besselj @ besselj @lemmy.ca

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Tools for Humanity Surveillance

The good news is that flights and hotels are cheap, at least until those industries collapse due to the lack of tourism

Its not the design. Its the ads, bots, and lack of privacy. I quit it more than a year ago

It'll be interesting to find out if this research got IRB approval prior to the study

If the apps don't work without network access and they don't have an obvious need for network access, then I don't want them on my phone. If that's the case, then either app is poorly made or it is being used to spy on people with unnecessary telemetry.

Of the companies that might buy Chrome, I hope DuckDuckGo gets it.

Seems easy enough to preserve old development files long enough to outlast the companies that own the IP. Just gotta not touch them for a decade or two and then "accidentally" find them.

Kompromat, probably

Its why the younger generation uses words like "Unalive". They're growing up on puritanical platforms that use automation to censor sensitive topics and they have to find creative ways to express themselves to get around the censorship.

The last time there were campus encampments for the Gaza protests, many of them got violently broken up. Let's see how it pans out this time.

Assuming that immortality only applies to humans, environmental destruction would be a big one.

People care more about pollution and climate change when they know they'll be around to face the consequences.

The word of the day is "schadenfreude"

Just as soon as all his buddies buy up stocks

$5k is at least one order of magnitude too small

Disneyland in shambles

Are koalas being counted?

Paying protection money not to get broken up for being monopolies. No amount of money will protect them from the whims of a mad king.

Bootlickers. At least this makes it easy to know what companies not to support

Here are some examples that come to mind:

• Having enough food/water/essentials to make it through 3 days without electricity or gas (like what was recommend in Europe recently)
• having a plan of how you'll to keep in contact and meet with people you care about if there's no internet or cell service
• making sure whatever social media you use to voice dissent cannot be easily linked to your identity via email, photos, location data, etc.

Basically the same sort of disaster preparedness you would have normally, except the last bullet point

Even if the probability is less than 100% it is a good idea to prepare while there's still time to do so. Its not about paralysis, its about emergency preparedness and taking necessary precautions.