by Rita Skeetr
Ah, Sherlocking
Though at least sometimes an idea seems somewhat obvious
Pro-independence Kanak parties use the name (la) Kanaky
omg they WHAT
PineTime
Bangle.js 2
TIL
Great to know, wouldn’t wanna be associated with someone who seems to specialize in far-right businesses.
Interesting, had to check and see: 4chan is registered with Cloudflare.
A part of me would rather these baby Hitlers operating in the open in case it’s harder for the FBI to follow them around the dark web. Downside is clearnet makes it easier for low-braincell nazis to communicate. Woulda thought we’d have socially stomped out extremism by now so doing it technologically wouldn’t be necessary…
Alas.
Hopefully it’s not a common last name + a first name that suddenly became popular, could imagine it getting scooped by someone else.
Beautiful.
Neat, Mozilla’s VPN supports setting servers on a per-container basis.
Though gotta watch for DNS leaks apparently.
Wikipedia’s source links? Lemmy’s news links? KnowYourMeme, GIF websites?
Then you’d have a great defense right?
A defense you could use if you’ve already been sued?
Glad we have that law but seemingly unavoidably stacked in favor of the wealthy / those with assistants/teams/lawyers. Massive mental cost of getting involved in court for anything, one that isn’t possible to be “repaid” when you win.
(Not to discourage people who know what they’re getting into! Fight the power, if ya can)
Edit: typo
Huge shout out to the people working faster than some do at their jobs and for 100% less pay.
Also it’s the worst when you download an operating system and you realize that it’s mutable
You’re like “oh no I did not want the mutable one I wanted the immutable one”
I know what all words mean
“It tells you exactly what to do. Like, It told me to get four new bags from the rack. When I did that it told me to go to trash can #1. Once I got there it told me to open the cabinet and pull out the trash can. Once I did that it told me to check the floor for any debris. Then it told me to tie up the bag and put it to the side, on the left. Then it told me to put a new bag in the can. Then it told me to attach the bag to the rim. Then it told me to put the can back in and close the cabinet. Then it told me to wipe down the cabinet and make sure it’s spotless. Then it told me to push the help button on the can to make sure it is working. Then it told me to move to trash can #2. Like that.”
“But now, things have gotten worse. Young people have gotten lazy because of the internet, they’re learning the ways of the white people.”
Shots fired
The Marubo are a chaste tribe, who even frown upon kissing in public — but Alfredo Marubo (all Marubo use the same last name) said he is anxious that the arrival of the service …
TIL
“We’re worried young people are going to want to try it,” he said of the kinky sex acts they’ve suddenly been exposed to on screen.
Well there were also bad parts to the story besides the ass eating
Don’t be dissuaded by the weak opening argument - finish the article. At least:
When you look at Instagram or Facebook, I want you to try and think of them less as social networks, and more as a form of anthropological experiment. Every single thing you see on either platform is built or selected to make you spend more time on the app and see more things that Meta wants you to see, be they ads, sponsored content, or suggested groups that you can interact with, thus increasing the amount of your “time spent” on the app, and increasing the amount of “meaningful interactions” you have with content. …
… the logic here is that the more stuff there is on Facebook or Instagram, the more likely you are to run into something you’ll interact with, even if said interaction is genuinely bad. Horwitz notes that in April 2016, Meta analyzed Facebook’s most successful political groups, finding that a third of them “routinely featured content that was racist and conspiracy-minded,” with their growth heavily-driven by Facebook’s “Groups You Should Join” and “Discover” features, algorithmic tools that Facebook used to recommend content. The researcher in question added that “sixty-four percent of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools.”
When the researcher took their concerns to Facebook’s “Protect and Care” team, they were told that there was nothing the team could do as “the accounts creating the content were real people, and Facebook intentionally had no rules mandating truth, balance or good faith.” …
Society’s mechanisms are far too slow and lack the precision to deal with Mark Zuckerberg — a man that acts with a lack of morality that I find putrid — and the complex machine he’s used to torture humans for profit and power. And as I’ve mentioned before, Mark Zuckerberg can never be fired. We’re stuck with him forever. He can — and will — run this company into the ground.
While Elon musk is a greedy and churlish executive, and a disgusting, shameful man, Mark Zuckerberg is something entirely different. He is far from stupid, and unlike Musk seemingly feels no compulsion for anyone to like him. He craves numerical dominance, at any cost. He must force human beings to use Facebook, and once they are there, he must make them move in the way wishes and do the things he wishes all so that he can see the number go up.
Yeah it starts weak. Gotta finish article to get it.
I have 13 friends who are researchers and they publish surveys like that all the time.
(You can trust this comment because I peer reviewed it.)
Can also make better money without looking like the bad guy by only releasing a small portion of tickets for general sale. Sell the rest offline to brokers who will put them on the secondary market.
Scalpers look like the bad guys while you rake in what you feel you deserve - and even have the market’s apparent willingness to pay to back it up.