The usage of the virtual camera in cyberpunk described above is textbook male gaze. Male gaze is specifically about how people aim cameras (in this case virtual cameras) with the assumption that the audience is primarily composed of cisgender, heterosexual men. It seems like you are making this same assumption here when you say “catering for the majority,” especially considering data shows a roughly 50/50 split: https://www.statista.com/...

EDIT: I switched to a global link. The URL says console gamers. The graph title says any device.

This is a national security issue. A major corporation should not be able effectively impose a security ceiling by banning more secure operating systems (like GrapheneOS) due to it not making them money. Governments should pass regulations requiring any devices that meet certain security standards and support hardware attestation to be accepted by hardware attestation schemes. This will not pose an undue burden on businesses because you can easily add something like GrapheneOS to your scheme (https://grapheneos.org/...), and even if it did, that doesn’t matter when national security is on the line.

Right now, it’s not as dire because you can still choose image or audio CAPTCHA, but I don’t know how long that will last, and getting the regulation out before the problem happens is better than after.

Peace when markets are open and war when markets are closed.

The engagement-based algorithmic feed is the problem. Kids being able to talk to strangers is also an issue, but that isn’t because of addiction, and I personally think public chats should just be opt-in with the expectation that the parents will actually do their job and teach their children not to talk to strangers.

As for why they did decide to leave now, they explain that their posts are being viewed by significantly less people now than in the past, so there is basically nobody left to help off the sinking ship any more.

I believe that the stance against nuclear power (specifically, nuclear fission, as opposed to radioisotope power used by spacecraft) by greens undermines the fight to stop global warming, and that many of the purported issues with nuclear power have been solved or were never really issues in the first place.

For instance: the nuclear waste produced by old-gen reactors can be used by newer generations.

It’s amazing what you can do when you aren’t accountable to shareholders

FindMyDevice. Alternative to Google’s find my device. You send a text from a different phone number, and you can do things like get the GPS location, lock the device, erase the device, ring the device, or have the device take a picture of its location.

If you want to quickly find RSS feeds without having to view source:

Want My RSS for Firefox

openfeeds for Qutebrowser

Apparently Google has an RSS extension but I haven’t looked into it.

Some RSS tools that are useful:

RSS Bridge

Kill the Newsletter

MoRSS (worked for like, one niche website I look at, but still might be useful)

EDIT: By the way, Facebook has been working very hard to fight RSS at every corner, but most other platforms still support it.

Also, if you use Kontact like I do, it supports RSS feeds through Akregator

The end goal is for the stock market to become a sine wave.

After filing a GDPR subject access request asking Google to provide evidence of business use, the user said the company abruptly reversed course the following day and restored the account

Funny how that works

1. Those who didn’t vote, or voted third party, due to the pointless war in the middle east that involved war crimes just like every war I can think of since the Geneva Convention became a thing, that President Biden funded, did so in safe states that VP Harris won.
2. The makeup of the United States means that Republicans have an advantage in the Senate and therefore also the Electoral College.
3. Republicans gerrymander, Democrats half-heartedly gerrymander, since that is against the ideology of liberalism. This gives Republicans an edge in the House of Representatives as well.
4. The Republican advantage in the Senate is so great that the only way for Democrats to get a majority is to include neoliberal or conservative senators like Manchin, meaning progress is continuously stifled.
5. The Republicans are allowed to get away with stretching the rules, while the Democrats have to follow the rules at all times. Part of this, again, is due to adhering to liberal ideology, and part of it is due to the ruling class favoring Republicans. There has been a conservative majority in the Supreme Court since the 1980s. Democrats are controlled opposition, in that no matter how hard they try, they will never be able to enact meaningful change.
6. An actual left-wing candidate would not be liberal, as is the point of this post. Therefore, they would have no chance of winning the Democratic primary. That would force them to run as an independent or in a third party, and our system makes it almost impossible for a third party candidate to win, at least at the national level.

Yes, it is better to vote for a Democrat than a Republican, but it is much better to build grassroots support for leftism, which, shocker, is what leftists have been trying to do in the US for centuries. If anything, the leftists are doing the most to fight fascism, by trying to get rid of the US system of government that is biased towards the status quo, which by definition benefits the ruling class.

Server locations: Riseup is in the US (Washington state), so keep that in mind. Disroot is in the Netherlands (part of the EU).

Governance: Riseup: Look at their “about us” page. Disroot: Look at their “about” page. The terms of service are more detailed. tl;dr: As far as I can tell, these are run by leftists.

Integrity/Transparency: I have no idea how to grade this.

Ease of Use: Subjective. Riseup VPN is just: install the client, turn it on or off. Disroot is much better with a mail client of some kind, so if you already use one, it’s probably a 10, otherwise, the webmail server isn’t that great. Disroot also requries manual encryption (I’m biased here because I use Kmail which makes PGP really easy to use).

Pricing and Links: Free https://riseup.net/en/vpn https://disroot.org/en/services/email

tl;dr: Use collective-run services, not corporate-run services

From reading all the comments from the community, it’s amazing (yet not surprising) that all these managers have fallen for the marketing of all these LLMs

This is probably related to automation bias and wishful thinking

People overwhelmingly kept autosave off. People just don’t like changing settings. I’m hoping Mozilla knows this.

EDIT: Typo

https://what-if.xkcd.com/6/

Do those neurons interact with hormones like mine do?

Federated internet

OOXML is not the same as PDF. With PDF, I can expect any PDF reader to render it the same way. With OOXML, this is not the case.

https://www.snopes.com/...