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Yeah but they need people to have enough money to buy their shit so they can get richer.

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They block the website’s own ads, but inject their own instead. So the user still gets ads, but the profits go to Brave. I know that if the site’s owner is aware of that and goes through the process of registering with Brave they get a share of the profits, but this should really be opt-in. As it is, the whole scheme is shady as fuck.

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It could be opt-in with rewards for toggling it on.

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My understanding is that they are death traps designed to pull you under into a net and then you drown. There are warning signs on the US side but not the Mexican one.

Not sure how they work as a deterrent, maybe the goal is to kill enough people so news goes back to the migrants’ countries and scares the others off the trip? Otherwise if you already made it all the way to the border I don’t think you’d turn back because of them. Then again maybe the point is simply to kill migrants.

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Et alors

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Sync for reddit was also cheaper, but the market for a reddit app is much larger than Lemmy’s. We’ll see how boost and others will be priced, but I expect it will be pricier than the reddit version.

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And the kind of people willing to commit crimes that would deserve death are not likely to be deterred by the potential punishment.

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Lemmy had been around for a few years already, it didn’t magically appear because of the reddit drama.

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And give it accessibility permission, which comes with a big fat warning. Basically you need to tell Android “yes, install and run this random app I don’t really need, and give it access to all my info”.

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What’s this “Google” thing you speak of? Back in my days you bought a huge book which came with a red hat or mandrake CD-ROM.

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In France ADSL was still a couple years away, so it was actually cheaper to buy the book and the CD instead of downloading the ISO and looking up documentation online.

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After a decade as a Java (and Kotlin) dev I recently got to work on an iOS app. The transition from Jetbrains products to Xcode has been painful, to say the least.

I tried appcode before it was retired, and it was a much better experience all around. I can’t understand why Apple insists on maintaining this pile of crap instead of working with JB like Google.

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But if it’s public law enforcement agencies can just browse/scrape the website to collect the data, or am I missing something?

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You sure subscription lists are synced ? I can’t see why they would be.

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Hi, we're a tech startup run by libertarian Silicon Valley tech bros.

We're not a newspaper, we're a content portal.
We're not a taxi service, we're a ride sharing app.
We're not a pay TV service, we're a streaming platform.
We're not a department store, we're an e-commerce marketplace.
We're not a financial services firm, we're crypto.
We're not a space agency, we're a group of visionaries who are totally going to Mars next year.
We're not a copywriting and graphic design agency, we're a large language model generative AI platform.

Oh sure, we compete against those established businesses. We basically provide the same goods and services.

But we're totally not those things. At least from a legal and PR standpoint.

And that means all the laws and regulations that have built up over the decades around those industries don't apply to us.

Things like consumer protections, privacy protections, minimum wage laws, local content requirements, safety regulations, environmental protections... They totally don't apply to us.

Even copyright laws — as long as we're talking about everyone else's intellectual property.

We're going to move fast and break things — and then externalise the costs of the things we break.

We've also raised several billion in VC funding, and we'll sell our products below cost — even give them away for free for a time — until we run our competition out of the market.

Once we have a near monopoly, we'll enshitify the hell out of our service and jack up prices.

You won't believe what you agreed to in our terms of service agreement.

We may also be secretly hoarding your personal information. We know who you are, we know where you work, we know where you live. But you can trust us.

By the time the regulators and the general public catch on to what we're doing, we will have well and truly moved on to our next grift.

By the way, don't forget to check out our latest innovation. It's the Uber of toothpaste!

@technology

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Exact same system in Paris, with the same issues.

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Sadly it’s needed, as people who don’t watch R&M have a clearly inferior mind and can’t comprehend sarcasm.

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I’d go with Kotlin. It’s a really nice language, easy to learn if you already know JS (or even better, TS), and with KMM and Compose Multiplatform you can write apps which run natively on smartphones, browsers and PC/Mac.

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Yeah but at this point you’re fighting against the OS, might as well switch to a distro that already works the way you want.

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Learn kotlin, it’s awesome and runs on literally everything.

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Sure, but nobody codes like that in kotlin (or in modern Java for that matter)

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The White House is more like a business tho.

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Experiments have already been done (Microsoft Japan is one example), they all resulted in productivity and worker happiness gains AFAIK.

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Yes, these comments are JavaScript code, intended to run in the browser of anyone viewing them. Best to stay clear of the webapp for now (native mobile apps should not be vulnerable).

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I guess I’m not in the majority, but my reason for finally switching fully to linux after 20 years is that gaming finally Just Works (mostly) thanks to Wine and Valve. I’ve been gaming under Linux since Quake III, but always kept a windows install because lots of games ran poorly or not at all under linux.

Last year I finally switched to an AMD GPU, and all the games I’ve played since then worked either OOTB or required minimal effort to fix (I don’t play multiplayer games except for Overwatch, which also runs fine). I haven’t booted my windows install in like 6 months, soon I’ll wipe it to make some room for more linux games.

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I know people who donated (or tried to, seeing the crowdraiser was cancelled yesterday). They did it because they believe the cop did the right thing, and because it was launched by Jean Messiha, a far right pundit.

99% of the french population is against these moronic riots, but most wouldn’t give a dime to those assholes.

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And be nice.

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