TheSaneWriter @ TheSaneWriter @lemmy.thesanewriter.com Posts 7Comments 447Joined 2 yr. ago
There are fundamental differences between physical and digital surveillance, namely when you are in a public space there is no expectation of privacy because there are other people there looking at you. When there are other people there that can actually see you, a camera also watching doesn't make much of a difference.
Absolutely. Turning those features off is a safety risk and should probably be illegal. Imagine the world of cringe where you tried to pull on your seatbelt but it was locked because you didn't pay for your seatbelt subscription.
State-run authoritarian economies generally aren't so money-obsessed that they pull weird shit like this, but generally suffer from drastic inequality, distribution inefficiency, and a general lack of freedom and innovation. The most effective economic models from what I've seen are hybrid models, with a regulated market system with some nationalized industries. Morally though, I also believe that a nation's economic system should be democratic and that people should have a say in how their workplace is run and who their workplace leadership should be.
At Toyota, you pay for the premium shit to get installed, you most certainly do not pay a fee (recurring or otherwise) for them to turn it on.
It's really cool they're considering a Mac version of Proton, it shows to me a more genuine attempt to improve the gaming ecosystem than I'd expect from most companies.
It really is, it's how my probability class finally got me to understand why this solution is true.
Indeed, for better or worse nothing here is private. My instance database has all user activity stored even from other instances, such is the nature of ActivityPub.
To be fair, the platform is not free, the instance admins pay for it. Also to be fair my instance currently only costs $7 a month, but that's more than nothing.
I hadn't heard free as in beer free before, apologies, I was just being a pedantic ass.
I'm not using a DNS ad-blocker and I've only seen two or three ads over hours on the service. I personally find that tolerable, but to each their own.
I don't think Connect is open-source. To my knowledge, it's similar to Sync and Boost, a single developer working on the app as a passion project.
I'm taking a more free-spirited approach to my instance, communities can be formed as the users please here. The ideal would be lots of medium-sized instances each with a few large communities, but ultimately people will join where they want and we don't have much control over it.
If you're a big player on your instance it may be courteous to make a goodbye post, but I think you're probably just free to go. While most public instances like to have more members to some extent (including me, as a Lemmy instance admin), the largest plus of federation is it's cool for people to shift around, the content will still spread.
Unironically yes, Putin is like Hitler in some notable ways and is in fact very bad.
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Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Often companies will pretend they can drag out a case for years when they can't, and simply hope no one calls their bluff.
Kinda. Lemmy doesn't have anywhere near 50 million users, but the thousands we do have is enough to keep the community churning away.
The government needs to hold firm; if they want more money they need to fulfill their commitments first. America as a nation will only improve if we stop tolerating corporations gaming the system.
A capital gains tax works well for the rich that have the majority of their wealth tied up in stocks.
This is honestly a great experience, the app has integrated with my instance perfectly. Impressive work!
Honestly, I think anything involving any sort of cat is welcome here, especially that very good cat in a perfectly sized box.