whats_a_refoogee @ whats_a_refoogee @sh.itjust.works

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What in the fuck is a technologist? Is that what journalists are calling themselves now because they realized how embarrassing the journalist title has become?

Wasn't Twitter / Xitter / X

Shitter. Credit to south park (from like a decade ago).

What? Twitter is majority owned by Musk, by a very very large margin. Not that giving your info to Musk is any better than giving it to the Saudi government.

Russia is ruled by fascists. how can you call them leftists while they shill russian propaganda?

Russia is very much quickly tumbling towards USSR communism. There is massive support for return to communism from the officials and the population. People are erecting new statues for Stalin and getting popular support. Criticizing historical communist leaders is likely to get you legally persecuted.

Why are people thinking that communist loving Russia is leftist... Gee I don't know.

Incoming "USSR wasn't communism, and nothing has ever been communism".

Being elected is now "taking power". Ok, commie.

The overwhelmingly left leaning reddit, which practically never had any even right leaning headline upvoted to /r/all (besides The Donald, when it existed) are mostly Nazis...

If r/politics are Nazis, then Mao must be a centrist by your standards. Just how deluded are you?

Holy shit, right? Is lemmy populated by children?

"Hey let's give the Taliban 4 billion USD. That will surely fix the country"

Absolute insanity. I feel like I'm in the bizzaro world.

I left Reddit to get away from the constant USA Defaultsm nonsense...

This is possibly the most delusional take in the entire thread. If you thought that reddit, where people take every opportunity to shit on America somehow has constant "USA Defaultism". You have to be a Stalin worshipping commie to even begin thinking that.

Did you form that opinion from social media? Because there are certainly plenty of Democrats who were upset over masks, but you would never see it on Reddit. Though Republicans are probably more likely than Democrats to be against masking, as I vaguely recall from some polls on covid.

In what non private residence enclosed places are you alone? I can't think of any. Are you talking about hotels or... Because yea that would be ridiculous. But also, since you're alone it's not like anyone can enforce the mandate or even know you're not following it.

Maybe he should start with himself then?

Berating men for not controlling the behavior of other men is peak "toxic masculinity". I am not responsible for other men any more than women are responsible for other women, or white/black people responsible for other white/black people.

problem we have collectively created.

I have not created any problems, as I have always treated people equally, the same as I would want to be treated. If you, Mr Minister have been a sexist asshole, don't project that on me. And I am not a part of a collective. Assigning blame based on belonging to demographic is the core principle of bigotry.

Seriously, just imagine if he said black people in positions of power must take lead in tackling toxic black culture. That would be completely unacceptable, as it should be, and as this should be.

They are capable of detecting it because they aren't putting much effort into being undetectable. If there was a need, uBlock Origin itself could be made entirely undetectable.

Of course the YouTube script running in your browser will be able to detect changes made to the page and request blocking. However, the said script can be modified by a different extension to either receive incorrect data about blocked requests and page information, or to send a fabricated result back to the server. Google can react to it by modifying the script, and the extension would need to adapt accordingly. It's a game of cat and mouse.

If there was a need, we could have YouTube running in an entirely clean headless browser with no adblockers, while the real browser we use pulls data from it and strips out the ads.

Ultimately, currently we have the last word on what happens on our end. Unfortunately, Google's webDRM, pushed by traitors to humanity Ben Wiser, Borbala Benko, Philipp Pfeiffenberge and Sergey Kataev, is trying to change that.

I like watching YouTube on my android TV and I can't use ad blocker there.

Yes you can.

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext

it actually shocks me when I see someone open YouTube and an ad pops up it feels weird

Same but I haven't been giving Google money so they can further ruin the internet.

Cringe

Wasn't it the blahaj admin who defederated from some popular instance because it had an "adorable porn" community, claiming that contained child abuse content. Nevermind that a subreddit with the same name has existed for like a decade. And when proven wrong they doubled down and never admitted falsely accusing people of serious crimes.

Beehaw's reasons for defederation were completely unrelated to what's happening now. They didn't want the general public to have access to their "safe" community.

He didn't defraud the rich lol. The exchange was one of the most popular among cryptocurrency users. There are no minimum and no sign up fees. The number of people he defrauded is probably in the millions.

If anything, knowing crypto, the rich almost certainly had insider knowledge and withdrew their funds before everything collapsed.

People aren't talking about absolute value. Being worth 0.01 of one dollar or 300 of one dollar doesn't say anything.

People are saying it with the context of the previous value.

If there is a headline saying Euro/dollar has reached 1.30, no one should be responding "so what, the Canadian dollar is 1.35". Because everyone knows the context of Euro/dollar not being near that rate for a long time.

We don't know the real numbers and likely will not be able to know. When one of the answers has the potential to land you in prison, public polls are pretty useless.

However, if you talk to any anti-war Russians, they will tell you that from their observations the majority support the war and the 70-80% figure is in the right ballpark. Explicit support is just too common. A person who doesn't support the war will probably say that he doesn't want to answer the question or discuss the topic. They won't say that they want Ukraine eradicated.

Every population is susceptible to propaganda. But Russia is on a completely different level. For many, when they see something with their own eyes but the TV says the opposite, they believe the TV. And the TV says blatantly and easily verifiably false things. Such blatant propaganda wouldn't work in the West.

Ordinary Russians either support the war or have no qualms with it. Maybe if it starts affecting their day to day life, some of them will change their stance.