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Yeah I hear that, like this post slipped through because they used the term orange man instead, cuz normally I wouldn’t see political like these unless I actively seek them out

most mobile clients allow for it based off titles and post content, some sneak through like this one, but overall the feature exists for third party.

I mean, I can see it.

their choices make it harder and harder to actually want to support their project. I haven’t seen a good PR release from then in ages.

Hey that’s looking damn close to what mine is, but they still managed to squeeze through

yea this is really their biggest thing here, by the time conf emails get sent everyone will lose interest lol

I’m in the same boat, it hasn’t been 6 years for me but like they’re pricing alone has done a pretty damn good job at making me not want to go there outside of if I’m on vacation, you for a little while were able to use their deals program to get pretty decent deals, but now even the deals suck. Likes for example currently they’re offering a buy one get one hamburger, or 40% off a cheeseburger. Not even close to an incentive to go due to their burgers starting at 2$ a burger(plain hamburger).

At their pricing it’s better for me to order the two for 26 at Applebee’s which gets me two actual burgers of okay quality with bacon, two things of fries and an appitizer.

Or stop at the Pizza Hut that’s literally right next door and pay 12$ for a 1 topping large pizza, or go to a Domino’s down the street and pay $20 get two large pizzas a thing of chicken and a 2 Liter…

You wait roughly around the same time for an order of that size and you pay less plus you’re good for the next two or three meals.

Since 2019 the cost of my typical order at McDonald’s has gone from about $12, to almost 19$, while absolutely fucking their speed metric and quality metric, insane

yea a that was my first thought, no bsky, no lemmy, no mastodon (edit: apperently has limited suppport for exclusively mastodon.social) , like are they paying attention to the trends?

ooo so that’s why they never seem to work, makes so much sense now! /j

I personally didn’t like mastodon’s UI style, I found it tedious to use and more complicated then needed.

There’s no real similar product(at least out of what I’ve used) so nothing to run muscle memory on, and it deep dived into federation to the point it was confusing too confusing to figure out

this is what I do as well, along with file staging so if I corrupt it by accident I don’t lose the entire DB

Currently I have it on my server as grab only, and then normal access on my clients with staging

The music being removed from your account shit shouldn’t be legal. You paid for it they should be refunding you if they are removing access, in a perfect world anyway.

Assuming the US when I say this but, some year we’ll have consumer protections, I’ll likely be dead by then but hopefully the day will come to light.

That being said I have never heard of soul seek, it sounds like a limewire spinoff? I agree music industry has /sucked/ in terms of obtaining stuff

and what is that going to give them? The information that they have is yes, they have an account, and that’s also saying that they used an actual number and not a VOIP number for registration. but if they are asking via phone number, they will already have that information at hand. They won’t get any information about what chats that number is part of, or even any info really at all, anything about the account is encrypted and not visible.

If they are able to provide my phone number without knowing the info you said there, there is some other leak already involved, and either way they won’t get anything but a “yes he has an account and he was last connected on X”

Photobucket did the same thing I almost lost all of my photos that I had on it from my early teenage years because I almost missed the email(I was two days from the DDay)

Basically they decided that they no longer wanted their free tier and any photos that were stored on the platform as that tier had a certain amount of time before they would be deleted. The platform heavily tried to convince people who are on the free tier that the only way of getting their photos would be to pay for their premium tier for a month and then cancel but I was able to figure out a way to just download it it was hidden heavily in the settings behind multiple paywall triggers.

I’m not really sure why they say that, looking at it the UI looks pretty sleek

This is good news that the instance is back up again. But as an Outsiders pov, I’m going to be super hesitant on wanting to interact with the instance since it’s already proven to be shut down once.

Being said, I love to see people monopolizing on better technology that have more feature sets, and honestly it looks pretty dang cool

In terms of end-to-end encryption I don’t mind if they have my phone number or not, if it’s done right.

Let’s use signal for example, because honestly they do it pretty decently, the most information that you can obtain from signal in a data information request is the date and time that an account is created, and the last time the account went online.

Actual content such as the user’s contact list, the people that user was talking with(including groups), and of course the messages that you sent are fully end to end encrypted meaning that signal does not have access to it meaning that they cannot give that information out in a data information request as they never had it in the first place.

The most that signal is able to confirm in a data information request, is yes this specific account ID has a signal account and this is the last time they went online.

I know you didn’t directly say it but it’s implied so I wanted to clarify.

telegram chat isn’t E2E, the only E2E on the platform is secret chats, which is only available to mobile users of the platform and not enabled by default. It does have client-server encryption but, in the terms of privacy that is worthless if you don’t trust the host (and it opens the host up to legal information requests as it has the capability of decrypting the messages)

Yeah but the two party consent states for recording imply that it’s in a private location, there is nothing stopping anyone from recording someone in a public location.

It doesn’t matter what the Stateside law of indicates whether it’s public or private, it’s already been decided by the Supreme Court that recording in a public area is a protection that’s given under the First Amendment. This right to record has been challenged a few times by state representatives such as the 2007 case in Massachusetts where it went up to the first district appeals court, and back in 2021 in the Fraiser versus Evan’s case which went all the way up to the Supreme Court.

As a general rule of thumb, if you’re in a public area there is no expectation of privacy so therefore anything goes, this protection generally includes someone standing in a private area recording an area that is considered a public area, and in some cases even include someone who is standing in a public area recording it supposed to private area due to lack of obstruction from that public area (such as someone standing on the street outside a house recording an unobstructed window)

But as you said IANAL

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That being said, because I realize I forgot to add this to the post. I am super against the entire idea of AI based goggles that’s able to identify people in real time. That is such a violation of what should be basic privacy that honestly I think it’s too far

I was just about to say a comment on the billboards, like wtf how is this legal. So glad that my state has them banned lol