German trans woman (female pronouns) pursuing a cryptography-PhD in the Netherlands.
Okay, this really seems more like a case of sexual harassment, rather than harassment of Waymo customers, which was my first suspicion. Had it been the latter as part of a politically motivated action against the company I might have had a lot more sympathy, but this is disgusting…
That “m” should be a “b”. For a company that size, there is truly no excuse!
Even worse, imagine how woke the books of Karl May (not to be confused with Karl Marx) the most successful German author of all time that were originally published in book form in the 1890s [sic] would be if they came out today:
The foreword to the main trilogy would be so spicy that no modern English translation would include it. Like: He would call out the genocide of the native Americans as such and explicitly assign the full guilt for the decline of their cultures to the whites.
He would have the author-self-insert heroes telling people that use the N-word that “Once they scrape you into the ground, your white-skinned body will become straight and exactly as much a stinking carcass as a negro corpse. You will admit that, and now have the goodness to list your other merits!”
He would have trans coded characters being presented in an unambigously positive light.
And so many more incredibly woke things, like trash talking Christians that don’t respect all other humans and do evil shit…
I’m not advocating against a seatbelt, I’m advocating against not wearing it, “because I am confident that I can hold on to something in case of a collision” or similar stupid reasons. Expecting that blocking does anything to hide public posts that you can simply open in another browser (or in the same browser in private browsing mode) is not a seatbelt, it is the equivalent of a slightly stronger handle on top of the car window that is being advertized as a feature to protect you in case of an accident.
This change first and foremost makes it clear that that handle does nothing meaningful and that you should wear an actual seatbelt (follower-only posts, ideally with restricted followers) instead, if you are worried about a collision. Twitter is a public forum. You can’t tell people to leave you alone, shout with a megaphone across the marketplace and then be annoyed when they hear you. If you don’t want them to hear you, don’t use a megaphone.
The argument here is literally about stalkers. Not about random uninterested people that don’t care.
Please read again what he changed and then try to figure out why your rationale is clearly not what this is about.
Twitter massively reduced visibility for logged-out users,
I know, but it still didn’t fully remove it.
Not sure that being “more honest” is worth the price
The thing is that there really is no price, nor was there ever one. Your suggestion that you think there is demonstrates that the way blocking worked gave people dangerously wrong ideas. It’s about being clear to people what they can and cannot expect. Anything else is ACTUALLY dangerous.
As much as I despise Musk and Twitter and hope that both die a painful death, what is actually proposed here is honestly a change for the better: It’s not about preventing people from blocking users, it’s about blocked users being able to see public posts, which they could also see by just logging out. This is being honest about what a block does and avoids giving people a wrong sense of privacy that they simply don’t have on the platform. From what I’ve heard there is a possibility to post for followers-only which in combination with requiring approval to follow and that isn’t going away here either…
do you have any idea how quickly that shit would fucking go viral if it were true
But it was true! Just not in the way that was claimed: They had these litterboxes in case they had to barricade in the classroom for extended periods of time due to a school-shooter that the police didn’t bother to stop quickly…
So yes, it really is a fucked up story, just in a very different way from what republicans claimed.
I don’t think I’ve ever met a vegan who talked about it in contexts outside of organizing food for multiple people or in response to others asking about it.
I think it’s mostly that non-vegetarians (of whom I am one) know deep down that at least the vegetarians[1] are right and that they don’t like being reminded of their moral failings. Thus every time they plan getting food for a group and the vegans mention their culinary restrictions, they feel attacked and try to compensate for it by blaming the vegans.
[1] I’ve encountered to many people reporting that they experienced serious health issues with going full vegan, so I’m very much not convinced that veganism is something that works for everyone long term. The same issues do however clearly not apply to vegetarianism.
On Arch you can easily uninstall Linux.
The fun part is that there are even legit reasons to do so, the by far most likely one being that you want to use a different package that provides you with a kernel, such as linux-lts or linux-hardened. Definitely know what you are doing in that case though!
AI not, but I’d be less certain about LLMs.
The hype-cycle is the exception, not the norm. Very commonly stuff just ends up dying.
Women are you doing today and how much more likely to be clear this is the queue for the vrouwen cafe stated that the zugbindung is een van de kleine Berg en Dal van de kleine Berg en Dal van de kleine Berg…
When you are German, live in the Netherlands, communicate mostly in English and hate typing on your phone…
The backup-generator seems to be the one semi-legit use-case that keeps coming up where few people have been able to present a significantly better alternative.
Das ist ein Zitat vom Hutman, ziemlich sicher nicht die Meinung des Posters.
Man könnte das ja wiederum als Vernichtung von Beweismitteln oder Behinderung oder so auslegen.
Und genau da liegt das Problem: Die Rechtslage ist widersprüchlich und undurchdacht, weil es sich hier um ein Gesetz handelt, dass mit Entrüstung statt tatsächlichem Kinderschutz motiviert ist.
Sehr zuverlässige Faustregel: Wer über Kinderschutz in dem Bereich redet, interessiert sich praktisch NIE für den Schutz von Kindern und führt in fast allen Fällen übles im Schilde.
Das geht ja soweit, dass in der öffentlichen Diskussion ja noch nicht einmal betrachtet wird, ob Verbote in dem Bereich überhaupt geeignet sind Kinder zu schützen, oder ob sie viel mehr dafür Sorgen das Pädophile weniger Möglichkeit zur Sublimation haben und dadurch sogar zu mehr Kindesmissbrauch führen könnten. Die einzige Studie die ich zu dem Thema mal gesehen habe, hat nämlich sogar eher in letztere Richtung gedeutet! Aber evidenzbasierter Kinderschutz ist ja generell total unbeliebt, alleine wenn man sich ansieht wie viele Menschen was gegen den schulischen Sexualkundeunterricht haben, der nachweislich den Besten Kinderschutz darstellt.
Das gilt insbesondere auch wenn sie mit dem Bild schnurstracks zur Polizei gehen um Anzeige zu erstatten. Wer es nicht sofort löscht macht sich (nach wie vor!!!) strafbar. Die neue Regelung ermöglich nur, dass die Staatsanwaltschaft es fallen lassen kann!
I saw “driverless waymo” in the title.
Also: Prejudice against people wearing fedoras is still prejudice and thus not really a great thing to have. One of my best friends also likes to wear a hat at times (not sure if it counts as a fedora, I know very little about heads) and is one of the sweetest people I know.