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Getting people to attach a(ny) value to it is the biggest hurdle by far. I think the complacent attitude is part genuine incapacity in dealing with abstraction (what is a data profile anyway? How is knowledge of my purchase history a risk to me?) and part exceptionalism/denial. People like this tend never to think in terms of power dynamics.

Grocery shopping is best done at small privately owned businesses. Small supermarkets in particular are and should be treasured by local communities. Something about their ownership structure and their lack of scale makes them more accountable to shoppers. They can't afford to engage in the data wrangling red and green do to work out the maximum price the market will pay for tuna on Thursdays between 6 to 7pm. The fresh produce is often better quality, the PA music less insipid (or absent totally, hooray for Aldi), the stock actually looks a bit different quarter to quarter. It's simply a better balance of power between org and individual.

If you're shopping at large corporate retailers, especially when making vice purchases, you're best using protection

Simple solution. Kensington lock attached to the gonads. The device can helpfully warn others against theft with an LED projection on the wearer saying Big Cojone Security is active.

What I've long been curious about is whether the service provider can derive a subscriber identity using the number. I mean of course the mobile network operator knows I'm me, but does Bluesky? Or is it merely a valid mobile number to them?

The only shining light in the housing affordability debate in Australia is when an economist gets the mic on something like Q&A and says the causes are juiced immigration and the tax code. But the other panellists invariably squirm, and the host obligingly steers the conversation back to a place where all the propagandists feel safe.

Like that traffic light on a rural Russian intersection that is always red

I'm sure there'll be a carve-out to the mask prohibition. I mean, what if there's protest action a minister/police department dislikes? They need a way for their agents to don confiscated Nazi paraphernalia before joining the event to poison its media coverage, while remaining unidentifiable as state actors.

It's all noise is what it is. Applications and code shouldn't come prefaced with value judgements, 'ally' statements or inclusion/exclusion messaging of any sort. Our world is hard enough to navigate without software development falling to the culture wars.

Funny definition of 'agreement'

The videast himself doesn’t think he’ll post his videos to the Fediverse as it lacks monetization.

That's code for YT can spit in my sharecropping face as much as it wants.

Press releases like this are corporate signaling to US Congress that they would like some lawfare and are willing to pay for it.

Pirate streaming growth itself doesn't 'threaten legal services' as TF suggests. Any threat that arises is created by industry's market response. It comes back to margins. Netflix could decide overnight to invest in a long-term 'hearts and minds' approach that includes a quality platform user experience free of hostile design, non-discrimination amongst devices, relaxed household access rules, attentive customer service, commitment to finishing programming properly, improved stream quality, etc. Becoming the Valve of streaming represents an expenditure increase, though. You're now a lower margin business with a very sticky and content customer base. That's not a story industry wants to tell its investors, knowing they will respond with 'you should be petitioning for bills that enable more market captivity'.

They do the right thing only as a last resort, because the right thing is expensive.

Better to create a whitelist instead. Webrings used to be popular in the 90s/00s.

https://based.cooking/ demonstrates the way forward. Recipes are text; perhaps a small photo or two as a prep/serving guide, but nothing more than that.