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rar,

Problem is, people rarely realize the importance until they’re lost. Plenty of posts from 90s and 2000s containing valuable insights are probably lost forever. Remember that not everything online is in English, either.

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Internet of the 90s and early 2000s were introduced as a library where people consulted text for information. The was an introduction (tutorials), a userbase that’s educated and/or eager to learn, and most importantly, it was the wild west where companies didn’t think much of except for just having a .com address. This is where our view of search engines come from - to consult with keywords and read.

This is no longer the case. It’s no longer seen as a library, but the shopping mall where you have advertisements shoved down your throat and flashy stuff that grab your attention. For people who were born after smartphones and grew up without knowing the early stuff, the search engine is… well, do people know or even care about that?

rar,

Wait until someone screams ‘AI will help’.

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Jerboa works fine… except when I have to search for something. Why is ‘search’ not a ‘search post/comments’ function but a ‘search community’ one?

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Think of the poor corporations, man! Have you no soul?

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Burner phone to anything that requires communication. Erase metadata of anything that will be shared and uploaded online.

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Treating phone numbers in contact list with username was a brilliant idea (for the spread of mobile messengers like Whatsapp) but also a very horrible idea (for user privacy and everything else). I can’t just change a phone number for privacy. My acquaintances will gladly update them with my name, my old and new number, ready for Zucc to scoop them up in a fucking silver plate.

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Same can be said for any field, academic or not. For example, it won’t do any good to dismiss cancer awareness campaigns because doctors have been saying about it for decades. It’s for the public’s benefit, and everyone deserves privacy.

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lol k

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Whenever I bring up the issue all I get is blank stares of “how can you not be excited if you work with computers?”. I just wanna scream.

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There was a civilian airplane that mistakenly drifted into Soviet airspace and was shot down back in the 1983, killing everyone on board. Pilots can train for scenarios requiring manual operation, but that doesn’t mean they should only rely on human perception, especially when it involves other people’s lives.

rar,

It was surreal watching BBC report on a game mod. I saw the thumbnail ‘Fallout London Delay’ with the BBC logo and thought there was a terrorist attack or something.

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I’m aware cock.li is for the meme edgelords, but what about purelymail?

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This will backfire independently of the political or security justifications. Many Chinese scientists were put under surveillance, stripped off their academic positions and faced deportation during Red Scare, and this directly contributed to China’s nuclear and space program.

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Had fun playing FO4 back then, but gotta agree it had some major weak points. They didn’t improve from the FO3 and the constructive criticisms. They simply rode the gravy train Obsidian set with New Vegas. FO76 and Starfield’s failure to captivate public’s interest is a reflection of that.

rar,

If they could let player order Preston Garvey do all the minuteman job and leave the us alone.

rar,

Just my two cents here to mention that it’s necessary to see this as a journey and a mindset, not a single-step or one-size-fits-all panacea.

If she’s annoyed of advertisements creeping up, introduce her to adblockers and slowly make her get used to it. If she has shared concerns after seeing her friends or colleagues receive abusive comments on their social media accounts, comment on the dangers of oversharing one’s private life and its potential consequences and tangible threats, like medical insurance companies abusing the info, and so on.

rar,

Can’t wait for it to die and wither out. But I know they will retain a big pool of users on hostage like reddit or fb for a while.

rar,

Bless the Revanced guys. They made my mobile youtube binge watches as smooth as my desktop firefox + ublock setup.

rar,

Force the poor cashier, who’s not being paid minimum wage and needs to pay back their loans, to nervously smile at the pissed off customer and beg for mercy.

rar,

I would have to find a way to keep them on without needing a battery inserted.

As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

rar,

For some of my acquaintances, uploading to facebook or sending them through whatsapp counts as backing up their pictures.

rar,

I prefer thick edges tbh. Thin bezel is nice until I tap the border by mistake.

rar,

At least you could skimp the emails. Slides, there’s an extra hassle but it’s similar. Videos however? It’s like being forced to watch a youtube video padded with advertisements instead of a concise tutorial in text mode.

rar,

Her being portrayed by the media or the memes as the “whiny girl seeking attention” is also worrying as well. It really distracts from the real issue and diminishes her work as well.

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