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- Comment on Lyft now lets drivers prioritize matches with women and nonbinary riders 1 year ago:
The option allows customers to prioritize drivers from two of their 3 gender groups: “female” and “non-binary”. One group is left out and if you happen to be in that group, you’ll end up doing less trips, making less money.
I wouldn’t be happy with a setting to prioritize “male”, so you can see why I’m not happy with a setting that prioritizes “female” and “non-binary”. You either give the customer the option to prioritize any gender or you don’t.
Since they can’t verify one’s gender, the potential for abuse is there. A customer could prioritise these groups if they wanted to target them and the driver could also pick one of these genders if they wanted to have people of said gender in their car.
- Comment on Lyft now lets drivers prioritize matches with women and nonbinary riders 1 year ago:
Legal action for picking the “wrong” option in an app? Also, “I’m gender fluid, your honor”, so good luck proving anything.
By “nefarious purposes” I meant serious stuff. Some deranged fuck decides to kill and there’s not much you can do after they point a gun or put a knife to the driver’s neck. It’s too late by then.
I don’t know, I understand their intention, but it seems to have some flaws.
- Comment on Lyft now lets drivers prioritize matches with women and nonbinary riders 1 year ago:
Are they checking the customers too? If not, it seems to be an easy way for some weirdos to go around targetting genders they don’t like.
- Comment on Lyft now lets drivers prioritize matches with women and nonbinary riders 1 year ago:
Can’t really comment on that as in my city (not US) to drive for these companies you need a license, background checks, etc, which seems to stop a lot of bad stuff. Not saying it doesn’t happen - you can’t never completely stop it - but there are ways to reduce it.
Anyway, they could just allow customers to select their preferred gender, would make anyone that wants to use such option happy, and we wouldn’t even have to talk about discrimination.
- Comment on Lyft now lets drivers prioritize matches with women and nonbinary riders 1 year ago:
Since users choose their gender in the app, this has some potential to be used for more nefarious purposes, no?
Not a big fan of discriminatory options like this, btw.
- Comment on Biology doesn't care about your feelings 1 year ago:
Someone needs to learn the difference between gender and biological sex.
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
Trump is being charged with crimes
Not for dropping bombs or ordering drone strikes in a different country.
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
I’m not defending the occupation and whole “nation building” (which I doubt they though would take 20 years). Just pointing out that there was a difference between Afghanistan and Iraq, and that difference was reflected by the support (or lack of) from other countries.
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
So, tl;dr: After being hammered by strikes they made an offer to hand him over to a 3rd party?
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
Even if you remove the veto power, what exactly would you expect to happen?
Bush wasn’t going to be arrested and put under an international court for the same reason Putin isn’t going to be arrested for invading Ukraine. You can tell them “hand him over”, they say “make me”, and the only way to enforce the decision involves war, which no one wants to have.
The veto power is a problem, but it wouldn’t help much here.
- Comment on Why wasn't former President Bush of the USA, charged with any crimes, when we marched into Afghanistan and Iraq by his orders, under pretenses? 1 year ago:
I wouldn’t put Afghanistan and Iraq in the same level.
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Bin Laden (and Al-Qaeda) was in Afghanistan and they refused to hand him over. That invasion had the support of NATO and even Russia and China. Why? Because Al-Qaeda existing doesn’t benefit anyone and they were behind the attacks.
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Iraq was different. It was mostly a US and British invasion, under false pretences. Iraq used to have chemical weapons and even used against civilians back in the 80s, started a war with Iran and invaded Kuwait, but that’s not why the invasion happened.
Now, why wasn’t Bush charged with any crimes? For the same reason nothing will happen to Putin in Russia. What are you going to do, invade the country to arrest the president?
Is it fair? No. But it’s how the world works.
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- Comment on People will forget what the covid signs looked like 1 year ago:
People will forget - like we eventually forget about everything - but the information doesn’t have to disappear from the internet.
Have a website, blog, etc? Write about your experience, what you saw other people doing, the reactions, what politicians did, what you felt, etc. Archive the pages on the usual archival sites, so something lives on even after you die.
