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US cops get training?

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BoTW-esque game

Sable is really good as well

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Yeah but generally it’s unfeasible to find out every (public) server a particular user is in, now you can just search for them.

It, at the very least, lowers the barrier to stalking by a lot.

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$56 billion could pay 56 thousand workers $100k per year for ten years straight.

Instead they laid of thousands of workers not making anywhere near that sum.

Yet this one man deserves all that “value” he personally surely generated.

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According to this *headline

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That is what the news article says, yes. The article doesn’t use any quotes around that line, so I assume it isn’t from the original research paper.

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YouTube is testing a feature where it’ll pop up a button to intelligently skip ahead if you skip once, or so I’ve heard.

That sounds a lot like sponsorblock.

Though it won’t be fully automatic.

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory” (theintercept.com)

The New York Times instructed journalists covering Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip to restrict the use of the terms “genocide” and “ethnic cleansing” and to “avoid” using the phrase “occupied territory” when describing Palestinian land, according to a copy of an internal memo obtained by The Intercept....

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Regardless of the negative connotations the word should technically have, it’s been sorta green washed. It is a noteworthy term to use when it isn’t applied elsewhere (e.g. Crimea)

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Updates specifically, initial install still gives the pop-up.

From my recent experience both the main F-droid app and Droid-ify can do silent updates. Not sure how automatic they are though.

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All of Microsoft’s apps feel increasingly unwieldy and sluggish. Remember when they put an entire webbrowser in their “Math”/calculator app?

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article

It mentions her donating earnings from books she sells as well as award prizes to NGO’s, and it mentions her travelling on her parents’ dime.

Those award prizes can go into the 6 and 7 figures, apparently.

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Falling to an endless onslaught of misinformation and hate stirring through a system which poorly educated you. Perhaps they appear as proud fools but they are also victims in their own right. Being preyed upon by companies, media organisations, and politicians.

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You’re not wrong

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The WiFi toggle is still there in quick settings (tap on the round WiFi icon, rather than the text)

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Ctrl + f5

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it’s always been upfront

The language it uses/used to use was rather ambiguous, especially for less tech savvy people.

Perhaps it wasn’t false, but it definitely wasn’t upfront.

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You do know they updated it soon after this became a major thing, right?

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Google quietly updates Chrome’s incognito warning in wake of tracking lawsuit

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Here’s the updated text (emphasis added):

“Others who use this device won’t see your activity, so you can browse more privately. This won’t change how data is collected by websites you visit and the services they use, including Google. Downloads, bookmarks and reading list items will be saved.

theverge.com/…/google-incognito-mode-tracking-law…

The text in that article is different from your screenshot, I don’t know what’s up with that. Perhaps it’s regional.

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You and I may have known, but

it’s been insanely clear for many years

If it had been clear it wouldn’t have become an issue.

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Until you get a Roku where you literally can’t use the TV without accepting an arbitration clause.

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Yeah but what if you already had one. Or bought one without knowing it’d pull a fast one on you.

“Here’s an idea for you; how about being aware of every single company you might interact with and all the shitty ways they try to screw you over.”

That’s a little crass, but I hope you understand my sentiment.

Also how can such arbitration clauses be both legal and binding, I don’t understand it.

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I love looking up reviews for every little thing I purchase, and even when I do ads nor microtransactions ever get patched in at a later date! Same goes for those service agreements which aren’t ever updated!

Oh, wait, no. That’s exactly what happens.
Nor do I want people who aren’t as tech savvy/in the know to get preyed upon/swindled.

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This is such a stupid argument. Not everyone is tech-literate. Ideally people wouldn’t have to look out for this because the practice wouldn’t exist. “Just don’t get robbed/swindled lol, you should’ve known better”.

And no, I’m not trying to advocate for whatever sketchy device is linked above. What I am saying is that I understand the sentiment, because that manufacturers are increasingly encroaching on our ability to own what we buy with parts pairing and always online requirements.

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What you’re talking about is right to repair.

