Hawkernews being unhinged capitalists as always:

aeternum: 18h

Sad.

And perhaps a controversial take but consider the counterfactual: Should it be illegal to fire employees that recent took mental health leave? Get a bad review or put on a PIP? It's already becoming a common strategy to immediately take mental health/sick leave.

0xbadc0de5: 3h

This is sad and tragic but ultimately I don't think Mongo bares any responsibility here. If her partner left her while she was having a prolonged mental health crisis, would her partner be to blame for her suicide? I would argue: no.

You're just an expendable cog to the money machine to techbros.

SAVE THE CHILDREN

No, not those dying of gun violence

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And even worse are the people looking forward to this

You know Russia invaded Ukraine and has been in war for some time now, right?

I don't know what the west is "planning", but Russia invaded first, so fuck em(the gov and its supporters).

There was an app called Taomix on Android, where you could add sounds on the screen around a marker and the volume of the sounds would vary according to the distance between sound and the marker.

Like you could place a windchime near the marker and birds chirping or a river stream sound a little further away. You could always have new combinations, so that sounds weren't repetitive.

You could then swipe the marker with a push and it would bounce around the screen creating a dynamic sound like passing through a stream or birds singing on your walk.

Then it got bought out by a company and they made a new version with sounds as an in-app purchase, while the previous app was a single purchase.

Then I stopped using it.

Android is actually your friend, Google is not. You can take Google out of Android but not Android out of Google.

There's a decade of custom ROMs to prove it, unlike an iPhone where someone else dictates every aspect for you. There's way ahead in performance, but that's all gone to waste for power users. Even their browser is like the the ones you used to have on flip phones.

I was hoping the recent monopoly suit to be anything other than a wrist slap for google, but that's too much to expect from US.

They should also fund the projects that they're using. Then everyone benefits.

requires a victim to first install a malicious app on an Android phone or tablet.

Okay, that's not so bad

The app, which requires no system permissions, can then effectively read data that any other installed app displays on the screen.

but the researchers said a modified version of the attack works even when the update is installed.

Holy fuck, how the fuck does this even happen? No permission but still read screen data? That's a horrible flaw. Does google intentionally do this so they can read all user activity ever? And even their fixes are flawed? Fuck

Getting off with just a wrist slap on their monopoly trial has embolden them. They think they're untouchable now. I wouldn't be surprised they have a backroom deal with the feds too.

Google's terms and conditions are consistently draconian and stupid.

They are not stupid, they are just intentionally malicious.

The developer chose the correct platform for that then. It's an apple only app.

His excuse? Android requires him to store databases of user IDs, but Apple does it themselves so it's more "private". There are tons of opensource push notification platforms available on Android that you can sideload. But seems like the developer wants the limelight than anything.

Also my honeypot senses are tingling.

Reddit at this point a psyop for multiple different countries, political parties, celebrities, influenzars and such. US, Israel, China, Russia, India, Pakistan, and others have Internet task force to push propaganda and limit negative PR.

Votes aren't public in reddit and is a great cover for hiding any coordinated influence. Keep creating new accounts, make it seem natural by posting on random subs, use old accounts for posts/comments and new accounts for votes. To an unsuspecting user, nothing seems out of ordinary.

On ActivityPub all votes are public and manipulation can be detected or analyzed now or in future. Instance admins could check this and see a pattern. And there are many many many instances, so any one might run into something.

Also mod logs are public in lemmy, unlike reddit. Censorship from mods and admins are already a constant cause for drama but makes it a lot more transparent for the community.

So it's less influential. So, they try to dissuade people from making Lemmy and Mastodon less interesting.

I'm not saying it's not possible here, but it's too early and needs a lot more work than reddit. People already do not interact with users from instances they dislike. You already see some patterns in how users of instance behave and avoid them.