They could do it by not uploading any of the data, or if they do, uploading it encrypted with the only key being on the user’s device or a passcode.
Both are well established ways to secure data, but the company itself would not be able to interact with the data at all past storing it, so any features/revenue there would end.
“Free and open source software.” It’s an ethos that says that code should be free and open for people to use and improve as they see fit. The core of it is that if you modify any software that is FOSS, your software must also be FOSS. So overtime the software and what its used for improve, change, widen. Lucky for us, the movement has been ongoing for 50+ years, so it’s a mature ethos whose benefits are everywhere. Most of the internet runs on FOSS. Lemmy itself is FOSS.
It doesn’t necessarily mean an app is more private, but it does mean you can generally self host, as the commentor said. There isn’t a profit motive with most FOSS, at least not at its core, so there is little desire to data harvest generally. There is also a heavy overlap between FOSS advocates and privacy advocates, so they tend to be more privacy conscious via local data storage or encryption.
Nah, it clearly appeals to a subset of voters in some democracies, and those voters apparently turn out.
Its a threat to woman that if they don’t get married young and have babies, the government will hurt them.
That it. Do what we say or else. The standard conservative line with women.
With trumps win, expect more of this. Being a complete piece of shit clearly works, so this will only escalate. Getting attention, even by being a vile misogynist, is a winning move now.
Nope, not how our system works. A federal ban would override state law.
The situation would at best mimic legal weed. The feds can 100% legally raid weed stores right now in the majority of states, but doing so is seen as pointless and would be politically unpopular.
The difference between weed stores and abortion clinics is that while both weed and abortion are popular, abortion is easier to villify and attack. They also don’t make anywhere near as much money as weed and require doctors to operate, so you have a much higher risk and much lower reward to fight the federal law on a local level.
He forgave 170 billion dollars, the largest amount by far any president has ever forgiven. It’s not even close.
He also tried to forgive 400billion, but the conservative supreme court Trump appointed the first time shot it down.
He still tried several other avenues, all that have been stopped by federal Trump appointed judges, and will clearly end now.
With manchin and semina voting no on pretty much every bill in 2020, and a divided congress in 2022, what the fuck else was he supposed to do?
Pre-prod is ideal, but a pipe dream for many. Lots of folks barely get prod.
We still stagger patching so things like this only wipe some of the critical infrastructure, but that still causes needless issues.
He will be sentenced in September.
No, not so much. The judge pushed this back. Maybe next September.
Hes a long term buddy of the chief deputy, so that did it for him. The chief said he’s known him for 40 years and doesn’t think this outburst will impact his policing.
So instead of getting reprimanded in any real sense or getting fired, he got a strongly worded letter and had to make a public apology that let him blame it all on Ambien.
Lawyers making up insane defenses doesn’t mean they have the law on their side. They hail mary all the time.
No, he’s got bullet proof glass. He pointed towards the press pit when he said that.
Hes saying hes okay with someone shooting at the press.
Here’s a list from just that rally:
Former president Donald Trump hosted a rally where speakers made numerous vulgar and racist remarks inside New York’s Madison Square Garden on Sunday.
Speakers at the rally called Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, “the Antichrist” and attacked Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee eight years ago, as a “sick son of a b****.”
Speakers also made racist comments about Latinos and Black people, both key voting blocs in the election that is just over a week away. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe branded Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” said Latinos love “making babies” and joked about “carving watermelons” with a Black friend for Halloween, while radio host Sid Rosenberg called the event “a Nazi rally.”
Here, Newsweek rounds up some of the most shocking comments made at the rally.
Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024, in New York City. Several speakers made vulgar and racist remarks at the rally. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
‘Floating Island of Garbage’
Tony Hinchcliffe, a stand-up comic, said: “I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah. I think it’s called Puerto Rico.”
Trump senior adviser Danielle Alvarez told Newsweek that the “joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”
‘These Latinos, They Love Making Babies’
“Believe it or not, people, I welcome migrants to the United States of America with open arms. And by open arms, I mean like this,” Hinchcliffe said, while waiving his hands and mouthing: “No, go back.”
