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by fwn 6y ago
This announcement is a great example for the current state of tech PR. What's actually happening is pretty straight forward: Reddit staff tries to improve their ad efficiency by using and collecting more data. That's great for adv
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by fwn 6y ago
As far as I understand it the Australian government is about to allow Facebook to effectively choose winners and losers in the Australian press ecosystem, which would be a monumental win for Facebook. Is that the case? I'd love to know
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by fwn 6y ago
At first I thought: what a bland and narrow takeaway from such a nuanced and still surprisingly fun article. .. but then I realized that me not being in a country or position to need to care about being accused of insensitive language is a
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by fwn 6y ago
I think this is two arguments. The first one goes along the lines of: Defunding isn't problematic since it is not literally the only way to earn money. For me that's equivalent to the idea that deplatforming isn't problematic
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by fwn 6y ago
I think that, in this specific case, this is pretty clear: If there's a culture that does not allow a dictionary to define rape, there's something wrong with this culture. I'm certain most Americans agree with me here which m
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by fwn 6y ago
Not tried it myself, but there is this script: https://github.com/mobeigi/fb2cal I'm certain it was possible to create a link on Facebook that could be used to import birthdays to your regular calendar application
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by fwn 6y ago
I played hundreds of hours of Soldat back in my school days. Almost exclusively in realistic mode. There was a great community, I think realsold.org, truly a flashback to think about it now. I think it's great that they opensourced it,
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by fwn 6y ago
That page isn't new. There's several problems with it: 1. As far as I was able to see, this: > If you want to permanently close and delete your account, you can do this yourself through Manage your data. is not true. There was
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by fwn 6y ago
You can't just ask Airbnb to delete your account. The procedure to delete the account yourself that's explained all over the internet does not work, at least in europe. I requested the removal of my deactivated account four times
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by fwn 6y ago
I think you might have thought of Yuri Bezmenov on useful idiots.
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by fwn 6y ago
Not the parent but just to clarify: The ability to install non-store extensions got completely removed on Firefox for Android and there is (AFAIK) no hint at whether it will ever reappear. That's pretty frustrating and clearly not a wi
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by fwn 6y ago
Not the parent but pretty sure they intended to use "regime" in the other sense, as it fits here much better. > Contemporary academic usage of the term "regime" is broader than popular and journalistic usage, meaning
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by fwn 6y ago
Surveillance is rarely about the individual avoiding one specific mechanism and instead mostly about its subtile influence on society (like chilling effects, the reshaping of power structures, the shift of dependencies, etc.) We should ther
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by fwn 6y ago
There's quite a difference between "not being perfect" and the continuous letdown and disappointment that is Mozilla management / decision making. Mozilla just shattered an extension ecosystem and now there's like 1
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by fwn 6y ago
I thought it's Chrome with some adblocking capabilities. ...and people just deal with all the other crap they're adding. I currently use old firefox for pages where I need paywall extensions and Vivaldi (and occasionally the half
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by fwn 6y ago
> Services are better in my opinion when you pay for them and you’re not the product. Services also tend to be better if lock-in effects on customers are low. ... and using your own domain for email does reduce lock-in significantly. unr
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by fwn 6y ago
It's not a good idea. That's also why it's very important to provide updates that do not disable functionality important for the user. That way you don't force users to choose between security or functionality. Mozilla s
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by fwn 6y ago
I downvoted you. I'm a German who, like most Germans, does not like Trump. The article is about Twitter exploring new ways to shape interactions with the content from Trump, a retreating politician, on their platform. This development
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by fwn 6y ago
> On the normal version of firefox for those platforms you can't permanently sideload an extension ... Are you sure about that? I am using Firefox on Windows and I currently have no problem sideloading extensions. They stay enabled
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by fwn 6y ago
I think that one of you is talking about network filters and the other is talking about cosmetic filters. Cosmetic filters are a bit hard right now, due to Facebooks effort to obscure them. Network filters are as easy and as reliable as eve
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by fwn 6y ago
...and I'm relatively certain they wanted to communicate that the new owners are based in Turkey, not that their developer team is strictly of Turkish ethnicity. They probably didn't check whether there might be Kurds or Circassia
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by fwn 6y ago
The parent criticized the commonly used FAANG acronym for excluding Microsoft. That is not juvenile in my book. There's apparently "FANGAM" to account for that omission. According to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia
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by fwn 6y ago
I use them wherever I can because they allow me to block ads, analytics and other unpleasant elements like nudges, etc. But I'm far from an expert. What would be the benefit of a non-pw app?
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by fwn 6y ago
Politics is many different things depending on who you ask. Obviously. Luhmann wouldn't agree with Foucault who wouldn't agree with Rousseau who wouldn't agree with Arendt, etc. In our previous conversation I'd argue tha
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by fwn 6y ago
Yes, it's probably bad from the perspective of how to best cool down criticism. That aside it would be a very good thing for society if all companies started addressing stakeholder concerns and contributed constructively in the societa
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by fwn 6y ago
> through political action (such as activism, lobbying and campaigning), societies should continuously reevaluate what topics are within the political sphere. No that's not what I've said. I talked about discourse: https:&#x2F
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by fwn 6y ago
In a best case scenario those boundaries are continuously questioned in the democratic discourse. Some moral entrepreneur might argue: Politics should govern the bedroom for [reasons]! ... and others might object: No; the bedroom is a priva
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by fwn 6y ago
My point is your parent is right and you are wrong. Artificially extending what's seen as political to excess is a pointless exercise that removes all meaning and usefulness from the concept. That's bad because a shared understand
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by fwn 6y ago
> I guess my point is that your actions and omissions have political outcomes whether you want them to or not. It does not even stop there. If we choose to understand what's political in this way everything that humans choose to rel
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by fwn 6y ago
This is apparently just a timer with an "impossible challenge" tease. How is that not terrible clickbait?

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