Dran @ Dran_Arcana @lemmy.world

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the product itself is not the problem

well hold on there partner, lets not get crazy with our sweeping claims here.

I think delisting it from ios and android appstores would probably be half-sufficient to kill it. Most people won't go out of their way to sideload an app or use a website. Making it so American advertising companies cannot exchange money with tiktok would probably be the other half. No money, extra effort = dead platform.

Edit: just read the draft bill, it probably deosn't even go far enough. It does the first half, but not the second half. It looks like under the bill, advertisers as businesses would still be able to interact with the platform, but the platform would only be accessible via a browser, and no US hosting/vps provider could host any of their services. Any violations would be a civil penalty of up to $500/user (presumably with the penalty of completely being cut off from us businesses if they didn't pay up).

Honestly seems more reasonable than I'd have initially given it credit. It mostly solves the "a foreign adversary could update the app to use my phone as a wiretap" or "a foreign adversary could use their legitimate business dealings to spy from within a datacenter" without actually creating a great firewall.

https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/Protecting%20Americans%20From%20Foriegn%20Adversary%20Controlled%20Applications_3.5.24.pdf

See, and I think more people could benefit from those. Our DEI training is like a 15 minute video and then a 7 question quiz. "Karen called Sharon the N word in an email, was that bad??!? (Y/N)". It really is no wonder that a large swath of people think dei is a joke. In a lot of places it IS a joke.

buy it from somewhere that has a 14 or 30 day "no questions asked" return policy. A competent retailer will have that baked into their margins so don't feel bad doing it. I think that's your best bet.

Then pay for them or learn to bypass them, you ungrateful pissant.

I find it hard to respect opinions of those who do not seem to respect developers. Lemmy is a very niche product, third-party clients are an even more niche subproduct. We are lucky to get something as polished as sync and if the guy values his own time at $20/user for the good experience with this few paying users, it seems very ungrateful to complain about it without suggesting an alternative to keep the guy fed. There cannot be a very large market for premium lemmy apps. Compound that with designing his app in a way that dns adblocking doesn't break the app. I dns adblock, have never seen an ad on sync, and I still paid for the ad-free version anyway just to support the project.

If you make more money at the top, leave it at the top. If you make more at the bottom, put it at the bottom.

How much poop in the soup is too much poop before $20 becomes reasonable? Just deal with it, switch apps, ad block, or pay the man. There's an option in there for everyone

I'd think it's probably not a majority, but I do wonder what percentage it actually is. I do have distinct memories of being like 12 and trying to find porn of people my own age instead of "gross old people" and being confused why I couldn't find anything. Kids are stupid lol, that's why laws protecting them need to exist.

Also good god when I become a parent I am going to do proper network monitoring; in hindsight I should not have been left unattended on the internet at 12.

"Phonk" traditionally referred to the music style itself without lyrics, but as most emerging music styles do, it's evolved into a sort of new-age emo/grunge mix of Phonk, Hip-Hop, and Alternative Rock. All of the below can be considered modern phonk, even though in the strictest sense, traditional phonk is lyricless. A lot of people will know the "phonk walk" song Why Not by Ghostface Playa

https://www.youtube.com/@trash-gang This youtube channel has popularized many of the rising artists in the genere as it's evolved over the last 3-4 years, and if you're looking for some recommendations from an enthusiast, check out (in no particular order):

TheRealTaco

ETHAN ROSS

Jeris Johnson

YCK

REI AMI

Kylof Söze

KIDR

XZARKHAN

SALIVA GREY

XANAKIN SKYWOK

DOWNFVLL

If you need to eat half as much it kind of works out though.

Scam reviews or bot account creation would be my guess

especially true for when manufacturers stop supporting the console you invested into, stops making replacement parts, issuing security patches, etc. Having the ability to make, repair and use copies of the games you purchase is critical to digital preservation.

What in the gacha is this shit? This is not the 1997 age of empires

Ad revenue

That (those?) insult(s) was slightly too British lol, can you explain the joke?

That is... not how bgp works my guy

Soylent!

There are also full-suites like rancher which will abstract away a lot of the complexity

I just verified personally that it was present on unifi devices, since their docs weren't clear. We are a mostly cisco/aruba shop where I work, but a lot of my colleagues at smaller businesses/universities use radius with unifi access points. I imagine they are vulnerable to this.

You are correct though in assessing that homelab users and very small enterprise users are probably safe.