What we’re seeing with Reddit is just the first stage of enshittification: making things worse for the end users who have been captured by network effect and what used to be a good service, in order to benefit advertisers. The second stage is making things shitty for the advertisers who have been captured by all the captive users. Paid subs are probably a harbinger of that kind of thing, but I don’t think advertisers are locked in enough to be really stuck yet.
Refreshingly, that includes multinational firms: https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html
With the U.S. government now in total control of a political party …
The quoted text means that the government controls the party. I believe what you mean to say is “With the US government now totally controlled by a political party …”
Why would anything socially progressive organize on Facebook? Most normal people I know have abandoned that platform, let alone anyone privacy-minded or anti-oligarch.
That you’d be a bad teammate: the kind of person who puts personal preference above what the group has decided and causes problems for no good reason; the kind of person who would insist on indenting with spaces when the whole team has decided to use tabs.
Snow Crash is almost kinda satire, but also not. Also, I believe, the first use of the term “metaverae”. It’s a fun read.
For anyone who doesn’t want to have to sit through ads and dig through menus just to get to the website: https://www.charachorder.com/
All that does is compel the recipient to stop what they’re doing and wait until you send the message, which, if you’re typing up a wall of text, could be minutes. This is like calling someone on the phone and, when they answer, saying “hello please hold”. Don’t do it; it’s super rude.
Going to the Labor board, at least here in Oregon, is pretty painless and may be doable while still working there. My only experience with them was after an employer just locked us all out of the building and closed one day, so continuing to work wasn’t an option for me. They treated me well and got me money quickly, then took the guy to court to get it back themselves.
Also, I don’t “keep talking” about much here; the comment you replied to was the first one I made :).
If you get fired for that, you should take them to your state’s Labor board and/or to court.
If we’re really lucky, maybe they’ll patent the idea and then everyone else will have to stop doing it.
Just as an FYI, “averse” is what you want there, rather than “adverse”. Likely an autocorrect thing, but figured I’d mention it just in case.
Thanks for posting this; I’d been seeing a lot of people talking about how China was using backdoors that the FBI wanted and used, but hadn’t seen anything definitive about US use of those vulnerabilities.
Also this is another reminder for me that I’m glad to be able to vote for Wyden.
I’ll be sticking with Protonmail, personally
There are about 8x10^67 ways to shuffle a deck of cards, and about 10^80 atoms in the observable universe, so there are actually far, far more atoms.
There are a lot of parts to the puzzle! It’s easy to miss some.
Signal, Whatsapp, etc are great, as long as I don’t have access to your phone and password, right? Likewise, what if your phone’s operating system has a critical vulnerability that the OS makers don’t know about (AKA a zero day) that can allow a complete remote takeover of your device after a single click on a text message? It didn’t end well for Jamal Kashoggi: https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/12/middleeast/khashoggi-phone-malware-intl/index.html
E2EE is great for data in transit, and full disk encryption is great for if someone steals your locked device. Neither will help if you have compromised code running on your machine, though.
It seems to me that Syncthing is the exact right thing to use here; what is “overkill” about it that makes you think you should use something else?
Technically it’s O.MG; they work with and are sold through HAK 5, and license Ducky Script.
Sure it is: the only reason for DRM is to make more money.