[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 2 points 12 hours ago

Technically, none of those countries are English. One is partially English.

[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago

“I wanna look like the poster boy for alcohol fetal syndrome but for rich people.”

[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago

And, people have been asking them to clarify it and they just say, “no.”

They’re acting very suspiciously.

[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago

Holy shit. This is…. fucked up. Like, America looks almost sane in comparison.

So, these people become stateless? What then?

[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 5 points 4 days ago

Probably, the feeling of superiority they get from calling pop culture “drivel”.

[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 7 points 4 days ago

Sometimes it blows my mind that we can look up and see this giant sphere of rock going past and just have to accept that it’s not going fall and kill us all. Then, remember that lesson that it is indeed falling toward us but keeps missing and that some of us have figured out that it’s actually getting farther away. But, that’s not very reassuring.

[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 61 points 4 days ago

I think the “verified audience” are people who bought tickets through Fandango. So, either they were the kind of people who wanted to see and like it or they bought tickets but didn’t actually go and are astroturfing.

Either way, the high ratings are definitely bullshit.

[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 25 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I think that’s what they mean by “on the surface”. If he had just kept the cringe quiet and stayed out of politics, he could have pushed the envelope on electric cars, rockets, robots, etc. and a majority of people would have been happy to see him do it. He had two things going for him: enormous wealth and a desire for cool tech.

He could have had as many stupidly named babies as he wanted, seethed about trans people and have time to actually get good at video games, all from the luxury of his many homes and jets. All he had to do was let his PayPal money get to work in his chosen tech industries and keep his personality out of it.

The world might have progressed a little, even. His companies would be better off. Many of us would have bought Teslas. The Cybertruck would never have happened. Twitter would… well, Twitter would still suck but it would be someone else’s fault.

[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

That’s in rule #1 on this community.

[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 8 points 4 days ago

It’s an actual conspiracy. Conspiracy theory minded people must be going insane right now. On some level, I bet they never believed their theories or, at least, expected hard evidence that other people would believe. It must hurt them to not have special knowledge.

I wonder if their theories will change to something less plausible than a cabal of rich white men trafficking in young women and girls.

[-] LordMayor@piefed.social 42 points 5 days ago

So, the guy who named his companies “Virgin” is pedo? You don’t say…

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Crossposted from https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/62518932

As evidence, the lawsuit cites unnamed "courageous whistleblowers" who allege that WhatsApp and Meta employees can request to view a user's messages through a simple process, thus bypassing the app's end-to-end encryption. "A worker need only send a 'task' (i.e., request via Meta's internal system) to a Meta engineer with an explanation that they need access to WhatsApp messages for their job," the lawsuit claims. "The Meta engineering team will then grant access -- often without any scrutiny at all -- and the worker's workstation will then have a new window or widget available that can pull up any WhatsApp user's messages based on the user's User ID number, which is unique to a user but identical across all Meta products."

"Once the Meta worker has this access, they can read users' messages by opening the widget; no separate decryption step is required," the 51-page complaint adds. "The WhatsApp messages appear in widgets commingled with widgets containing messages from unencrypted sources. Messages appear almost as soon as they are communicated -- essentially, in real-time. Moreover, access is unlimited in temporal scope, with Meta workers able to access messages from the time users first activated their accounts, including those messages users believe they have deleted." The lawsuit does not provide any technical details to back up the rather sensational claims.

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Can’t downvote posts (piefed.social)

On the web, I see no downvote buttons on posts. In third party apps, downvoting does nothing. This affects all instances.

Comments are not affected, just posts.

Any idea what causes this?

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The past couple of weeks I’ve noticed a lot of sites redirect to report.error-report.com if you have an ad blocker. Reader mode is broken, too. The sites constantly reload when in reader mode. Is this a new anti-ad-blocker technique that my ad blocker just hasn’t caught up with, yet?

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