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Because sanctions (on the Internet) will radicalize younger people. Iran happens to have an abundance of them: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f9/Ir...

If you want to help them, you don't do so by cutting them access to the information. Iran is not a dictatorship, it's a theocracy. Like literally everywhere else, the more people are educated, the less likely they are to let religion govern their lives.

Young women are already protesting compulsory hijabs since December 2017: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017%E2%80%9319_Iranian_protes...

Now I understand that you're from Israel which makes you too affected to look at the problem objectively, but the best way to help young people under an oppressive regime is to stay the fuck away and let them do what they must. The worst thing you could possibly do is to give them additional boundaries that they have to go through to access the information from the outside.

> Anyway, I wonder why DuckDuckGo is choosing Apple Maps. It makes no sense IMO from a user experience perspective.

It makes sense from a privacy perspective. Both of the companies are probably aware of the fact that Apple Maps are really fucking bad at the moment. So was DDG at the beginning. It's incredibly difficult to offer a product that matches Google's when you're two decades behind. The only way to improve is to gather more data. You don't need to collect personal data in order to improve the service, just data in general.

Including Apple Maps in a privacy-first search engine gives Apple the marketing boost in their target market: relatively rich people that do have something to hide. If you use a privacy-aware search engine, and you see that search engine partnering with Apple, it's easier to believe that Apple truly is privacy aware. I still have my doubts, but they're slowly but surely diminishing.

From DDG's perspective, it gives them relevance. They're no longer just a small player in the market trying to make a name for themselves. They're big enough to be able to partner with Apple. This isn't their first collaboration neither: Safari was the first major browser that included their search engine out of the box (Firefox was the second one, about two months later).

It also makes perfect sense for them to stick together, because their ultimate goal is the same: to offer an alternative to surveillance capitalism. It still doesn't make much sense in the short run, but it makes perfect sense in the long run. The more people distrust Google/Facebook/Microsoft/Amazon, the more they're gonna look for the alternatives. DDG, Apple, and similar companies just need to be stubborn. The market will find them, not the other way around.

A woman? No, sorry, try again.

Here's an article[0] from October. Relevant quote:

> After publication of this article, Sundar Pichai, Google’s chief executive, and Ms. Naughton wrote in an email to employees that the company had fired 48 people for sexual harassment over the last two years and that none of them received an exit package.

Unless you believe that 48 people were fired for sexually abusing the exact same woman, the problem is a bit more... shall we say widespread?

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

Glad we agree!

Yeah, it's almost as if I lived in that "but what about men's issues?" bullshit a few years previously. The only difference between us two is that I snapped out of it.

You do understand it, you just refuse to understand it.

But to answer your question, yes. If enough women were affected that they felt compelled to step out, and men didn't, that's clearly a gender bias issue.

> I mean, they can be, but is there any reason to believe they are?

Yes, there is: women stepped forward.

> Have male leaders of similar protests been treated better?

Men either haven't experienced the same, or they are keeping their mouth shut.

In both scenarios, women should be supported. If men step forward, so should they. They didn't so far (or at least, not in large enough numbers for such a protest to be reported), so based on the data we have available to us, the problem affects women way more than it affects men.

The one you've responded to was clearly making fun of the one who dismissed the issues as "politics".

As a rebuttal:

> We are not anti-union, but we are not neutral either.

https://youtu.be/AQeGBHxIyHw

Of course they're gonna say that. All of the other countries listed in that article didn't, so quite a cherry pick you got there.

There's precisely two ways of increasing the profit: 1) raise the prices, or 2) reduce the costs.

Amazon took the second route. They still can't automate everything. If they could, they'd do so already. Workers are what keeps Amazon alive today, even if that might not be the case in the future.

It's unavoidable in the short term. Way too many websites use AWS for a consumer to boycott them, and if you're using it within a company, you can't switch away easily on a short notice.

But I agree, if you work for a company that relies on AWS, now is the perfect time to re-examine that decision. They were the first ones to fulfill a niche, but there's a bunch of competition now.

Just a casual reminder that a portion of Amazon workers are on a strike during the Prime Days.

Support them by not visiting any Amazon property for the next two days. No Amazon purchases, no Audible, no Goodreads, no Twitch. AWS is kinda unavoidable, but the rest is not. We can do without them for two days, and show our support for the workers that are protesting inhumane conditions.

It's always because of the ads.

Whenever you're wondering why the video is too long, or why the author is somewhat rambling around the point, or why they include those "like and subscribe" sections in every video (sometimes at the beginning, because you'd close the tab otherwise), the answer is always to find that sweet spot that accommodates the ads. It's also why channels tend to upload videos of similar length, regardless of the topic. Sometimes they have to cut the script short, other times they have to find a way to lengthen it.

In general, I'd agree. In my specific example, I don't. The title I've gained in high school is "computer technician".

Not everyone needs to know the alternatives, but people with my title are in the perfect position to lead the way. The alternative (as in, MS products in general) is pretty much just bashing our heads against the wall repeatedly and crossing our fingers in hope that a reinstall would fix things.

MS products work fine if our goal is to have returning customers. If it's someone closer than that (and willing to actually listen), they end up with Ubuntu (+ Skype), and the problem goes away permanently.

I believe Microsoft isn't innocent in this at all.

Every school in my city used to pirate every Microsoft product there is. I was taught how to pirate their stuff as a part of my curriculum. Now they don't, but now they're tied to Office 365 via a multi-year contract.

Nobody knew they were looking to make things legal beforehand, so nobody could offer them LibreOffice installation and support before Microsoft. There were no calls for proposals or public discussions, just news stories after the contract got signed. Us who knew better were genuinely baffled by what we could have done to avoid this situation.

