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So they received a take down request from the Indian government, mistook the users for being in India, followed the law that they’re required to follow in India, and when it was brought to their attention that those users were actually based in Canada they went back and allowed the posts. This doesn’t seem as malicious as people are making it out to be, they should probably work on their geo-blocking, but with 3 billion users in 150+ countries with their own local laws it’s probably safer to be aggressive when it comes to removing content when requested.

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“The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools” -Thucydides

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Which one?

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If it’s stupid and it works… but also super dangerous that there’s no password protection on the access key to people’s rooms.

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Oops I ate N64 Goldeneye NPCs again

Margot Robbie Shows Solidarity with Writers Guild (lemmy.world)

Margot Robbie proved she can make even the most casual look runway-ready as she took to the streets during Wednesday’s SAG-AFTRA rally. The Barbie star, 33, was a vision in an oversized white tee, putting her own stylish spin on the protest uniform. With her signature blonde locks flowing freely and chic sunnies shielding her...

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Brawndo’s got what plants crave

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Who’s that walking through my bedroom at 1am?

Ah that’s just Dimitris from 3 blocks over on his way home

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Lol when did “under 30” become the only people with futures? What the hell dude I’m not that old!

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I don’t think “regular employee” should be used anywhere close to this story lol. Imagine your passion project being building something for someone else and when that gets upset you resort to death theeats against your employer? Jesus.

Edit: Lol when this story first came out the consensus here was that death threats were not cool, now that it’s an employee everyone is sympathetic? Alright, let’s spin this story to fit our bias, why not!

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That’s ignoring voting though, which is a good way to get the average sentiment of a community regardless of who is doing the commenting. Is it more likely that the community’s average opinion of death threats flipped overnight or that the new information changed the average opinion?

Iran's women a year after Mahsa Amini's death: 'I wear what I like now' (www.bbc.com)

A young woman walks down a street in Tehran, her hair uncovered, her jeans ripped, a bit of midriff exposed to the hot Iranian sun. An unmarried couple walk hand in hand. A woman holds her head high when asked by Iran’s once-feared morality police to put a hijab on, and tells them: “Screw you!”...

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Wow, do you really break down like this every time someone disagrees with you on the internet?

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I’ve heard mixed reviews, the big problem seems to be stability, at least around my area. I’ve heard it goes down frequently in heavy rain and snow (I’m in Canada), and people have had problems with satellites being blocked by trees (lots of trees in Canada).

For people with no access to Internet as is that’s still a huge upgrade, but for people who were hoping it would open up the possibility of moving to and working remotely in more rural areas without good wired internet coverage it’s a total letdown.

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That’s awesome. Sounds like geographical location really impacts performance right now, hope we get better service up here soon.

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Well here I thought it was a metaphor, but if you’re down for literally eating the rich I guess us steves gotta stick together

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Hah! Jokes on both of you, I submitted a super generic patent for “cold microwave” YEARS ago to leech off of anyone who manages to actually invent this technology in my lifetime. See you BOTH in court (and probably also jail)!

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ok

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It didn’t, Bojack takes a Cabracadabra car in a later season. Todd does sell the company for $8mil though

The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center (www.techdirt.com)

Back on Christmas Eve of last year there were some reports that Elon Musk was in the process of shutting down Twitter’s Sacramento data center. In that article, a number of ex-Twitter employees wer…

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Ok but also Elon Musk is a problem

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With statistical significance?

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I don’t know that this approach really works for politicians, there isn’t really anything they can legally do about their colleagues voting habits. They were voted in by their constituents to vote in their interests, it isn’t their place to force the voting habits of a different politician that was voted in by different constituents to represent them. That’s undemocratic.

I think I’d be very hard pressed to find a conservative that votes in my interests regardless though.

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if “your guy” Republican hasn’t actually voted for or said anything bad, they are complicit in allowing their colleagues to do so

Sure, but the original topic was about allowing colleagues to vote they way they do, which isn’t (and frankly shouldn’t be) in their power to change. Switching parties or going independent doesn’t change the voting habits of other conservatives.

Threads blocks searches related to covid and vaccines as cases rise (www.washingtonpost.com)

Meta acknowledged in a statement to The Washington Post that Threads is intentionally blocking the search terms and said that other terms are being blocked, but the company declined to provide a list of them. A search by The Post discovered that the words “sex,” “nude,” “gore,” “porn,” “coronavirus,”...

