jarfil
@jarfil@lemmy.world
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
Calling ethnic discrimination “racial”, doesn’t make ethnicities into races.
well-known and accepted definition of race
That in itself, is racist.
Feel free to learn more: en.m.wikipedia.org/…/Race_(human_categorization)
- Comment on Instagram's monthly subscription 1 year ago:
Don’t be sorry, just don’t use downvotes to express your opinion… use your words.
If you don’t like my arguments, go ahead and propose others.
For starters, I see you referring to “case law”, which sounds like a US thing. In the EU, case decisions generally don’t shape the law, except Supreme Court decisions, and even then lawmakers can inform or reform those decisions. It’s usually more accurate to define a logical reasoning from the bare law, rather than expect decisions in one case to influence others.
What do you base your reasoning on?
- Comment on Instagram's monthly subscription 1 year ago:
IANAL, but… I don’t think the law says that? My understanding is that the points are not related to each other:
- You need prior explicit consent in order to gather non-essential tracking data
- You can charge any amount for any functionality
That would mean all these combinations would be allowed:
- Free, no tracking and no consent
- Free, prior consent for tracking
- Paid, no tracking and no consent
- Paid, prior consent for tracking
If a site decides to only implement numbers 2 and 3… there wouldn’t be any conflict.
Either everyone pays, or you have the right to privacy. Otherwise, long term, the internet will become divided and inaccessible to low income households. And that’s something the EU definitely doesn’t want to happen (net neutrality)
Net neutrality doesn’t apply to services, only to carriers, who are considered more like utilities, but still aren’t required to offer a “free” tier. Services don’t need to offer an option accessible to everyone at all, they can specify whatever requirements they want (with only a few exceptions related to discrimination).
Large social media platforms… is where current legislative efforts are in. Above a certain number of users, they’re getting defined more as utilities, and subject to more requirements, but still no “free” tier.
The internet divide exists already: some households can afford 1Gbps symmetric with Netflix, HBO and Disney+… while others can barely affford a prepaid 120MB/month mobile connection (good news is, that’s just 1€/month)
- Comment on Instagram's monthly subscription 1 year ago:
Don’t sell yourself short, you’re worth more than that, I believe in you… being able to generate tracking data worth more than that.
- Comment on Instagram's monthly subscription 1 year ago:
Nobody is forcing anyone, you are free to not use the service at any time.
What they’re doing is turning it into an explicitly paid sevice, and letting you choose whether you’d rather pay in money or in personal data.
- Comment on Instagram's monthly subscription 1 year ago:
Technically, there is no reason why there couldn’t be. You could even have ad bots follow you to send you targeted ads.
- Comment on Instagram's monthly subscription 1 year ago:
On Meta, you pay so they don’t use some of your data for showing you ads, while they collect tons more of data on you and sell it to the highest bidder.
On the Fediverse, you only give everyone access to all your published data for free to run whatever analysis they want on it… but at least you can choose from 1000+ different instances to pick the one that will be able to track your behavioral data.
- Comment on Instagram's monthly subscription 1 year ago:
You deleted your real Facebook account… but did you delete the anonymous shadow account…?
It’s not that Facebook hasn’t deleted the data from your real account, it’s that they keep tons of “anonymous” shadow accounts, each one of us probably has a dozen of them from different interactions with Facebook, and your new account most likely got suggestions from getting paired with those.
- Comment on Instagram's monthly subscription 1 year ago:
You can believe whatever you want. Google Music sent me a free Nest Mini back in the day, and paying for YouTube Pro is right now the cheapest way of having voice activated ad-free playlists on it.
But feel free to give me an alternative “script” that gets similar functionality for cheaper.
- Comment on Instagram's monthly subscription 1 year ago:
They set the price artificially high
Actually… it’s likely only slightly higher than what they get from ads per user, and still lower than what they get from compiling and selling all the information you agree to give them.
Users tend to severely underestimate how much their cumulative data can be sold for.
- Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 1 year ago:
Oh my, stop it… now the rear can also catch fire?! 🤣
just in case...
* brakes != breaks * youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?si=EsfrEZRoAQwPed6Y
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
pedantic_mode 1
You didn’t need to enable it again, since they forgot to disable it.
pedantic_mode 0
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
“What if technology was… (wait for it)… just technology, you ape with a gun”
Technology is neither good nor bad, it’s how you use it. The intent of Black Mirror is to make you think about how you use technology… but of course if you blame technology for your own actions, it doesn’t work.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
which race has the least amount of people
The “human” race.
There are no races of humans, “human” is the race.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
The smallest race is “human”.
If the aliens were to go through with actually eliminating the most voted “race”, they’d wipe out everyone.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
Inconceivable! Have you never seen a Chihuahua and a Doberman, or an American and… uh… bigfoot? fairies?.. yeah, that, tooth fairies! 🙈
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
Just make them look and sound as whatever stereotype they have for that race.
I’d watch that.
- Comment on The Aliens did a little trolling 1 year ago:
No problem, India has more
slavespeople already anyway. - Comment on They won't teach you this in Drivers Ed 1 year ago:
and the breaking is biased to the front.
What does that mean, the front falls off?
- Comment on The Peasant Life 1 year ago:
It’s not about the amount of horse shit, it’s about haw fast can you load it on the cart.
Once done, there is no more horse shit to load for the day. And if Timmy out there doesn’t feel like loading his half of the horse shit one day, you were allowed to punch some sense into that thick skull of his.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 1 year ago:
False.
My statement is about the relationship between sides, in reference to part of the previous comment, illustrated by what I recalled of a recent event, and how it ties into it.
If you want similar examples from different sides, you’ll find plenty of them both these days and throughout history.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 1 year ago:
But us onlookers can’t even know for sure what these frictions are, only speculate.
I’ve looked at an interview with an Israeli political sciences professor yesterday, that went something like this:
- Professor: "…and this is why countries like Israel have the right to defend themselves"
- Host: "Right. What about the Pales…"
- Professor: "That’s not an issue"
- Host: "There are civilian…"
- Profesor: "Israeli civilians have been harmed and we need to respond"
- Host: "Is the response proportion…"
- Professor: "Respond to destroy the terrorists"
- Host: "It seems like Gaza population is…"
- Professor: “Gaza is Israel, there is no population, we need to rid it of terrorists”
As an onlooker, I’d say that’s is a FREAKING HUGE “friction” when one side denies the existence of the other.
- Comment on Honest question: what was Hamas' long-game with respect to kidnapping Israelis? Did they think Israel would just negotiate rather than retaliate? 1 year ago:
The US never negotiates with “terrorists”, they fund “freedom fighters” to kill the terrorists and hopefully recover some of the hostages.
- Comment on For some reason, I'm doubtful. 1 year ago:
If it’s in perfect condition, and they valued it based on second hand retrocomputing market… probably a nice chunk of cash.
- Comment on well duh. 1 year ago:
Some more countries use FPTP to decide part of their representatives, just not for all of them.
Then again, some countries are also democratic monarchies, with different heir picking rules.
- Comment on well duh. 1 year ago:
He’s now.
- Comment on Praise Cheeses 1 year ago:
I’ll have some of the one for 0000.
- Comment on Panik 1 year ago:
= 10 × 3 + 7 × 3
Careful, that’s how you get a Facebook thread with people claiming 51 = 111… /s
- Comment on When a stranger ties their dog to your bike. 1 year ago:
A website? Ew. You’re one of those people using a laptop on the shitter, aren’t you… 😛
- Comment on The ultimate life hack the government doesn't want you to know 1 year ago:
So like, hypothetically, how much would one have to steal to get a 350… or being a Loch Ness Monster would be enough?