Oculus Quest user breaks neck, then Facebook deletes his account - https://www.reddit.com/r/oculus/comments/kg1761/after_posting_about_breaking_my_neck_while/
FTC Issues Orders to Nine Social Media and Video Streaming Services - https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/12/ftc-issues-orders-nine-social-media-video-streaming-services-0
Suspected Russian hackers spied on U.S. Treasury emails: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-cyber-amazon-com-exclsuive-idUSKBN28N0PG
A must-read for everyone who still believes that backdoors would be a good idea! Here's our view on why we must never allow encryption backdoors: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk/
real talk:
climate change is serious, and we need to take serious, large-scale action to mitigate it.
when i say #bancars , this is shorthand. but: don't be stressing about your personal issues, *like that guardian article says*, addressing climate change is about society-wide choices. and as a society, we have chosen cars to transport us. this is not about you, or your job, or your kids.
reliance on personal automobiles needs to stop at the society level. this is not about you.
@RobinHood Jesus is god's fursona
Everybody who wasn't able to work,... during #Google downtime had to face the consequences of questionable decisions of the past.
#decentralization
Got stabbed in the back by Nike… Bought a new design iteration of their Pegasus shoes after going through three of them before. And they just completely changed them into a thicker, stiffer concrete blocks of a shoe which ruin my feet.
#google spokespersons frequently lie and say the search results are a result of some "algorithm". That's simply not true. Google has about 100k people, mostly contractors, (that's a lot, isn't it) who manually ranks websites based on a set of guidelines. It's not AI, or some "algorithm", deciding what you do and don't find using Google.
The guidelines they are using:
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/guidelines.raterhub.com/en//searchqualityevaluatorguidelines.pdf
The YouTube Ban Is Un-American, Wrong, and Will Backfire - https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-youtube-ban-is-un-american-wrong
Parler’s downloads fell off a cliff - https://gizmodo.com/parler-s-downloads-fell-off-a-cliff-1845854736
Mathematics doctorate student completing a thesis. Likes hanging out with almost everyone regardless of political views or pretty much anything else.
Pleroma: @mathlover,
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