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Read the Whole Story of Andy and Proton's Politics Policy Please! Don't Come into conclusion based on the Titles

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  • Honestly yeah, I want to believe that it's a strategic move... I worry it's just what he truly believes though.

    • RuneScape is planning on introducing Black Mirror inspired membership plans

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  • It's definitely still an early access game, but it's progressing nicely, incredibly stable, charming, backed by a passionate team, and well priced.

    • RuneScape is planning on introducing Black Mirror inspired membership plans

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    • RuneScape is planning on introducing Black Mirror inspired membership plans

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  • Jagex is particularly guilty of this

    • Read the Whole Story of Andy and Proton's Politics Policy Please! Don't Come into conclusion based on the Titles

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  • Yeah... I think I'm going to stay with them but this was a really really dumb stunt he pulled.

    Maybe it's just to get favorable treatment for Proton but he's playing with fire especially as many people that value privacy the most are the people that need privacy from the kind of authoritarian strongmen like Trump.

    You're kind of scaring away the people that need you the most.

    • Read the Whole Story of Andy and Proton's Politics Policy Please! Don't Come into conclusion based on the Titles

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  • Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation. Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote.

    At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance.

    By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand.

    Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.

    Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

    I guess it was the initial one where he said the little guy stuff, regardless he doubles down on the partisan politics. This was posted through the official Proton account as well.

    Like, he had a bad expense with Chuck and basically nobody including 99% of Republicans showed up to his party ... So clearly we should all just forget all the other problematic stuff that Republicans have done.

    I think he doesn't get the part about US politics where most of the time party leaders won't bring bills unless they're major flag flying things (like immigration in the Republican House) or they'll actually pass.

    Privacy is neither for either party.

    • Read the Whole Story of Andy and Proton's Politics Policy Please! Don't Come into conclusion based on the Titles

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  • The worst part was not Andy's initial posts it was his initial "let me correct the narrative" follow ups where he went on to bash Democrats and call the Republicans the party of the little guy, which is in many ways untruthful.

    It's just a really bad look overall. This is basically how it started with us finding out Musk was such a mess too.

    • Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok if it's not sold by its Chinese parent company

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    • Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok if it's not sold by its Chinese parent company

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  • I guess Biden isn't going to enforce it and Trump has promised not to as well. So... This sucks.

    • 1004 ft freight James Barker stuck in the ice last night in Cleveland

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  • Very cool, thanks for sharing!

    • Jagex outrages the Runescape community yet again, this time with a survey hinting at big price hikes and worse service for those who don't want to pay

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  • Everyone I know who actually pays to play Jagex games acts like it's meth or heroin...

    It's pretty far from that, but it is absolutely an abusive relationship and has been for some time.

    • YSK that if you weren't raised as a child you could ask ChatGPT about the things you were never taught.

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  • You should go talk to a therapist. I don't mean that to be mean, but you're clearly going through some stuff ... and that sucks but AI is a false prophet. It might make you feel better but it's no substitute for actual therapy, actual advice, and an actual support system.

    • US: Rather Than Ban TikTok, the Best Way to Protect App Users is to Strengthen Privacy, Transparency, and Security Protections Online, Freedom House Says

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    • mysql or postgresql? Which is better for an Internet-facing application

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  • PostgreSQL is just better. It's supports transactions on DDL (things like altering table structure) and enforces unique constraints after transactions complete ... so you can actually do a bunch of important stuff (like update your table structure or swap unique values between rows) safely.

    • Nintendo Switch 2 – First-look trailer

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  • 😱😱😱😱😱

    • Discord now properly supports screensharing on linux

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  • Oh what? It's out?? Hyppeee

    • Why does it seem like Americans have become so hateful and destructive in the past years?

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  • It's the old trope ... the perception of the future gets worse for some group and then society fractures into people that are willing to take ownership and do something about it vs people that accept polarized answers that "it's not their fault, they've been treated unfairly, and the other guy caused all their problems."

    Once you have a significant portion of people blaming "the other" society just stops working right and fights with itself. In many cases it's self imposed, but social media has added fuel to the fire and festered and inflamed old wounds (with the help of foreign governments seeking to do just that).

    We have half of society blaming liberals, gays, blacks, the poor, the colleges, and immigrants. Then we have the other half of society blaming conservatives, christians, old white men, the rich, hillbillies, and the uneducated.

    Frankly, we all need to take a chill pill and realize most people want to be left alone to do their own thing. Then we need to sit down at the table and look at which politicians are building bridges and which politicians are burning them. Most of us want similar things, we've just been conditioned to focus on our differences.

    • Anyone getting suspicious of the divisiveness and anti-American circle jerk on Lemmy?

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  • North Korea really is amazing isn't it?

    !If you don't get it, North Korea allegedly is a wonderful place to live with very high living standards but obviously isn't. Closed communication countries like China, North Korea, and increasingly Russia's claims about "how good things are" must be taken with an absolute grain of salt. Unfortunately, this list could even come to include the United States soon given Trump's desire to silence critics.!<

    • [Timothy Cain] Do Gamers Know What They Like?

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  • I didn't watch the video, but in my experience, no... They just have very strong ideas about what they don't like.

    • AliasVault | Open-Source Password & Alias Manager

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  • As someone that uses a custom domain for the majority of his email, it's not really a privacy thing, it's a control thing.

    I have hundreds of unique unpredictable email addresses and I can disconnect them at will to stop spam.