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This community loses all critical thinking skills as soon as the title mentions Meta or Google lol

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Oh god I knew a guy who’s internet explorer was all toolbars like this. Literally 20% of his screen was usable, tops. I offered to help him with it and he said he had it the way he liked it. This wasn’t even the early days of technology or anything, it was 2014 lol

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You were alright with the bee?

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Brawndo’s got what plants crave

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We found the source

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Real talk, if this is happening to you often you’ve gotta decline more meetings.

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Wait now he wants to turn Twitter directly into his shitty banking website from the dot com bubble? Is he hoping for someone to buy him out again lol

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I want to believe this, because I want to make it make sense, but honestly the simplest explanation (and imo most likely) is that he’s just an idiot who got lucky one time with no plan at all

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It’s just a checkbox in your account settings. Either that or lemmy.world defederated from the porn instance, but I doubt that

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Doesn’t sound like he has values to me. Sounds like he has exceptions.

I mean, regardless how you feel about them, those are values. Values in this case as made up of inclusions and exclusions, to say that his values are “exceptions” because they’re different than your inclusions and exclusions is condescending and frankly wrong.

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Not sure what language you’re coding in, but I’ve found GPT-4 incredibly helpful for coding in C++ and Python.

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Does it stop them?

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“They can disregard regulation because what they do is important” is a terrible take

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But what are they going to do about it?

“Here’s a fine, if you don’t pay it your site can no longer operate in the EU”

“… ok”

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We’re specifically discussing websites that refuse to load in the EU anyways as per the post

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Ah, I think I misunderstood then.

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Why would corporate hacking get sophisticated when the most efficient way to get access is still a simple phishing email?

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Congrats on the sex!

Google Search, Whatsapp, and TikTok on list of 22 services targeted by EU’s tough new DMA (www.theverge.com)

The European Commission has published an official list of services offered by ‘gatekeepers’ that must comply with obligations under the new Digital Markets Act. Companies now have six months to comply with the rules.

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Wait, where’s iMessage? That’s like one of the most popular messaging apps lmao

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I guess, but not too far behind relative to smaller messaging services right, seeing as Apple has 26% of the smartphone market share in the EU? And shouldn’t their global reach be at least somewhat considered? Seems like regulation aimed to allow smaller businesses to gain market share is letting one of the biggest companies in the world slip through.

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Right, but my point was more that since a quarter of the EU uses iPhone they have iMessage by default, which could then quickly increase their userbase to a top competitor if they’re able to increase their EU smartphone market share.

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Damn, project like that would’ve taken me 2 weeks out of principal lol

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Haha I would put both of those at the top of my list of movies that were actually much better than the books.

Do Androids Dream of Eletric Sheep felt so flat to me, I think it probably didn’t age well. The animal obsession didn’t land for me, I guess it’s supposed to be an allegory for material obsession, since the animals are more for showing off than being actual pets, but it just seemed to slap you in the face with it like many of the very not subtle metaphors. The main character is also just dull as hell and walks straight into dangerous situations or traps without a second thought, but it always works out for him because plot armour and the androids either just comply for some reason or they’re so incompetent that it doesn’t matter. It wasn’t a fun book imo and it’s themes were so obvious that it didn’t “make you think”.

Starship Troopers (Book) was just hoorah military propaganda. The movie did such a good job of making fun of it and turning into a ridiculous over the top satire.

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I found the book over the top and a cringy “penguin of doom” “I’m so random” style of humour. I don’t get that series

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Dude this is such a lame reply. I gave my personal opinion of the book and you wrote a whole condescending lecture of hand wavy arguments about how my opinion is apparently objectively wrong and then had the gall to follow it up with:

The last thing I’ll say is you don’t have to like the books. Taste is subjective, and you might not find the books funny

Yeah, no shit. I didn’t like the book and frankly I don’t need your permission to not like the book.

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I found the book…

This is my opinion, I do not need you to validate my opinion. Surprised you managed to finish the book when you couldn’t be bothered to actually read my comment. Go be a condescending twat elsewhere.

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Hope the rest of your day is as pleasant as you are.

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