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Wait till you find out what Russia and China are doing on Facebook

…what? SpaceX is years behind schedule for delivering crewed space flight to NASA. US tax payers have had to cough up billions of dollars for seats on Russian Soyuz spacecraft to at least be able to get to space somehow in the meantime.

Iterating and failing is okay, but SpaceX has neither been faster nor cheaper in doing so than NASA’s original moon landing program.

With LibreWolf you also have to trust

Sounds like a “no true Scotsman” argument tbh

I’m skeptical given how confident many recent AI models are at making wrong claims. Fact checking seems to be a rather poor use case for current AI models IMO.

Giving some real 1984 vibes

War is Peace

Freedom is Slavery

Ignorance is Strength

I’m not arguing about the fines themselves, those can indeed be scaled by revenue. I also agree that many fines should be higher to prevent companies from merely seeing them as an operating cost.

However, my point is that company revenue can’t be used 1:1 to pay off fines. That doesn’t take into account that revenue also has to cover all other operating expenses and taxes. As an example, the article states that Meta would take roughly 5½ days to pay off its fines, but taking the 23.42% profit margin into account a more realistic answer is 23½ days.

Revenue is the wrong metric for this type of comparison. Last I heard even big tech didn’t have a profit margin of 100%.

It’s perfectly clear that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians and if you support that, I’m sorry but you’re absolutely evil.

This “you’re either for Palestine or a genocide supporter” mindset is half the reason this conflict still exists, the other half is the “you’re either for Israel or a terrorist supporter” mindset. I’m sure it feels great to have a one-dimensional world view, but not everyone is either for or against one side.

All I was asking for is a source for your claim that Israel is spreading misinformation and that said misinformation is allowed to proliferate. The one source you provided is inadequate because it doesn’t have any proof of Israeli lies, it just says that Israeli-provided proof is inconclusive. Let alone your claim that the alleged misinformation is not removed…

We’re done here, clearly there’s no good faith discussion to be had.

You evidently had enough time to post elsewhere, so it’s not unreasonable to think you might’ve read my reply already.

How is the WP article showing misinformation? It basically boils down to “Israel alleged something and provided some evidence, but we think it’s not conclusive”. It does not show that Israel knowingly lied about anything, which is what you’re insinuating.

What do you base that claim on? The article doesn’t mention it.

Edit: Your silence is also an answer. Ironic, talking about misinformation and spreading it yourself…

Probably an unpopular opinion, but I don’t see a problem with subscriptions for commercial software. Fixing bugs and security issues after release is an ongoing effort that costs money, so a one-time purchase isn’t really economically viable in the long run. I honestly wouldn’t feel comfortable using unmaintained software that might contain known but unfixed vulnerabilities.

Most people will switch smartphones anyway

That’s the best case scenario, worst case scenario however you sell to someone who otherwise wouldn’t have switched. In that case, it’s still one more new phone. And who is guaranteeing that other people will actually use their Fairphone for its whole lifetime?

Better we get then hooked on fairphone then.

True, but I feel like selling your used Fairphone isn’t the solution to this.

There’s always the option to get a headphone jack adapter for USB-C. I haven’t used one personally yet, but I’ve heard it to be a viable alternative.

In general though the best thing is to just stick with your current phone if you can. Every new phone still consumes resources to produce and probably replaces some other phone which then has to be recycled or might even end up in a landfill.

Publishing everything on a blockchain means that everybody who’s running a node has access to a copy

I’m not sure that’s the case, although the article is rather vague. It says:

[…] the user must register with a node of their choice using their public key. Once registered, users can create channels and invite others to join. Each channel has a separate ledger hosted by the nodes. […] The data in the ledgers are encrypted, and the secret key is managed by the users of the channel.

IIUC, nodes will not have access to private keys, neither those from users nor those from channels. Users could use their keys to exchange the channel’s private key without the node getting to know it. I don’t quite understand how user’s would exchange their public keys without the node being able to play MITM, though…

Edit: Removed an irrelevant sentence from the quote

Just… read the article, I guess. The third paragraph is your answer.

Just because you like Brave the search engine doesn’t mean you have to use Brave the browser. The two have no inherent connection.

Edit: While we’re on the subject of money, I’d be more worried about that Peter Thiel money Brave took. That man openly claims freedom and democracy to be incompatible and supports efforts to create independent libertarian societies on international waters and in space.

The fact that these allegations come in quick succession is rather logical, I’d say. It’s much harder to come out against someone who is a generally beloved public figure, so when the allegations finally start, many people see their chance to have their voice be taken seriously.