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If can dismiss what he said because it's one data point then we can dismiss the original argument altogether.
I was under the impression that, like chicken, cows became less edible as time passed?
I disagree that this is a social media, I don't even look at the names of those who leave comments or those I reply to. It's like I'm reading and talking to the hivemind.
If I had to guess, I would say that the designers who have been in charge of Windows for years are twenty-something year olds who have never used Windows in their lives.
It's not a moral problem, the morality angle is an excuse, these are just artists who don't want to be out of a job because of technological advances
You have to have some big balls to run a Mastodon server on AWS. You are just one pissed off guy away from a bill that will cost you dearly.
Given that practically every family has at least one car, I don't see how this is useful.
I don't know if things have changed but the last time I tried SL the client was so rough and awkward it seemed like an alpha. Even moving was laggy and annoying.
They don't mean someone should put a fence to stop people from leaving obviously.
Seems logical if you disproportionately treat poor and old/retired people you have to spend more per capita than a healthcare system that treats much younger and therefore healthier people.
That's not a problem as long as people exist outside the US.
I have always wondered why "x" and "conspiracy to commit x" are different counts.
>An informed consent from users who's information is going to be collected.
That consent was granted the day they accepted/sent the friend request. Once the friendship was established, the other user had access to the profile information. They can do with that information as they please, which includes giving it to a 3rd party. If it's illegal to do so, the parties at fault are the user who accepted the API access request and perhaps the 3rd party, but definitely not the medium.
>Meta had an obligation to protect their user's data. It failed at that.
If I go to your profile and take a screenshot, has Meta failed at protecting your data? What if a friend gives me their password or remote desktop access to their computer and I look at your profile? Should we fine Facebook?
>An informed consent must be required.
While I don't know what the prompt exactly said, I bet it was specific enough. The fact that people just click Accept without reading it shouldn't make it less binding, that would be infantilising users.
>There is a huge difference between you stalking someone else's friends and a company collecting billions of data points to use for political manipulation.
I agree. And that company is not Meta. So I don't understand why Meta is paying. In any case all I said was that this is one of the reasons APIs are closed and everything is a silo.
Sure - if you give a 3rd party application API access using your account, they can see whatever your friends have made available to you.
This is as if my friends sued Facebook because I gave you my password and you used it to snoop on them.
Let's remember that this is because Facebook had an open API that a 3rd party developer abused with the consent of the users.
In case you wonder why nobody bothers to have open APIs for anything anymore. (cf. Twitter 10 years ago and today)
I suppose you are being ironic because that sounds quite close to...
F-Droid is infamously known for taking weeks to build a new version of any app.
That makes me think - would it be possible to have a runtime or build time option for cpython that removes eval() ?
If you don't like them then don't visit them or visit them with an ad blocker on. Don't deprive users from the content and don't deprive staff from their jobs.
How will ad-supported sites function without ads? Government subsidies?
They don't care about users who don't pay the bills.