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Ohh u didnt report someone ur also guilty cant see any problems with this.

That's... not what this is about, though?

“However, plaintiffs contend the defendants’ platforms are more than just message boards,” the court document says. “They allege they are sophisticated products designed to be addictive to young users and they specifically directed Gendron to further platforms or postings that indoctrinated him with ‘white replacement theory’,” the decision read.

This isn't about mandated reporting, it's about funneling impressionable people towards extremist content.

The problem is that people are so used to the notion that everything is “free” that many are convinced that online services should always be free and balk at the idea of paying for anything.

A huge part of that is that most people don't consider privacy concerns to be a cost. All they factor into their evaluation is whether it costs them actual money.

There were arrows? If only there was something in the image to indicate where they are, I might not have missed them.

It's surprisingly easy to memorize. The sentence basically acts as a mnemonic device to remember the password, and it's a lot easier to memorize a sentence that makes sense to you than to memorize something like "Tr0ub4d0r&8".

My current favorite "memorizable" method (obviously a random hash from a PW manager is still better) is to take a sentence of moderate complexity that includes the name of the service you're signing up for in it, and use the first letter of each word as your password.

For example, "When I wake up in the morning, the first thing I do is go to pawb.social."

Password would be "WIwuitm,tftIdigtps."

Easy to remember, immune to dictionary attacks, and you get a (mostly) unique password for each service, so stolen passwords can only access that one thing.

Edit: To be clear, the value is that you can use the same sentence everywhere, switching out the name of the service to generate semi-unique passwords for each service. Obviously someone analyzing your passwords would be able to figure out the pattern, but that's basically never what actually happens; it's more likely someone gets 1 password and tries your email address + that PW in a variety of services, which this is strong against.

True Neutral, I see.

I wonder if this could also be applied to games owned in whole or part by Tencent...

Okay so I'm just going to open myself up to ridicule here; my understanding of comparing numbers using orders of magnitude might be wrong, and if it is, I would like to know that. So on that note, I don't think that's how OOM comparisons work, and I'd be very interested to be corrected if I'm wrong.

You could accurately say that 2.1B has 2 more orders of magnitude than 73M does (7 vs. 9), but I believe when you're directly comparing two numbers and saying that one is "x orders of magnitude larger than y", that doesn't work. You wouldn't say that 10 is an order of magnitude larger than 9... that would be very misleading; 90 is an order of magnitude larger than 9. In fact, that claim would be off by... approximately an order of magnitude.

1 order of magnitude larger than 73M is 730M; 2 orders of magnitude larger is 7.3B, as you note, but... wouldn't you look upward to say a number is in the same order of magnitude, not lower? So since 2.1B is approximately 29x larger than 73M, it would be 1 OOM larger (and only becomes 2 OOM larger at 100x)?

To look at it another way:

73M x 10^1 is a lot closer to the correct value than 73M x 10^2, so even if the correct method is to round to the nearest OOM, it wouldn't beecome 2 OOM larger until 73M x 50, or 3.650B.

Again, it's quite possible that my understanding is incorrect because... this doesn't come up in every day conversation much, so if I'm wrong, please correct me!

But it also refers to “a staggering 73 million daily active users”, which I wouldn’t really say is a staggering number in $current_year when other social networks have orders of magnitude more.

Well, there's definitely no social network with "orders of magnitude more"... Even if that's only 2 orders of magnitude, that's almost the entire population of the world.

So this made me curious and best I can find there seem to be only a few social media platforms that even have 1 order of magnitude more:

• Facebook, with 2.1 billion DAU as of Q4 2023

• Youtube, which has 2.7 billion monthly active users (I'm speculating that it has at least 730 million DAU based on that number)

• WhatsApp (which wikipedia notes has 2 billion MAU and had 1 billion DAU when it had 1.3 billion MAU, so presumably it's around 1.5 billion DAU now)

DAU is a pretty rare statistic to find reported on, so it's hard to say if there are others.

Every time I rewatch Primer, I go in thinking, "This is going to be the time I fully understand this movie!" Then, half way through, I'm thinking "What was so complicated about this? This isn't bad at all." Then I get to the last 20 minutes and I remember.

Then I go watch a 'Primer Explained' video that's almost as long as the movie itself, am satisfied for a while, and then some time in the future the cycle repeats itself.

We are a small clique of kobolds who share a Lemmy account in real life. It seemed appropriate.

Wouldn't things like torrenting records and "movie piracy websites" used fall under fifth amendment protections? They're being asked to provide a record of the piracy they've committed.