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Telorand

@ Telorand @reddthat.com

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  • My instance is in Australia, and the new laws affect social media like Lemmy. The hard part is that there apparently isn't much guidance on how to follow the law. Do you have to use ID? Is a location-specific popup making you state that you're 16+ enough? Nobody knows.

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    ‘It’s Total Chaos Internally at Meta Right Now’: Employees Protest Zuckerberg’s Anti LGBTQ Changes

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  • "Hypersexual" is a term I have heard used by anti-LGBTQ bigots as a pejorative, especially but not exclusively by the religious right. They think that a minority calling out to each other in solidarity or getting special protections equals a hyperfixation upon having sex.

    The person above is welcome to tell me I have them all wrong, but based on their other comment in this post, they appear to think queer people on the internet (or maybe just the internet in general) are sex-crazed maniacs.

  • Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES

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  • Ah I see. I tried to see if it was still around, but the link I went to was Japanese and gave me the impression that it was gone.

  • Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES

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  • They did. Look up Gatebox.

  • Tiny anime girl cyberprison shown at CES

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  • The erasure of Luigi Mangione

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  • The erasure of Luigi Mangione

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  • ...for now.

  • Meta is getting rid of factchecking. If you want to leave Instagram, what are your alternatives?

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  • Humans aren't rational creatures.

    That's a truism, but it's not justification for allowing it to happen. People being naturally irrational is not an excuse to continue being irrational.

    And if it makes people feel uncomfortable to be reminded that they're choosing to be abused by billionaires for free, then good. Get uncomfortable. I hope they feel uncomfortable every time they scroll Facebook. I hope they feel a little shame every time they complain about housing prices on Instagram, because clearly, knowingly having their worst impulses monetized for the benefit of the absurdly wealthy isn't enough.

  • Meta is getting rid of factchecking. If you want to leave Instagram, what are your alternatives?

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  • I understand that logic, but "being the product" must not really be that bad for them. They might complain, but if it was truly distasteful, they'd do something about it.

    And being exploited for profit and explicitly knowing it is about the saddest thing I can think of for my fellow humans. It's no wonder the billionaires just take and take, because people let them.

  • Threads and Instagram are for politics now, says Adam Mosseri

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  • Thanks for sharing. Nice to know my Lemmy instance blocks them, but sad to see my Mastodon instance federating. I guess I should think about moving.

  • Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship

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  • Yeah. If they were an ethically responsible company.

    And we all know they're not, so...

  • Budgie 10.10 Desktop Will Be Wayland-Only as Work Continues on Budgie 11

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  • That's really good to hear. I've wanted to give Budgie another try, but the lack of Wayland support has kept me away.

    Congrats to all the devs.

  • SteamOS is Finally Rolling Out to the Wild

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  • Probably not. SteamOS likely won't have any particular benefit on desktops over other distros.

    Just download an Arch-based distro, like CachyOS or EndeavorOS, install the Steam app through pacman -S or whatever helper app they have for new users, install Proton Plus, and play your games. If you want to get into the weeds of immutable Arch, give blendOS a try.

    I recommend, trying all of these in a VM first, btw. You can even practice doing a pure Arch install from scratch that way.

    Anyway, SteamOS is almost certainly just a preconfigured Arch + KDE that has Steam and Proton already installed, with downstream patches for specific hardware they've deemed worth their time to patch (which will eventually make their way upstream).

  • Telegram reports spike in sharing user data with law enforcement | TechCrunch

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  • Aren't group chats unencrypted by design, with no option to encrypt? (I don't know, I don't use the app. Just something I vaguely recall somebody saying.)

  • Facebook deletes internal employee criticism of new board member Dana White

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  • I knew somebody who was highly intelligent (was being interviewed for the CIA) and decided to go work for Facebook, because the pay was better. No compunction about the ethics of working for the disinformation machine that is Facebook, just saw it as a stepping stone in their career.

    The people who work there must be masters of compartmentalization, because either they don't care and/or see it as a means to their own ends.

  • US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies

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  • Equally? None of them to Trump's degree, by my assessment.

    But then, we're quibbling over degree of terribleness here. I'm not exactly a fan of most politicians or how they have been governing for the last 30 years, so I'm not at all saying things are rosy on the other side.

    Could probably count on one or two hands the number congresspeople that can’t be bought.

    Absolutely.

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  • I don't think they're making that claim, just that Trump is easy to manipulate and buy off for anyone with the means. Everything is negotiable with him.

    My own thought is that the wealthy corpos absolutely can and do purchase US politicians, but some of them have some philosophical guardrails that preclude stepping over certain issues. That number, however, seems to be shrinking the longer we have politicians who are allowed to get fat off of the people.

  • Finally transitioned to NixOS!!

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  • Ah, interesting. I'd heard of home manager, but I don't know much about it. Sounds like I should take a look!

  • HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content

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  • Oh yeah. They're still in stock, but there was an article not that long ago that said LG was the last in a line of name brands that have stopped producing them. So what stock is left is the last of it.