Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.
Thanks for the clarification. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it.
In Battlestar Galactica (2004) robots called Cylons attack the humans by hacking their computer network. They are able to destroy most of humanity and all but a handful of human ships. One of the ships that survives is the Battlestar Galactica, an old ship that was about to become a museum, and is too old to be connected to the network. The man in the picture is Admiral William Adama, captain of the Galactica. He orders that computers are not to be networked together, so they can’t be hacked by the Cylons.
In real life cyber security provider CrowdStrike had a bug in one of its update files. The file went out as part of an automated update to computers at many businesses around the world, including banks and airlines. The bug made the computers crash, grounding flights, making payment systems inoperable, etc.
Businesses use feudalism, with the monarch (CEO), court (board), and several levels of lords and vassals.
sometimes with a better PR team
Which is a big thing in The Boys. The company and The Seven™ are all about that PR.
Same. I like dark stories as much as the next person, but it hit way too close to home with real world politics for me.
Don’t believe me? Ask the dishes
It’s tracking how well ads perform without tracking individual users. Tracking ads isn’t the problem. Tracking users is the problem. Before this the only way to track ad performance was by tracking users. This is a way to track ad performance without tracking users.
A single number per ad campaign of how many times an ad view resulted in a visit or purchase.
Mozilla’s announcement about it explains it pretty well: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/privacy-preserving-attribution
More important than who works there is who inherits Gabe’s ownership of the company. A new owner can completely change a company and drive out or fire anyone who doesn’t go along with the new direction. Look at what happened with twitter when Musk took over. Or his inheritors could take Valve public and introduce all the issues with that.
Bit hypocritical of the US when they themselves recently passed a divest-or-ban law against a speech platform citing foreign influence and also uses police to violently disrupt protests
I lay my shirts flat on a side table. Much quicker than hanging or folding, and still prevents wrinkles. Socks, underwear, and jeans I don’t fold, but I separate into different piles that go in drawers and shelves.
In my experience exhaustion makes the dread spiral worse
Yes it is
No it isn’t
As Aladin put it “Got to eat to live, got to steal to eat”
Sure, but because of federation other instances can collect your posts and vote data. Federation is the antithesis of privacy.
So we come to Lemmy where anyone can spin up an instance, collect our data, and sell it.
Yep, the loggers want the forests to keep producing trees
Classic protection racket. “Those are some nice files you’ve got there. It’d be a shame if anything happened to them…”