aberrate_junior_beatnik (he/him) @ aberrate_junior_beatnik @midwest.social

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Technology and policy matter. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/21/world/europe/facebook-refugee-attacks-germany.html

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/it-s-crazy-desperate-gazans-left-in-despair-after-australian-visas-cancelled-midair-20240313-p5fc5c.html

https://archive.is/DvA1X

The world was better when he was in a coma

I'm useless no matter what OS I use ;)

Fun fact (that I have heard and was not able to verify with a quick search so take this with a grain of salt): the English spoken in the US is closer to the way it was spoken in Britain in the 1700s. The gentry made an intentional change to their pronunciation in response to the rise of the middle class, which filtered down to the masses.

Here are some similar aphorisms:

• It is what it is.
• Patience is a virtue.
• Success breeds success.
• You must be a friend to get a friend.
• Life isn’t fair.

Statements like these are truisms. They are widely accepted and often broad enough that they can easily be turned against their intended purpose. For instance, you could use "no labels" to say that people shouldn't be racist. But you can also use it when people are pointing out or trying to correct racism, because correcting racism necessarily involves pointing out the racializing labels that are applied to people. They can also be used by dominant groups to say "don't label me as a member of the dominant group" in order to mask the material benefits they are receiving as members of said group.

Is there a reason this requirement doesn't apply to iMessage as well?

As someone from the US, a hearty thank you to Europeans. Not all of these will directly benefit me, but some of it will. Also, Apple has to be so fucking mad that they can't keep their app store monopoly, even if just in Europe.

I've been waiting for this day, to throw off all my shackles and be my most petty of selves.

ahem

lol. lmao, even.

You should set up mail delivery, so when sudo reports you it reports you to you

Obviously taken to an extreme it's bad, but I think it's fine to have a function that can do one thing two or more different ways and ignore a certain parameter if one of the ways doesn't need it. I've done some programming against the Win32 API and this is what jumped to mind for me, and I think it's the typical case here. If I were designing from scratch I might split it into n functions that do it one way, but it's such a small difference I wouldn't fret over it. And of course making a change to the Windows API is an undertaking, probably not worth it in most cases.

lol. Also, lmao.

There are dozens of research stations. Argentina has 14. The US also has 5 research stations and makes up one quarter of the summer population (China makes up 4%). Don't see any articles hand-wringing about US ambitions in the region, for some reason.

Ok does it spark concerns or do China's enemies spark concerns about it?

The other day I went Tumblr to make sure that I'd turned off their opt-out AI data mining and literally could not find the login page. I eventually had to use the URL in my password DB. Turns out I'd deleted my account already. Good riddance.

No

Imagine getting 80% of the vote in an unopposed election, in a massively important state, and completely ignoring the explicit reason why. If Biden loses Michigan it will 100% be his fault.

"Misidentified"? I'm pretty sure if the IDF identifies you as a Hamas terrorist, you must be.

They are owned by governments in the sense that they exist at the pleasure of the governments they depend wholly upon. Corporations are legal entities; who administers the law? To use a tech analogy, I'm pointing out that though a file has an "owner", which is a user account, the true owner is the operating system itself.

I have to admit I'm surprised this is as controversial a take as it is.

All corporations are owned and funded by governments. A corporation must be incorporated somewhere by some government. These corporations benefit from services, grants, and special benefits (e.g. limited liability) provided by that government.

However, I don't think governments are using this to do mass surveillance on people with VPNs, if only for the reason that there's not much to be gained by such an action. Most privacy invasion is of the kind people freely allow. Using a VPN doesn't make logging into Google meaningfully more private. The only groups I can think of that would really want to be able to spy on VPN users would be the MPAA, RIAA, etc, and I don't think they have the kind of sway to get governments to do that.

But yeah, if you are doing something a three letter government agency will target you over, a VPN ain't going to cut it.