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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG seems to be considering paid membership option⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
Cloud saves, achievements, and tracking hours is something I do like. I have over a 100 GOG games, so individually managing exe files isn’t something I really want to do.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I just see excuses being made for grown up who are too old to be given the benefit of the doubt like they are toddlers.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
And that’s on them regardless of the reasons, since these are grown ups not children. This constant coddling and excuses for grown ups gets old, since there are people in the same environment who make the choice to not make the same decisions.

Recognizing the larger forces at play is important, but this movement of shifting away personal responsibility is also a detriment.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I’d make them come to me unless it was someone on their deathbed. A literal life or death scenario.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Education is not a good defense when you weren’t given any different education than the rest. And it seems like an ideology that they choose even among those more educated and wealthier. This whole only poor uneducated fall for lies is misleading and passes off personal responsibility.

They are the ones who chose despite others not doing so. And even the worst people are capable of moments of kindness, but it doesn’t change who they are at their core and what they choose to believe when they don’t have to selectively filter themselves.

And feel bad for them all you want. It doesn’t change that people around the world are suffering because of their decisions that empowered the people in charge, since they believed they would be the exception.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Got to be really deranged to vote for a candidate that ran on a platform of revenge and hate, and there’s at the minimum 70 million of those types of Americans which outnumbers many individual countries. Americans suck and don’t seem nice. Too many bad apples.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to Enter the US With Your Digital Privacy Intact⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Don’t visit unless it is a life or death situation. I wouldn’t want to go into country that wants to finger print me, hand over social media, and copy my devices.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Papua New Guinea shuts down Facebook in test to stop 'pornography, misinformation, hate speech'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
Especially a foreign social media company with algorithm that isn’t transparent and has the power to block whatever users and posts they want to push the desired narrative. Its not a free and open platform but a propaganda tool of a single billionaire.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Those just come off as regular left to me.

When I think of radical left I think tanky types who are full on nationalists and pro authoritarian governments that suppress free think that they are indistinguishable from the far right other than just differences when it comes to stuff like government assisted programs.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albania to block TikTok in the coming days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
They should do the same for twitter and meta too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump is giving Russian cyber ops a free pass – and putting western democracy on the line.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
He’s successfully destroyed it in his country.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Plus side here is that people can move to another instance and start commenting right away as opposed to being shadow banned for a period in certain subs and having to build up enough karma to start not automatically having every comment flagged.

People aren’t stuck the the policies of instances they don’t agree with whether it be reasons for bans or what instances are blocked or whitelisted.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Reddit being the go to place for federal workers to explain what is happening on the fednews sub given reddit shadow banning new accounts and anti VPN stance is rather ironic with federal workers hiding their names and using stuff like signal out of fear of what the administration might do to them.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube launches a $7.99 per month, ad-free Premium Lite subscription⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Freetube (desktop) and newpipe (android) is great for those who would like a subscription feed without an account, local Playlist, download videos, and save view history while remaining account free.

I use pipepipe on mobile with it being a fork of newpipe with sponsor block, and lets you use a throw away YouTube account it uses only to access age restricted videos.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Archivists Recreate Pre-Trump CDC Website, Are Hosting It in Europe⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Dammit really need to stop setting up HQs in US. It’s the same for archive.org and wikipedia.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Guess you never used forums.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It is interesting that forums had less people but felt very active and didn’t need the millions of people that places like modern day social media do.

And I think big part of it is the presentation of material with threads that get bumped up when people comment and can keep going on for years.

In reddit type social media a thread is considered dead after like a day or less, so needing a new one even if it is the same topic to start up conversation again. Even more the case for one off comment type social media like mastodon.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I hear echo chamber brought up a lot but never really have seen examples of a place that doesn’t have an echo chamber.

I think that’s just the natural result of people forming communities as opposed seeking out battle grounds for adversaries.

Only thing that can be done is offering people the tools to freely form as many communities as they want with the main barrier being who feels compelled to join the new echo chamber community.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech Wants You Trapped. The Open Web Sets You Free⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
EU really should ban Twitter. US social media has turned out to be incredibly dangerous with algorithm manipulation with the best evidence being the US and their election and people.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Just to provide some context to the mind of the person you responded to they supports the appointment of Tusli Gabbard.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Tankies push false communism with the bourgeoisie still at the top giving scraps to the proletariat and passing it off as paltry socialism. There’s no societal change to the hierarchy, balance of power, or wealth.

It’s more a weird ultra nationalism where proletariats are being tricked into thinking power has been given to the people when the ones at top are abusing their power to oppress forms of counter thought to seize whatever they want and retain their wealth. I wouldn’t consider them left just because there’s some form of socialism. Lot of countries do if at the very least they fix roads and have fire fighters.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Common Ground⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Even when it happens to them it seems like they would still vote for him again, and they are more complaining they were affected than the outcome itself.

And they aren’t going to listen to liberals. Only ones who they will listen to is conservatives so the only way to change their mind is conservatives or false actors pretending to be conservatives to win their vote.

Suffering is better than voting for a lib.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithms are breaking how we think | Technology Connections⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Another reason I prefer stuff like newpipe and its forks and freetube on desktop is to be able to access my subscription feed with a local one to reduce YouTube account use as much as possible.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Swastikcar showing a roman rust pattern in Lower Manhattan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Rich does make most of their wealth from the working class being convinced to purchase their products over other alternatives. I don’t think they’d want the working class to consider other brands because of fear of retaliation and rising insurance costs. Ideally brand would be as appealing to as many demographics as possible to increase the potential consumers extract money from than narrow it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithms are breaking how we think | Technology Connections⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah what of the things that led me to using YouTube logged out was a small thing like getting bunch of video game spoilers if I viewed some videos of a game I was interested in or needed a walk through or tip on.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Algorithms are breaking how we think | Technology Connections⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I like the fork pipepipe since it has sponsorblock and also let’s you use a YouTube account only for accessing age restricted videos, since YouTube disabled that for people without accounts.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome disables uBlock Origin for some in Manifest v3 rollout⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know either. This one of those cases I wish people would elaborate, since I don’t know much about waterfox so would welcome more insight into it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Would be nice to see global sanctions against the US. Not realistic, but I hope all countries are moving towards significantly reducing American reliance. It’ll be a slow process, but needs to be done.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is changing what is written in books⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Changing words seems wrong with it sanitizing and makes future audiences unaware of how bigoted and flawed writers of a time period might be. It underplays cruel parts of society leading to a flawed rosy colored outlook. Now future readers won’t know how far from PC writers like Dahl were.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah they won at capitalism. But it’s so crazy that because of stock price expectations even they won’t ever come to the finish line. It’s never good enough no matter how much they make. The ceiling just keeps going up and up and up.