But seriously though, the people of Taiwan do not consider themselves to be Chinese.
It’s kind of funny, China acquires regions and demands the people adopt their nationality. Meanwhile, with the US the various states willingly adopted the nationality. Hell Puerto Rican people still have to press that point, in spite of being the 50th state for over 100 years, but they do so willingly - meanwhile the people of Hong Kong do what they can to flee the Chinese invasion.
Damn, if only fish knew to latch onto bait like you :D
“Chinese crap” is what allows America to build F-35 fighter jets, the same crap that also commands 45 to 50 percent of total shipbuilding globally.
Taiwanese =/= Chinese ;)
Wait did sh.itjust.works do anything? I thought the story was that beehaw.org cut them and lemmy.world off, but only for people browsing on beehaw.
Power Delete Suite doesn’t get everything. PDS goes through your New, Hot, Top & Controversial posts and deletes those - however your reddit profile doesn’t display every comment there.
For example, I had many comments that were older than 3 months and <50 karma that were still left unchanged after running PDS to completion several times. In particular, replies I’d made to my top comments were still there, while the top comment itself had been deleted. I also had a couple comments in the gilded tab that it had missed.
The only way to get everything is to do a GDPR request to get all the comments with links in a CSV file. Apparently shreddit can take this to clear the comments, however the PDS dev shits on shreddit for requiring you to input your username and password. I haven’t yet tried this, but I’m not aware of any other service that uses the GDPR CSV files.
I like to give it slightly wrong answers first, then right answers on the second attempt. Because they’re blatantly using it to train AI (for free, without paying users for their work), I want to poison the data. The first one tells it that it’s guess is wrong, the second one proves I know what I’m talking about - if you do everything wrong it will just discard your training data.
I went to a gas station that had facial recognition cameras. They cited theft, but also their “legitimate interest”, using website cookie language - only there was no easily apparent way to object to their legitimate interest.
What we really need is legislation. The law needs to recognise that businesses cannot just steal data from people for free for their own profits - not to mention exploiting that data against the data subject.
If you build and sell a car, you have to pay for the nuts and bolts. You can’t just take them and say “well, you wouldn’t know how to build a car, and they only cost a tiny, tiny amount, so we don’t need to pay you.”
Personal data has value. So much value, the businesses that focus on collecting it are some of the wealthiest in the world. We are all being robbed.
What happens to your account on a federated server if that one fails though?
Twitter is a weird one. Musk is prancing around acting like a piss poor businessman, but all that is simply to hide the fact that Twitter was doomed by the very nature of the leveraged buyout it was bought under. Twitter could never afford the $13 billion loan it took out to buy itself on Musk’s behalf, it was always doomed to fail.
This in turn clears the way for far-right social media platforms. Either they step into line, or they kill them off. I really can’t help but feel reddit is part of a coordinated attempt to destroy open and untampered social media communication amongst people, in particular during the build up to the 2024 elections.
Eh, it’s a misconception to think that capitalism is evil, and the problem. Capitalism is neutral, it’s a simple method of value exchange - it takes x time in man hours to extract raw materials, y to manufacture a product, z to distribute it so the price should be x+y+z.
The issue is with people. People lie and try to inflate or deflate the value of things. They’ll imply that it takes longer to do something, so they can sell it for more, meanwhile they’ll pay their employees less than their time is worth. Capitalism’s main failing is that it is too simple, it is unable to account for these human flaws.
I might still google “[question] reddit” when looking for how to do things, and there a couple of subs I’ll check for that kind of purpose, but I’ve already stopped actively contributing to the site and have edited and deleted most of my comments (at least the ones shown on my profile, reddit doesn’t show all of them - need to find a way to automate editing + deleting from the GDPR CSV files).
Hopefully Lemmy will grow and take over to fill the reddit knowledge gap.
What’s more, they’ve blocked old reddit if you’re not logged in. Now it either redirects to new reddit or you get a “you broke reddit” error page. It won’t be long before they block old reddit for existing users, I reckon.
The CEO is an absolute bastard. He’s twisted the words of his “friend” Aaron Swartz, the real founder of the site, and bastardised his creation while trashing his legacy.
The blackout isn’t pointless, it’s just not yet enough. Reddit needs to die, and the blackout is a step towards that. It started as a way to try and get admin to change, and in that respect it has and will fail, but it is the first step to reddit going the way of digg.
We could use alternatives, but Lemmy is the best!
You could also use ReVanced to clean up the app.
No, but my mum did buy me one of those when I asked her to get me the CatFace one lmao. Even though I gave her the specific link. Ended up having to buy it myself.
This is CatFace, and like I say the clock face is his giant cat head. Then his little dangling body is the pendulum.
apparently Jebora lets you upload images directly.
Hah I was mostly joking with the “feature for Germans” thing.
For me, I find writing comments on Jebora is buggy. If you mistype, then hit backspace to delete, it removes the space between the last two words.
Maybe that’s a feature for Germans to combine words, I dunno, but it means you have to do a lot of additional manual editing.
Guacamelee??
Super Sopapillas ftw!!