Yes, I guess you could view "Local" if you wanted to only see posts from this instance. Alternatively you could subscribe to the communities you want to see posts from; that is the default view when you load up Lemmy for me so that is a plus.
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My personal view: I don't think they get in the way too much because you only need to choose the setting once. Maybe some people use the sketch theme, or i386? And that's enough, right?
Instead of trying to convince someone they have something to hide, explain how they have plenty to lose.
Convincing anyone of anything is difficult. Explaining how just extending their idea of protecting their bank info and SSN to other stuff they care about too is much easier.
That's true, it is one of the heavier apps. Honestly sometimes I find that just text files, one for each task in a directory is good enough, but I switched to Planner for the tagging.
A nice-looking todo app. Personally, I'm using Planner right now but this also looks like a good option.
"Apple has been opposing Right to Repair bills by claiming that their service network is the only safe repair option for consumers,” Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit, told Motherboard. “But the only person that is totally guaranteed to be trustworthy to fix your iPhone is you. Any time you hand your data to another entity, you risk something like this. By withholding access to service tools and forcing customers to use their third party contractor, Apple is willfully compromising the security of their customers."
Codidact seems like a good alternative. Some good things:
- Similar site organization of communities
- Same system of upvotes/downvotes
- Cleaner site design than Stack Overflow imho that stays consistent even without Javascript
- Core components licensed under AGPL-3.0, rest (scripts, styles, etc.) under MIT: https://github.com/codidact
- Posts by users of the site are explicitly licensed under a license.
- Is active, although of course not as big as stackoverflow.com
Free games are never free. They contain a significant time investment to do anything "fun", and often the social factor is the only reason they are even "fun" in the first place. The amount of time spent unlocking a "level 138 Diamond+ plasmasword" (idk) that could be purchased for $20 often means a player is working for less than any (reasonable) minimum wage.
Parents, consider actually buying games. Exceptions are FOSS games, which are usually full games in their own right. Stay away from mobile-only games and F2P.
There are some really great indie games out there.
Great article. Quotes (emphasis added by me):
This can be a tricky concept to understand. Class action lawsuits, where many individuals join together even though each might have suffered only a small harm, are a good conceptual analogy. Big tech companies understand the commercial benefits they can derive from analyzing the data of groups while superficially protecting the data of individuals through mathematical techniques like differential privacy. But regulators continue to focus on protecting individuals or, at best, protected classes like people of particular genders, ages, ethnicities, or sexual orientations.
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Individuals should not have to fight for their data privacy rights and be responsible for every consequence of their digital actions. Consider an analogy: people have a right to safe drinking water, but they aren’t urged to exercise that right by checking the quality of the water with a pipette every time they have a drink at the tap. Instead, regulatory agencies act on everyone’s behalf to ensure that all our water is safe. The same must be done for digital privacy: it isn’t something the average user is, or should be expected to be, personally competent to protect.
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Apple promises in one advertisement: “Right now, there is more private information on your phone than in your home. Your locations, your messages, your heart rate after a run. These are private things. And they should belong to you.” Apple is reinforcing this individualist’s fallacy: by failing to mention that your phone stores more than just your personal data, the company obfuscates the fact that the really valuable data comes from your interactions with your service providers and others. The notion that your phone is the digital equivalent of your filing cabinet is a convenient illusion. Companies actually care little about your personal data; that is why they can pretend to lock it in a box. The value lies in the inferences drawn from your interactions, which are also stored on your phone—but that data does not belong to you.
Hmm. Interesting read. Reading the article, it seems that the true road to sustainable development in the region is stricter environmental laws and tightening of (any present) corruption in the source countries of the natural resources. This would be to those countries' environmental benefit but might have some drawbacks as well, probably economically or diplomatically. The alternative, having other countries restrict their imports based on the environmental harm of the operations, is probably too much to hope for.
The chief argument for much of the article seems to be that Chinese corporations abroad are not subject to as much scrutiny "at home" compared to other countries. Keep in mind that the below quote relates to mining operations in some Pacific countries. The full article should be read for full(er) context.
But the Lowy Institute’s Shane McLeod, argues that a significant difference between Chinese and Australian trading partners is how accountable companies are held for environmental and social issues.
Large-scale mining operations in PNG have a horrific environmental track record, including disposal of mining waste at Anglo-Australian BHP’s Ok Tedi mine, at Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto’s Panguna and, more recently, at the Chinese-operated Ramu Nickel mine. Many foreign-owned companies have subsequently withdrawn from projects that have proven environmentally ruinous.
“But Chinese companies operating abroad aren’t subjected to scrutiny from their home markets in the same way as companies from western nations are,” McLeod said.
“Ok Tedi is a good example – the environmental disaster was a cause of major embarrassment for [BHP], with scrutiny from media eventually fed through to investors.”
“Companies with a Chinese listing/investors do face pressure and scrutiny, but I think the way that manifests itself is opaque and unseen. It’s not clear to what extent an environmental issue would limit the operations of a resource project, for example.
“I expect feedback for MCC [the Metallurgical Corporation of China, the operator of Ramu Nickel] comes through a political/governmental channel rather than, say, a journalist from China covering the environmental impact of a mine there.”
The above argument is somewhat dangerous, as it relies on the knowledge of citizens and investors in order to rein in corporations. It could be argued whether that is good or bad. It is true, however, that in China the main regulator of corporations is the government compared to public pressure.
Perhaps this is a relevant article: The Developer Certificate of Origin is a great alternative to a CLA
For me the systems I tested ran pretty slow, which I expected. Any ideas on how it works? Its FAQ simply states that they provide VMs of most operating systems, but how are they accessed? I did not expect seeing an actual GUI, only a CLI :D. Very cool.