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Hard to believe Tumblr lasted this long even. They killed like 3/4 of their content (and audience) when they decided to not have any porn like 4 years ago. Everybody left. An early example of enshitification.

I could not find confirmation that biometrics are only stored on the device. In fact, I did see that iOS does at least part of the biometrics in it’s iCloud keychain.

It seems that Passkeys generally require a biometric scan of some kind. I would prefer a level of privacy where I am not providing images of my face or fingerprints to unknown agencies on the cloud.

Musk has become erratic, irrational, and volatile. These are not conditions suitable for someone who manages other people’s money. Financial institutions know this, and will not be a part of his delusions.

NYT should simply walk away from Xwitter. NPR did so with no apparent loss of viewership.

I’m already using Linux alot, and Windows 10 sometimes. I would drop Windows entirely if it were subscription model.

A new California law was just passed which made “ghost guns” illegal. He was involved in ghost guns, at some level. It wasn’t illegal before. Now it is. So now is when he got the boot.

I can’t believe that people still idolize this rapist and sex trafficker.

Xwitter is a Nazi hate cesspool. I deleted my account not long after Musk took over. I would be delighted to see it fail, and Musk brought down a few notches.

Microsoft Edge is based on the Chrome codebase, so it will get the baked in ad mechanism.

A few years ago, I switched from Firefox to Chrome. A few months ago, I switched back to Firefox. Chrome is rolling out changes which are completely unacceptable, such as making adblockers impossible, and using my private browsing history for their own ads.

MJ is a psychological, rather than chemical addiction. Thus it is completely different than Opioids and Amphetamines, which are chemically addictive.

I was just trying (and failing) to imagine a distribution and development framework which was limited to those entities which agreed with a set of social parameters.

Missouri is represented twice in the list, with St Louis as the worst, and Kansas city not far behind.

So let’s say someone is harassing and abusing somebody on the platform. Blocking gives the victim a recourse. Let’s say someone with an extreme ideology, such as a Nazi anti-semite, consistently posts hate at a jewish person. Blocking gives the victim a recourse. Blocking is an essential feature of social media, and Musk is a complete idiot.

Far right media considers “Fact Based” to be a “Liberal Bias”.

So this is “Austrailia Broadcasting Corporation”, not the ABC (American broadcasting Company) which I am familiar with in the US. I presume they share no more than an acronym.