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That's not really a solid argument. Blocking is likely implemented as a very tiny piece of what is already very likely a massive table join operation. Computationally, it's likely to have as much an impact on their compute costs as the floor mats in your car have on fuel efficiency.

Everyone already sees different content. It's an inherent part of Twitter. It's not a static site where everyone sees the same thing. You see the tweets of who you're following, and don't see tweets of those you've muted. All that filtering is happening at the server level. Any new tweets or edited tweets or deleted tweets change that content too, which is happening potentially hundreds of times a second for some users.

Anyway, caching would be implemented after a query for what tweets the user sees is performed to reduce network traffic between a browser and the Twitter servers. There's some memoization that can be done at the server level, but the blocking feature is likely to have almost no impact on that given the fundamental functionality of Twitter.

30% of Republicans believe violence may be necessary to "save" the country.

They legitimately don't think it's an issue to threaten violence against anyone who impedes Donald Trump. In their deluded minds, he's an innocent victim who only wants what's best for the country and all these evil judges and persecutors and federal employees are trying to take him down and literally destroy the country.

They take their cues from their politicians who are all cowards. Every Republican politician with even the most basic critical thinking skills understands that Trump did not win and that Trump intentionally broke the law with classified documents.

Instead of acknowledging those facts, they instead are literally willing to destroy Americans' faith in fair elections and the basic rule of law by spewing lies in an effort to prostrate themselves to Donald Trump and his supporters. They have no fundamental principles anymore. They are literally willing to burn the country down to win.

People like to stick with what they know, and anyone who used Sync on Reddit will now be that much more inclined to give Lemmy a try because they get an interface that feels familiar. I can see this only benefiting the communities on Lemmy over time as the user base increases. Other popular apps like Boost coming to Lemmy would also draw in new users.

It's great to have a base layer of free, good quality apps to accomplish some goal because it creates a very low barrier to entry. I keep F-Droid installed on my phone because there are times I need a very basic app to do something simple and the risk of malware is inherently lower in an app whose source is public vs private. I can check out the repository and take a look for myself if the permissions it requests are concerning.

That said, there are real advantages to a proprietary app. The developer has a financial incentive to keep the product up to date and add more features to maintain or increase the user base. This benefits not only paid users but also unpaid, ad-supported users.

Like you said, it's about choice. If FOSS is important to you, go ahead and pick one of those clients. If you like snazzy new features or you want to stick with a client you're familiar with, go ahead and do that. Nobody should be shamed or criticized for their choice either way.

But you can upvote and comment. OP didn't specifically say posts, just increases in upvotes and socialization

Voyager was especially notorious for this. TNG had its share of technobabble, but it felt like every character in Voyager apparently had intricate knowledge of advanced engineering concepts that magically solved every problem in almost every episode.

Chief Engineer B'Elanna: "There's this new problem no one has ever faced before and we don't know how to fix it!"

Commander Chakotay: "Have you tried realigning the dilithium matrix?"

B'Elanna: "It wouldn't work because it would cause an interference pattern in the warp attenuation field."

Chakotay: "What if we harmonize the polaron emitter to reverse the polarity of the chroniton field so we can convert the matter/antimatter reaction into a photonic gamma burst and triple the power of the warp core?"

B'Elanna: "That could work!"

Not real, but this feels like almost every episode in Voyager.

They apparently always manage to get to crash sites before the locals do and manage to somehow quickly and quietly extract every little piece of debris spread across several square miles without anyone noticing.

It's just not realistic.

But this guy says another guy told him he knows guys that have worked on the UFOs! That's practically proof of aliens!

Centrism is, by definition, fence sitting. Someone who is a centrist will often reach a conclusion along the lines of "the left is too extreme, the right is too extreme, therefore whatever is halfway between them must be right."

This obviously causes some problems. Someone on the left might say gay people are human beings who deserve dignity and respect, while someone on the right might say gay people are icky and unnatural and shouldn't exist. A centrist would naturally conclude that both positions are too extreme, so how about we treat gay people with dignity as long as they stay in the closet and pretend they aren't gay? Then everyone's happy!

Centrists are like libertarians. Their ideology sounds really enlightened and appealing, but in practice, it usually ends up screwing over a lot of people, especially the most vulnerable, and benefiting social conservatives and the wealthy.

Imagine it's a warm July day and a car is discovered off the side of a road with the driver dead from the impact. Two people discover the car.

Man: "He might've hit a patch of ice."

Woman: "But it's July! It's very unlikely there was any ice on the road. It's much more likely something else caused the crash."

Man: "I may not have any evidence he did hit ice, but ice is indeed slippery and can cause crashes, so we have just as much evidence he hit a patch of ice as we have for something else causing the accident."

Woman: "You're an idiot."

It's entirely possible something extraordinary happened and there was ice on the road, but acting like it's just as likely as any other explanation is absurd.

Musk is literally claiming having no evidence makes all causes equally likely. I guess if I just never check my bank account, it's just as likely I have a trillion dollars as a thousand dollars.

I had the Samsung Note 2 back in the day. I installed a custom bootloader and OS that worked fantastically. I had GPS issues, and all the guides I read said I have to reinstall Samsung's OS, get a GPS fix, then reinstall my custom OS.

I made the mistake of installing a newer version of the Samsung OS which installed Knox and locked down my bootloader. I was now locked into an old, insecure Android version with no possibility of ever upgrading because Samsung abandoned it.

