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Green energy/tech reporter, burner, raver, graphic artist and vandweller.

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... they said Archly.

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There's always the option to store things locally. You want to get fancy, you can set up a NAS for remote access.

Saying "isn't X also doing Y" implies the behaviour itself isn't the problem, when it is. Doesn't matter who's using dark patterns for rent-seeking; it matters that we've normalized it.

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Remember what that landscape looked like. The only major players we know today that existed then are Microsoft and Apple, and Apple had just been bailed out by MS to get in front of antitrust issues. Amazon existed as a bookstore, Google was not around yet, Facebook would still be several years out ... MySpace wasn't yet around. AOL was still a behemoth. Adobe sold perpetual licenses.

This is a far more recent development.

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I could swear Google wasn't broadly a thing yet. The startup I worked at in 1999 had an elevator pitch for how we "could be the next Yahoo." Not a great thing to aspire to in retrospect, but Google wasn't on our radar.

Has Facebook Stopped Trying? ( www.404media.co )

In spring, 2018, Mark Zuckerberg invited more than a dozen professors and academics to a series of dinners at his home to discuss how Facebook could better keep its platforms safe from election disinformation, violent content, child sexual abuse material, and hate speech. Alongside these secret meetings, Facebook was regularly...

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I left Facebook in 2014, having had to rejoin because in that era, you had to have an account to get a job. Which is another topic but worth keeping in mind.

If I don't know why I'm somewhere, I leave. Rave, website, bar ... these are all the same questions, just with less external pressure because you aren't the product in the other two situations.

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That is a uniquely awesome hed. And only strengthens my belief that 404 Media is going to make corporate journalism wish that they'd not shit the bed to the extent that viable alternative options sprang up.

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Here's the original Rolling Stone report

I didn't hit a paywall, but here's an archive link in case that's my Firefox extensions.

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This is an underrepresented viewpoint. We are at the point of "find out," which so many tech companies thought they could stay just to the other side of the line on. Thing is, you can only move the goalposts so often before they're in someone's yard, and they didn't sign up for this shit.

It was OneDrive upgrade nagging that made me switch to Linux. Microsoft could have, you know, not done that and kept a user. They also could have not gone regressive with how the taskbar functions. Or any number of other things that were dismissive of users.

At a certain point, you're sitting in ever warmer water in the pot, and it occurs that maybe you're being turned into food. That's when the Linux pots start looking appealing. This was a completely avoidable problem brought to you by greed.

Greed! Because we don't think making a good product is what capitalism is about.

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I have to respect the restraint the retired judge showed here. I don't find it appropriate, but it's professional, unlike Cannon.

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And you would be ... 🤣

I do kid. I enjoy that we have the options to dive into the deep end elsewhere or just hang out in a space where bullshit is quickly quashed. I'm here for discussion and to be active in ensuring this is a place I never find myself regretting joining.

Is it what everyone wants? Of course not, but that was never the intent of Beehaw to my knowledge. I'm glad you're happy here and hope you continue to feel that way. And, you know what? Fuck anyone who tells you not to be happy with what you have. This is not Beehaw- or Lemmy-specific, this is life. Never let anyone else bring you down for what you're comfortable with.

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I've done the same and feel the same way. I'm still active on Reddit because I want to be an active part of helping people who have questions. I don't feel the larger Lemmy community wants that so much as to complain about things. I certainly have things to complain about in life, but I don't feel it's healthy for me to engage with spaces that are going to cause more issues than they resolve.

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Has there ever been a left-wing austerity programme? This is anti-labour bullshit every fucking time.

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Which is particularly acute in the case of Argentina.

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A bit late to the party, but the FDA panel is a recommendation body, not the FDA itself. FDA can overrule this, but as I said, that's a fraught choice.

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Talk about begging the question. Block all Meta domains at the router level, and ... uh ... don't have an account.

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Dehumanization is a central pillar of several playbooks. None ends well.

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Bold statement of American values, Nikki. Surely, this will improve international respect for the U.S.

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YouGov and Morning Consult's polls are outside the realm of "useful" in terms of political reporting.

Thing about court cases is it doesn't matter what the public thinks about a jury decision. That's what elections are for; here, the determinations of exactly 12 people are all that counts.

Here's the one useful graf in the entire story:

A Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted between Thursday and Friday found that 5 percent of Republicans and 21 percent of independents said they are much less likely to vote for Trump because of the jury's ruling. Meanwhile, 30 percent of Republicans and 13 percent of independents said the verdict made them much more likely to vote for Trump. However, the majority of Republicans (55 percent), independents (58 percent), and Democrats (58 percent) said the verdict didn't change their minds on whether or not to vote for the former president.

