Pyro

Holy shit, Math Blaster 9-12. You just threw me back SO far. I just had a vivid image in my mind’s eye of the home office I played it in.

Thank you for the throwback.

🧜‍♀️ Mermaid + 🔥 Fire = 🚨 Siren

Clever…

If you want an answer to your question, spend your 3 seconds typing it into a search engine or AI.

Why not have the best of both worlds? Set up a repo with all the information, then run a bot that periodically updates a pinned post with the data from the repo.

I haven’t read the article yet, but just going off the title, that makes sense?

If someone is an independent, they’re clearly not happy with the way other parties are doing things. And not only are they not happy with them, they’re so unhappy that they are deciding to actively run against them. The fact they’d be negative towards the status quo is a logical conclusion. It’s like doing a study that finds that sand on a beach is, on average, wetter than sand in a desert.

I’ve reinstalled both Linux and Windows on the same machine a few weeks ago and it was considerably easier and faster to install Linux. It also had less problems post-install too.

This is exactly why I have mine! Sent this from an Xperia 5 III :)

Libraries exist

The first language I learned is C# and it sparked that interest that got me the job I’m in now!

I see other people recommending Python for beginners because of the simpler syntax (the way you write the code) but I’d still recommend C# because although the learning curve is a little steeper you’ll find it MUCH easier to learn pretty much any other language you choose. And even if you don’t choose to learn another language, you’ll still know a good (and fast) general-purpose language!

I’ve had a very pleasant experience every time I’ve talked to Steam Support. What’s so bad about them?

As far as I can tell you can only fill in a form to apply to be allowed access? There’s no straightforward download button that I can see on that page.

I’m 90% sure that’s why I needed glasses. Probably ruined my eyes trying to read at close range in the dark after I was told to stop and go to sleep.

I’ve fixed with laser eye surgery now though. Hopefully I don’t fall into the same trap with my phone this time!

I work for a large company and its the same. They even force-install Chrome despite Edge already being there! Yes, some people will make the privacy argument that Microsoft takes your data, but so will Google, and it’s not as if the business cared either way, because if they did they’d install an adblocker or Firefox, which they don’t.

With the number of people concerned about privacy

That number appears to be very small, all things considered. Out of everyone I know, literally one person cares about privacy. My mother. She will even go as far as to only use her first initial online instead of her name if she can get away with it. However, she uses Chrome all the time because she doesn’t understand that your browser also tracks you.

I think that’s what it comes down to. A mixture of lack of public interest, and lack of public awareness about tracking/privacy in general. If people can’t immediately see how having their data harvested will inconvenience/hurt them, they simply don’t care.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like it would be trivially easy for Meta to make an army of bot accounts to manipulate whichever posts they want into being near the top of people’s feeds. That could be regular ads disguised as normal posts (a la Reddit-style guerilla marketing), or even more political astroturfing.

Okay, but that doesn’t address any of the points I brought up.

You said to give Meta a chance. The rest of us are broadly gesturing at all the shit they’ve done in the past, and how we want as little to do with that as possible.

Innocent until proven otherwise.

Corporations like Meta have shown time and time again that they cannot be trusted to play nice with anyone else. Have we already forgotten about Cambridge Analytica or the plethora of other scandals they’ve been at the center of? The proof has been in plain view for a while now.