jachee

Zillow wasn’t fixing them up, though. They were putting minimal-effort, superficial changes with zero care or actual investment, and then resisting for a higher price.

They were scalping housing.

“Upwardly Mobile Consumer” seems to fit, but I’ll admit it’s a guess.

Exactly. See, for example, the separate body-autonomy stances of abortions and vaccinations.

In a quiet laptop?

Just add a “Decline all” button right next to the accept button.

I’m pretty sure that having “Accept and close” or “contact us to manage your cookie settings” as the only cookie options isn’t compliant.

It’s also an annoying dark pattern.

I think for non-marketing technical folks, these are best described thus:

“Here are the AirPods Pro internals translated to the regular AirPods form factor, without the noise-cancelling and modular-tips, for $50 less.”

I’m holding out for their non-Oculus support, which is coming Soon™ according to their FAQ.

They were showing the anomalous situation, and giving an overview for greater context.

Reporting only the former, or only the latter dissociates the two. This was clearly establishing and acknowledging context for the extreme outlier of the situation being pictured.

But you’ve already made up your mind, I suppose, and no amount of logic or reason will bring you back.

Any algorithm that can maximize engagement can be tuned to minimize radicalization and dissemination of hatred and fascism.

I'd argue that it's absolutely in Facebook's self-interest to reduce their active role in promoting fascism, racism, homophobia, etc.

> those posts sometimes promote hatred towards conservatives or liberals.

Incorrect assertion. Those posts promote hatred and/or violence toward humans for traits those humans did not choose. e.g. race, sexual orientation, etc.

Legacy media aren't actively amplifying the voices and recruiting efforts of white supremacists.

Facebook is. They acknowledge that they are. They chose to actively allow and encourage it for profit.

It actively uses its algorithm to radicalize racists and conspiracy theorists, and when it discovered that's what it was doing decided to keep doing it because it was good for the bottom line:

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-pushes-qanon-racism...

How else does one track “richest” anything? On paper is what matters when counting wealth.

That said, the gap between capability and actuality of spending that your parent comment is lamenting is the gap for that on-paper wealth not being used for real-world-improving actions, and instead being used to increase the on-paper wealth of a tiny minority of wealth-holders.

I dropped WF for a credit union as soon as I became aware of their corruption, deception, and mistreatment of their customers. NCUA provides similar if not identical coverage, and with the CU, the entire institution feels less user-hostile.

I don’t understand why the stooge with conflicts of interest[0] that the former president put in charge in an attempt to subvert and hamstring the biggest vote-by-mail election ever is still the postmaster general.

Shouldn’t the new administration have replaced him with someone competent?

[0] https://oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/experts-agre...

Ironically, this makes spotting the security team’s phish-testing emails even easier, because they don’t have the warning header or middleman-obfuscated URLs.

> Why not the same for a guy sitting in front of a computer?

Because, you’re not competing for the talent pool of Podunk, KY, you’re competing for the entire globally-connected internet-capable talent pool. And if you’re not willing to pay equal talent what they’re worth regardless of their location, someone else is.

Only because opportunists abused the open source to make a quick buck.

A shame we can't have nice things like that without lowlife “lamprey capitalists” ruining them for the rest of us.

In the FAQ on Immersed[0] they mention that they’re planning to support “other XR platforms in the future”. As a G2 owner, I’m holding out hope that it’s sooner than later.

[0] - https://immersed.com/faq#tag1

Just a caveat — the article is very Facebook-centric. All the software they mention seems to be Oculus-specific within that closed ecosystem. No mention of non-Oculus options.

You skipped "overlooking the city".

> How does their content get on google's servers?

Same way it would get onto Apple’s servers: the customer chooses to upload it.

The difference is that with on-device screening, Apple wouldn’t have to take delivery of CSAM to detect it, and it doesn’t have to scan anything that’s not destined to be uploaded.

It is, but they have all our money and all the leverage.

The original article in Variety[0] there’s a quote that specifically states “complying with our banks’ and payout vendors’ policies.” as the reason for the change. This seems to allude that the direct payments to the sex workers themselves are what were at-odds with those policies.

0. https://variety.com/2021/digital/news/onlyfans-ban-pornograp...

Anyone who does will face the same pressure from payout vendors.

No one corporate wants to be actively involved in paying sex workers.

… and repeat “on the order of 30+“ times to trigger the reporting threshold, and convince them to save it into their synced-to-iCloud Photos library.

This is why there’s a threshold of matches “on the order of 30+” before anything is sent to the system for further review.

It doesn’t happen against your will. You still have full control over whether scanning happens.

Simply disable iCloud Photo Library, and nothing gets scanned.

Exactly! There has been so much FUD, conspiracy theory, and fear-mongering.

None of the usual anti-regulation apologists have pointed out that Apple shouldn’t be forced to download and host potentially-illegal material in the interest of ensuring whether or not it’s actually illegal.

This whole program is their intelligent solution to protecting as much user privacy as possible while still being compliant with the law. On-device hashing is actually pro privacy compared to in-the-cloud scanning (which all other cloud hosting providers are also required to do).

It’s not a “hidden upload mechanism”. It’s a hash-and-flag system on top of the extant “upload to iCloud” function.

Apple will already have the data. You’re already consenting to that when you enable iCloud Photo Library (the only place this is being implemented).