JonEFive @ JonEFive @midwest.social

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Android is probably my biggest privacy hole right now. I've considered alternatives but none of them particularly appeal to me. I moved away from Gmail, Google Voice, Chrome/chromium, deleted Facebook, etc... But android has some deep tendrils.

What's your take on Graphene?

They also don't want to be sued, so yes, this is the lowest effort way to limit their liability.

Out of curiosity, is it just rights to use or ownership rights? Not saying the former is good, but it's still better than the latter.

In many cases, its a CYA policy just so they don't have to ask permission for every single image. Hopefully they're the respectful type that will either remove or blur the student upon request.

From a legal standpoint, I sort of get it. One risk of the fediverse is that data is cached locally from federated servers. That could put server owners in legal jeopardy for hosting illegal content. However, if the server is actively moderated and owners respond responsibly to take down requests, they should be okay - in the US at least, and assuming current protections for service providers remain intact.

I think a good option (if technically feasible) could be to have the choice to de-cache communities or servers that are questionable and make it so that data is transmitted live from the federated server when requested by a client. That would add load to both the local and federated servers though, especially if volume is high.

If you don't need the advanced features of photoshop, paint.net is a good lightweight and free alternative. It has all the basic layer-based editing features.

It was either that or let Musk get away with stock market manipulation. Hard to tell which is worse at this point but I personally think him losing billions of dollars of investor money will hopefully cause then to think twice about giving him money in the future. That is, if Trump loses in 2024.

I have a growing suspicion that the goal was to intentionally delegitimize Twitter to the extent that one of the major social networks becomes an unmitigated misinformation factory - moreso than it was before. That seems like something billionaire investors might be willing to dump some serious cash into.

That's been apparent since about a month or two after the sale was final. One of the very first things he did was invite Trump back

It's weird to me that a company of this size is just that inept. It's like once they have enough momentum, nothing can stop them.

The true scandal in all of this 😁

I'm not saying their original statement wasn't what they meant when they said it. My only point is that hard coding things is a common development shortcut. Everyone knows that it's bad practice, but when you're developing software for basically your own use it doesn't really matter.

Not only that, but Lemmy is open source. So anyone that is so inclined could remove the filter on their own instance if they really wanted to.

My opinion might change if I saw the list of banned words and it contained things other than common curse words and slurs, or only included slurs for one group. But without that, this just seems like a development decision in spite of the poor reasoning behind why they implemented it in the first place.

I don't get why they don't get it. Huge numbers of people simply can't afford to invest $400 - $1000 on VR hardware. Those that can have not been adequately convinced of the value and a glorified chat room is never gonna cut it.

And then there are people like me who might have considered an Occulus before Facebook bought them, but I will never use another Facebook product as they are one of the easiest morally-bankrupt mega-corporations to boycott. None of the other vendors have a compelling product for me.

So even me, a tech leader who always hops on the cool new tech toys (I mean, I am posting on Lemmy right now after all) isn't all that interested. Which means I'm not talking it up to people I know. Now ask my friends about my opinion of the Steam Deck and whether it influenced them to buy one. This is Business 101 stuff that the multi-billion dollar company can't seem to figure out.

It sort of does. "Our vendor signed legally binding documents that they were responsible for vetting and verifying all parts. Sue them, not us."

Unless by risk you mean an airplane falling out of the sky...

Alpha move. Asserting dominance even from the grave.

NaN

your_mom is undefined

I've reached the point that I cringe at the mention of arrow functions because so many people seem to always want to use arrow functions.

Like I'm looking up something on stack overflow and half the answers are arrow functions that are that way for no other reason than to use the fun little =>

This was going to be my guess too. I've heard the "soy contains estrogen and can screw up your body if you eat too much." nonsense.

I hate when people say stuff like that as they drink their 4th can of Coca-Cola of the day.

Imagine if this article was written just because the author was having trouble downloading it because there weren't enough seeders.

The OnlyFanimatrix?

The exact two that I thought of. I honestly enjoyed Silent Hill more than I expected and even liked it more than Resident Evil.