a polite remark, usually made by people when they first meet to show they are friendly

Aside from friendly intent I’d say it’s close enough

But this company is not paying Reddit for this, it seems like a way to avoid paying for ads

The allegation in regard to TikTok isn’t ‘dangerous speech’

…On the very surface level, sort of.

Romney replied, “Some wonder why there was such overwhelming support for us to shut down potentially TikTok or other entities of that nature. If you look at the postings on TikTok and the number of mentions of Palestinians, relative to other social media sites — it’s overwhelmingly so among TikTok broadcasts.”

The allegation in regard to TikTok isn’t ‘dangerous speech’, it’s the platform’s collection of user data and the manipulation of available content via an algorithm that they claim is a tool of a hostile foreign entity.

If the US government really cared about collection of user data and manipulation of content, they could demand things like increased transparency and open protocols for social media. Instead, they are here requiring that the issue be redressed with TikTok being shut down or handed over to a company subject to direct US influence and control.

This is indistinguishable from an act of censorship. If the government is intimately connected with the people and companies running the oligopoly of services which control moderation of virtually all public discourse in the US, when it uses force to defend that oligopoly and eliminate competition that is not in the club it is abridging the freedom of speech, even if it is doing so through one layer of proxy.

Damn. Thanks for the info

Normally, offloading cryptography to a different hardware module could be seen as a good thing — but with nonfree software, it can only spell trouble for the user…

Could someone explain more about this? What about TPM + proprietary OS is bad? What are the risks here?

For me the image is so high resolution I had to zoom out to see it, try going directly to it https://ttrpg.network/pictrs/image/ffd95bfe-89cb-4b66-8e67-a6716d85b9c8.jpeg

I keep bash scripts on my desktop to do common things

Depending on what it is, publishing on i2p could just be a way to get it out there initially after which other interested parties would seed it elsewhere

I remember the lore already being convoluted 20 years ago lol

I keep my ereader by my bed and my phone in the other room, so procrastinating getting out of bed is my reading time.

Yes, if you live in first or second world country which government monitor every movement from citizens

They also try to monitor everyone else in the world

I think maybe they are one of those people who equates transgender hormone treatment and/or sex ed that includes information on homosexuality to sexual abuse, not sure what else this vagueposting would be about

Just drink it

Oh, the way I read it it seemed like they were saying perceptual hashes used to be easier to calculate

Why “no longer”?

What does this mean practically? Are they not allowed to sell it some places anymore if it’s 18+?

There reaches a point with vaporware projects where it’s like, actually release something or I don’t care anymore, it doesn’t deserve to keep getting press

It’s really unfortunate how things are set up legally so that most of the time mobile homes don’t come with property rights to the land under them. Would be a great option for affordable housing otherwise.

I upvoted because I’m generally excited by the idea of software that lets you interact with different social media via one interface. Idk if the project itself is good but it seems like a neat idea.

seems plausible it could be a legal concern about being sued for defamation