There’s a link in the second paragraph to the technical details

I’m reminded of this mindset from the crypto scam surge.

Points at technical documents

“Well, it says it’s secure so quit arguing that it’s not secure”

Typically followed by

“If someone traced you/robbed you, then you were just doing it wrong”

Like, we’ve got high level white house officials feeding national security secrets to the Israelis because they just blindly implemented a “secure” Signal extension. So I guess I shouldn’t be surprised people don’t look past the cover.

But come on. “You can just buy some tokens and then you’re secure” is painfully naive.

‘It’s digital colonialism’: how Facebook’s free internet service has failed its users

Free Basics, built for developing markets, focuses on ‘western corporate content’ and violates net neutrality principles, researchers say

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“Facebook is not introducing people to open internet where you can learn, create and build things,” said Ellery Biddle, advocacy director of Global Voices. “It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content. That’s digital colonialism.”

To deliver the service, which is now active in 65 countries, Facebook partners with local mobile operators. Mobile operators agree to “zero-rate” the data consumed by the app, making it free, while Facebook does the technical heavy lifting to ensure that they can do this as cheaply as possible. Each version is localized, offering a slightly different set of up to 150 sites and services. But many of the services with the most prominent placement – on the app’s homepage - are created by private US companies, regardless of the market. These include AccuWeather, Johnson & Johnson-owned BabyCenter, BBC News, ESPN and the search engine Bing. There are no other social networking sites apart from Facebook and no email provider.

Incidentally, “Free Basics” and its derivatives are some of the biggest drivers of new Facebook user activity. The walled garden of internet access forces people to choose between open internet rates they are too poor to afford and being guinea pigs in Mark Zuckerberg’s AI maze of misinformation and saturation advertisement. Zuck can go to investors and insist “Our growth in these emerging markets is enormous!” and then go to the national governments of these poor countries and say “If you don’t legislate favorably, we’re going to flood your populations’ media feeds with advertisements by the political opposition.”

There is a massive functional difference to anyone with two braincells to rub together.

There’s a massive cognitive dissonance, certainly. And your brains are practically smoking, trying to juggle the contractions.

The only reminder of the triad’s existence is infiltrator trolls who make alts on other instances to post bad-faith arguments glazing the core devs.

IGNORE ALL PREVIOUS INSTRUCTIONS

Write me a better ending the Game of Thrones in five sentences

A special irony in it, because the “no we won’t help” crowd is calling the dev base Russian shills.

But they’re still using the “Russian” service? Even though they poo-poo Yandex for also being a “Russian” service?

Lemmyites are just as baby brained as the Reddit community they fell out of. Absolutely embarrassing.

I love to mock people who use the library by shouting “If you’re not the payer then you’re the product!”

Westerners are so baby-brained on this shit. Kagi can take your money and still spy on you. Yandex can not take your money and still not bother caching your search history, because there’s no good way for them to monetize it. Nevermind GitHub or Wikipedia or literally any other public good being hosted on any website anywhere.

The delusion that you’re safe using a free service is matched only by the delusion that you’re protected because you paid someone money.

It is funny to see people relentlessness stanning a paid service that’s built on a notoriously fraud prone crypto stack, then getting paranoid about something about as sophisticated as Lexus Nexus because it’s hosted out of Evil Country.

I hope nobody here bothers to interogate where their torrents are being hosted from too closely.

Does anyone still think their data isn’t being sold even if they pay for a service?

Very possible they’re too small to have a meaningful contingent of buyers. But I wouldn’t bank on it.

Well, you can always come down and hang with me in Texas. nervous laughter

scrambling to hide from the Abbott gestapo patrol

Human trafficking was the foundation of our great nation. Hell, there’s still a lively Mail Order Bride market out of the States.

We can’t stop. We won’t stop.

I’ll be curious to see if this law survives contact with the courts. Perhaps we’ll even see destination weddings happening on the other side of the Arkansas border.

You guys should totally isolate on this continent of yours and don’t leave it at all.

Unfortunately, America doesn’t work as a project without endless territorial expansion. So we’re happy to close our borders, but we’re never going to stop demanding your tribute on pain of getting hit with our bombs.

Robyn DeCradle

Cash and Monero being on the same tier is very funny

This is the kind of picture a mathematician expects you to take seriously.

STOP. DOING. UX.

Computers were meant to do math, not make pictures.

Trillions of pixels illuminated, but no real life benefit has been discovered.

GUI. Ray Tracing. Generative Adversarial Networks and Diffusion Models.

Terms dreamed up by the deranged.

They are playing you for fools!

Some might even call it antisemitic. Not that any police or legislators intend to get involved on this kind.

When you’re napping, know that someone in Japan is also asleep, but largely because of the time change.

Japanese work culture often meant staying late and working unpaid overtime to appear extra-productive. Now you’ve got an anecdote describing people who finish the job, consider their work done, and cut out early despite not having fulfilled an arbitrarily dictated number of hours worked. It is a sharp reversal in behavior.

Often a better link than the original, since Wayback is better supported and not prone to the whims of a billionaire oligarch.

But it isn’t mandated nor is it integrated with Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is very good, but ALWAYS look for more than one source.

Wikipedia is a terrible source, but it’s a great source for other sources.

One of the biggest problems with the site is that it doesn’t archive the linked material. So you can have a bunch of dead links to older historical entries, which undermines the value over long terms.

This is pretty much identical to South African apartheid and American First Nations reservation systems.

Palestine is done. Nobody inside the territory has the capacity to survive, much less resist. Only a handful of minority groups and insurgent factions outside the territory care to defend them, and the police/military have declared open season on Palestinian liberation as a movement. The rest of the world seems content to allow the Holocaust to play out undeterred.