It depends what you’re on (social media) for.
If you’re there to get some positive social interaction and read some articles or funny pictures, it completely makes sense to block agitators or regular shitposters.
If you’re there to have political arguments and engage with rage bait then you leave everyone unblocked.
Its really not that complicated.
I don’t think they found a spine so much as they’ve seen the turning of the tide in the media re: Israel Palestine conflict, with several major media outlets running pieces agreeing that it’s a genocide in the last month or so (BBC, Sky, Reuters, etc).
Aside - I also would like to understand what the turning point was with these media groups where they suddenly pivoted from “Israel are purely defending themselves” to “this is a campaign of genocide”. Its like they hit some arbitrary number. 67,026 = self defence, 67,027 = oh gosh oh wow that’s genocide.
I just use the Fairphone 2 Launcher and it’s fine 🤷🏻
I used Nova on my last phone and it worked great, I paid for pro. So I know what I’m missing, not worth it to get back in the Google Play Store system though. I like being anon with no Google account, especially considering Nova sold to a company that data mines user data?
It certainly feels like 20 years since 2015. Covid and Trump have easily stressed 20 years out of me.
Yep, same day they’ll complain about Ubisoft and then pre-order the next Assassin’s Creed
Yeah and it only took evolution (checks notes) 4 billion years to go from nothing to a brain valuable to humans.
I’m not so sure there will be a fast return in any economic timescale on the money investors are currently shovelling into AI.
We have maybe 500 years (tops) to see if we’re smart enough to avoid causing our own extinction by climate change and biodiversity collapse - so I don’t think it’s anywhere near as clear cut.
Thanks for sharing the story. Sure feels racist that the countries that US special forces are nonchalant about murdering innocent civilians in seem to all be non-white.
Speak for yourself. He’s done way more wrong than me
They’ve been taught to shoot first check later for many decades. They know that anyone they kill will be marked as a combatant later - we’re only hearing about this story at all because some Navy / intelligence staff involved want people to hear the story so they don’t, “underestimate the extreme risks that American forces undertake.”
Now to me - a humble nobody - it sure seems that while the Seals did take risks of course (lives on the line) - they signed up and worked hard at the chance to take those risks. The far wider and more serious risk was igniting nuclear war or similar huge conflict with South Korea though no fault of the South Koreans. Fuck the “we need people to hear this so they know we’re risking our lives” shit. People need to hear this because it’s illegal and dangerous and shouldn’t happen at all.
The consumer has spoken and they don’t care, not even for 4K. Same as happened with 3D and curved TVs, 8K is a solution looking for a problem so that more TVs get sold.
In terms of physical media - at stores in Australia the 4K section for Blurays takes up a single rack of shelves. Standard Blurays and DVDs take up about 20.
Even DVDs still sell well because many consumers don’t see a big difference in quality, and certainly not enough to justify the added cost of Bluray, let alone 4K editions. A current example, Superman is $20 on DVD, $30 on Bluray (50% cost increase) or $40 on 4K (100%) cost increase. Streaming services have similar pricing curves for increased fidelity.
It sucks for fans of high res, but it’s the reality of the market. 4K will be more popular in the future if and when it becomes cheaper, and until then nobody (figuratively) will give a hoot about 8K.
Premium includes the stories that are critical of Amazon and billionaires, which Bezos usually has pulled from circulation.
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Check out Wikipedia’s many articles on imperial Japan’s invasions of China and Korea. Relations are still frosty I believe primarily because Japan’s (mostly conservative) leadership has been steadfast in refusing to acknowledge the vast majority of wrongdoings of the past with respect to China and Korea.
Yep that’s absolutely not what people are talking about when they say ‘climate change’ in this context, they mean anthropogenic climate change, and you know it. Your bad faith response shows you have no interest in an honest discussion.
Graphene is a custom OS, not a root process. Further, Graphene OS is not rooted by default. The GrapheneOS maintainer has written at length explaining why they don’t include root access by default (tldr: makes the phone less secure).
Configuring root mode aka ‘rooting android’ is different to installing a custom OS.
No more over-the-air updates, no more locked bootloader. Those are both significant security downgrades that usually come with rooting Android.
Edit: downvoters apparently dont know that the main rooting methods all modify the boot partition, which prevents OTA updates from succeeding. Updates are very important to protect your phone with security patches against zero days and other vulnerabilities. Likewise modifying the bootloader requires unlocking it - which means no more secure boot and anyone who takes your phone can happily boot whatever they like on it. This is also bad.
*Few more billion.
I sometimes wonder if silicon valley tech businesses in general will take a reputation hit with investors when this bubble bursts, it’s gonna be a doozy.
But then I remember how many greedy idiots there are out there pumping money into grifts in the hope of The Big Win, and my expectations of consequences are tempered.
Sorry, corporations are only legally ‘people’ when it suits them - like when paying bribes contributing to SuperPACs and lobbying. If it doesn’t suit them, like with crimes, then suddenly… nobody is responsible.
As long as the devs have an instance-agnostic ‘live and let live’ attitude and just ignore any instances they don’t politically like and advise others to do the same, it’s not really a problem.
If they ever try to enforce their ideology via their code: actual issue.
Is everything critical of Saudi Arabia Hasbara propaganda?
I hate Saudi Arabia’s leadership and brutal oppression of their people. Obviously, Kashoggi. Obviously, funding terrorism worldwide. Personally, a friend of mine witnessed a state beheading simply by being in the wrong place at the wrong time while he was working in SA (he was an Indian immigrant worker) - scarred him for life.
Hasbara are in the walls so I presume they saw me type that out and I’ll just patiently await my cheque.