I believe that they're unique in a sense that nobody has typed in that exact query previously.

Of course, Google knows better but to treat every search query literally. Slight deviations and synonyms work for the majority of the people, even if us techies highly oppose them and look for alternative solutions (like DDG) that still treat our searches quite literally.

I've seen the same in Amsterdam, but I believe it's important to understand why they do that.

According to additional anecdotal evidence, no cash what so ever is their way of reducing the odds of a burglary. Within myriads of shops, one shop that doesn't offer cash payments is way less likely to be broken into.

Yes, it's a person using a female character in-game. No way of determining the gender of the player behind that character. Hence, a gender-neutral term.

Science is never "settled". Instead, there's a consensus that most scientists agree on and build on top of.

Building on top of the consensus usually explains things — until it doesn't. Then they try to tweak that consensus in order to explain stuff that can't be explained otherwise.

Occasionally, you reach a limit in which there's way too many things that don't fit into the consensus that tweaking it is no longer possible. Then, someone proposes a paradigm shift that explains some of the new inconsistencies, and the rest of the scientists reexamine their previous "facts" in order to make them fit with the new consensus.

Let's use Pluto as an example. We were all convinced that there were 9 planets in the Solar System, and counted Pluto as the last one. Then, we've discovered more of Pluto-like planets, and discovered that Pluto is no more special than the rest of them. So, we redefined the term planets, introduced a new term called dwarf planets, and put Pluto into it alongside Ceres (that we knew of before Pluto, but decided to ignore), Haumea, Makemake, and Eris. Now, "must clear its orbit" is a prerequisite for the term "planet", while the objects that don't clear their orbits (but satisfy other rules for a "planet") fit into the term "dwarf planet".

Yeah, I've been using DDG for years, but I just can't get "Google it" out of my dictionary. I try to replace it with "Duck it", which feels stupid as fuck to say, but "Google it" doesn't feel any better.

Oh yeah, poor endangered drivers. Why does nobody think about them?

Injury =/= death. If you swerve off the road, you have airbags. If a car behind you hits you, again, you have airbags. You have tons of metal shielding you from a collision, insurance that is supposed to take care of the situations that can't be blamed on you, and airbags and seat belts that are supposed to reduce the consequences of a collision.

Pedestrians have none of that. Where I come from, this (alongside first-aid skills) is the very first thing you learn on your way of getting a driver's license, before road signs and traffic rules are even mentioned.

Because your life, as a driver, is shielded by a huge metal can. Pedestrian life is not. Pedestrians can't put your life in danger, while you can put their life in danger.

That's why, in "normal" countries, it's always the driver that needs to be questioned by default, not the pedestrian. If the driver proves that he did all he could to avoid the accident, he faces no consequences. If not, he faces them.

This really isn't that complicated. It's okay for the pedestrian to not respect all the rules because he's not in the position in which he can put other people's lives in danger — only his own. Drivers are willingly putting themselves in a situation in which they can put other people's lives in danger, so the burden of proof is on them.

Fair enough. I've used that term because I wanted to represent them as left-leaning "saviors" (as in, opposition to PragerU, Shapiro, JBP, Crowder, and the rest of the shit on YouTube that only reinforces bigotry) without my comment getting flagged.

Here's how Mastodon does it: the owner's account is visible from the homepage of the node, the owner of every node that Mastodon includes on its homepage has agreed to give at least a three-month warning before shutting down, as well as to decentralize the control of the server to at least two individuals: https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

I assume that Pixelfed wants to do something similar, but a little bit further down the line. As far as I'm aware, Pixelfed's current goal is to encourage people to start their own servers instead of relying on the main one. Whenever they feel like the main servers are gaining too much control of the network, they close the registration in order to pivot people to other nodes. Once other nodes start to stand out, Pixelfed will probably have more strict guidelines on which ones to link to.

May I suggest Jim Sterling's video on the problem? If you can get past his snarky way of addressing the problem, that is: https://youtu.be/twor6RYVtdQ

In short, G2A pretends that the problem isn't big enough, but indie developers disagree. It's taking them far too much time and money to deal with the abuses from their side, and G2A caters to AAA titles (that can afford to deal with these issues) in order to downgrade the size of the problem.

Edit: Hi G2A employees! This comment went from +5 to 0 in like five minutes.

Your user experience will be the same regardless of which node you choose, since you can follow people regardless of what node they're using. Every user account is constructed as @user@pixelfed.tld.

But, yeah, onboarding is a rough problem to solve when your goal isn't for one server to contain all the data. It requires learning some new stuff that I couldn't be bothered to learn for far too long. If privacy-conscious people aren't willing to learn them, nobody will and these projects will just die.

Full stack development. His work hours have recently been cut, so if you know of a freelance project or a full-time position that needs to be fulfilled, get in touch with him: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/102409415828557030

Ah, too bad. It's the crappiest of the bunch UX-wise, but nothing comes close to it feature-wise.

I don't use it to read (I have an e-reader for that purpose), but I'd be lost without Calibre for ebook management.

And if you're into political stuff and want to actually have your views challenged instead of reinforced, on top of Philosophy Tube I'd also recommend: ContraPoints, Some More News, Shaun, Innuendo Studios, Three Arrows.

Huh? From a quick skim here[0], they don't collect IP addresses, respect DNT headers, and delete user agents after 90 days.

I legitly can't think of a more privacy-friendly way to do that. If you're paranoid enough to believe that no analytics is the only right solution, you probably have DNT on, and this is one of the rare cases in which it's actually respected.

[0] https://docs.simpleanalytics.com/what-we-collect