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by bmarquez 6y ago
> Post history and karma is part of a profile. It's in my right to see if the author has a proven history to make claims like that. Since: I don't know him. Do you? > Claiming: this is my last post, just adds to me not belie
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I don't know what who was asking for this either, especially when what I consider to be core features are still missing. Signal for iOS still doesn't support message backup like the Android version. And Telegram introduced a featu
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In this case, I also blame Twitter for forcing new accounts to add a phone number (otherwise the account gets locked for "automated behavior" shortly after account creation, also happened to me personally). https://popz
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What sort of political crowd is happy with "private company can do whatever it wants"? Both the right and left get targeted by abuse of corporate/monopoly power. Both Democrat and Republican state Attorney Generals have filed
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by bmarquez 6y ago
Except when Apple neglects web page technology (example: push notifications are available on every browser platform except iOS). And harm to companies is harm to consumers when they purchase products with applications that get taken away du
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by bmarquez 6y ago
The article is blaming private equity, but realistically either companies charge money, companies sell your personal data, or companies go out of business. If people want the "fully free" version there's always "Log in w
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by bmarquez 6y ago
No tracking is obviously the best choice. But if FLoC requires the browser to do the tracking itself, would it be possible to fork Chromium, disable tracking, and have FLoC return fake or random data instead?
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by bmarquez 6y ago
> There's also the risk of incorrectly assuming that a presence in the breach implies your views have some degree of alignment with those regularly expressed on the site, yet clearly based on the presence of my own email address, th
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by bmarquez 6y ago
The Gab Trump account only reposted his tweets, speeches, and email statements. The account description says it's "reserved" for the president, though it should be made clear which account was actually running it. I actually
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by bmarquez 6y ago
Your comment would make sense if Reddit and r/politics is an accurate description of the US population. But I'll have to disagree, since the comment above me suggests that there are a significant number of non-American Reddit user
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by bmarquez 6y ago
Except /r/conservative never claimed to be unbiased. After people started brigading and posting threats (examples are occasionally shown by moderators) they had to tighten up their moderation. In contrast, /r/politics cl
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by bmarquez 6y ago
I wonder why there wasn't some sort of stop-loss pricing (disconnect service if price exceeds X) built into the user agreement. That would have prevented all the negative publicity. Griddy was a great idea, but it wasn't for every
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by bmarquez 6y ago
> I see people being mocked on the basis of being "mediocre white men" far more often on Twitter than I see them mocked on the basis of being "mediocre women of color" I've been called an "entitled white dud
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by bmarquez 6y ago
Original link is here, not sure why the submission links a Google redirect: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/20/how-francis-davidson-started... As someone looking for alternatives to AirBnB, I welcome Sonder as c
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by bmarquez 6y ago
> That’s why a consumer without insurance saves money by having access to a PBM’s network rate, which is lower than the cash price. GoodRx provides a convenient and user-friendly interface for finding these PBM rates. Essentially, GoodRx
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by bmarquez 6y ago
A few years ago, the black rapper YG was criticized by the Chinese-American community in the Bay Area for writing songs about robbing Asians. The stereotype has been around for a while. There are other stereotypes about Asians being easy vi
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Shame, suicide and the dodgy loan apps plaguing Google’s Play Store(wired.co.uk)
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by bmarquez 6y ago
This appears to be a consulting group's website selling AWS cost reduction strategies and AWS analysis; they have a vested interest in saying that. I clicked on the link expecting some sort of content on migration, but it's basica
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by bmarquez 6y ago
> thought provoking articles, or just fuel confirmation bias for their readers? I'd argue that NYT has fallen into the latter, with dissenting voices stifled internally, example Bari Weiss: https://www.poynter.org/n
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by bmarquez 6y ago
If you're curious about how the 2020 predictions turned out: https://lwn.net/Articles/808260/
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Basically what happens for very important non-technology news, is that users flag the post off the page (which is intended behavior according to the admins.) Then dang picks a post to resurrect and focus discussion on. I believe the last ti
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by bmarquez 6y ago
The best thing that I love about the Slashdot moderation system is that you can't moderate and post in the same discussion. It keeps people from simultaneously expressing their opinion and downvoting other opposing opinions.
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Examples? "Flaired users only" doesn't exist in any of the other subreddits I frequent, and all subreddits (even non-political ones) reserve the right to remove off-topic or uncivil comments.
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/r/conservative moderates their platform to accept all types of conservatives, including the authoritarian "let's spend all our money on the military and censor everything we don't like" types. They also took i
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by bmarquez 6y ago
"Verified Parler Citizen" is basically a red badge to prove that you weren't a bot account. I think there were other benefits but I can't recall off the top of my head. As a privacy-conscious person, the thought of uploa
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by bmarquez 6y ago
The discover page shows pre-approved "verified" users (examples include Sean Hannity, Maria Bartiomo, Dinesh D'Souza, Megyn Kelley, Devin Nunes, RSS feeds like Zero Hedge and Epoch Times, and actual politicians). If your husb
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by bmarquez 6y ago
You can direct message @tmobilehelp on Twitter and you get access to the same representatives that respond to public complaints, without actually having to publicly complain. I'm not sure if this is intended behavior (or if it works wi
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by bmarquez 6y ago
> And we're also at the point where some companies won't provide you with respectable service unless you @ them on social media. Real-world example: T-Mobile. Their Twitter and Facebook representatives (called T-Force) have bet
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Yes, it's called Facebook :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...
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by bmarquez 6y ago
Fortnite was banned after I bought my new iPhone. I didn't know it would happen, never thought it could happen, and I would have reconsidered my purchase if I knew.

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