PSA: Read #EventBrite's new #ToS very carefully - section 9 requires you to use arbitration and reduces the ability for you to make a class action against them.
This is another example of #enshittification (per @pluralistic) and Rebecca Giblin's work on #ChokepointCapitalism - this sort of clause is one of the ways of creating a chokepoint and reducing the power users of a platform have, while concentrating power in the hands of the platform.
Oha, dieses #fediverse ist doch einfach nur kaputt 😢
Der dritte Account der uns einfach gesperrt wurde, ohne Vorankündigung. So macht das hier alles keinen Sinn mehr. Instanzen blocken sich und User werden einfach gekickt, ohne dass man darüber spricht was das Problem ist.
Terms-of-Service (#TOS) often disallow posting any image of a prolapse, #Trump's distension of which has been broadly suggested as an alternative to the mugshot image. I think it's the flies covering his that trigger lifetime bans. Glad I could help.
Just rewatched (again, for the umpteenth time over decades) the Star Trek TOS episode 'City on the Edge of Forever' written by Harlan Ellison and featuring a vaseline-on-lens--in-every-scene young Joan Collins as Edith Keeler, as part of our binge-o-rama and it holds up.
ACR identifies what's displayed on your television, including content served through a cable TV box, streaming service, or game console, by continuously grabbing... https://jwz.org/b/ykHC
I am going to have to remember to factory-reset any I look at in a showroom. Beats having to haul one back to the store and explain "No, it won't let me use it".
Samsung now needs a dedicated service remote to get into the service menus? Is this common? It used to just be secret button sequences or codes or something similarly stupid with the brands I'm familiar with.
limiting the time in which users can take legal action and adding a class action waver. If you are a 23andMe user you have 30 days to opt-out. This comes after millions of user data including DNA was leaked.
aw shit. 20 minutes left in the #startrek voyager series finale
i'm truly on the edge of my seat. while the series definitely had its low points, the high points and emotional depth make it what I honestly consider, the best thing i've seen since TNG
this was a show that, when i was a teenager, refused to watch because i found Janeway irritating. this was my first watch of the entire thing, beginning to end, and i'm so thankful i waited until i was mature enough to enjoy it. 🙏
@vga256#Janeway and #Picard were tied for my favorite captains, with #TOS Kirk as my second.
I think #Voyager was my favorite ST series. Kind of a little disappointed that they cancelled it too early and made them rush in their "emergency ending" episode.
Those Disclaimers You Add To Your Social Media Profiles Do Exactly Nothing
These disclaimers may be popular, but they are usually ineffective.
Sometimes I see someone who will proudly proclaim to the world that they solved some perceived problem with what a social media platform is going by adding some verbiage to their public profile on that platform. For instance, someone on Facebook might add “I do not give Facebook the authorization to do [this and that] with the data in my profile.” That’s cute, and usually ineffective.
Let me explain.
Let’s say BigCorp decides to set up a social medial platform. When you create an account there, they ask if you accept the Terms Of Service (TOS). If you accept them, they create an account. What do you think happens if you don’t accept them? They won’t let you create an account. They might tell you that they are sorry, or the button to create the account might be unclickable until you accept the TOS. Now, in theory, you are free to modify the TOS, and make a counter-offer. However, I’ve not seen any site that has a mechanism to do this.
What I’ve described here is essentially contract negotiation. Someone offers a contract. If you don’t like something in it, you can edit the contract and make a counteroffer. At then end of the day, both you and the other party have to agree to the final contract. Some contracts will contain provisions if you want to change the terms, but even without those provisions, you definitely cannot change a contract unilaterally.
“But what if BigCorp decides to change the TOS?”
They have to notify you of the change. A lot of companies will email you saying the TOS is about to change and encouraging you to read the new TOS. I am pretty sure that they don’t have to highlight the changes, unfortunately. They just need to tell you that there is a new TOS, and where you can read it. You have the choice to accept the new TOS, or reject it. I think there are some cases where a rejection won’t result in the termination of your account. However, in a lot of cases if you reject the new TOS, BigCorp can terminate your account.
“What if I don’t answer?”
If you don’t give an answer to the company regarding the new TOS, it is assumed that you have accepted it.
So let’s say that BigCorp has put into their TOS that they reserve the right to feed your data to AI, or the right they give themselves could be something even broader. If BigCorp, for instance, says that they can do anything with the data you post to their site, then feeding it to AI is part of anything. So you see that, and you decide to add to your profile a stipulation that your data cannot be fed to AI. What have you done?
Nothing. Nothing at all.
