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As a Chrome apologist really this pisses me off but I've been waiting for this forever and applaud the team (especially if they beat Chrome to landing this in a stable release)

False dichotomy; I alternate between ignoring it AND being annoyed by it

The ~7000 QAnon accounts they banned don't fit your narrative I'm afraid.

There are now several intermediate steps they've added since then, like clear warnings [1]. This allows the account to stay active and still report on stolen data. Much better IMO, banning accounts is common practice, but too heavy-handed as to be the only tool Twitter has.

https://twitter.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/13632755827845529...

Yes that's the go-to copypasta reply. ("Literally" here meaning "not literally.")

Twitter changed their policy in response to criticism of the Biden tweets to "no longer remove hacked material unless it’s directly shared by hackers or those working with them" including the rally database, and they restored previously removed tweets about Biden.

So by your own measure, very believable.

It's not a bug to disallow "distribution of hacked material" in your Terms of Service.

If you think it was political, you should certainly inform the FEC! They found that Twitter had acted "for commercial reasons and not for the purpose of influencing an election" so they'd appreciate the heads up.

For sake of discussion: aren't there uses of this that aren't nefarious?

Their claim that employees intending to leave "may put the organization at risk of malicious or inadvertent data exfiltration upon departure" is, cynically, corporate bs; but data theft or vandalism isn't entirely unheard of by departing employees.

Ever moved your source code to a thumb driver before you left your job, even though your contract technically forbids it, you've signed away the IP rights, etc?

Does your general comment have to do with this specific study? They mention controlling for all the things you mentioned.

yes, this is mentioned in the article

> there may be other lifestyle factors contributing to that lower mortality risk among people who drink coffee, like a healthy diet or a consistent exercise routine

Yes this is mentioned in the article

> the data cannot conclusively prove that coffee itself lowers the risk of dying; there may be other lifestyle factors contributing to that lower mortality risk among people who drink coffee, like a healthy diet or a consistent exercise routine

...and controlled for in the study

> lifestyle, sociodemographic, and clinical factors

I've had people try to guess my login with Company ABC once they learned of my [email protected] address. Avoiding the reuse of email addresses helps here, the same way avoiding the reuse of passwords does.

For blackhats, with catchalls you can create multiple accounts on sites that try to prevent it by assuming everyone only has 1 email address.

For me the biggest drawback is migrating ALL those emails if your provider decides to end support for catchalls (like Dreamhost).

    2021-03-03 w09 ke       8-1345 +lp bash-db; (14-1545 +mp); 1530 FxBar

Is that particularly readable? There's a whole section dedicated to how to read the entries and why the syntax is the way it is.

Calendar apps are so complicated and tightly integrated with other productivity apps now I'm not sure the benefit of simplicity here outweighs the cost of losing that.

My Google cal emails me notifications, works with desktop calendar apps, integrates with Maps, etc. It autofills addresses, adjusts for time zones, syncs across my 4000 devices, allows me to edits dates via text input or GUI/drag 'n drop, etc. (Not shilling, Apple cal is probably similar.)

Even my todo list went from org mode to Google Tasks because of the integrations with Android, Google Calendar, etc.

That was an SPAC in 2016, OP said "the night of the DNC primary in 2015." I was there for the CTR debacle, the SPAC hasn't existed since 2016(?), do you think they're still funding accounts?

I've never heard someone say "the night of the DNC primary in 2015 there was a dramatic shift." Not sure what your comment about ads is related to.

Mine's older than yours and I don't know what you mean, the DNC targeted reddit? Dramatic shift? Reddit started far left (being focused on science and tech) even horse-shoeing to the point where it attracted a big Ron Paul fan base. There was an r/obama before users could make subreddits.

It's been heading right or center-right ever since the_donald (2015), r/conservative, etc have gotten so huge, if there's been any political shift.

Do you really think you'd regularly see white supremacist content on reddit in 2006 as often as you do now?

No, it changed reddit from having interesting content and mostly useful constructive commentary to being full of memes and jokes (like Digg). Sure there were pun threads before, but you didn't have to custom tailor the front page to keep it from being complete shit.

The biggest change came after the migration from Digg, which would have been about 5 years prior.

the_donald brought a lot of a younger users and white supremacists. I haven't seen a DNC-related reddit conspiracy before though. Certainly no noticeable shift that night.

> added support for the <dialog> element

Might as well get started on those uBlock filters!

    dialog[class*="newsletter" i]
    dialog[id*="newsletter" i]
    dialog[class*="social" i]
    dialog[id*="social" i]
    dialog[id*="mailchimp" i]

Right it varies greatly depending on dose. If you don't know the exact dose your friend took (they don't sound like an anesthesiologist) then you're insulting someone you likely know much less than.

Erp, sorry, you already dismissed me as "just a jerk" when I gave you a chance to reply. I'd read what you wrote, but I don't want you to regret "engaging" again.

You're talking about the site that hosted the biggest hugbox for republicans on the internet before it got banned (the_donald). /r/conservative is 50k shy of a million users. White supremacist reddits are a problem now.

Rand Paul was one of Trump's top supporters in the senate during and after his presidency. His ideals are very different than his father's.

Sorry if I came off that way, make sure to flag me. A big draw of the site was that it was so focused on politics, science and programming; if you'd been a regular user you just wouldn't debate that, I don't know how else to put it.

It's like saying "I miss the early days when Truth Social wasn't so partisan."

You don't seem to know much about the site's history, and just called me a "jerk," I guess that passes for "engagement."

There is, and reddit has always been the former. If you just joined in the last 5 years maybe you'd be surprised to learn.

Digg was not the exact same way; reddit in contrast had a huge Ron Paul audience (pretty much everything but mainstream republicans), I was surprised he didn't have a subreddit.

> it was not this way in the past

There was an /r/obama before users could make subreddits. It was certainly this way in the past, but more porn.

You admittedly didn't know that, and had to post a source you Googled in a panic, which says:

> There may have been a few more subreddits created by other employees as well but I’m not sure. Basically they would all have been things of personal interest to us.

Which supports that idea.

Yeah, reddit's been this way since the Digg migration (10 years ago)?

Yes the author's previous blog article "COVID-19 Restrictions are the new Sharia Law" might give you an idea of why these "random" cherry-picked example reddit comments made it into this article.

It would be great to have a place to have engaging discussion regarding Y-Combinator-backed startups that good hackers would find interesting.

Sound the alarms!

Odd, my friend completed their sexual reassignment surgery because they identified so strongly as male-gendered.

I'm going to need to remind them they're actually trying to get rid of gender! Silly them! Let's hope they're never "normalized!"

Thank you for providing a different source, none was provided before.

This one also references the Mueller Report.

No, she doesn't use the word stolen, and she conceded; but the article you linked to provides evidence of interference.

> The investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III concluded that the Russian government interfered in the 2016 election “in sweeping and systematic fashion” with the goal of helping Trump and harming Clinton