If the dominant player is an OS that supports a total of seven phones, the entirety of which are strictly Google branded, were fuckin’ doomed.

Is mansplaining short for manualsplaining?

From what I’ve seen so far, the case here seems to be that it’s only being done to shorts, and what’s happening is that they’re being permanently stored at a lower quality and size and are then upscaled on the fly. I mean… it feels kinda fair to me. Theres a good reason YouTube has so little competition, and it’s because how hard and expensive maintaining a service like this is. They’re always trying to cut costs, and storage is gonna be a big cost. Personally, I’m glad it’s just shorts for now. It absolutely shouldn’t be happening to people who are paying for the service or making money for it, though.

Seriously surprised no one has said this yet, but overzealous companies sometimes flag mobile ISPs just for being mobile ISPs. I have T-Mobile as my home internet provider and I deal with this fairly often.

I take it as a sign of less than great security. Users on mobile ISPs tend to change IPs a lot, meaning implementing blocks like this is lazy and unhelpful. At best, they delay a bad actor until they flip a switch. At worst, they impede or completely block legitimate users such as yourself.

Fandom (previously Wikia) is an extremely shitty service with low-quality wikis mostly consisting of content copied from independent wikis and a terrible layout that only exists to amplify their overwhelming advertising.

Exactly. These people will claim that their religion is the only thing that can keep people moral (sign of sociopathy), but will then turn around and say anything they do is fine because they “believe” and just have to “ask for forgiveness.” It’s just narcissism and empathetic bankruptcy normalized.

On the one hand, that’s good, but on the other hand, Meta crossed my line over eight years ago, and I’m woefully disappointed that he was using it until this point.

Yeah, I did read the website. Did you? Or is it that you didn’t read my response? One of the two has to be true, considering the website is entirely focused on the size of the rest of the world in comparison to Africa, and never once mentions the point I made and you disregarded.

Hm… personally, I think it’s very situational, but generally I feel like a more accurate shape is more important than size. I especially feel like it would be important for children who are just learning the map.

Okay… but doesn’t this just introduce the issue of flat maps distorting anything to the east or west of center in a different way?

1 week free access to the service that did it in the first place is my favorite class action outcome.

You do know those don’t really mean anything unless used by a government agency, right?

They hired an investigator? Any investigator worth a shit is gonna say that they’re liable for failing to secure private data they collected, as well as for retaining data they were apparently legally obligated to delete

Edit: Misread that segment, they actually presented it as if they were deleted to users, but apparently retained them to comply with vague “law enforcement requirements.”

“Yeah, my friend was a pedo human trafficker and he got some of his victims from my business and I knew about it and hid it and… uh… Hillary’s E-mails did it.”

The biggest name in Jeffrey Epstein’s birthday book back in 2003 was a past president rather than a future one.

Very deliberate first line. As it’s written, it implies that Donald Trump’s name isn’t in the book. The reference in the tagline wasn’t even necessary. These companies know most people stick to the tagline and don’t read the whole article.

I know this is a week old, but I just wanted you to know, I love your haikus.

I just thought it’s in bad taste to use someone’s FLOSS software whilst calling them slurs.

You are decidedly not a protected class for being a tankie, homie.

We don’t talk about boobies in my Christian Minecraft server illegal webservice aggregator!

Realistically, though, blatant censorship is the first sign a service is quickly becoming untrustworthy. Who are they bowing to? Is there some third party pressuring them, or are their views becoming radicalized and being imposed on everyone else? Either way, it shows they’re not trustworthy for this kind of thing.

Hey, I saw that you asked about deleting all your content and account on Reddit. I just wanted to let you know that you can improve the fediverse by asking the same question about Lemmy.

Oh, man, my friends and I actually did this back in highschool in 2011.