Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
It literally was though. Not a military intelligence tool, but a big business intelligence one.
Niantic was founded by Google and their first product, Field Trip, and their first game, Ingress (a much better-designed game than Pokémon Go, btw) were pretty obviously about gaining geolocation data for Google to improve their products like Maps and Shopping.
Honestly I’m a light hobbyist myself. My exposure to history is primarily via YouTube channels like the excellent Historia Civilis (their series on Julius Caesar and the downfall of the Roman Republic is stunning) and via games like Age of Empires.
I just don’t understand how someone interested in antiquity can possibly fall for Trumpism. The fall of the Roman Republic was presaged by a guy literally trying to get elected to office so that he could escape prosecution for illegal abuses of power, and the legal system standing aside and saying “yeah, we’ll let you do that in order to maintain the peace” and then falling into civil war anyway.
How much of that sounds familiar…?
¿Porque no los dos?
I think this is a good idea. Discovery of new communities is one of the worst things about Lemmy today and a map might help with that.
But having a good default front page is also good for users’ experience.
They’ve got options.
And maybe others. It’s about making sure that a product you have paid for actually works as it was sold to you. It’s honestly a really basic consumer protection concept. You sell me a television and it stops working within a reasonable lifetime due to your own failure, and you’re obligated to repair or replace it. The same should be true of software.
This is beehaw, they won’t see it.
CCTV produced an article asking “six shocking questions” about “US doping scandals.”
Hilarious, considering they had a known doper on their swimming team at the Olympics who was banned in 2014 and then banned again after destroying testing samples in 2018. Not sus at all…
Do you still play?
I mostly gave it up a long time ago, and have found it difficult to get back into any time I’ve tried. I miss the elegant simplicity of the 2013 version of the game, before all the complicated missions and minigames.
That’s a symbol I’ve not seen in a long time. A long time.
Ok follow-up. I just checked the programming.dev modlog and it looks the same as my instance modlog. I believe that they have been banned by your instance, and the way instance admin bans works is they are banned from showing up on your instance. So I can still see their comments, users of programming.dev can still see their comments, etc. Only sh.itjust.works users can’t see this user’s comments, and thus only sh.itjust.works’ modlog shows them as being banned.
The user was banned. Unfortunately banning someone automatically removes all of their comments. A major flaw in the design of this platform.
Even worse: banning seems to be very un-transparent in the modlog. The fact that their comments are removed is not reflected at all. And when I search for that user in my instance’s instance-wide modlog, the only thing that shows up is them being banned from three solarpunk communities for “genocide denial”:
Looking on your instance’s modlog is a little clearer in some ways, though it only shows 1 of those 3 community bans. There is also what looks like a site-wide ban, though it’s very unclear who gave that ban. Their own instance admins? Your instance admins? Programming.dev instance admins (the admins of the community in which they were posting)? The modlog doesn’t tell you.
Yeah it’s unfortunate because it’s a useful site. You can see more detailed explanations on their FAQ page. Most of the reasons for its blocking are pretty dumb, but that doesn’t matter much to the people who try to click a link and have it not work.
Catbox should honestly really be avoided. It’s blocked for such a huge range of users unless they use either a non-default DNS or a VPN (depending on which specific block they’re behind).
This includes all users in Australia, the UK, and Ireland. American customers of Comcast, Verizon, and Spectrum and Canadian customers of Rogers. And any user who has their DNS set to the popular alternate DNS of Quad 9.
If uploading photographs in particular, it also does not remove EXIF or other metadata, which may expose GPS location or other potentially sensitive information to everyone.
This comment has a blank image tag in it that, if clicked, crashes Jerboa.
Step 1: make voting compulsory
Step 2: move it to a weekend
Step 3: easy access to prepoll or postal voting for people who can’t make it on the official day
Bonus step: change voting system to IRV, or even better, to something proportional like MMP or STV
There you go. America has a functioning electoral system.
jfc do you have any idea how fast the web evolves? Firefox already struggles to keep up with changing web standards and operating system features. It took them until December 2019 to implement one particular feature Chrome had since 2010 with a vendor prefix and since early 2016 as a fully-released feature. It took them until 4 weeks ago to implement an OS feature that existed since 2019 and which Chrome added that same year, and Edge had by 2022 at the latest.
You cut their budget, they’ll necessarily lose developers. Yes, maybe they can minimise how many developers they lose by becoming more lean, but it’s a fantasy to think that becoming “more lean” could actually prevent them from losing paid developers. And any volunteer developers are also necessarily going to be spending less time and effort on their contributions than a full-time paid employee would.
Cut their budget by 86% and they go from “barely keeping up” to “utterly falling behind”.
Yeah but having some modern-day stuff isn’t what I wanted. Even Brotherhood had that. What I wanted to see was a final ultimate showdown between the Templar and Assassins.
They’re not designed with privacy in mind, but I think one of the best things for video is supporting smaller more independent platforms. Things like Nebula, which is made up of a curated selection of high quality YouTubers who upload their YouTube videos sans advertising, as well as some small amount of unique bonus content. Nebula is owned by its creators, as an added bonus.
Or Dropout, made from the former CollegeHumor YouTube channel, it’s mostly sketch and improv comedy, as well as some D&D play videos.
Neither are privacy focused explicitly, but because of their direct relationship to their customers and lack of interest in advertising, they’re not incentivised to be bad for privacy like the bigger free platforms are.
True, and that’s important context if you’re trying to get a deeper understanding of how Julius Caesar came to have the power he held before his assassination.
But there’s enough of a problem you can see even if you just start at Julius, which is what I was concentrating on in my previous comment. The parallels to Trump are terrifyingly on the nose.