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- Comment on Next week, Amazon is stripping away your ability to download your ebooks. 1 week ago:
That doesn’t change the argument.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 weeks ago:
I suppose, but anything I’d consider a niche community probably has worthwhile discussions, questions, answers, etc. They aren’t read-only.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 weeks ago:
Its not completely anonymous when the server admins have your IP.
- Comment on Mexican President Threatens to Sue Google Over 'Gulf of America' Label on Maps. 2 weeks ago:
Whoa, fella, you can’t apply logic and reasoning around here.
- Comment on Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says 2 weeks ago:
You can’t participate through RSS.
- Comment on Reddit temporarily bans r/WhitePeopleTwitter after Elon Musk claimed it had ‘broken the law’ 3 weeks ago:
What about an arm wave? Same rules apply?
- Comment on Managing Subscriptions: Rocket Money Alternatives? 4 weeks ago:
Well, you probably have a bank, and that bank has a website. I bet they even have a section called Transaction history ir something similar. Probably even search and sort.
Tldr: look at your bank statements it will show you everything you pay for monthly.
- Comment on YSK You can substitue blood for eggs in recipes 4 weeks ago:
Well that’s one way to boost your iron intake.
- Comment on China to subsidise smartphone purchases in bid to lift spending 1 month ago:
I bet they are all on HarmonyOS…
- Comment on Fuck Jon Jones 3 months ago:
Furthermore, Dana White is a vocal Trump supporter for years. Can’t be that oppressive if these people continue to work there.
- Comment on How Bluesky, Alternative to X and Facebook, Is Handling Growth 3 months ago:
Amazing how none of these news outlets gave a flying shit about Blue Sky until this week. 😂
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 3 months ago:
Truth Social wasn’t launched until 2022 during the Biden presidency.
- Comment on Fuck Jon Jones 3 months ago:
Donald Trump didn’t own slaves, neither did any currently living person in the United States.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 3 months ago:
Why does everyone suddenly forget BSky was created by Jack Dorsey?
It’s going to be another Twitter. Bring everyone in, AI scrape all the data, then sell when the climate moves too far in one direction.
Or is this like the Great Reddit Exodus, that lasted maybe a month?
- Comment on Trump Bitcoin Conference fundraiser tickets top out at $844,600 for Nashville soiree 7 months ago:
You guys can turn anything into an anti-Trump cryfest.
For fucks sake.
- Comment on An Algorithm Told Police She Was Safe. Then Her Husband Killed Her. 7 months ago:
I remember years ago when they said the value of our lives would be determined by a panel of people.
Now its by a machine.
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza 7 months ago:
So what you’re saying is, that there is now an easy way to delete your MS account?
- Comment on Nvidia reveals that 150 RTX A6000 GPUs power the Las Vegas Sphere 7 months ago:
What’s the hashrate on that?
- Comment on Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza 7 months ago:
As someone who did exactly this, the differences are spelled out pretty clearly for “Linux beginners”. System reqs and included features all there to read…
- Comment on Inside the 'Nightmare' Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town 7 months ago:
In other news, 40 out of 11,000 people have medical issues that most Americans already have.
- Comment on California says AT&T can't shut down copper DSL network 8 months ago:
FIOS doesn’t cover any county that doesn’t have a major city in it. That excludes about half the state’s population.
- Comment on Mozilla roll out first AI features in Firefox Nightly 8 months ago:
Their whole company is funded by a billion dollar company that’s doing everything in its power to spy on you.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
You said a Trump presidency. Do you honestly believe that no other person is capable of being an authoritarian? Guess you don’t remember Obama.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
So that data then goes nowhere? I don’t believe that.
- Comment on Netflix Windows app is set to remove its downloads feature, while introducing ads 9 months ago:
Some people still live is DSL land, even in the US.
- Comment on Privacy services and non privacy payments options 9 months ago:
You’re right, there is no argument. You merely stated that crypto wasn’t private and I showed where that statement doesn’t have to be accurate.
- Comment on Amazon Workers Say They Struggle to Afford Food and Rent 9 months ago:
Sorry I’m not smart enough to understand what you’re inferring.
Corporate tax rates go up, company lays off workers and moves to a less-taxed jurisdiction.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Its okay if you work for Google, you can just say so.
Or you are naive and gullible.
- Comment on Privacy services and non privacy payments options 9 months ago:
No more complex than opening a bank account, and finding a way to get cash to put in it, whether that’s getting a job, prostitution, selling things, etc.
It sounds complex, but so is becoming a millionaire.
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
Means both parties have to agree to be recorded (usually at the onset of a call).
“Be advised, this call is recorded for quality assurance purposes” at which point you could hang up. The 4th Amendment still applies in America, regardless of what local cops and prosecutors believe. You have a right to privacy in two-party conversations.