It is very difficult to motivate people to move to a different platform.

Meta continues to do shitty things. I deleted all my accounts 10 years ago because of said shitty things. The list of shitty things keeps growing.

I can try to be optimistic about the Streisand effect. But it would have to be towards positive experience with pixelfed. Enough people would need to move for it to not feel empty. Sort of like BlueSky during the election. Enough people frustrated with twitter, and (most importantly) see enough people, including celebrities, politicians and other influencers migrate to make it worth checking out.

Edit to add: I very much would love to witness the downfall of meta and twitter. We need these alternatives. And as much as people hate commercialization, all of these alternative spaces need some marketing to make them viable.

I’d argue Alex Jones is completely different in the eyes of the law. His Sandy Hook case and subsequent bankruptcy are very different than the fines levied against tech companies. Which is why there’s a huge difference. In general, crimes that done physically hurt people have less consequences. And that should change. Fining these companies a significant amount, so that they can no longer be considered a line item on the budget would be a good start. There definitely needs to be a change. But I’m no expert to truly evaluate what changes would be effective.

Yooooooo! I love that. I’ll admit, if Subaru releases a “Baja” like car again, I’d be the first one to buy it.

Thanks for sharing!

100% with this.

I am all for more EV options, especially if it’s a compact car. But nobody cares about reveals. Just release them.

I’ve been waiting a very long time. I told myself the next car I buy will be an EV. Well, my 10 year old car finally cost die to repair than it’s worth.

My preferred car brand is quickly being killed off by Toyota (Subaru), and they have an absolute dogshit EV. I bought an EV, and I’m very happy with it. But the experience is not great. I will never buy a Tesla, and the other brands don’t have anything that makes me excited. I would be very excited about a Honda EV.

Ha! That’s amazing.

It does make sense. China can monitor the account for intel to squash any non-desirable gatherings.

Agreed! It blocks ads and malware while costing advertisers a ton. I’d love to see this go more mainstream and see all the panic by costing advertisers money without having people buy anything.

Looks like there’s a metasploit available. You can use that on your router to see if it’s susceptible. A quick google search indicates that this is only successful on older routers without input validation.

In general, follow good cyber security hygiene, and update the firmware on your router. If your router no longer is supported by the vendor (no more firmware updates for vulnerabilities found), then it’s old and you should upgrade.

I’ll third this. I get this message on just about every website.

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Some wood lilies would look great there.

I use KeePassium

This was my first thought. All of our data is already on a marketplace for companies to buy and sell. What is stopping any government agency, federal or smaller from simply participating in this?

We need to fix the root of the problem if this is to be stopped.

Gross. Can we start making fines meaningful? % of revenue maybe? I’m not an expert on this. But these fines should be more than enough to discourage behavior and not be “cost of doing business”.

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Your comment makes me wonder if one could get around AT by installing faraday cages around where the chips are.

I block telemetry on my IoT devices and they still work. I’m curious if cars would be bricked if they couldn’t call home, or if you could selectively allow certain messages through.

That’s hilarious. I thought I for sure the article would be The Onion.

https://i.imgflip.com/q2q9q.jpg

I always grinded gathering stamina ingredients so I could eat stamina food before running out.

Don’t be afraid, dying isn’t a big deal with how often the game auto saves

It’s hard to measure happiness, but maybe they should study mental health and happiness of people who don’t use social media. Then compare the groups.

It’s also probably difficult to determine impact of social media in persons who never experienced life without social media. I would liken it to the this is fine, dog on fire meme.