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This is a good idea, as it might eventually lead to policies or laws that would reduce the spam.

I wouldn’t get my hopes up for resolution any time soon, though. Keep in mind that some of the biggest influence campaigns targeting US politics are run by foreign parties, and bulk text messages are cheap and consequence-free. Sadly, stopping it might require changing your phone number.

Yes, of course they could. Generating an image fingerprint is not all that computationally expensive by today’s standards.

Is it unique enough to track you? It doesn’t have to be, since online tracking generally keys off of a set of data, rather than a single item. But just for the sake of argument, consider that services like tineye and google images have pretty good success at matching images even with no additional data.

Is it (or will it eventually be) worthwhile for data collectors? You would have to ask them.

Let’s not forget that copyright enforcement is mostly funded by taxpayers. It’s a collectively massive cost to the rest of us.

It probably made sense for a limited time when we (society) were getting something of comparable value (cultural works) in return. But now that it’s effectively endless, and dominated by corporations, it looks an awful lot like systematic extraction of wealth… from us.

I find this to either be a lie or self inflicted.

“I’ve never experienced what you describe, so it must be either imagined or your own fault.”

I’ve seen this nonsense over and over again in communities of all kinds, most often in tech forums (where there are always a few participants suffering from a big-fish-little-pond effect). It’s a very rude and foolish bit of human behavior.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Anthony Bray the convicted burglar?

Or the well-maintained and developed derivative:

https://shatteredpixel.com/

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.shatteredpixel.shatteredpixeldungeon/

Linux user here. I don’t know of an open desktop calendar app that supports the protocol I need (CalDAV) without being one or more of:

• Bloated
• Too simplistic to be useful
• Too annoying to use (poor UI)

The best compromise I’ve found so far is Thunderbird. It is bloated, but less so than any Electron app I’ve used. I find the UI annoying, but tolerable for lack of a better option. I’m thankful for an open, cross-platform tool that gets the job done, but I wish I had one that was lightweight and pleasant to use.

It would be nice to see some new work in this area. It’s a similar situation with email apps.

Wildermyth is a lovely combination of storytelling and xcom-style combat, with a genealogy system and chances for your heroes (and their descendants) to reappear in future games.

It wasn’t a recorded video. It was a live stream. They must have made it private when it ended.

Use Tor.

Do you mean Tor Browser? Because using Tor alone won’t stop fingerprinting.

This one offers daily trading cards for finishing a discovery queue, and stickers for following a “browse by category” link on the main page and clicking the “claim” button.

Looks like the site is overloaded at the moment. Some things are not working quite right.

I imagine he wants to avoid dependence on fuel suppliers, or pollution.

Related: A very similar question posted by the same person yesterday.

Gesundheit!

Lemmy tip: Don’t indent your paragraphs.

We’re writing in Markdown here, so 4+ spaces at the beginning of a line triggers code formatting. It breaks line wrapping, so many readers are forced into a lot of horizontal scrolling back and forth if they want to read your text. It sometimes also breaks color schemes, burning dark-mode readers’ eyes with blocks of bright white.

Back to your request…

Your description reminds me of bits of Cyberpunk 2077 and Overwatch, but I don’t think it’s either of those. It doesn’t exactly match any games I can think of right now. Good luck. :)

That explanation is fair enough but the headline is red meat the the EV disinformation brigade.

It’s funny how words affect people differently.

Not long ago, I posted a short, precisely-stated comment mentioning an observed fact that I had verified with a relevant authority. When I later checked in, I was surprised to find someone accusing me of spreading misinformation, and my comment removed by a moderator. It was clear that my accuser had badly misinterpreted my words. He refused to admit it or accept clarification. (And the mod had already acted, rashly.)

I re-checked what I had written about twenty times over the course of the day. There was nothing there to support the accusation. My best guess is that my phrasing or the subject matter might have touched on rough emotions from a bad experience, leading him to see what he expected to see instead of what I wrote, and triggering attack mode.

Communicating well really is complicated. It takes work on both sides, and can quickly turn into a bad time if it goes off the rails.

Because of this, I’ve been making an effort to read (and re-read) charitably, especially with people I don’t know well.

From the article:

In an EV era, tires are becoming the greatest emitters of particulate matter

The point being that electric drops tailpipe emissions to zero, making tires the next target for reducing emissions.

Obviously you need someone joining the room for the room metadata to be shared between homeservers.

Well then, your assertion that Matrix gives it freely is false.

Not so with Matrix, where a joining homeserver get full retroactive access to all the room metadata since the room’s creation.

This is false, too. Historical event visibility is controlled by a room setting. (And if you don’t trust admins of a sensitive room to configure for privacy, then you’re going to have bigger problems, no matter what platform it’s on.)

Edit: I suppose you might argue that you can bypass this by running your own homeserver and attempting to join the room from it, thereby granting visibility not through joining (as you wrote), but instead through federation with the server you control. The thing is, you can’t do it without permission. Room admins can simply deny your join request when they see what server you’re on. This might make sense in a particularly sensitive room, for example, just as it would to restrict history visibility.

you really need to stop privacy LARPing

LARPing? I’m not the one stirring up drama with falsehoods and patronizing snark, am I? Farewell.