Given the narrow outcomes in swing states in 2020, that 5% drop in GOP support is much larger than it sounds. Like, more than 11,000 votes that will need to be "found."

That said, national polls are functionally useless for presidential elections on account of the Electoral College. All registered Republicans in California could abandon Trump without moving the needle on the election outcome; how that 5% is distributed among states and territories is the news, but with this sort of sample size, further breakdowns would have minimal or zero confidence.

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I'm glad the feds dropped this case and New York picked it up for the simple reason that a pardon could only come from the New York governor. It's not in the president's power to pardon state convictions, which may be important going forward.

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Colour me confused. I was inviting conversation about it because I found it interesting and felt conflicted about whether I agreed.

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Appreciate the sourcing. As with so many things, the original is better.

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Rules for thee but not for me.

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I'm not entirely mobile yet ... watch this space. What do tickets run for that?

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This is such an amazingly beautiful offer that I'm not sure how to respond. Thank you for bringing the burn spirit into the real world ... I'm still working on integrating my experience and know I won't ever be the same person I was last week, but it's such a massive shift that I want to take my time to understand who I now am and the extent to which some of my mental struggles will be different.

And thank you for the kind words about my writing. It means so much to me that what I enjoy doing can bring others joy.

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They do give the best cuddles, though raver bois are a close second!

Going Dark: The war on encryption is on the rise. Through a shady collaboration between the US and the EU. ( mullvad.net )

Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been...

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I've been with Mullvad for over a year at this point. This sort of analysis (as well as being able to mail cash) makes me feel confident that I made the right choice to ignore every entreaty (before SponsorBlock) about NordVPN.

NordVPN: We have the budget to pay influencers, and it's likely coming out of the U.S. Treasury.

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I have to believe at this point that a serious generation gap exists if there is an audience for this sort of constant monitoring. Because that's what it is.

Where it goes and whether Microsoft can be trusted are of course very valid concerns, but Jesus tap-dancing Christ, this is surveillance before the data go anywhere. Add that to your AI assistant that works best with the camera on, et voila!

No doubt Google is going to say "hold my beer," and there's no pure Linux offramp on the overwhelming majority of Android hardware, so even if you've told Microsoft to fuck off ...

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That closing quote is ominous:

"Recall is currently in preview status," Microsoft says on its website. "During this phase, we will collect customer feedback, develop more controls for enterprise customers to manage and govern Recall data, and improve the overall experience for users."

I read "so, yeah, we built in all the telemetry connections we swear we'll never use ... just for testing, ya know?"

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Poorly thought-out Facebook posts are forever; coverage of city council malfeasance from two years ago, not so much.

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Fixed the hed. Archive link should be viewable.

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She felt it was preferable to still having anything tying her to her father. For valid reasons.

The collar is just inexcusable. I hope for the sake of my neck that it's gotten a bit duller over the years.

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I'm aware of the cliche. What is why I drove from Portland to Tsawwassen on Thanksgiving night 1999 to catch the ferry over to Vic and bring my Canadian girlfriend down for the rest of the weekend.

I just thought that would be the end of it.

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Worth noting: this is 90% effective for HSV-1, but not tested on HSV-2. That's on their radar for research. It's nonetheless a breakthrough, and the Hutch has pulled off some interesting things in the past, so I'd imagine they'll get there.

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Sure as fuck happened to journalism. Except they had the balls to offer buyouts instead of just saying "your service counts for nothing unless I see the back of your head every time I meander around with a coffee mug."

The truly absurd bit of it to me is absent Covid, already working remote for years would not have been a problem. I went remote in 2016, and there's no fucking way I'd be like "oh, the recent grads you hire to chew and spit out are an issue for remote? Sure, why don't I restart the pointless thing of driving for an hour and a half a day with concomitant fuel costs, having to choose my food for the entire day at 7 a.m. or paying four times as much, and generally being more surly in my personal life so that you, dear boss, can prove you have something to do?"

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How impressive this is will hinge on whether there were any shenanigans behind the demos. I find it difficult to take breathless announcements at face value given recent issues.

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If you know, you know.

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I'm not really aware of anyone still shooting porn after 15 years outside of HKJ, and if I'm being honest, I'm not entirely sure she was active yet ... it was a different time.

It was also damn near impossible to monetize back then (self-host, find payment processor overseas that took 30% minimum, self-advertise), especially anything outside of male-centric boring shit you've seen a thousand times, which led to more of a discovery process and a tighter-knit community for those shooting or appearing in kink.

I'm glad she's doing OK after just an event, but I never found myself wondering why she didn't post anymore.

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