He added: “It’s wild. And these Latinos, they love making babies too, just know that. They do, they do. There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country.”
‘We Carved Watermelons Together’
Hinchcliffe also pointed to a man in the audience before saying: “That’s cool, Black guy with a thing on his head. What the hell is that, a lamp shade? Look at this guy! Oh, my goodness. Wow! I’m just kidding, that’s one of my buddies. He had a Halloween party last night. We had fun, we carved watermelons together. It was awesome!”
Harris Is ‘the Antichrist’
“In fact, she is the devil, whoever screamed that out. She is Antichrist,” said David Rem, a sanitation worker billed as Trump’s childhood friend, although it has been reported the pair met for the first time just two weeks ago.
Harris and ‘Pimp Handlers’
“Kamala Harris is the least qualified candidate to ever run for any political office in American history,” businessman Grant Cardone told the crowd.
“She makes her boss look competent. She’s a fake. I’m not here to invalidate her. She’s a fake, a fraud. She’s a pretender. Her and her pimp handlers will destroy our country. They will.”
‘Nazi rally’
“I just got back from Israel about two weeks ago. They love Trump in Israel. Just you know, they love him,” radio personality Sid Rosenberg said.
“I get back and they go, ‘Sid, you want to speak at this MSG thing?’ I go, ‘Sure—out of character for me to speak at a Nazi rally. I was just in Israel.’ But I took the gig.”
‘Sick Son of a B****’
“She is some sick b******, that Hillary Clinton, huh?” Rosenberg said. “What a sick son of a b****. The whole f****** party. A bunch of degenerates. Lowlives, Jew-haters, and lowlives. Every one of 'em. Every one of 'em.”
Just so no one mistakes the above as hyperbolic, musk actually said this during an engineering meeting. His engineers kept telling him why Tesla needed the extra sensors, and he replied “people just have eyes and they can drive.”
Anytime someone tries to play him off an engineer or anything but a lucky gambler and flim flam man, just remember the above.
Hes been high on his own supply for too long. He thinks everything he touches will succeed just because.
Sure. This article is basically right wing talking heads, but it notes those ads are coming from the Harris campaign.
This is nonsense.
FPTP voting means there are 2 viable options only. If you don’t vote for the “lesser evil,” you are voting for the “greater evil.”
Choosing to not make a choice is still a choice. Voting for “not Harris” is the exact same thing as voting for “yes Trump” in our system.
You’re voting for the greater evil by voting for Jill Stein, which is exactly what her and her partners Putin and Trump want.
Coordinating directly with Putin, the oligarch dictator of Russia, who is currently engaged in a genocide in Ukraine, to elect Trump, a US presidential candidate that has told Israel it “needs to finish the job,” a person whose son in law has said gaza is “excellent beach front property,” and who hid the number of drone strikes and their casualties caused during his admin, is the lesser evil?
I’d call the above stupid, not its far to disingenuous to be an actual real perspective.
I’m fine with a stern look, a firm handshake, and a full body kick off a 10th story balcony.
Look for local paper election guides online first. They will often go into the records of more obscure races.
Email was invented in 1983.
It was revolutionary, the utter example of a “killer app” that had people and businesses running out to buy computers just to replace paper memos. You setup your mail server to hook into that brand new, stunning ecosystem of near instant communication from across the world.
Now there are 6,000,000,000 “killer” apps you can install in seconds from your pocket computer. I can hit “install” and be talking face to face with a stranger in Singapore in 30 seconds, all from easy, low effort walled gardens.
Federation was and is a reasonable way to host things, but comparing current systems to email is a misnomer. People dealt with federation because they had to. If gmail has existed in 1983, no one would have had their own federated email servers. Hell, AOL tried to choke the internet itself to death and almost succeeded in the early 90s because it was an “all in one” solution. They had aol only webpages and everything, including email. Its a twist of fate that they failed, mainly due to the onset of always on broadband, not because people didn’t want things easy.
Make things easy, people will use it. They will only do hard if they have to.