None of what you wrote there binds BigCorp. Why? Because you cannot unilaterally change a contract. Adding your stipulation to your profile is not proper notice of the desired change. You’d have to ask BigCorp if they are happy with this. Did you? No. Then your stipulation is ineffective. Let’s say you want to change the TOS and you want BigCorp’s approval. You’d have to find the proper person to ask for this. Maybe opening a ticket with them might work. At any rate, you have to give them the opportunity to refuse. Let’s suppose that you contact BigCorp and tell them of your plan. Can you assume that if they don’t answer, they’ve accepted the new terms?
I think you’d be on thin ice making this assumption. I checked the TOS of Facebook (Meta). First, they say that they can change the TOS whenever they want, they will notify you, and your continued usage of the service means that you’ve accepted the new TOS, just as I explained above. Conversely, they want any change you might want to be made to the TOS to be sent to them in writing and signed by them. Since an absence of response is not a signature, you’re out of luck.
This is partially why I qualified my ineffective with usually. I can see two ways in which your stipulation could work:
The TOS already allows you to do this. “If you don’t want us to do so-and-so, put it in your profile.” I’ve never encountered a platform with this type of stipulation in their TOS.
The platform has a mechanism by which they will listen to your proposed changes, and potentially accept them. In theory, Facebook allows it. In practice, good luck getting that signature.
However, unilaterally adding a stipulation to your profile without also contacting the company does not work. Some people say they’ve fixed something by adding a stipulation to their profile, without either explaining that the TOS already allowed it, or indicating that they contacted the company to modify the TOS, and that the company accepted their offer.
These people are misleading you.
These people are spreading dangerous misconceptions.
@mikey that's exactly how I feel. I was raised on reruns of #TNG and #TOS, and when I was home with a cold in elementary school, I would watch 3 hours of Star Trek programming on SpikeTV, an episode of TNG, #DS9, and #VOY shown in the afternoon. When we got a #DVR for the first time, my mom and I set up automatic recording for every star trek thing we could. But as I became a teen it started being on reruns less and less and less, so I shifted into Star Wars right as #Disney bought #Lucasfilm.
#Flathub deserves a set of more performant and native applications than being attributed to a page in #Discord's playbook. Stay with me: are we really just going to blindly accept #privacy flaws of this messenger and promote it at the same time?
The fact that it only has got to the head of Discord it's long overdue to verify this popular #Flatpak distribution, I think, is worth a comment on itself, but I'll digress. It is nice that #OpenSource enthusiasts made arrangements for this verification and I have zero disagreements with the result. I'm just stupified that, in all this effort, Discord is treated like some spoon-fed royal baby - at least, according to reactions I see.
So, what was it... Flathub already had a library of nice actively developed #FOSS#applications before these news. I don't see the point in exaggerating the scales on some centralized chat thingabob with well-known #ToS and #telemetry problems, that's all. Thank you for visiting my #dRBBoard talk! ❤
I have swiped away this notification from #Samsung about their new #privacy terms many times over the past couple months. I'm guessing they can't take my continued use of their services as consent to the new conditions about violating my privacy. I'm also guessing that at some point they will assume everyone consented to whatever this is. How many times do I have to swipe this away before I can join a class-action lawsuit?
This #StarTrek#TOS episode (“I, Mudd) started off as robot slave girl turned into theatre of the absurd and I am so here for it. More Eugene Ionesco in primetime TV please.
STAR TREK - DISCOVERY Season 4 ist von allen ST-Serien die einzige, die ich bislang nicht zu Ende angesehen habe, weil mir sowohl an der Story als auch den Charakteren komplett das Interesse vergangen ist.
Und dann wollen die in DEM Universum auch noch eine ACADEMY-Serie produzieren? Das geht doch vollkommen schief! #paramount
When I think of Spock in the original series (#TOS), I find more than a few things implausible.
Would, for example, Spock really know impossible odds with multiple unknown variables to several decimal places? More seriously, in TOS, Spock never satisfactorily explained the Vulcan logic for logic. They've addressed this since, but I had realized that the attachment to life is emotional, not logical, and therefore concluded that in denying emotion, Vulcans could have no logical reason to live.
Even Leonard Nimoy's Spock addressed some of this in the movies, and they aren't quoting odds to ludicrous precision anymore, so I find the more recent iterations of Spock much more believable.
As for the acting, Ethan Peck plays a younger, less experienced Spock. Given Vulcan lifespans, this probably shouldn't make quite the difference we see. But that's how I've accounted for that difference and I've been interested in seeing the backstory.
Was reminded recently that Discord has taken nearly $1 billion in VC cash: https://tracxn.com/d/companies/discord/__5rlLgsamoGCjo5gATenpy383J_jyBToAQkMl2B_f99w
No judgment if you've already built a community there, but everyone really needs to treat it as a ticking time bomb. It's already failed its users many times over; it's just a question of when those failures will escalate beyond even the most indifferent user's tolerance. Every community deserves better. Good alternatives are a survival imperative.
I died. This made me laugh for 5 minutes. I couldn't breathe. (lemmy.ml)