Not just Texas. They can access them nationwide without warrants. An attempt to crowdsource a db of installations is at https://deflock.me/

Apple absolutely does collect personal data from its users and uses that data to target advertising. They openly disclose this in their policy statements.

Stating that

They do not profit off your data

is unjustifiable when Apple makes BILLIONS from advertising.

They also have been fined by European regulators when their practices ran afoul of privacy law.

Just because they're not as bad as Google (quite a low bar) it doesn't mean they're as good as they try to sell you on.

This is the equivalent of saying that MS Outlook is a community. It's not and neither is Lemmy. Each server has its own rules, and each community on those servers can add rules beyond that.

Address a specific community or server, there's no central control over the fediverse.

This is an absolutely braindead lazy take.

The same professional journalists who've worked at these big media corporations have used the substack platform to open up sites in droves so they can focus on more niche topics, or just escape the censorship of owners and advertisers.

If you think that legitimate news can only come from a company owned by billionaires, then you're wrong.

How many cops has she arrested or ticketed? This is a foundational component of the calculation.

Leopards/faces, etc. These people were fine with contributing their cogs to the evil machine that is facebook in exchange for a ridiculous salary, but now want it to be a big deal when it affects them more specifically.

Isn't that because Dan hasn't open-sourced his project yet

Wrong: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/blob/dev/LICENSE

and doesn't let anybody else contribute?

Hmm, while there have been 158 contributors, a very small percent were from the other developers: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/graphs/contributors

This information is pretty easy to look up.

Ummm

Oh, so Rust is like JavaScript!

One way would be by implementing features the Lemmy devs have no interest in such as better interoperability with other fediverse platforms. If any added feature turns out to be well received and in demand, it would pressure the others to implement similar.

These companies maintain that even though you possess a PDF, you still do not own it and do not have the rights associated with ownership.

That ammo looks like it was once lost in a boating accident.

X referred to a display server since long before Twitter was born.

Until 2011 you could just watch wifi traffic for all the unencrypted creds/sessions.

By listing a schedule starting at one time, but expecting the actual start to be earlier they're communicating an inaccurate schedule.

Could you imagine prescribing one dose but expecting another? Billing one amount but expecting a premium on top of that?

Agreed (mostly).

Just because something isn't illegal, that doesn't make it morally right. The inverse also applies.

Even though the First Amendment prohibits government suppression of speech, it doesn't mean that the expression is immune to consequences from society including non-governmental suppression.

I think the "no arrests were made" observation was meant in relation to your last point, not the first at all.

Almost every state requires some manner of concealed carry permit

Are you intentionally untruthful or just ignorant?

Is your definition of "almost every" LESS THAN HALF?

These are facts which are easy to look up and here you are spreading misinformation.

One thing I would find valuable is mechanisms to dissuade the listings with obviously false prices. So many things on CL that aren't really free or $1.

Valve enforces same pricing on all stores a game is available on so EGS can’t compete on price

Obvious falsehood. Did you just choose to omit relevant nuance? The post is literally about games which are free on EGS and non-free on Steam.