You put it like that’s unrelated, but it’s all part of the same scheme through which we own less and less.

In my opinion the buyer shouldn’t have to beware, but I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree on that.

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I’m not American

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No, you’re right. It was a bit dismissive of me.

Though rather than convincing just my local elected officials I’d rather also convince others out there, whom might become an additional voice for those local elected officials to hear.

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Feel/touch and press/activate shouldn’t be the same action

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On a glance it seemed to work well enough.

There’s also Matrix chat, which is federated.

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That would be pretty cool in this case, but if that became a general feature people might snag up a whole lot of names to all direct them to the same place.

Billionaires who once disavowed Trump are coming crawling back (which might have something to do with Biden vowing to raise their taxes) (www.vanityfair.com)

Once upon a time, some überwealthy individuals who’d previously supported Donald Trump declared that they were done with the 45th president of the United States. After January 6, 2021, billionaire GOP donor Nelson Peltz called the insurrection a “stain on America” and publicly apologized for voting for Trump in 2020. Real...

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Because to gather such vast sums of money you will have had to go over a few bodies. Or more.
If they cared about the wellbeing of others they would’ve never become billionaires.

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Are we going back to a command line interface?

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Rollie just did a great video on “natural” gas.

It’s a bit long, but really informative.

TL;DW: methane on its own burns a little cleaner than coal, but escaped methane is a lot more harmful than CO2. Given the great amount of unreported leaking at basically any terminal, as well as the various energy costs of shipping it overseas; it may not be so clean after all.

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Firefox has plug-ins available out of the box on Android, including uBlock Origin.

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Oh, I seem to have misinterpreted your message then. That’s pretty neat

Who’s Behind All the ‘Pussy in Bio’ on X? (nymag.com)

Spam is hard. No real platform has solved it completely, and none ever will. Spammers evolve, platforms catch up, spammers evolve again, and so on until the last post is posted and the last user signs out. Individual spam tactics, however, do tend to have short lives, and while PIB won’t be with us forever, it’s notable that...

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“This user has no public description”

The lie detector determined that was a lie

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I wish that wasn’t something I had to consider. Such is the world we live in now…

In France, the Future Is Arriving on a Barge: The Seine is becoming a test case for a European plan to cut carbon emissions by turning rivers into the new highways (www.nytimes.com)

As pale morning light flickered across the Seine, Capt. Freddy Badar steered his hulking river barge, Le Bosphore, past picturesque Normandy villages and snow-fringed woodlands, setting a course for Paris....

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But a train won’t need a battery like boats do.

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I keep seeing comments about NixOS. As a relative newby just messing around for themselves, is there anything stopping me from/I should know about taking the plunge?

I’ve only dipped my toe in Ubuntu.

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It did! Thank you for sparking the conversation.

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Ah, yes. Because a publicly traded company would never look for additional revenue streams atop their high margins.

Oh…

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Fair enough.

Personally the “learn more noun” bit tripped me up for a moment, so I thought to mention after figuring it out. The information is appreciated regardless.

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If they want to burn the planet down they’re in the same shit we are.

They have considerably more wealth. If/when food and water get scarce they’ll have a considerable advantage, if the current system continues as it is.

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The cost of living is already going up and people are already dying unnecessarily, the rich aren’t nearly as affected by it.

Stop talking about the “apocalypse” as if they have no way to prepare for it.

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But imagine he would’ve been able to gain even more interest on that 4% she stole!

This is a devastating loss.

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The expressed sentiment obviously doesn’t apply to regular people trying to sell their previous home.

Katie Porter's star dims in failed US Senate bid, leaving the Californian facing an uncertain future (apnews.com)

U.S. Rep. Katie Porter became a social media celebrity by brandishing a white board at congressional hearings to dissect CEOs and break down complex figures into assaults on corporate greed, a signature image that propelled the Democrat’s U.S. Senate candidacy in California....

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Even so, that doesn’t defeat the rest of my argument

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