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by BryantD 4y ago
It’s wild how we’ve completely forgotten the fomite hypothesis that was assumed for the first couple of months of the pandemic. Remember the guy who wanted us to bleach our vegetables? Remember all the distilleries making hand sanitizer bec
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by BryantD 4y ago
It’s the same people, though. RFK Jr. pivoted and incorporated anti-Covid vax rhetoric into the rest of his platform, and that’s bringing the anti-Covid vax conspiracists into the autism myth fold. And the existing anti-vax community fed in
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by BryantD 4y ago
I think it's probably as simple as these lines of code from wp-includes/feed.php in WordPress: $default_feed = apply_filters( 'default_feed', 'rss2' ); return ( 'rss' === $default_feed ) ? &#x2
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by BryantD 4y ago
Yeah, this is internally self-contradictory. I quote: But homeroom teachers didn’t distribute the awards until Monday, November 14, after the early-application deadlines had passed. Teachers dropped the certificates unceremoniously on stude
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by BryantD 4y ago
Yeah, that’s what Inslee wanted to do last year — open up denser housing and remove city-level zoning laws preventing denser builds, at least within a short distance of mass transit. Couldn’t even get that done thanks to local pushback. It’
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by BryantD 4y ago
I’d recommend reading the complaint. To my surprise, regardless of the ratings, Epic was explicitly marketing to 10+. Like there are written statements to that effect.
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by BryantD 4y ago
Some clients allow for this. I use Toot on iOS and I can swipe to get to the local timelines I’ve configured, as if they were another account for me.
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by BryantD 4y ago
You’re not wrong about it being an easy fine to pay. But the meat of this is in the rest of the consent decree; Epic is under a 20 year order to maintain good privacy policies, report on them regularly, use a third party auditor (approved b
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by BryantD 4y ago
Yup. It’s both true that the age gate is easy to defeat and that it helps in practice.
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by BryantD 4y ago
IANAL. However, my answer to that question would be “it’s a good idea.” COPPA specifically calls out collecting device identifiers and cookies as personal information. Here’s the money line: “It shall be unlawful for any operator of a Web s
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by BryantD 4y ago
If this is a COPPA issue, you just have to ask for birth year and you’re allowed to trust the answer.
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by BryantD 4y ago
As promised, Twitter is polling on the policy change implemented and reversed today. This may be no way to run a railroad but I suppose it’s worth registering an opinion if you’ve kept your account active.
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Twitter Safety Poll: Block Advertising of Other Platforms?(twitter.com)
4 points by BryantD 4y ago|2 comments
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This reads to me like Twitter pushing back on the FBI. Am I missing something? How does it read if you previously felt the Twitter Files were significant?
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by BryantD 4y ago
I’d agree with you except that linktr.ee was also referenced as a violation. That’s the part that makes me pretty sure that his original intention was to cover links to links. Hey, can we have this discussion without referring to disagreeme
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by BryantD 4y ago
YouTube also isn’t included. I think it’s possible that while the policy is foolhardy and vague, he deliberately excluded video sites. This means he’d have failed to achieved his purpose, since TikTok is certainly a competitor even if the m
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by BryantD 4y ago
It’s kind of a philosophical discussion and there’s no clear line, but I do think it’s good to take responsibly for clarity of one’s writing. At some point you can assume the audience (or individuals) are being willfully obtuse, but we’re a
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by BryantD 4y ago
Very good guess!
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It tells me that I leaned a bit too far into being neutral and wasn’t clear that I think the ban is ridiculous! Good corrective feedback for me.
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by BryantD 4y ago
That’s not really my job. If you want him to resolve the discrepancy between what he Tweeted and what’s on the policy page, you should ask him. I do agree that there’s a discrepancy there, to be clear, and I think the policy is ridiculous n
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by BryantD 4y ago
Sure, you can have a personal website with links to other social media. You just can’t advertise that fact on Twitter. “We will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party social media platforms.” I don’t see how “I have an account on
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by BryantD 4y ago
To the best of my recollection, nothing published so far has shown the FBI directing Twitter to ban speech. If I am wrong, please do correct me. What I've seen is the FBI saying that they think specific accounts and Tweets violate poli
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by BryantD 4y ago
To be absolutely fair… do you have a reference for Zip2? I was at AltaVista for the acquisition and while I wasn’t close enough to it to be sure, I know he walked away with a bunch of money.
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by BryantD 4y ago
One more easy trick for making yourself more discoverable on Mastodon: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own...
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by BryantD 4y ago
Absolutely. I'm glad to see this. If I was a friend of his, I'd suggest that it's a good chance to think about why he was convinced Elon would do well and adjust as necessary, but it's also quite possible that he doesn&#
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by BryantD 4y ago
As unfortunate as the current situation is, the wellspring of helpfulness is really heartwarming. Look for the helpers, as they say.
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by BryantD 4y ago
In-browser tool for creating an HTML version of your Twitter archives: https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/ Easy tool for making your own linktree clone: https://glitch.com/gl
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by BryantD 4y ago
This is 100% valid, but unless you can explain why there'd be a change in the rate of reports it's hard to explain the consistent decline in shoplifting police reports over the course of the last decade.
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by BryantD 4y ago
I would be very happy to see SF pass a law providing the same right to shelter that New York City has.
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That doesn't sound like data to me. What are the actual rates of confirmed stores closing? What were they in previous decades? What are other factors -- a pandemic hurting downtown traffic, for example -- that might affect those closur

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