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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

It is, but it's a use case that has a shitload of money behind it.

Do you know why we have had reliable e-commerce since 1999? Porn websites. That was the use case that pushed credit card acceptance online.

The demand is so huge that firms would rather stumble a bit at first to save huge amounts for a bad but barely sub-par UX.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Depends on the person. My spouse and I, along with 5 or 6 friends, use a variety of key words from a couple shared languages to talk about things when we don't want other to understand. Mostly haggling or talking about sales stuff to discuss if we like something or think it's too expensive when a human is hovering right there. So I can give body language of disappointment while saying "this is great."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That sounds boring AF.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

This 100%.

Wealthy people essentially pay staff to do make things happen for them, and those staff don't sign up for IG or FB stressing abou making sure to use their ONE email like [email protected] for everything.

PA staff are both IT staff and human password managers, creating and curating massive sets of logins that are functionally disposable. With enough clout and money, if you DO have a problem with a social media platform, or your phone number, a PA calls an Executive CSR and sorts out the problem.

So it's that their "privacy" is masked by the haphazard way they interact with things that track them. For them, tracking them is security to ensure you know who they are so that have a frictionless experience. If they want a dummy account to creep on people or be a perv, they get that easily, too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Brace yourselves for being told on MSN and Yahoo about the hottest new toy this Xmas! If you don't buy it, you might be arrested for child abuse!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Anyone know what Linux distro? I assume Ubuntu...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Rural poor checking in.

I've lived in a camper, and then in the back of a convenience store my patents ran. Eventually upgraded to a doublewide. But I went to a rural school with like 40 kids that were all also poor. One kid and his family were miners living in a series of vans upon blocks by the mine. My best friend and his family lived in a half used rundown motel, the other half too broken down to bother living in. The richest kid was a rancher's family that lived in a barndominium.

So every family on TV was rich to me, but it was TV, so I figured it was all fantasy land anyway. Star Trek wasnt real, either. I had seen a "normal" school before 3rd grade, but by high school and college, people that thought Nickelodeon (which I didn't see until college anyway) shows were relatable at all just seemed like space aliens to me. I was likely more the space alien to them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

"Brad, I saw you cheating on Stacy at the club last night" [your pgp key here]

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry if it seemed smug at all. The "My my" was more being happy that the Fdroid app repo is pulling it's weight and a valuable resource that fascists seem to over look.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I do like this a lot.

Since you sort of need to be there with the hat, it makes me wonder of you might get more response and/or geographic spread if you has some sort of leave behind. A sticker, or a card that you can slot in places.

I do think that leaving it as the gpg key is better, not a QR code. It helps ID this for nerds like you and me. I would never scan a wild QR.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 day ago (9 children)

My, my. Look at all the open source, privacy focused period trackers in the Fdroid store.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago

Can't happen fast enough.

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