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Google having a giant hole in their system while they try to automate everything, while telling everyone else not to.

if you check the posters history, seems like a guy posting his own site everywhere, with AI images. so I’d just start blocking these.

I just use it for checking the microblog these days. nothing else really happening.

yea. of all the shit the company pulls, how is this even newsworthy.

must be a slow news day.

“And in other news, water is wet”

Tech Journalist? More like Big Tech mouthpiece.

He continued on to say he will only be found on Threads, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram

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What’s the current record? I don’t think many people outside US care enough to give this any thought at all, let alone watch it.

Looks like they have valid reasons for doing this

Yea, the company does not want to be an accessory for crime or illegal activity. That’s to be expected if they want to keep their business running. But that won’t stop people from raging and claiming the project is now going to die.

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Original source: https://news.ubc.ca/2023/08/16/microplastic-pollution-plants-could-be-the-answer/

Research paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/adma.202301531

Xitter has gone down the shitter

Is it possible that they offloaded the scraping to a different company to avoid direct litigation now theyre out in the open? To say “we didn’t scrape your website, and you can’t prove it.”

Like DDG, Ecosia, Qwant use Bing for their data Or how feds buy data from data brokers. Outsource the dirty job like every tech company does and shift the blame if caught doing something unlawful.

It seems they are trying to garner some positive PR after they scraped through everything without anyone noticing.

Open source and self-hostable

https://github.com/anonaddy/anonaddy

Pocket does the job

I don’t think that’s not the point. Of course it does the job, so does every other read-it-later service which has an firefox extension. For those who don’t use pocket, it just becomes bloat.

I too used pocket before and after Mozilla acquired it during my college years as it had apps for all my devices and other services like instapaper were a paid service.

But now I use a different service now and pocket is the first thing I disable on “about:config”

It’s fascinating how the narrative have shifted.

Before buying Twitter:

He doesn’t need to buy Twitter, he can back out the deal at any time. He’s not stupid to waive his due diligence. He’s the smartest and richest person to ever live on this planet.

After he’s forced to buy it:

• He’s going to solve bot problem in Twitter.

• He’s going to make it the best freeze peach platform

• He’s going to make Twitter profitable

Fails miserably and it is tanking despite trying his hardest keep it afloat by making it a right wing haven:

He’s clearly trying to run this place to the ground, This was his plan all along.

The mental gymnastics is amusing to say the least.

Why stick to the worse one, though?

Why is mastodon the worse one?

Many people coming from twitter run from the fediverse, because they’re told there’s nothing other than mastodon, which they find hard to use, lacking and extremely toxic.

Why is everyone so adamant that Mastodon should accommodate to users leaving Twitter by being a Twitter clone? It was meant to be federated, privacy friendly, self-hosted, less toxic twitter alternative for small communities , not a clone of Twitter. People act like everyone becomes seasoned to using Twitter or other mainstream social media websites by default and it’s mastodon’s fault they leave because its not exactly like Twitter. It’s pretty straightforward to forget all about the fediverse and rant all day, just like Twitter.

It’s one thing to improve UX for users and another thing entirely to specifically chaperone users leaving Twitter, which is not Mastodon’s goals.

which package are you on? i’ve been wanting something like that

Thanks! I’ve been trying to replace Adidas Running (formerly Runtastic) so i’ll give it a try. Runtastic bugs you to accept their TOS too often which needs internet. And If you’re in the middle of the run, you can’t get past that screen to view the stats. 🤦

Needing a different app for viewing map seems a little inconvenient though.

@piezzo Autohotkey, just to remap your keys or shortcuts to automating windows functions. It’s very powerful. I use it to open applications, switch windows, run commands on the command line.

Hence the rumors that the feds and state actors do the most of it.