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by ziddoap 2y ago
It is not "sowing FUD" to mention that someone has a history of posting ridiculously emotionally charged headlines/content, and point out that that habit might also color the truthfulness of their reporting.
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Thanks for sharing this!
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"You Are Wrong About Section 230": https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referre...
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> Section 230 needs to go because people get banned or shadow banned for all types of reasons. What does people getting banned or shadow-banned have to do with this? Section 230 is about protecting the host of 3rd-party content from lia
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> I wish there was a way to tell the Wayback Machine to do a snapshot for historical preservation. You can, and I just submitted the https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/ URL. At the top of the page,
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by ziddoap 2y ago
If Mozilla is abandoning their pro-privacy stance, they still have at least one thing (in my opinion) going for them over Chrome: Manifest V2 extensions. For now, at least.
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Indeed, it was updated from the time I posted my first reply and now. At the time I copy/pasted, the answer was a single line (as shown in your archive link).
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> It’s now been over a year since launch and I am still playing Balatro almost daily. I play a couple runs before I go to bed I think this is really important, especially for games. Play the game you make! There's a fair number of
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> Mozilla doesn’t sell data about you, and we don’t buy data about you. Is still present on https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/faq/
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Look, I hate ads as much as the next person. But Firefox also needs to generate money somehow, right? A small advert to amazon/hotels/whatever that can be removed basically permanently with a small change in the settings is about
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by ziddoap 2y ago
> scam sites like amazon.com Since when is Amazon a scam site ? I don't like em' either, but hyperbole doesn't help. For what it's worth, it can be removed in about 4 seconds.
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From https://annas-archive.org/blog/all-isbns.html : > We started mapping ISBNs two years ago with our scrape of ISBNdb. Since then, we have scraped many more metadata sources, such as Worldcat, Google Books, Goodre
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> an argument for what rule the law should use > Is/ought dichotomy. For some reason, you've started talking about what the law hypothetically should be and how court cases should be handled. I wish we had a perfect co
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> still requires you to have some rule for the judge to apply Good thing they can examine a century or two of case law, including lengthy debates on what constitutes “reasonable” and “damages”, to help make their decision. > You don’
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This is one of the most stretched examples yet. It’s as if nuance, context, and the concept of “reasonable” have completely left the room.
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> There is no upper limit to the amount of resources you could spend investigating something The upper limit is what the courts decide is reasonable, based on the factors of the case, your justification of the requested damages, precede
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> "I could have been hacked, so I had to spend time/money on it" isn't actual damages Sure it is. Money was spent that wouldn't have been if the situation didn't happen.
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The funny thing is, the number 1 & 2 spam/phishing/malware domains that hit my company's mail server is gmail.com and outlook.com, followed by random .com domains. My domain block list is approaching 1,000 domains and I d
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by ziddoap 2y ago
I'll avoid searching for other examples, as you seem to want to latch onto the example itself rather than the broader message the examples communicate. The fact is that some people are shutting down operations of websites, deleting dat
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by ziddoap 2y ago
I posted another example in this thread of someone running forums with 275k monthly active users that also decided to shut down. That does not qualify as "long dead". That's just one other example. I can assure you that it
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by ziddoap 2y ago
I'm not sure why you're comparing total posts to monthly new posts. The tragedy here is that 2.6 million posts, potentially full of great content, is being deleted. > The forum is so inactive that they’re deleting posts faster
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Bug has been updated with a DigiCert response. Obviously draw your own conclusions, but I actually laughed out loud at the following statement from DigiCert: " In reality, our letter to you was consistent with our desire to promote ope
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They are a UK-based forum.
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In this particular case, the forum is UK-based (" HEXUS is a UK-based technology reporting and reviews website founded by David Ross in 2000 ") In other non-UK-based cases, geo-blocking is the answer being used by some people. P
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Related post with a large discussion from someone who said: " Lfgss shutting down 16th March 2025 (day before Online Safety Act is enforced) [...] I run just over 300 forums, for a monthly audience of 275k active users. most of this is
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The title card of the video is "Please don't sue me", so I assume OP is at least somewhat familiar with the risks.
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PBS Space Time's take on Kerr's paper: https://www.pbs.org/video/what-if-singularities-do-not-exist... Echoing JumpCrisscross' sentiment, though. "Disproven" is way too strong of a word.
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The problem isn't just knowing the fan fiction terms, it's being able to alias the hundred different variations of those fan fiction terms correctly. AI sucks at this. It will alias incorrectly, it will alias when it shouldn'
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Yes, overall I wouldn't describe either of them as particularly palatable to a general audience, haha. Your hunch is the same as mine -- text has much less potential for instant shock. On AO3 you have to, sort of, go out of your way
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> eg. by nucleating the vacuum collapse. The first advanced species to reach that point could kill every species in the universe and start the whole thing over from scratch. How do you imagine the Universe resetting? Assuming the false

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