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by autoexec 2mo ago
It isn't an optional feature. If you decide not to create a pin one is created for you and your data is still uploaded to the cloud. See: https://web.archive.org/web/20230616082821/https://old.reddi.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
That's outdated information. https://signal.org/blog/sealed-sender/ says "By design, it does not store a record of your contacts, social graph, conversation list, location, user avatar, user profile name
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by autoexec 2mo ago
That's outdated info. Currently signal collects your name, photo, phone number, and your contacts and permanently stores them in the cloud, weakly protected See: https://web.archive.org/web/20250117232443/http
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by autoexec 2mo ago
My advice is not to use any service which claims to be focused on privacy if they fail to update their privacy policy after even introducing major changes that would impact it such as moving your data into the cloud. Signal's privacy p
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by autoexec 2mo ago
It's amazing how many times AI has failed to perform even the most basic jobs. Tasks often handled by a teenager or a phone tree are too difficult for AI to manage, but somehow we're supposed to worried that this same AI is going
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by autoexec 2mo ago
I've got plenty more if you want them. The fact that any exist at all is enough to prove that the statement "women dont create whole networks of sexual abuse" was a lie.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
What's going on is that a company was caught doing something deplorable and dangerous and because they couldn't deny their actions were a problem their spokesperson just pointed to stock market short sellers and said "What ab
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by autoexec 2mo ago
The internet existed and thrived long before the advertisers infested it. The internet was different, but in many ways better. It was still useful and amazing. That was why they came. It would be still be useful and amazing if every adverti
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> What are you doing to fix the issues though? You can't always expect to be able to fix everything yourself, but you often can take steps to help or at least protect yourself. It just depends on what's in the news. Very recent
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by autoexec 2mo ago
I'm sure that ignoring all of the very real problems we have and the ways we're being harmed can make some people feel better, but burying your head in the sand doesn't make any of it actually go away. You can pretty safely i
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> If you want to ban profiting from the failure of clinical trials, you would start with the stock market It's not really a winning argument to say "We should be allowed to make money doing this harmful thing because many other
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by autoexec 2mo ago
It's the same company culture you see everywhere. A desire to make money at all costs with zero concern for who gets hurt as long as it'll be profitable.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Right now a very limited number of people have a huge stake in how clinical trials turn out. Gambling markets open the field up for all kinds of people to make a bunch of money by interfering in the outcome
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by autoexec 2mo ago
It's probably a pretty common misconception that websites should have total control over how their content is viewed, but it's strange to see that on a website like this. Part of the reason apps are so popular with companies is th
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> The social contract for putting a website on the public internet was built on the assumption that browsers would be used to access those websites, and that most browsers would generally behave in a similar way (click on page, display p
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Paywalling off the site solves the problem of monetizing bot traffic, any bot crawling your pages paid you to be there, but it can't fix the plagiarism/copyright infringement problem
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by autoexec 2mo ago
The actual paper never uses the phrase trickle-down economics and just covers how tax cuts for the rich don't improve the economy but does increase income inequality
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by autoexec 2mo ago
You take your site off the public internet and paywall it off. Websites on the open internet should be accessible and ideally the goal should be to share something cool with the world, not just to make yourself rich.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
The social contract for putting a website on the public internet involves following standards and making your website accessible. You SHOULD make sure that your website is readable to people no matter what user agent they are using as long
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> If I run a local script or an LLM that needs to fetch a web page from your site and you block that script or LLM as being a bot, you hurt me, the user. People trying to block bots end up keeping out all kinds of users. I get blocked fr
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by autoexec 2mo ago
I guess "superior" is subjective
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> And yet, women dont create whole networks of sexual abuse That explains why women like Ghislaine Maxwell or Kat Torres don't exist I guess.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
Size doesn't matter all that much in the modern world. Even toddlers can murder people with a gun. Tiny people can kill very effectively with knives, poisons, cars, etc. The smaller you are the easier it can be to get away with it too.
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by autoexec 2mo ago
While they wait decades for the court cases to resolve they can take the amount of money they were fined and invest it. They have so much money they wont even notice it and they'll have made a profit on the whole thing by the end of it
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> So why are Fitbit users’ profiles able to be searchable in Google? It’s not really Fitbit’s fault. When you create a profile, the default privacy setting allows profiles to be found in search results (Google, Bing, etc). That sounds li
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by autoexec 2mo ago
If the cartels had more military fighting power and training than the entire Mexican army, air force, and navy the entire country would have been overthrown by now. If Mexico's entire armed forces really are outgunned and outclassed th
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> This is a reaction to an overwhelming force of criminal gangs killing citizens and the government being powerless to stop them. Is the Mexican government, with their tens of billions in military spending, actually "powerless"
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by autoexec 2mo ago
He fought a war against unsanctioned drug trafficking. Drugs are not an enemy you can defeat. He should have gone to war against the cartels, but then I guess that's hard to do when your Secretariat of Public Security is working for th
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by autoexec 2mo ago
> At some point when your government is so corrupt, you got to take weapon and organize yourself. It's sad. At that point you might as well point those weapons at the failed government that forced you to have to play soldier instead
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by autoexec 2mo ago
They should send in the army. How is what's happening there now not already a war and a humanitarian disaster? The only difference is that the civilians are the ones forced into fighting and they're having to buy their guns from r

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