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I had some fuzzy concept of wealth inequality in the US, but this is just fucking outrageous.

I don't know enough/anything about ActivityPub, but maybe different...apps? (Mastodon et al vs kbin/lemmy) could have different agreed-on rules. The forum-style ones would be appropriate in search results, so they could be indexed. People linking to Mastodon posts on lemmy might be unavoidable I guess, but there's at least a bit more separation.

I only know Mastodon: There's a large LGBTQ+ community who don't want to be indexed out of concern for their safety (because, for example, there are small far-right communities on other instances looking to cause mayhem). The ability to be oneself online without worrying about getting brigaded, doxxed, or whatever, is a selling point. Indexing runs counter to that.

and didn't simply dump everything on the internet in the end, but worked with journalists to release relevant information.

Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison, and has only had her sentence commuted--she's not free.

That was the army, which is arguably much less dangerous for whistleblowers than the NSA.

And y'all are playing right into that position (which is probably successful propaganda), instead of being angry at the NSA for sniffing through your panty drawer.

Remember StumbleUpon?

I don't see it as mocking--more an allegorical lesson.

Not everyone can understand basic thermodynamics without first being shown some examples.

The point is it's a hormone--not, like, ascorbic acid or something. It's good to be aware that it can poison you, especially when the "vitamin" label can make it seem harmless.

Your link is broken.

It's maybe a good time to re-post this in-depth series on vitamin D supplementation. You don't want to take too much.

https://www.devaboone.com/post/vitamin-d-part-2-shannon-s-st...

I'm not going to see their ad anyway, and if I did and knew it was targeted, I'd be more likely to find somewhere else to shop. What did we have before targeting existed?

- I thought unobtrusive keyword-based ads in Google searches were okay, when they didn't fill the results page.

- I think context-sensitive ads are fantastic. People reading a boat-building site see ads for boat-building or other related products/services. I would click on these ads.

- Word of mouth, vetted reviews, brand loyalty...all valid, rights-preserving approaches.

Since the lore is that targeting gets higher click-through rates, maybe small businesses could pay a little less for the less skeezy alternatives. Targeted advertising is forever linked in my mind to Zuckerberg's "dumb fucks" email. Facebook/Meta is the biggest offender in this space, and I'm happy to watch it die in a fire.

The unworkable bit, which I really hope we're moving toward over time, is banning all monetization of personal data for advertising purposes.

Facebook's response [0]:

- "a political stunt"

- "...no opportunity to discuss this new, totally unprecedented theory."

- "Let’s be clear about what the FTC is trying to do: usurp the authority of Congress to set industry-wide standards and instead single out one American company while allowing Chinese companies, like TikTok, to operate without constraint on American soil,"

That last bit might be valid in part, but I'm just here for the schadenfreude.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/ftc-says-faceboo...

Not true, I've had pages of x-rated results with SafeSearch on, with DDG and Bing, a couple of times. The search only needs to be sufficiently weird.

see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334670

I'd wager most of the US deaths occur in single-family homes--in basements (illegally housed), or even while sleeping in rooms with plenty of opportunity for egress.

What's wrong with fire escapes? I see plenty of space to add those to a point access block.

I didn't even have to try. I was prepared to read off the random string, and the operator went with some other piece of information from my profile instead.

As the article mentions, they are bomb disposal robots. There is absolutely reason to have a tool capable of firing a shotgun shell attached, and an arm capable of placing a charge. You could hobble the bomb squad with legislation, make their job more deadly--or you could ban this particular use.

Source: I just know. That robot saves lives.

> Silly question but what else are we going to do?

- Learn a new language/instrument/craft

- Hike/bike/run down a new trail

- Work at a soup kitchen

- Raise funds for your charity of choice

- Influence local politics to raise the quality of life for everyone

- Buy nice things, be comfortable with having/maintaining nice things that are a little out-of-date, and put the savings into retirement

- Retire and do more of the stuff listed above

I'll throw my $.02 into this clearly GPT3-generated thread (/s). I waited for the 12th gen/a special occasion, and am now a happy Framework owner. I can live with the battery life. They had me at "upgradable," the aspect ratio, and their quick pivot to support Linux. I was pleasantly surprised by the quality, too! Just waiting for an AMD mainboard now.

> £60

Boy, wouldn't that be nice. A standard calculus book costs $200 in America. Or, £178 (RIP pounds)

This story is on the front page of Reddit. I wonder if it will make a dent in Chrome's market share.

I think I would identify as a jiggle programmer. I was raised on a REPL, and in that case I find it pretty efficient, time-wise, to scribble something in the terminal, jiggle things around it until it works, and insert the working prototype into the program I'm working on.

Programming isn't my day job, but I do frequently write code from scratch (and refactor it, heh). I interviewed for one entry-level programming position; they did not appreciate my technique.

What about what I wrote indicated I haven't tried it?

I think you might be on to something. Maybe I'm an odd duck, but I can't possibly divide my romantic attention between multiple individuals without negatively affecting the quality of the relationship/s. I suspect anyone who claims to be able to doesn't experience love the same way.

"And so how can we blame anybody for avoiding “fixing themselves,” even if it goes wrong?"

Choosing polyamory is not "fixing oneself." There is no benefit to it, unless the only thing you get out of sex is physical pleasure.

In the same way there was no plausible prospect of launching cargo to orbit for <$1000/kg at the turn of the century?

I'm happy with a metric that encourages people to do good, as opposed to a metric which describes how much power one has over others, or how many yachts they can afford. Hopefully the EA community isn't terribly concerned with how they measure up against others (though, as an outsider, maybe I don't understand how important that is). By thinking about how to do good, they're already leagues ahead of 90% of humanity.

What does this mean? That farmers don't get enough water to wash their hands now? That there will be no crops coming out of California unless they were grown on well water? Where can I look up this reduction rate?

First, "no linux support" is disingenuous. Second, with a Framework you can replace a USB-c port with a 1TB expansion card, or with an Ethernet port, or whatever is in stock. Those who bought the first model can now upgrade to a next-gen processor and/or reinforced lid, without throwing the whole laptop away. While System76 has surprisingly lower prices than I expected, it does not appear to have similar features--you still have to replace the entire system whenever your Pangolin becomes obsolete in 3 years. Framework was always more about sustainability. They didn't anticipate the demand for Linux/FOSS stuff, but they're adjusting for that. Hopefully some future motherboard will have Coreboot, and I can buy that motherboard and pop it in my laptop.