HailSeitan
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- Comment on ! Mastodon new ToS from July 1has a binding abbreviation wave !!r 1 week ago:
First, they make the proceedings private: there’s no public record of the proceedings or verdict, and even if you win there’s no precedent that others can use.
Second, they isolate the plaintiff: because you can’t sue as part of a class action, so no lawyer can represent a group of similarly wronged people in exchange for a percentage of any verdict. This means you have to pay for your own lawyer, which many people can’t afford to do and even if you can it may not be worth it if the damage is small enough.
Together, these issues massively favor business and employers that include these clauses in contracts, as reflected in both win rates for corporations as well the number of cases brought against them versus in open court.
- Comment on If you can afford it, PeerTube is having a fundraiser for its mobile app 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on UK police roll out armoured cars 'tried and tested on Palestinians' 3 weeks ago:
Great example of what Cory Doctorow calls the Shitty Tech Adoption Curve:
If you want to do something terrible with technology, you can’t just roll it out on people with money and social capital. They’ll complain and your idea will tank. Successful shitty tech rollouts start with people you can abuse with impunity (prisoners, kids, migrants, etc) and then work their way up the privilege gradient.
- Comment on Business Insider will lay off 21% of staff amid AI disruption and “extreme traffic drops” 4 weeks ago:
Maybe the paywall had something to do with it?
- Comment on King Charles III arrives in Canada to underscore its sovereignty after Trump annexation threats 4 weeks ago:
Kind underscores the lack of it, no?
- Comment on Bill Gates to give away 99% of his wealth in the next 20 years 1 month ago:
Can we please not help launder his reputation by proactively giving him credit for something he hasn’t done yet?
- Comment on OpenAI abandons plan to become a for-profit company 1 month ago:
Wasn’t a major tranche of Softbank’s funding contingent on their being able to do this? They might be broke a lot sooner than people thought without it…
- Comment on Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move - ServeTheHome 2 months ago:
This sounds like the company from Cory Doctorow’s most recent novel, Picks & Shovels
- Comment on A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data 2 months ago:
Let’s delve into the issue
- Comment on U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist 2 months ago:
👊🇺🇸🔥
- Comment on A 'US-Made iPhone' Is Pure Fantasy 2 months ago:
This is the premise of Tom Maughan’s short story “Flyover Country”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Jawohl!
- Comment on So, after using Lemmy for 1.5 Years. You are telling I am not even allowed to use Lemmy? 3 months ago:
And you still act like you’re in freshman year
- Comment on Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink 3 months ago:
Close: you do get banned from their supercharger network if you try to repair your own car
- Comment on There Is No AI Revolution 3 months ago:
“[Generative AI] is the leaded gasoline of tech, where the boost to engine performance didn’t outweigh the horrific health impacts it inflicted.” I love Ed so much.
- Comment on What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform 4 months ago:
Steve Jobs is already in hell though, he ain’t getting your money either way
- Comment on Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites 4 months ago:
Talk about hidden figures…
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Smuggling