booking.com is the worst I’ve encountered. There’s a captcha type anti-bot thing that I can’t pass with firefox. I think it uses canvas.

Yeah it really does seem this way.

I’ve never been a “free speech absolutist”. I acknowledge that censorship is problematic, but it seems much less so than the alternative.

Meh.

Librewolf already breaks loads of websites with it’s fingerprinting resistance - just get used to turning it off.

In any case, you already need a chromium fork handy for all the sites that just plain don’t support firefox any more. I’ve run in to weird issues in firefox that don’t arise in chromium several times in the last month. This is going to get much worse.

As for changing browsers. I don’t care very much. I don’t use many browser features like bookmarks or passwords.

I agree with you pretty much on all points.

I am also conflicted.

It’s up to courts and parole boards to determine what punishments are appropriate, given the context of the crimes.

I don’t like the guy, and of course his crime was repugnant, but I can still acknowledge that he’s one of the best volleyball players in the world. These two opinions are incongruous and yet, they exist at the same time.

Isn’t all youtube content engineered in that way though?

I like “left on red” countries where, on encountering a stop signal, you turn left, u-turn, turn left again, and carry on.

A popular manoeuvre in South East Asia.

Dunning Kruger effect

I have a lot of love for invidious, but I love in fear of yt finding a way to nullify it with some fuckery.

Recently they started blocking ips of VPS providers… so I can’t run an instance on a VPS, it has to be local.

is my instinct here outdated/inapplicable?

Yes.

It’s so cheap to send SMS messages, and you don’t pay for undeliverable messages, so they can just send to random numbers.

They also receive deliverability responses for each number. So they know whether a phone received the message whether or not you reply.

Finally, if you reply STOP you’re unlikely to fit their demographic very well anyway. As in… they’re not trying to reach the type of people who will actively try to avoid receiving these messages.

That said, there’s probably no point replying STOP because most firms just wont honor it in the long term. As in they might not message you for the remainder of that particular messaging project (campaign), but they’ll just start a new campaign tomorrow with a new sender and no “STOP” requests.

Sure I guess.

I have the luxury of not having to decide.

I’m not going to judge someone who feels they absolutely need to participate on twitter in order to avoid poverty.

I certainly wouldn’t like to do that myself.

if Kampala staying on Twitter meant winning the election then sure.

It’s my strongly held opinion that it won’t significantly effect the outcome. A savvy media team could play it to her advantage.

Honestly how many swing voters are going to follow Kamala.

Amazing.

I’m not defending any of these people.

My point is, the two vehicles pictured have dramatically different capabilities.

Do you live in an urban area?

I did say most people don’t need one.

My point is, it’s becoming unethical for public figures and their followers to remain on the platform.

I just can’t believe anyone still uses Twitter for any purpose.

At this point remaining active on the platform is more or less unethical.

Yeah.

Sure, most people with a big truck don’t need one.

That said, the capabilities of the bigger truck far exceed that of the Suzuki.

Nonsense.

This way you just end up with the shit clients that no one else wants.

If you find a client who’s a better fit than 80% of your clients that 80% get’s pushed down the line.

Honestly the shitter they get the more content creators will publish elsewhere.

Honestly idk why more don’t post to peertube already. It costs nothing to cross post if you already have the content.

Yeah I love hearing the trash talk bur I don’t expect Mary has any special insights. It’s not like Don would be confiding in her.