icydefiance

joined 1 year ago
[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well yeah, they're just blocking known fingerprinting services. If you use a tool that they don't recognize, it'll still work, but their approach will still block the big companies that can do the most harm with that data.

The only alternative is probably to disable WebGL entirely, which isn't a reasonable thing to do by default.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Yeah, I manage the infrastructure for almost 150 WordPress sites, and I moved them all to ARM servers a while ago, because they're 10% or 20% cheaper on AWS.

Websites are rarely bottlenecked by the CPU, so that power efficiency is very significant.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Sure, if she finds a lawyer who will work pro bono.

Even then, she and her son will be homeless for a long time before winning anything.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This is the stupidest thing I've read today.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Google is buying your data, not selling it. They use it to make their ad platform more effective, and selling the data would just help their competitors.

The NSA does collect data from third parties like Google, but not just anyone can buy it from them.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

unless a progressive third party emerges the system will keep getting worse

If a progressive third party emerges, they'll split the vote with Democrats, making both of them weaker. That'll just give every election to Republicans and make the country get worse even faster.

The only way to get progressive candidates is by moving the Overton window to the left, and the only way to do that is by voting for Democrats.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Ford didn't even claim that he invented the automobile. However, he did make the manufacturing process a lot faster, and therefore cheaper, so he was the first to sell them at a price that most people could afford.

He was also a turbo-racist who Hitler saw as an inspiration, but that's a different subject.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Tourists choose the safest areas of the country to visit, and they don't stay very long, so yeah that makes sense. You're not really escaping gun violence in the USA if you only leave the country for a few days, though.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Google "us homicide rate" and then "mexico homicide rate". It'll take you 5 seconds.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Canada would be. Mexico's homicide rate is almost 5x higher than the USA.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

He's a human trafficker and a rapist. The women in his videos don't have a choice but to do what he says.

view more: next ›