From that day on, I vowed never to buy another Samsung product again. Screw them and their anti-choice bullshit.

I spent 15 minutes looking at all the links and clicking on a few.

North Korea is apparently a functioning democracy that gives its civilians everything they need. They're all extraordinary happy and love their fairly elected leader. The ones who defect only do it because they're filthy, selfish capitalists.

Tiananmen Square was apparently not a massacre of thousands of unarmed civilian student protestors, but the site of a skirmish between capitalist pig armed provocateurs who assaulted and killed soldiers in cold blood and acted surprised when the soldiers (with extraordinary restraint) defended themselves against their attacks, leading to just 200 deaths (including those poor innocent soldiers).

The Uighurs are apparently all happy. The Chinese government forcibly took thousands, no, hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and placed them in camps, all out of a selfless desire to help those poor, misguided souls. There's definitely no cultural oppression, no forced labor, and no human rights abuses. They're just all-inclusive resorts with free "cultural lessons" to help them understand both Uighur and Chinese culture. The CCP loves their Muslim citizens and definitely doesn't consider them terrorists in need of forced reeducation. All the horror stories we've heard from people whose family members were captured, or about forced organ harvesting, or rape and torture, they're all just unproven lies. The Chinese government even offers tours of their Uighur "resorts" to prove to the world that it's a diligent effort to support their Uighur brothers!

They're grasping at straws. A majority of this court already ruled that Medicare has the right to compel vaccine mandates on providers who want Medicare reimbursements because Medicare has no obligation to do business with companies/providers that do not meet their rules. The Medicare statute is very clear here.

These companies are actually arguing that the government requiring negotiations violates their "free speech" to set their own prices and is "depriving them of life, liberty, or property" by not buying from them if they don't negotiate. The reality is that what they're asking the court to do is to compel the federal government to buy their products at the price they want to sell them at. The inevitable result of such an outcome is that they can charge 100x what they do now and there's nothing the government could do but spend 100x as much. When it's put like that, it's clear how absurd their argument is.

A ton of people on the progressive left (of which I consider myself a member) don't really understand how the federal government works. They think the President is the boss of Congress and can basically just do whatever he wants, and if he threatens Senators and Representative in his party enough, he can get them to bend to his will. That he can just order Facebook to be broken up, that he can unilaterally fine Norfolk Southern $100 billion.

They think that because Democrats didn't pass BBB and implement paid family leave and a higher minimum wage when they had full control of Congress, that it must mean Democrats only pretended to support those things, completely ignoring the reality that the majority only existed because of a conservative Democrat from West Virginia that actually backs the party on most issues except the most expansive.

The fact is, Biden has had some pretty incredible liberal legislative victories with the smallest of Congressional majorities. The American Rescue Plan that continues to support local governments, a historic climate change bill, a historic infrastructure bill, a historic investment in domestic chip manufacturing. He united NATO after a decade of stagnation and expanded it more than it had in 30 years. Obama would've loved to have accomplished any of those, and he had a big majority in both chambers his first two years.

Some analyses show we're now on pace to meet net zero emissions by 2050, and there's immense new investment because everyone wants the subsidies and knows the big, long-term green investments will pay off. If Biden did nothing else besides the climate bill and perform basic functioning of government, I would consider his presidency a massive success, but he's done so much more than that.

I can see it now:

A beautiful woman in a skimpy bikini posts a selfie from a sparkling beach in the Bahamas.

"I was able to fulfill my lifelong dream of taking a month-long trip to the Bahamas after winning the $35,000 jackpot at Chumba™ Casino! DM me for a code for $50 in free spins! 😘"

They will get an insane number of thirsty dudes addicted to online gambling.

That's what I said though.

Your ISP can't see what you're downloading if you encrypt, but the IP (intellectual property) enforcers still can if they're participating in the torrent. Then they find out which ISP that IP (address) belongs to and sends them a letter saying "we caught your subscriber downloading XYZ illegally."

However, at least one US district court has ruled that just catching an IP address downloading a torrent illegally isn't proof that any particular person illegally downloaded the IP (intellectual property). As a result, some ISPs simply ignore the letters the IP enforcers send, while some of the bigger ones count "strikes" against the subscriber with that IP address.

If you use encryption (I always change the settings from "prefer" to "require" encryption on every install), the ISPs literally can't identify what you're downloading.

So the IP enforcement companies send the ISP a letter saying "this IP was illegally downloading our stuff. We don't actually have proof, but trust us and punish them."

Big surprise, a ton of ISPs just ignore them.

Edit: to be clear, I'm only saying encryption prevents your ISP from seeing what you're downloading. IP (intellectual property) enforcers who participate in the torrent are the ones who inform your ISP, but their letters to the ISPs have no teeth. Some ISPs care, but a lot just ignore the letters. You still definitely want to use a VPN for all public trackers.

During computer learning in a computer lab 15 years ago, I figured out that the student passwords were sequential, so I could easily guess other students' passwords. If I logged in to their account while they were logged in, they would get booted and I'd hear the inevitable "Mrs Teacher! It says my session expired!"

I did that 2 or 3 times over the course of a few minutes before I got caught. The vice principal rambled on and on about how I was "disrupting learning" and how I "should be suspended for this" before finally telling me, "my mentor taught me a really important lesson. If your students don't hate you, you aren't doing your job."

What a horrible piece of shit.