Just like some people went back to read what the newspapers wrote about the “Spanish” flu 100 years ago, someone is likely to get back to what we wrote/filmed/saved during this pandemic.
- Comment on Am I the asshole? 1 year ago:
And I say, “Thanks dude! Bavarian cream is my favorite!”.
Okay, nothing wrong with this, unless you knew the person wasn’t a “dude”.
And the office temp shouts, “I’m not a dude!” and pushes the coffee and donuts onto the floor. Big mess.
Obviously wrong, but a “I call everyone dudes, no offence meant” from you would show everyone in the room that you didn’t mean to offend them.
And I reply, “Nobody cares about your stupid gender.”
And now you’re an asshole. And a dumb one at that as not only you expressed your opinion about someone else’s “stupid gender”, but also turned others against you.
Assuming this even happened and you’re not leaving anything out, you need more “people skills”.
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- Comment on All smartphones, including iPhones, must have replaceable batteries by 2027 in the EU 1 year ago:
Is the glass half full or half empty? For you, I guess it’s half empty.
Rules can be updated and tightened if needed. This is a good step, another could be taken if they don’t play nice.
- Comment on Judge clears way for $500M iPhone throttling settlements 1 year ago:
The intention was probably good, but at the end of the day my phone still lagged, I couldn’t disable or was aware of the “feature”, the guy at the store still told me to get a new phone, Apple still denied it at the time, etc. Willingly or not, they created a bad experience for some iPhone owners and made money selling new devices.
I’m not getting any of this money and that was my first and last iPhone (I’m still pissed all these years later…), but it’s good that they’re receiving bad PR and have to pay something. Not only customers got cheap battery replacements and a setting to disable this (on newer iPhones) after the lawsuits, but next time they’re more likely to remember to create a help page on their site and to inform their store staff about features like this one.
- Comment on No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows 1 year ago:
You usually want to know and control what goes into your distro, especially if we’re talking about more critical systems. If you just install Ubuntu, you’re handing over control to its creator, Canonical.
- Comment on Judge clears way for $500M iPhone throttling settlements 1 year ago:
We should bear in mind that the level of slow downs were worse on some devices than on others.
I don’t know if it was the different SoCs or just different levels of throttling for different levels of battery wear, but my phone got really slow. There was no information about what was going on, no way to disable the slow down, and Apple support back then would tell you to just get a new phone (which they did to me).
While the idea behind the slow downs is solid and I’ve done it myself on old laptops with bad batteries, doing it behind the scenes without informing anyone and then making money by selling new devices is not something that should be praised. Apple probably made more money than what they’ll have to pay with this settlement, but still… better something than nothing.
- Comment on CNET is deleting old articles to try to improve its Google Search ranking 1 year ago:
From a SEO point of view, the idea of removing duplicated or too similar content is good, but for news websites… I don’t know. Why not use “noindex” on pages/sitemaps of old pages and “nofollow” inside the site for old links? At least they wouldn’t create link rot.
- Comment on ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones 1 year ago:
What Asus broke here was the bootloader unlocking. Without that, there’s no custom ROMs or root. Root and bootloader unlocking mean different things.
Regarding root being a terrible security risk or not, I guess it will depend on the user? I never had any issues and only see it as one more thing that isn’t as safe as it could be… my bootloader is unlocked, the recovery isn’t stock, I’m running a custom ROM so I have to trust the developers/building process, etc.
- Comment on ASUS is apparently killing the ability to root present and future Zenfones 1 year ago:
Some here are mixing bootloader unlocking with rooting. They’re not the same thing.
Asus broke bootloader unlocking, so you can only use the original ROM in the original state. You can’t install a custom ROM or flash something like Magisk to root your device.
You can unlock without rooting or without installing a custom ROM. You can install a custom ROM without rooting. You can use stock and root. And you can use a custom ROM and root. But all this is only possible if you can unlock the device’s bootloader.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
They default whitelist Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook garbage that I have to go and toggle off.
They have to do that, otherwise things like the “login with Google” buttons disappear from sites, breaking logins for many users.
I wouldn’t be affected by the settings being enabled by default as I always create a local account, but I’m also not the average internet user. My parents and most of my friends would though, and those are the users Brave are trying to get to use their browser.