Our News Team @ 11 with host Snot Flickerman
To be fair, at least they don’t highjack your copy/paste to tell you that copying and pasting is breaking their licensing terms like the Financial Times did with me earlier today when I was just trying to quote one sentence from the article.
But yeah, places like FT and Fortune are not where people should be getting their information on economics and wealth because they only serve to prop up this broken fucking system.
The most controversial part of the plan is likely to revolve around the pricing of medical data, which experts have warned will fuel public concern over profiteering from private medical information.
NO SHIT SHERLOCK. Because it is profiteering from private medical information!
Unrelated but interesting: Financial Times doesn’t like you copying and pasting text from their site and when you paste copied text, they’ve added something extra there. This is what it looked like when I pasted the small bit of text I copied for the quote:
Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour.
https://www.ft.com/content/9ec787a8-60d5-4899-8223-81335dfa919b
The most controversial part of the plan is likely to revolve around the pricing of medical data, which experts have warned will fuel public concern over profiteering from private medical information.
Well go fuck yourself, Financial Times, I don’t like people who think it’s okay to slap some shit into my clipboard that I didn’t actually copy. That’s shady fucking shit,hijacking my copy/paste.
It’s just fucking greed all the way down, isn’t it?
Good thing they pirated the Gum Gum fruit by seeding.
…I’ll show myself out.
Well, Elon is smarter than that. That’s why you see him carrying little X on his shoulders everywhere now…
He has never been pro-net neutrality.
He is willing to throttle traffic that he doesn’t like, which is explicitly anti-net-neutrality.
No, you’re thinking of Crash Bandicoot.
But I’ve also heard Johnny Silverhand is pretty good at targeting executives.
Oh that’s dope as hell, I didn’t even realize Pis had composite video output at all!
I don’t think that it’s that you can’t comment at all, it’s almost rather that you can only comment.
Plebbit only hosts text. Images from google and other sites can be linked/embedded in posts. This fixes the issue of hosting any nefarious content.
You can link to other things and embed them in a text post using code, but there is no ability to upload anything, so the content really is all just text (since links are created using text commands).
Same, my reaction was super mild compared to previous years where I felt sick as a dog for two days.
No matter what choice you make, Lemmy or Plebbit or something else, it’s clear that decentralized/federated services are the real future. The return of the torrent swarms but forum swarms instead.
At some point something clicked with everyone, and they realized “the cloud” is someone else’s computer, someone else’s property. We all collectively realized you never feel truly free when you’re on someone else’s property, you’re always playing by their rules. At least with decentralization the levels of control are distributed so you have less of one person wresting control from anyone else.
It’s a bit like growing your own garden. You do it because you know what you’re putting into your garden and getting out of it. If you choose to use pesticides, that’s your choice, and no one else’s. When you choose how to run your own self-hosted services, it becomes your choice what comes and goes from your network.
I’m glad to be part of the self-hosting future here.
Exactly, creating the exact conditions for them to be scammed!
I used to be real ghetto about it and use my SteamLink that I bought when they did a fire sale and they are 5 bucks each.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/7BE7-BB7D-D904-03AE
If you can snag a used one, maybe that could work? I dunno though, I wouldn’t let go of mine for almost anything.
They’re reasonably priced used on ebay, in my opinion. Most are around $50 with one that’s listed as “factory sealed” for $105. If I recall correctly, they originally were around $50 to begin with when Valve initially released them.
Story Time: It’s 2003 and I’m working at a local television station in buttfuck nowhere Louisiana as a Production Assistant.
We had just recovered from a massive disaster that had taken out tons of our equipment because somehow, the radio tower next to the building had never been properly grounded and so since it’s the tallest structure in the area by far, when it finally got hit by lightning we got fucked.
Anyway, just back on our feet when a computer virus wrecks more than half the systems in the building.
We would eventually find out that it was the manager who ran the station, the local Big Boss, the guy who answered to corporate (I don’t recall his actual title, just that he was the top dog at the station). He clicked on one of those bullshit emails, downloaded and ran the attachment. This was 2003 mind you, when those type of attacks were even less sophisticated.
Literally, no punishment for him at all despite making everyone’s jobs harder for weeks on end. These people are fucking easily manipulated and we do nothing to punish them when they fuck up.
Finally, why wouldn’t they target executives? They have a history of acting like rules about security don’t apply to them because they’re inconvenient, and they have the biggest pocketbooks to rob and the most control at their corporations. They are literally the most lucrative target you could choose. Getting the keys to their user account could be more useful than getting an IT admins account, depending on how foolhardy the executive is.
Glad I got my booster.
I mean, all that proves is that the Stock Market is completely irrational and always has been and using as a metric for whether or not “the economy” is doing good has always been a fucking farce.
Tesla isn’t the only massively overvalued company in existence at the moment, just the biggest and most obvious example.
Theranos was valued at around $9 billion before it all came out that it was a scam.
Deliveries are the closest approximation of sales reported by Tesla but are not precisely defined in the company’s shareholder communications.
You know, I’m really tired of our country just letting this guy make up whatever fucking metrics he wants, and then we run everything on those fucking wrong-ass metrics. He did the same thing with Twitter and “impressions.” It’s all about lying through your teeth about what’s really happening and using metrics and statistics to confuse people.
A delivery isn’t the same as a sale, not even close. For instance, they also deliver vehicles after repair.
As evidenced by US citizens unwillingness to describe themselves as immigrants, instead using the moniker “expatriate” even though they’re immigrating to another country.
Immigrant has always been a racial slur.
More than half the country can’t read at a sixth grade reading level, they read below that.
I think we should be far more worried about basic literacy in general.
If you can’t fucking read, you don’t usually do a whole lot of it.