Both android and iPhone have the option to set up adblocking via DNS, FYI

There’s like 2 FAQs linked by OP, you could have looked at them…

https://www.stopkillinggames.com/faq

If votes became truly public

There’s no ‘if’, they already are.

what would stop a malicious user from automating crawling the fediverse to get a list of every up and down vote a targeted user has ever made?

The same thing currently stopping them: nothing but time and effort.

Admins can currently do this, I assume given enough time and intent? Yuck.

No, anybody can currently do this.

That’s the issue with decentralisation. The info is out there. It’s that or trust a megacorp with it.

ITT: Lots of people who have no idea how the tech works and couldn’t be bothered reading the comments before posting

(dinosaurs)

I’m just happy he’s formatting his titles now

This was a long anti-tech rant that somehow neglected to mention what their actual issue was and forced me to dive into the links just to get the necessary context to understand what they were talking about. TLDR: Patreon’s moving over to subscription-only and dropping their per-creation billing system because Apple is forcing them to.

We already do, it’s called dopamine

Why do we need to excrete the tears before reabsorbing them, instead of just producing and consuming them internally?

When Svetlana arrived the space station, she was reportedly handed an apron from her male crewmates and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen. But she’s also described in fond terms the flowers she received upon arrival: “They gallantly presented me with flowers they had grown in orbit and those plain flowers in a transparent box were the dearest present to me. We hugged each other, kissed each other, in a word, our meeting was the usual meeting of friends who had not met for a long time.” After this initial meeting she was quickly able to establish a working, professional relationship with her crew.

Funny, she didn’t see anything wrong with it either

When Svetlana arrived the space station, she was reportedly handed an apron from her male crewmates and jokingly told to get to work in the kitchen. But she’s also described in fond terms the flowers she received upon arrival: “They gallantly presented me with flowers they had grown in orbit and those plain flowers in a transparent box were the dearest present to me. We hugged each other, kissed each other, in a word, our meeting was the usual meeting of friends who had not met for a long time.” After this initial meeting she was quickly able to establish a working, professional relationship with her crew.

She was laughing, avoiding to herself

Pretty misleading. The problem isn’t that he had diesel generators in the trailers, that’s standard practice. It’s that he built a very tiny fraction of the number he promised investors he had actually built, and spent the rest of the funds.

Edit: in case this comment is confusing, reason is OP drastically changed their title without noting the edit.

Idk, trans people are usually quite healthy.

Edit: The controversy in votes over an innocent joke is hilarious.

I think you messed up the link formatting :)

Right. I see there’s no logical discussion to be had here. Have a good day.

My question was very simple and limited in scope:

Would the impact have been any different if they had used photoshop?

I did not make any sweeping comments, and I would appreciate if you stopped trying to claim things on my behalf.

Fuck knows. It’s not like I made any such claim, you just decided to put up a strawman argument.

Since when could someone do this … with a couple of clicks and zero training, for free and on any device?

You know, somebody probably said the exact same thing about Photoshop when it first came out? Back when cutting up photos and pasting them together was a thing. Then again, somebody probably said the same thing about the advent of photography too, during the days of woodcuts and oil paintings.

Would the impact have been any different if they had used photoshop?

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Of the numerous articles I’ve posted thus far, exactly ONE series (about the Supreme Court scandal) could reasonably be said to directly concern US politics.