yetAnotherUser @ yetAnotherUser @feddit.de

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Ironically, living in a country with strong and independent public broadcasting, significantly more people trust it than the private alternative. And it's at least somewhat left, considering how often right-wingers "criticize" it.

Böing

thinking => existence <=/=> existence => thinking

smh get your propositional calculus in order

Yeah, me and my friends did that too, a decade later. We used something like shutdown -s -t [time] though.

We used to put this file into the shared folder everyone could access, made it hidden, created a shortcut, changed the shortcut's image to a folder and renamed it to something along the lines of "maths test solutions".

We also made some other .bat files which looked like this:

    
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2. I'm afraid something like this could happen. After all, the Fediverse is competition in Meta's point of view because Meta cannot advertise to everyone.
3. Growth is great, but it must grow sustainably. Spontaneous growth is harmful because the necessary structures, such as powerful (enough) servers, moderation tools or even the number of capable moderators haven't evolved alongside the user increase.
4. Scraping is legal, I believe, but using the scraped data for profiling is probably not. And just a few days ago the EU court has ruled that because of Meta's dominant market position, forcing users to agree to data collection can be an abuse of said position. This may only be tangentially related but there's no doubt this has implications for Meta's involvement in the Fediverse.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Facebook

   This article may be too long to read and navigate comfortably. Its current readable prose size is 108 kilobytes.

2. They cannot change the protocol unilaterally. What they can do is add new, proprietary features incompatible with the protocol to their own apps to disadvantage competitors.
3. It seems unlikely this could happen. It hasn't happened to Mastodon either, why should it happen to Lemmy? In addition, if Threads decided to federate, no instance would be capable of handling the load hundreds of millions of posts from Threads would generate for quite some time, I assume. Lemmy has currently one million total posts.
4. They need consent in order to use and process any of the data from each user or they'll receive even more fines - at least in the EU. They'd have to limit scraping to non-EU citizens, which is an impossible task.

It's blatantly illegal and Facebook/Meta has probably had enough of EU fines already.

Also, see this article from 2 days ago

Tl;dr:

The case centred on a challenge by Meta after the German cartel office in 2019 ordered the social media giant to stop collecting users' data without their consent, calling the practice an abuse of market power.

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