what really confuses me is how the FDA approves this without a few more years of animal testing and protocol refinement.

dead internet, here we go!

maybe even integration with uBlock if possible?

I don’t get what the obsession with big phones is. Is it that most people really want big phones or that companies can charge more for them?

Is there a database tracking companies that start out with good intentions and then eventually gets bought out or sells out their initial values? I’m wondering what the deciding factors are, and how long it takes for them to turn.

I think many have also been wondering about version control of legislation/law documents for some time as well. But I never understand why it’s not realized yet.

seriously, how bad must it be to change name to clean up their image? We all expect this industry is controversial.

The only recent thing I remember about Pornhub is the current blocking in certain states as protest to the age verification requirement. That seems like a plus in my book that they stand up for privacy and internet use. Changing the name seems like it might dilute their stance.

How is the entity or power that has the ability to grant me such knowledge connected to the existence of the universe?

did not know “kidinfluencer” is a thing. the exploitative, child labor nature of such concept, the detrimental mental health effects of such practice, on kids no less. definitely something we can live without.

I wonder whether matrix and/or matrix bridge has been mentioned before. Maybe discord + matrix bridge is a good enough compromise for reachability.

As much as I despise snap, this instance bring some questions into how other popular cross-linux platform app stores like flathub and nix-channels/packages provide guardrails against malwares.

I’m aware flathub has a “verified” checks for packages from the same maintainers/developers, but I’m unsure about nix-channels. Even then, flathub packages are not reviewed by anyone, are they?

Looking forward to someone bringing this up when discussing the ongoing died-but-somehow-always-revived legislations that would introduce backdoors for encryption for government

what’s the difference between flatsweep and using flatpak uninstall —unused —delete-data?

I guess you're already said it, there are ones that have a network effect, and depending on your priorities/relationships, you can cut them off or compromise. I cut off Facebool/Meta products in general some time ago, because it was clear that would be better for my mental health. Still kept in touch with people through texts and Signal. And I'm OK with having a smaller less noisy network. For most of my personal relationships and matters, I'd have to compromise less.

On the other hand, for more professional matters, like work, or trying to find communities that I care about or seek help from, I'd have to compromise more and accept that I have to use Zoom, Slack, Google products, ... I have found ways to be OK with it. I hope you can find a way.

At the same time I may raise issues about those products' nature if/when appropriate, with my colleagues, while acknowledging that the alternatives aren't always seamless and easy. Let's face it, many alternatives keep changing, and may require a high level of entry. Anw, when I can and if it's easy enough, i may show them how I use alternatives and let them decide on their own.

Key points: compromise, be understanding & empathetic but still vigilant and an advocate when possible

EDIT: holy crap, I just realized this post is 3Y old. I’m an idiot 🤦

Hold up, are you sure you can’t view Discussions or Wiki? Which sites can you not view them?

I’m fine viewing them for public repos that I usually visit.

Asking to make sure that Github is not slowly rolling out this lockdown.

You can also just post the 4-5 data items without claiming that this is low or high credibility or bias. Then let the people make the decision. Like this maybe:

“Based on source X, this source media bias is:

• bias: A
• cred: B

Methodology of X is at: “

I have a suspicion that it might depend on a few factors that might be related to Google’s ability to track, such as the browsers you use and whether you’re on VPN. I saw a post on Lemmy the other day (can’t remember where) that they suspect captcha is more annoying on Firefox, whereas fine with Chrominum-based browsers, esp Google Chrome. I think I sometimes experienced this as well, but I didn’t keep track.

here are a few options that I see but never actually use.

• contact https://wiki.archiveteam.org/; they have some reddit related archival activities going on
• more academic type and will be very helpful for researchers:
  • https://zenodo.org/
  • https://figshare.com/ (this I’ve used and very easy)
  • https://datadryad.org/
  • https://academictorrents.com/ (pushshift archives are also on here)
  • https://socialmediaarchive.org/

Your data don’t seem to be massive compared to the types of data people store on there. So I don’t think it’s gonna be an issue. Plus, if you deposit your data in 1 archivist place + 1 research place, the data may be used by more people. Don’t forget about licenses btw.

EDIT: added https://socialmediaarchive.org/ to the list, just found out about that.

yeah agreed with your sentiment. I think it’s good to have an intuition about something, but it’s much better when there’s data to back it up.

Cuz then, they can do the same with others, say Youtube or other streaming services, and start to compare the numbers, like % of ads, what types of ads, how long are the ads relative to content, how many of these ads are political, how many of these ads may be harmful, …

Having these numbers can be quite handy for other researchers and regulators to look into these issues more concretely, rather than just say, “as your brothers and sisters already know, tiktok serves ads”

Others have mentioned using interactive tools like zoxide to easily get to frequently visited directories.

In addition, I also use nnn (https://github.com/jarun/nnn), which is a terminal file manager that you can navigate through. You can create shortcuts, snippets and bookmarks with this. I use this and zoxide + fzf regularly on CLI to navigate.

Some here also mention ranger, which is another terminal file manager. In my limited experience with ranger, I feel like the start up time is much slower than nnn; but I haven’t tried much. Tho with ranger + graphic-accelerated terminals like kitty, I believe you can preview images and files, which seems to be a great feature. So it depends on your need.