In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”
I know that many people are concerned about “Threads” privacy policy and are all screaming “WE WILL BLOCK THREADS”. I honestly can’t see how it’s going to gather any personal information since Lemmy, mastodon etc. doesn’t collect any information at all. Like, how can you gather information about user, if he...
EEE is the risk, and surely their intent. But pre-emptive defederation from an instance that already has 1.6bn sign-ons is doing to ourselves exactly what google did to XMPP. If there are no independent instances allowing access to the mega-network, people who want the mega-network have nowhere else to go.
In 2013, Google realised that most XMPP interactions were between Google Talk users anyway. They didn’t care about respecting a protocol they were not 100% in control. So they pulled the plug and announced they would not be federated anymore…
As expected, no Google user bated an eye. In fact, none of them realised. At worst, some of their contacts became offline. That was all. But for the XMPP federation, it was like the majority of users suddenly disappeared. Even XMPP die hard fanatics, like your servitor, had to create Google accounts to keep contact with friends. Remember: for them, we were simply offline. It was our fault.
Mass defederation is just giving up before the fight starts. The fight may not be winnable, of course. But making the fediverse invisible to Meta users is exactly how google killed XMPP.
Something I don't understand currently about the whole Meta/Threads debacle is why I'm seeing talk about instances which choose to federate with Threads themselves being defederated. I have an account on mastodon.social, one of the instances which has not signed the fedipact, and I've had people from other instances warn me that...
It’s difficult to get China and India off coal because they’re doing most of the world’s manufacturing and some processes are currently impossible without it. But ‘we’ exported manufacturing to Asia and ‘we’ buy the products the coal is used for. ‘We’ don’t get to wriggle out of responsibility by pretending that a couple of low and middle income countries are somehow responsible for ‘our’ excessive consumption.
What fuck up? If we were doing our own manufacturing, we’d be using the coal instead. We just wouldn’t be able to blame other countries for our consumption.
This happened to me this morning. And because the link was from a work email but I was logged in on my personal account, Edge wanted me to sign in to view it, requiring time-wasted on a 2FA process for no good reason whatsoever (obv I just closed Edge and copied the link over to Firefox).
The loss of productivity is large regardless of which method you choose to view the link. May this be the beginning of the end for Microsoft. I am fuming.
Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.
The only way they co-opt the existing userbase is if everyone defederates from them and people who need/want a bigger network have no option but to move to Threads. This is what happened to XMPP and we risk doing it to ourselves this time around.
I’m not saying no instance should defederate. There are good reasons to avoid them. But if there are no independent instances federated with them, Meta dominates the space by default and without anywhere else for its users to go (unless they want a smaller network and know about the existence of defederated instances).
Whatever you think of the driver’s behaviour, getting someone sacked for having a bad day is a scummy thing to do. You leave them a five star review or you do nothing.
I get the impulse, for sure. It’s upsetting, you want revenge. But would you stop to consider whether the injury to your feelings is really worth throwing someone out of work? I mean, if it’s some tax-avoiding, worker-exploiting, obscenely highly paid executive, go for it. Bury them if you get the chance. But punishing a very low wage gig worker to make yourself feel better, and tightening the iron grip of the afore-mentioned executives by snitching on them? Be the better person and feel good about it.
I did watch the video. He was having a bad day. And the wealthy person he took it out on took it upon themselves to dismantle his life. That’s the whole point of being wealthy, after all. You don’t have to give a shit about anyone but yourself. And there will be ordinary Joes cheering you on because this world is absolutely fucked.
Did you see that house? They’re beneficiaries of the structure ‘we’ have created. They absolutely should have enough self-awareness to take it on the chin.
It is a wholly disproportionate consequence. Chasing him down and yelling at him in the street might have been a reasonable course of action. Chasing him down and asking him how badly the gig employer was treating him to make him feel this way would be much better. Dismantling his livelihood just because you have so much power it doesn’t even occur to you to avoid abusing it, when his poverty is what makes your own wealth possible, is vicious entitlement.
It was 25%. But a 25% tip on a $20 order really isn’t that impressive. The driver does much the same amount of work as for a $100 order.
Income inequality does make it possible to hire gig-workers to run increasingly trivial errands for us, and the structures that enable that do make it possible to treat those gig-workers like shit. That does not mean you should. If you’re going to order small, you should tip big and I don’t think that is remotely controversial?
Probably not unethical if the people they were stolen from can prove they didn’t sell them (which may be a big if for some hacked accounts) or are definitely rich enough not to be adversely effected in any meaningful way regardless. But it seems you wouldn’t be able to use them for anything that requires ID anyway:
Obviously, stolen airline miles aren’t usually spent on actual airfare or hotel bookings—purchases that require proof of ID.
