gedaliyah

gedaliyah , 7 months ago to nostupidquestions in Simple Steps for Privacy on Android

One helpful tip if you want to keep the phone logged out. You will not be able to install apps from the Google store (a privacy nightmare anyway). You of course will want to use as many FOSS apps as you can through F-Droid (or Obtainium, etc). But you may also need to occasionally use nonfree apps. Aurora Store is an excellent front-end for Play Store, available (of course) from F-Droid.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago to news in Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people

Fair!

gedaliyah , 7 months ago to news in Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people

Harshly criticizing a powerful group or system (punching up) is considered fair social critique. Harshly criticizing a group or system that is already vulnerable (punching down) is just bullying. It’s not about feeling superior in this context, it’s just about someone with a huge platform using it to put down people who already have a harder life than they need to.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago to memes in I can't stress enough how much I don't care.

Thank you for saying it! I thought it was just me lol

gedaliyah , 7 months ago to news in At These Schools, Arab and Jewish Students Share Their Feelings, With Each Other

It’s a fantastic organization - I’m a long time donor (just a bit as I am able), and if anyone is interested you can do so here. International donations make a big difference for these teachers and kids. These graduates will be the peacemakers of the next generation.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago to news in Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people

Chappelle has said that Key and Peele were just doing “his show.” But look at how Jordan Peele has reinvented himself as one of the iconic horror film directors of our generation (and maybe all time?). He wouldn’t be out of place in a list alongside Alfred Hitchcock, Eli Roth, M. Night Shyamalan, Clive Barker, or George A. Romero.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago to news in Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people

I am so sick of his comedy of grievance. Every act he does over the past few years is about how unfair the world is to him and how people don’t acknowledge how great he is.

He’s riding out the glory of an okay sketch show that he made two seasons and then torpedoed 20 years ago.

gedaliyah , 7 months ago to news in Dave Chappelle fills Netflix special with jokes about trans and disabled people

He also tells jokes that are offensive to Jews and black people. Yes, it’s his brand, but it’s a horrible brand. He continues to double down on his shock comedy and he doesn’t care who he hurts. Trans people are being murdered because of who they are, and when a public figure publicly spreads hatred against them it adds gasoline to that fire and makes the world less safe for people who are trans.

I don’t really care if a comedian is offensive, but in this case it’s actually dangerous.

gedaliyah , 8 months ago to news in ‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7

Although some of those kidnapped from Israel were given adequate food, clothing, bedding, and other necessities (what I assume you mean by “treated well”), others were subjected to psychological torture, denied lifesaving medicine and basic medical treatment, and assaulted, including children.

All of them were taken from their homes at gunpoint, some of them pulled from under the bodies of their murdered families, some of them non-fatally shot or seriously injured. Some of them have no homes or families to return to. The hostage release appeared orderly because Hamas threatened to harm their other family still held hostage if they said anything bad, and because Israel and Egypt worked together from Oct. 8 to carefully plan the safe and orderly transfer. Hamas in the West Bank and the PA had basically no plan to receive the released Palestinian prisoners, so there was chaos.

The whole “hostages were treated well” is such a weird talking point to me.

gedaliyah , 8 months ago to world in Hamas, Islamic Jihad reject Gaza gov. overhaul for permanent ceasefire, Egyptian sources say

Stopping it? They’re actively perpetuating it. Hamas has fired more rockets at Israel since October then Russia has fired at Ukraine the entire war.

gedaliyah , 8 months ago to news in ‘You won’t take my son’ | Fort Wayne mom fights to keep disabled adopted son from being deported

Exactly this. In my real life I do a lot of work with recent immigrants and when there is a reasonable system in place, there are very few issues. Having NO system for immigration is the root of the worst of the problems IMHO.

gedaliyah , 8 months ago to technology in Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO

Some communities were unaffected. Some are still shut down. Some replaced mods who wouldn’t play by spez’s rules.

I’m not sure what the data would look like or how one would obtain it. Number of active moderators per day? Moderator satisfaction survey? Change in posting habits of top 1% posters?

I am speaking purely anecdotally from communities I know that shut down entirely and moderators who left. I have no way to estimate the scale of the exodus.

gedaliyah , 8 months ago to technology in Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO

Same. It runs so badly now, and enough moderators left or cut back that it is not the same site it was at all. Some communities are still intact, but I’ve begun to see lemmy and even Mastodon results in searches alongside reddit. It’s going to take a while to see if reddit can recover (it’ll take some humility and leadership from the top which seems unlikely) or die slowly then all at once. Remember digg, etc? The internet is fickle and for every Facebook there are a hundred friendsters.

gedaliyah , 8 months ago to technology in Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO

Well shucks, all they did was drive out their most active content makers and cut themselves off from hundreds of thousands of dollars in free moderation labor. Who could possibly have seen this coming?

gedaliyah , 8 months ago to world in Israeli attacks on journalists constitute war crime: International Federation of Journalists

Is this really the best source to share?

Please choose a higher quality news source:

Israeli military accused of targeting journalists and their families in Gaza - The Guardian

Number of Journalists Killed in Israel-Gaza War Unparalleled, According to Committee to Protect Journalists Report - Haaretz

Israel’s war on Gaza deadliest in modern history for journalists, CPJ says - Al Jazeera