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Firefox’s inbuilt reader would cut some of the crap

the 3.5mm rounded hole where you can insert your wired earphones, wired headphones, or stereo speakers

i’m still angry about their initiatives on delicate phone bodies and non-removable batteries.

link to the said discussions with his actual thoughts at the time

he wasn’t tone dead in that case you mentioned. he has since changed his thoughts about it.

Many years ago I posted that I could not see anything wrong about sex between an adult and a child, if the child accepted it.

Through personal conversations in recent years, I’ve learned to understand how sex with a child can harm per psychologically. This changed my mind about the matter: I think adults should not do that. I am grateful for the conversations that enabled me to understand why

most of this “he’s a pos” comes from the misconceptions about him. he has a certain fixation to the vocabulary, and he often corrects others for it. then those people take the “attempt to correct” as “support” for the debate itself.

I do however have real faith in the main developer of lemmy, considering his ideology, which is incompatible with bigtech values.

you can even see it from his own profile.

please take a look at the replies under zuck’s own post in threads.net and determine if that’s the type of content you want.

for those who don’t want to visit, majority of the commentators are bots. some advertising crypto, and others asking for money.

even if you think you can individually block those accounts, keep in mind the size of threads compared to fediverse.
for Lemmy: monthly active users are barely 150K40K, while for threads it’s 100 million. there’s no chance you can control that inflow of bots.

and if it still doesn’t convince you, you can read threads’ privacy policy, which states that they’ll gather all that pii if you interact with their content.

most of the internet is already bigtech, I don’t want Lemmy to become another arm of it. though I have faith in my instance maintainer and dessalines, the dev.

don’t forget to delete the accounts too! I’ve seen people just deleting the app and thinking their account is gone too.

that’s very much on the point.
As for the reasons — from what I’ve observed — it’s more of a follow culture. they saw someone influencial(in their eyes) doing this, so they now have to ape it. I doubt if there is any more thought process going on here.

I have friends who have bought(or actually, have been bought into) these phones on monthly installments.

if you see price of iPhone in developing countries, it cones out to be more than a month of income.
so, it’s essentially a status symbol.

another reminder that apple’s “privacy, that’s iPhone” is a marketing gimmick. they profit from surveillance and censorship in China¹. elsewhere, this catchphrase has allowed them to suck Facebook’s as revenue into their growing ad business, surpassing even tiktok in terms of ad revenue².

they’ll happily do pink washing, but will try everything do dilute labour rights³.

so, apple is just your average big tech. nothing exceptional about them(except for them suing regular people to oblivion⁴).

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1: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/17/technology/apple-china-censorship-data.html
2: https://finshots.in/archive/apple-is-an-advertising-giant-almost/
3: a simple search result would lead you to many such cases: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=apple+labour+rights&ia=web
4: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/11/technology/apple-trademarks.html

fair point. but twitter isn’t as big as YouTube. YouTube is the second largest search engine.

So, YouTube going down would be a much bigger deal than twitter. I suppose governments won’t even allow YouTube to get acquired by some musk.

I don’t mind ads if they’re solely keyword-based, and one per 30 mins or so. but I do mind the tracking by ad companies(most notably google and meta).

but nowadays I’m so deep into privacy hole that I steer clear of anything that’s not FOSS, unless it’s absolutely necessary(e.g.: degoogled android). So naturally, ublock origin stays on all the time.

to people saying YouTube is a moneysink for google:

yes it is, if you just look at direct expenses of running it. but you’re overlooking the fact that it has enabled google to amass so much data(we’re taking about 500 hours worth of videos being uploaded per minute) that they can train anything with it.

it’s a service that’s too big to fail. even whole governments, courts, and other institutions depend on it. so, I refuse to believe that YouTube will be non-existant because a sliver of users refuse to be profiled by invasive advertisements.

licence is a word, commonly used in commonwealth countries.

not actually. I also use many programs that are MIT or BSD licensed.

it’s just that replacing working GPL’d programs with MIT ones might be more appealing to corporations than someone like me who cares as much about ideology as the programmes themselves.

I don’t wish to see services being sucked for their value by corporates who give little to nothing in return. history is replete with such instances.

GPT, for example, fails in calculation with problems like knapsack, adjacency matrix, Huffman tree, etc.

it starts giving garbled output.

just 2 in the list were GPL licensed :/