But many reward programs allow account holders to redeem points at local retailers, often through gift cards. In March last year, for example, Air Miles alerted members that points stolen from members were used to buy products from participating retailers. Members aren’t required to enter a password or PIN number when spending points, and retail staff often don’t ask for an ID. Due to the lack of verification, frequent flyer miles have become a profitable target for hackers and thieves. And because most of us don’t use or check our frequent flyer accounts very often, the theft can go unnoticed for months.
The paper, published in the journal History and Technology, traces how Cort learned of the Jamaican ironworks from a visiting cousin, a West Indies ship’s master who regularly transported “prizes” – vessels, cargo and equipment seized through military action – from Jamaica to England. Just months later, the British...
‘The extreme callousness of these remarks lays bare George Boyne’s contempt for the staff who make up this University. This is how he earns his £296K a year—by driving his team of well-paid senior managers to inflict as much ‘pain’ as possible on those who dare to protest against casualisation, pay cuts, unbearable...
I.e. stop receiving notifications when someone posts in thread? I can imagine it will get annoying if you just share a (not OC) meme and it gets popular, but you’re not really interested in comments to it?
However, if you have one monster thread running, clicking on any notification will clear all of the notifications from that thread but not any others. So you do at least have a quick way to get rid of them and you won’t miss anything you care about.
The tragedy occurred Thursday when the child fell into the water and the mother jumped in after him, Swedish Maritime Administration spokesperson Jonas Franzen said. He said the child fell from a height of about 20 meters.
The Zuck suck is in full swing. (social.fossware.space)
In the few short hours since I started using #Threads, #DuckDuckGo has already blocked over 200 data tracking attempts. These include things like “headphone status” and “screen density.”
About Instagram's "Threads" and people's concerns about privacy
I know that many people are concerned about “Threads” privacy policy and are all screaming “WE WILL BLOCK THREADS”. I honestly can’t see how it’s going to gather any personal information since Lemmy, mastodon etc. doesn’t collect any information at all. Like, how can you gather information about user, if he...
OC Question: Why are some instances defederating instances which don't sign the fedipact?
Something I don't understand currently about the whole Meta/Threads debacle is why I'm seeing talk about instances which choose to federate with Threads themselves being defederated. I have an account on mastodon.social, one of the instances which has not signed the fedipact, and I've had people from other instances warn me that...
US considers 'sun blocking' to cool the Earth: What is it and does it really work? (www.euronews.com)
Outlook suddenly started opening links in Edge, disregarding my default browser settings (www.theverge.com)
Current-era Microsoft continuing to push the boundaries of consent....
Mastodon's Founder & CEO Gives His Thoughts on Meta's Threads (blog.joinmastodon.org)
Found this post super informative as it relates to Mastodon, and thought Lemmy might also benefit from this perspective. I’m not sure I share his optimism, but his points seem sound to dampen some of the alarm bells over Meta joining the Fediverse.
TikTok video showing DoorDash driver cursing at customer over 25% tip sparks online debate over tipping culture in the U.S. (www.nbcnews.com)
What's an acceptable tip for a driver who delivers a $20 pizza?...
AITA if I buy stolen airline miles?
I’m trying to book a trip this summer to visit my wife’s family, but flights are SO expensive....
Industrial Revolution iron method ‘was taken from Jamaica by Briton’ (www.theguardian.com)
The paper, published in the journal History and Technology, traces how Cort learned of the Jamaican ironworks from a visiting cousin, a West Indies ship’s master who regularly transported “prizes” – vessels, cargo and equipment seized through military action – from Jamaica to England. Just months later, the British...
Boyne: staff should feel 'pain' of pay deductions (www.gaudie.co.uk)
‘The extreme callousness of these remarks lays bare George Boyne’s contempt for the staff who make up this University. This is how he earns his £296K a year—by driving his team of well-paid senior managers to inflict as much ‘pain’ as possible on those who dare to protest against casualisation, pay cuts, unbearable...
Birds may ‘divorce’ because of promiscuity or long spells apart (www.theguardian.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/1053188...
Is there a way to unsubscribe from a thread you created?
I.e. stop receiving notifications when someone posts in thread? I can imagine it will get annoying if you just share a (not OC) meme and it gets popular, but you’re not really interested in comments to it?
Boy, 7, dies after falling from ferry and mother killed trying to save him (www.nbcnews.com)
The tragedy occurred Thursday when the child fell into the water and the mother jumped in after him, Swedish Maritime Administration spokesperson Jonas Franzen said. He said the child fell from a height of about 20 meters.