Relevant community I happen to run: !ashens@lemmy.world

Just a tip! The whitelist command works on the leaderboard post: https://lemmy.world/post/27663919

It does not appear to work on this post

I believe there is, only available to instance mods, community mods, and possibly the OP though if I’m not mistaken.

We need to get some moderators in here. Lots of bigotry in this comment section…

There’s always Ungoogled Chromium. If you do want to suggest Brave to people, please tell them about these downsides as well.

I use Vivaldi and it is great. It does send a “user count” to its servers but AFAIK that is literally just increasing a number in a database, effectively the equivalent of one of those free hit counters you’d put on your GeoCities page.

It’s sort of ridiculous at this point the lengths they’re willing to go.

NSimSun /j

to the tune of Holiday Road

🎵Holiday I-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-inn🎵

I begun that boycott a couple weeks back and am not planning on stopping. Most of the stuff you can get from Amazon, you can get from AliExpress at a significantly lower price (they have more variety as well in my experience)

Windows is at least relatively un intrusive with that stuff, MacOS often makes hidden metadata files with the same extension as the files they store info about

I installed an old program the other day that added a Thumbs.db file from 2008 to every folder containing images as it extracted the program files to disk.

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And this is why I’ve never touched anything AI related

Fair, though that is a somewhat different scenario. I can completely disengage with .ml and still participate in other instances, and the developers don’t get any support from that.

Good recommendation algorithms don’t change the fact that the platform is owned by someone who is actively staging a coup

I suppose the fediverse in general.

Reported to instance admin.

they put it in the whale. that is how docker transports things and you cannot change my mind.

It was proposed as a badge, but it originally comes from https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-works-on-my-machine-certification-program/amp/