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The US government as I work for them. The IP in question is blocked for that reason.

Edit: Slack was also intermittent a few years back due to the same kind of situation. China owns a decent amount of internet infrastructure. It's fine for normal traffic as TLS and the like is enough for the average person, but the US government doesn't risk it on their administrative or development networks.

Ha. TikTok is heavily censored by the Chinese government. It also is a mass data collection beyond any other social media app, well beyond anything that serves the company. Its essentially spying on you. ByteDance is effectively also owned by the Chinese Government. It's not a privately owned app.

There is a replacement. You're probably on most of them. It just won't be short form video.

I mean, it's not just because it's outside the US. It's because ByteDance is legally required to collect and hand over data to the Chinese government. And it's well beyond what any other social media app does plus unnecessary for the functionality of the app. This is not about xenophobia. This is legit about trying to stop the Chinese government from spying on US citizens who are too ignorant to realize what that app is. They just care about stupid videos.

Edit: for example, if you're on a government network, there's a good chance half your calls to GitHub hosted content will timeout with no response. Why? Because GitHub has load balances that direct traffic occasionally through a server hosted under Chinese jurisdiction. That route is explicitly blocked so any time your request gets sent there, it simply fails. China is not a trusted foreign government under US law. And the Chinese government found a novel way to legally spy on the United States and the citizenry are too stupid to prevent it so the government is trying to fix it without calling the public a bunch of idiots like they are.

I think they're talking about having an app that ties into the photos-related APIs on the mobile OSes, so, for example, when you click "attach photo" in some other android/iOS app, the photos would show up there. Or have a tie in to the camera to automatically upload photos, etc.

Are there any catches to the lifetime pricing options?

I'm confused by the group of people chosen. What's the specific meme above referencing?

Edit: I feel like the upvotes are assuming this is the base picture and just blindly upvoting it. The faces are replaced, which means it's intentionally choosing those individuals. I'd like to see the OP actually defend the argument behind choosing those individuals. The closest could maybe be the Biden administration asking Facebook to prevent false narratives and fake information, which I'll admit is gray area at best, but even then, it's only tangental to the post in topic. I've never seen anyone attack free speech in the name of free speech except for the right. They're literally banning books in public libraries and claiming private entities need to carry speech they don't like (unless you're a baker or hypothetical web designer, in which case, no you're cool with not publishing speech you don't like)

I suppose I could see char being an apt description (which I'm curious if that is what the other commenter was referencing). While I wouldn't say it's roasted, the flavor itself could convey that flavor I guess. Being roasted isn't the only way to get a smokey flavor, which I think is one of the main flavors I associate with the word "char". That or charcoal.

Ah... that's... interesting. Is there a reason why? And where is that? Cause I don't think I'd ever connect the two. Like, if someone offered me a cup of char, I'd probably think coffee before tea. Cause one is at least significantly roasted.

I'm guessing auto correct got you on your cup of "char". Either that or you very sarcastically don't like chai.

Yeah, but just as you wouldn't trust an airline that crashes as often as cops have unjustified shootings, why would you trust cops? One bad apple spoils the bunch. The police force can't and shouldn't have unjustified shootings. I understand there are dangers etc etc, but that is something they need to prepare for. They are given greater authority and that should come with greater responsibility.

That's not the reference. Trump sold the property to Mar-a-lago Inc, which is owned by Junior.

Which is on the level with this. I fail to see what this proves. You can't even breastfeed in public and many public libraries don't even allow the mention of gender. You think they'll allow a nipple on a billboard? The US is waaaaay behind Europe who has had nudity in public TV (with limitations, but far less restrictive than the US). I'd like to see more liberal rules on speech, but for now they'll continue to be more conservative due to various sects of people in this country.

Ha, you think a billboard in the US can put whatever they want? Try putting up a nude picture (trying to think of something that would be considered "overtly sexual") and seeing how long it stays up.

Ah, well, I don't think there's any officially hosted versions on GitLab. I guess it depends on why they chose GitHub, but maybe some attempts can be made to have them migrate if given enough reason that they agree with. So any clones on those other sites would need to pull in from GitHub on their own accord. And unfortunately any MRs into them would need to be replicated on GitHub which I'm assuming is the reason you ask and therefore likely won't be happy with the answer.

Hardware keys are compatible with passkeys. Once you step into two-factor territory, your identity will be linked to something. I can see the issue with devices themselves, but I don't see that same issue with hardware keys. And I don't see any movement towards not supporting traditional passwords in the future. There's more services (granted many are small scale) in the world using passwords than not. So I doubt passkeys will become the only supported option.

Isn't the official repo for Lemmy on GitHub?

It's passwordless login, not a password manager. It's in development and they said the earliest release would be v120.

We do get new stuff though. Inspiration can still lead to new things because it can spark new ideas. Inspiration is fundamentally different than generative AI.

Is your instance behind? Cause I have multiple comments in this post as well.

https://kbin.social/m/asklemmy@lemmy.ml/t/371398/What-s-the-worst-Lemmy-community-you-ve-run-across#entry-comment-1885503

Edit: starting to think it might simply exist only elsewhere and not on that instance itself.

Odd that my history doesn't show properly for you as there are even more comments on this post.

I don't want to get there and I have very little faith in the "there" even being that good. Generative AI can't really create anything that hasn't existed before. It can create things that look new but they're all based on things written before and things likely to be written. So it wouldn't even be that original. It's literally something like the Twitter or Facebook algorithms just giving you what it thinks would get reactions out of you.