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  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • Sadly this is (very popular, according to comments here and on Reddit) copium. old.reddit.com visits are a rounding error, per the traffic stats of the normie subreddit I moderate:

    Most people simply do not have the technical acumen and tenure on Reddit to know to type in that subdomain. As always, relevant XKCD (posted today on Lemmy, funnily enough):

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • Sadly this is (very popular, according to comments here and on Reddit) copium. old.reddit.com visits are a rounding error, per the traffic stats of the normie subreddit I moderate:

    Most people simply do not have the technical acumen and tenure on Reddit to know to type in that subdomain. As always, relevant XKCD (posted today on Lemmy, funnily enough):

  • When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs?

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  • Yes, that is what it claims.

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  • True, forgot all about the tenure system, which I barely understand beyond the memes as it is.

    Still, earlier discussion holds; outrage that they didn't fire him yet makes zero sense.

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  • Now, as Devil's Advocate arguing against you and me, Harvard could choose to drop him at the mere hint of an accusation. You don't have a right to a job and not getting fired without proven cause in any state but I want to say Montana? The rest are "Right to Work."

    Back on Team "Give them a second for crying out loud," we're talking about Harvard, allegedly one of the best colleges in the world. We can expect them to do right by probably investigating this properly, and we'd hope any employer we'd ever work for would bother to take more than a femtosecond to figure out if there's evidence supporting an accusation against us.

    Obviously a lot of countries do have Big R "Rights" as far as labor goes, but the US is not one of them.

  • When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs?

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  • When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs?

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  • When did lemmy.world start clamping down on VPNs?

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  • To those who didn't click onward, the answer in that post is apparently 2 years (by implication of its post date)

    Ironically it also invalidates the top comment in this thread claiming they aren't concerned with VPNs, just specific VPN IPs that have been abused in the past.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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  • Hot take because Line Must Go Up is being blamed on "For the Shareholders!" lately, but:

    It's not just publicly traded companies. Private companies have greedy C-suites too.

  • Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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  • At a guess, such cooperation would undermine Lenovo's profit margin and would thus be a non-starter for them.

    Enter government regulation, to pinch corporations by the ear and drag them to doing what's right for society.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • Apologies - didn't realize I was talking to someone who has bouts of nihilism mixed in with their political activism like rocks in a salad.

    Enjoy the block!

  • My little state violence

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  • Yeah, Invidious went down due to YouTube breaking their API yesterday and apparently they're still working to get it back up.

    You can either plug that ?v= code into your YouTube, plug it into another YouTube alternative, or patiently wait until Invidious comes back up.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • True, but your implication that I'm not doing enough while I'm sitting here complaining is just as well-served to the mirror.

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  • Administrative Leave starts when a formal investigation begins. You're basically calling for Chapter 10 of a book to be over when Chapter 1 barely started.

    In other words, your question amounts to:

    "An investigation started? Shouldn't it be over before it began?"

    No, that's not how investigations work.

  • My little state violence

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  • I’m not aware of any definition of “less dangerous” that involves the more dangerous job having less deaths and injuries than the less dangerous job.

    I personally think "likelihood of being attacked" and "ability to defend themselves" should also be included in the definition we're working with. Like if Person A is attacked 5 times a day and defends against them without injury 4/5 times, but Person B is attacked 3 times a day and is not trained or equipped to defend themselves so they're hurt 3 times a day, which person is in the more "dangerous" position?

    Want to slow your roll and figure out if you’re talking to the same person before going off?

    Fair enough, I didn't (and routinely don't) check usernames before responding. Sounds exhausting. Pedantry accepted though; feel free to redact the part of that comment that involves my asking if you realized you were wrong and replace it with something about you realizing they were wrong. Better? You ready to respond to my pointing out that you're doing a Red Herring now, or is there some other pedantic thing you want to focus on to distract from the broad strokes of you screwing up?

    Not at all. If your argument is that cops should get to have guns and shoot people because their job is dangerous, so should pizza delivery drivers, who are more likely to get assaulted than cops.

    Yep, I also believe delivery drivers should be allowed to carry a gun. Same with taxi cab drivers and other people who are more likely to be (successfully) attacked and hurt or killed than cops are.

    See how using a straw-man argument can make for an awkward situation where you fleshing out your attack into a(n implied) question about their real position can make you look like a fool?

  • My little state violence

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  • Cops have a less dangerous job than pizza delivery. Yes, per capita. And COVID or a cop’s own bad driving is more likely to kill them than someone with a gun.

    Depending on your definition of "less dangerous," yeah. Doesn't really refute my argument, though. Did you want to divert the discussion with that Red Herring because you realized you were wrong or did you just want to talk about something else today and didn't realize that's outside the scope of this discussion?

    If you wouldn’t accept a pizza delivery kid blowing someone away because they reached into their pocket, you shouldn’t accept it from a cop.

    Straw-man.

  • Your car’s tire sensors could be used to track you

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  • Build a large enough catalogue of bulk data and anything can be used to track you.

    We bought "It's just so we can catch the terrorists!" hook, line, and sinker post-9/11.

    But when "terrorism" is redefined as "making people in power upset," we're in big trouble.

    So don't say anything rude about Donald Trump or the FBI will seek you out:

    https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=QS4bVx74nxU

  • My little state violence

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  • So intent is the main thing, for you? One malicious murder is worse than a hundred negligent manslaughters?

    Is there not more intent to murder involved in a mass shooter than a cop shooting someone trying to shoot the cop? Or are you one of those people who thinks that cops only sign up to be cops because they'll have a better chance to kill people, and every single death-by-cop is murder, even in self-defense?

  • My little state violence

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  • I haven't heard a single person call for doctors to be abolished, despite them being 50-100x more deadly, and yes, despite them being just as bigoted as cops, as you rightfully point out.