agree social media is dangerous because the guy who owns one of the services is openly a shill rather than quietly like Dorsey was?
I'm a lefty with a working memory who knows authoritarians are not to be trusted no matter what side they claim to be on. It seems like the most obvious position a person can hold but people are struggling with even this...
Now all of a sudden we all agree social media is dangerous because the guy who owns one of the services is openly a shill rather than quietly like Dorsey was?
Yes, people are openly concerned about the world’s richest man making active threats that threaten democracy more than your made up perceived bias. Garbage take.
I guess I at least agree that we were naïve with regards to Dorsey and way too slow to realize Twitter was a threat. Looking back now it seems like it was bound to go to hell eventually, and if we look beyond the west it already went to hell a long time ago. And even in the west the tipping point was arguably years before Musk bought Twitter, it was just that people were too addicted to accept how dangerous it was.
So I guess you could criticize people for only realizing now how fucked up Twitter is. Then again, better late than never.
I made a twitter account that I never used and I deactivated it yesterday. I didn't have to, but I did anyway.
What is EXIF data? Location and time stamp? How do you remove that from photos and videos?
Or for a one-off, copy the image in one program and paste it into another. Then it's just pixels.
Metadata contained within the image file.
Using the one from this post this is what I can see (exif data has been stripped or wasn't there):
Here's another example where the data is plain as day:
Exif data can contain everything from the make/model of device used to take a picture, to a gps location of where the picture was taken.
Removing that information depends on what you're using to do it, but can be done with an exif editing tool in pretty much any OS I'm aware of.
Edit: Autocorrect is a pita.
It is metadata that can include what type of camera took the photo and precise location from GPS. I open photos in GIMP and then export them, taking care to uncheck the exif and a couple other metadata options.
Scrambled Exif on F-Droid to wipe it.
Photo, share, choose Scrambled Exif, wait two seconds, share screen comes back, share with friend, and it sends the picture but not the privacy violations.
For techies: would opening my photo in MS Paint and doing "save as png" remove exif data?
From a quick test, that does seem to remove most data.
Instead of that, if you're going to through that process for just a few files, the Details tab in the file properties has a link at the bottom to strip all that stuff.
If you're on Windows, right click an image, and go into the properties. There should be a Details tab where you'll find a bunch of text fields that can be edited.
There's also data that doesn't even show in there. For example, your camera/phone could be set up to save its GPS coordinates in EXIF so that you can keep track of where the pictures were taken. Naturally, unless it's stripped from the file, that data can be seen by anyone who has access to the file.
Most image editing software should be able to delete any EXIF data, but there is also software that can mass-edit all of that stuff to simplify the process.
One way is to take a screenshot of the photo. Or load and save in a different format. Or use image sharing sites that remove metadata (imgur used to be the standard one, not sure what's good now)
There’s no reason to have anything older than 12 months on Twitter, just auto delete anything older.
Even 6 months should be good.
If you’re the type who uses Twitter as a blogging platform, grab that shit and self-host it.
There no reason Twitter would need to actually delete data from their backend.
You can also replace the content, depending on how their system is done.
Also we do have GDPR and CPPA if you want to go nuclear on your data
If you are the type that thinks any of the for profit tech companies are deleting your data I've got a bridge to sell you.
It’s not for the companies, it’s for the keyboard warriors looking for dirt when they get angry.
Case in point: James Gunn getting fired because of decade old tweets
What are the odds someone still on Twitter today knows or cares about infosec?
Worth considering that if Twitter ever ends up on the fediverse, the same will apply to any instance it federates with. Lemmy may be great because it's not corporate, but its functionality necessitates that it be one of the least private versions of social media available.
Literally zero chance that Musk ever federates X. He went through so much trouble just to ruin the API, you think he's gonna implement ActivityPub?
Just pointing it out. Lots of people probably would've said the same about FB before. Who knows wtf is going to happen in the next few years.
