> someone suffering with depression had killed himself, and it was only a long time afterwards that any friends friends knew because Facebook hadn't been showing his posts. > IIRC they looked through his feed and there…
>> which are then captured and reported to HR for violating Google’s mores around civility or for offending white men. > Rules requiring civility don't only apply towards white men Welcome to the cutting edge of…
I'd prefer they just put up a sign saying "sorry, we're out of bananas" and putting something else there in the interim. The employees are right: empty shelves look sloppy. Too many and the place even looks like it's…
> This shows the value of actually grabbing content that you plan to use or hope to refer to in the future, rather than merely bookmarking it. And it also underscores the value of the Internet Archive. Yes. Everyone…
> Everybody uses FB differently. Some people use it to share and read news. Others as an "aggregator" for different services (Insta, Twitter...). Others for groups. Or chats. Or to connect with businesses. I use it…
> I think it is bullshit, because black and white slot machine still is a slot machine. > Turned on grayscale in macOS(System Prefs - Accessibility - Display) before googling this articles, can confirm that still…
Can confirm. I visited just after Trump left, and the air was pretty good. Also, I've heard from locals that they're starting to relocate dirty industries to nearby cities that foreigners tend not to visit. I visited…
> Recent example: while I was logged out, they put my picture on their “quick login” page with a little red number “2” on my photo. Well gee, turns out there wasn’t “2” of anything in my profile to see: no unread…
> I don't want my friends texting me everything. That's far more disruptive than a passive feed I can glance at. And I don't want to text my friends everything either. Real friendships aren't passive.
> I personally really like the way the internet is. Giant monopolies that control most of it for most users?
> The Vanity Fair 'Brotopia' party was way worse than it sounds And by "worse," the author must mean more boring and less scandalous. tl;dr: The author went to a VC party; saw a celebrity, but no sex or drugs; and went…
> If it were so obvious I characterized your snark as obnoxious not obvious.
> Wait, am I stealing paper when I use a public restroom? In China most public restrooms don't have any toilet paper and you have to bring your own. If this one is stocked with free paper, they may be trying to prevent…
Addiction
IIRC, by being a ubiquitous mobile payments platform.
> Why pay for a news subscription when you can get “news” for free on Facebook and the like. Did you miss the whole Facebook "fake news" thing last year?
Yes...if you strip out so much context for the similarity to become meaningless.
It would also be a great help in controlling dissenters and subversives. Once we have the infrastructure in place, it's there for anyone with enough power to use for any reason...
Is there any effort to collect those photos/accounts for later release, say after the person's death? I understand the reluctance for them release publicly right now, but it would be a shame if it was all effectively…
I haven't used it as much, but it seems just as good for single-person use. It's WebDAV IIRC. I haven't tried to use any "shared calendar" features.
Yes, I do. The only thing I miss is tagging/archiving. Fastmail uses a traditional folder paradigm, and archiving only moves the message to a special archive folder. Their login 2FA options are as good as Gmails, and I…
> I've never really understood the desire to use the button on the display to turn off monitors - does allowing the monitors to be switched off by the OS not solve basically the same problem ? Right now, my monitor is…
> If $4700 in ads could sway an entire US Presidential election That's a little disingenuous. IIRC, Facebook identified at least a $100k more on its platform, and they permitted finer-grained targeting than Google.…
That's a pretty disingenuous comment: First, your characterization is probably accurate if restricted to the "first wave" feminism (of a century ago), but, IIRC, I think we're on the "third wave" now. Second, in the…
I think students should definitely be able to offer polite feedback to their professors, like you describe. However, students definitely shouldn't be in a position to dictate the curriculum, which I think is more what…
> someone suffering with depression had killed himself, and it was only a long time afterwards that any friends friends knew because Facebook hadn't been showing his posts. > IIRC they looked through his feed and there…
>> which are then captured and reported to HR for violating Google’s mores around civility or for offending white men. > Rules requiring civility don't only apply towards white men Welcome to the cutting edge of…
I'd prefer they just put up a sign saying "sorry, we're out of bananas" and putting something else there in the interim. The employees are right: empty shelves look sloppy. Too many and the place even looks like it's…
> This shows the value of actually grabbing content that you plan to use or hope to refer to in the future, rather than merely bookmarking it. And it also underscores the value of the Internet Archive. Yes. Everyone…
> Everybody uses FB differently. Some people use it to share and read news. Others as an "aggregator" for different services (Insta, Twitter...). Others for groups. Or chats. Or to connect with businesses. I use it…
> I think it is bullshit, because black and white slot machine still is a slot machine. > Turned on grayscale in macOS(System Prefs - Accessibility - Display) before googling this articles, can confirm that still…
Can confirm. I visited just after Trump left, and the air was pretty good. Also, I've heard from locals that they're starting to relocate dirty industries to nearby cities that foreigners tend not to visit. I visited…
> Recent example: while I was logged out, they put my picture on their “quick login” page with a little red number “2” on my photo. Well gee, turns out there wasn’t “2” of anything in my profile to see: no unread…
> I don't want my friends texting me everything. That's far more disruptive than a passive feed I can glance at. And I don't want to text my friends everything either. Real friendships aren't passive.
> I personally really like the way the internet is. Giant monopolies that control most of it for most users?
> The Vanity Fair 'Brotopia' party was way worse than it sounds And by "worse," the author must mean more boring and less scandalous. tl;dr: The author went to a VC party; saw a celebrity, but no sex or drugs; and went…
> If it were so obvious I characterized your snark as obnoxious not obvious.
> Wait, am I stealing paper when I use a public restroom? In China most public restrooms don't have any toilet paper and you have to bring your own. If this one is stocked with free paper, they may be trying to prevent…
Addiction
IIRC, by being a ubiquitous mobile payments platform.
> Why pay for a news subscription when you can get “news” for free on Facebook and the like. Did you miss the whole Facebook "fake news" thing last year?
Yes...if you strip out so much context for the similarity to become meaningless.
It would also be a great help in controlling dissenters and subversives. Once we have the infrastructure in place, it's there for anyone with enough power to use for any reason...
Is there any effort to collect those photos/accounts for later release, say after the person's death? I understand the reluctance for them release publicly right now, but it would be a shame if it was all effectively…
I haven't used it as much, but it seems just as good for single-person use. It's WebDAV IIRC. I haven't tried to use any "shared calendar" features.
Yes, I do. The only thing I miss is tagging/archiving. Fastmail uses a traditional folder paradigm, and archiving only moves the message to a special archive folder. Their login 2FA options are as good as Gmails, and I…
> I've never really understood the desire to use the button on the display to turn off monitors - does allowing the monitors to be switched off by the OS not solve basically the same problem ? Right now, my monitor is…
> If $4700 in ads could sway an entire US Presidential election That's a little disingenuous. IIRC, Facebook identified at least a $100k more on its platform, and they permitted finer-grained targeting than Google.…
That's a pretty disingenuous comment: First, your characterization is probably accurate if restricted to the "first wave" feminism (of a century ago), but, IIRC, I think we're on the "third wave" now. Second, in the…
I think students should definitely be able to offer polite feedback to their professors, like you describe. However, students definitely shouldn't be in a position to dictate the curriculum, which I think is more what…