Armand1 @ Armand1 @lemmy.world

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Does a trans rights protest count? Big turnout today.

Well, that's not necessarily true.

Some apps, alongside providing their core functionality, such as messaging, also collect a lot of information from all the permissions they are granted on your device.

Think for example constant location tracking or collecting your contacts, as I believe Facebook Messenger does.

It could be possible to provide a front-end that blocks certain requests or spoofs information.

Of course, that doesn't stop them from collecting information you directly provide to them by using the service, such as profile information, direct messages, interactions etc.

I suppose you could use these services as a skulker which doesn't have an account (or a semi-anonymous one) whilst denying all permissions and providing as little information as possible. It's not wholy black and white.

That said, I do recommend not using these platforms at all if you can. Use alternative platforms that provide similar services. Lemmy vs Reddit is a good example.

It's just not always practical advice for everyone, given that some people have jobs that require social media, or have no other means of contacting some relatives and friends.

I use Mullvad for their privacy. Not sure if they would fit your needs.

I've genuinely spent over an hour sending silly emoji kitchen emojis back and forth with my brother before.

Is your driving instructor Yoda?

Nope. I complain when it affects me and disadvantaged people. Regardless of the party in power.

Politicians are not your friends and should be held accountable.

The rich and privileged don't need or deserve more stuff, so I don't feel bad for them if they are negatively impacted (within reason)

Now he just looks like everyone's racist great-uncle.

Maybe it's Donald Trump then?

No, wait, that's Cuckoo Felon.

Make America checks notes Poor Again!

It's a YouTube channel for toddlers.

Do these people exist or are they just strawmen? I've not really ever encountered so-called "tankies".

Every left leaning person I've actually met are against authoritarianism.

https://uk.pcmag.com/social-media/151330/meta-adds-interoperability-with-signals-tech-for-whatsapp-messenger-in-eu

For what it's worth my company (a small-medium software company) still do pretty normal three stage person-to-person zoom interviews that actually test your capabilities to do the job we hire for.

I run some of them myself.

Nah I think it will just be

    
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Do what I did a few months back and switch to Obsidian.

Especially if you write any code. It's way better for that.

You will need to either

• Pay for their sync at $5/m (hugely overpriced imo)
• Use your own sync solution like Dropbox, Google Drive, Resilio Sync or Syncthing.

I bought it for $90 in 2020.

The Nazis praised the US's "scientific" approach to racism and eugenics.

Measuring people's heads; IQ tests served in a person's non-native language and relied on specific knowledge of American culture; Plain old racist rhetoric like calling people "dangerous", "criminals" with no evidence. (Sound familiar?)

Anything to prove that black and foreign people were inferior and should be exploited, in a classic "we know the answer and we must cherry pick the data to reach that conclusion".

A lot of these tools were taken up by the Nazis for their persecution of Jews, and now they're coming right back around.

This is an educated meme.

You beat me to it!

Pretty much what's been happening in the US government recently

Cool. Now let's make immigrants legally people in the US.