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• On the post: Elon Tries (Badly) To Defend The Banning Of Journalists As Twitter Starts Blocking Links & Mentions Of Mastodon

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 16 Dec, 2022 @ 11:54am

  Has anyone checked in with Vegas bookies lately? I'm curious what the odds are of Twitter overtaking Microsoft, Google, and Facebook in EU fines is before they go bankrupt, are liquidated, and shut down.

• On the post: Twitter’s Former Head Of Trust & Safety Explains Why, For All His Billions, Elon Musk Can’t Magically Decide How Twitter Will Work

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 21 Nov, 2022 @ 02:15pm

  Just as an aside, um, who the fuck searches for “#boobs” and what is wrong with them?

  Except in the eyes of censorious prudes, nothing is wrong with them; rather the opposite. Which is why people search for them.

• On the post: Cloud-Based Smart Home Gadgets Keep Getting Bricked Because You No Longer Own What You Buy

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 02 Sep, 2022 @ 01:24pm

  The 'S' in IOT also stands for support and sustainability.

• On the post: The Downside Of Apple’s Lockdown Mode: Websites Call Tell If You’re Using It

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 31 Aug, 2022 @ 12:25pm

  This reminds me of the person who tried to cover his tracks by making a bomb threat using Tor; but who was then busted because he IDed himself connecting to the school network and was the only person using Tor on it at the time. https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/18/5224130/fbi-agents-tracked-harvard-bomb-threats-across-tor

• On the post: U.S. Consumers Pay $1,600 Annually For Cable TV Channels They Don’t Watch

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 18 Jul, 2022 @ 10:40am

  Those numbers don't appear to make any differentiation between people buying both services and people buying only 1. Meaning it's being pulled down by all the cord cutters paying less than $120/mo for just internet. Without some sort of breakout, it appears unusable for the current discussion.

• On the post: US Postal Service Sued For Seizing ‘Defund Police’ Facemasks

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2022 @ 12:21pm

  Well it only makes sense

  That the USPS as a Federal Agency would act by any means possible to prevent a private party from stealing property they believed belonged to the Bureau of Land Management.

• On the post: AT&T Gets A Tiny Wrist Slap For Another Bullshit Wireless Fee

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 23 May, 2022 @ 08:18am

  Even limited to California the settlement amount is far too small to give all the ripped off customers a $15-29 refund. Assuming ATT has the same market share in CA as they do nation wide, they've got nearly 10M post paid customers in the state. My guess is that this settlement is going to be binding on anyone who doesn't opt out, but require an explicit opt in to get a share of the payout. Then when almost everyone ends up filing a claim, ATT and the Lawyers who filed the suite will go back to the court and convince it to let them do something with the money because printing and mailing checks would consume the entire value of the settlement before putting a penny of value on the check itself.

• On the post: The Kids And Their Algo Speak Show Why All Your Easy Fixes To Content Moderation Questions Are Wrong

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 14 Apr, 2022 @ 01:09pm

  Nothing new under the sun

  Back in the late 90s internet we'd talk about pron to avoid early filters, or luaP noR (to avoid getting deluged by his fanbois). Although it's been a long time since I've seen anyone including a modern equivalent to the Carnivore Bait (a string of words intended to trigger an FBI surveillance program of the same name and flood it with false positives) that used to be popular among some groups email or usenet signatures.

• On the post: Destiny Community Plagued By Copyright Takedowns, Bungie Insists It Isn’t Them

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2022 @ 07:41am

  Another possibility would be that if they hired a 3rd party to make the music instead of doing it entirely in house; it could be the musicians or some 3rd party they've hired engaging in legal thuggery.

• On the post: After Going Bankrupt For Underinvesting In Fiber, Frontier Communications Pretends It Has Seen The Light

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 02 Mar, 2022 @ 08:33am

  The light at the end of the tunnel...

  ... is a freight train coming their way.

• On the post: Medical, Home Alarm Industries Warn Of Major Outages As AT&T Shuts Down 3G Network

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2022 @ 10:47am

  Re:

  I'm baffled at them still having 3g phones in stock. The FCC's mandatory replacement device for voice service customer requirement (why the new 4g phone showed up in the mail) means that selling now would only guarantee having to give a new phone away in the near future

• On the post: Medical, Home Alarm Industries Warn Of Major Outages As AT&T Shuts Down 3G Network

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 23 Feb, 2022 @ 08:43am

  If there are major companies still transitioning from 3g to 4g that had reasonable migration plans in place that were significantly delayed by pandemic related issues and a short delay would allow them to complete their transition I'd be willing to let them have it.

  Companies who were either willfully blind, or chose not to do anything in the mistaken assumption that the carriers would continue to delay their legacy network shutdowns indefinitely OTOH are probably screwed unless they can beg a multi-year delay out of regulators. They can go bankrupt and have their customers switch to competent competitors.

• On the post: Content Moderation Case Study: Russia Slows Down Access To Twitter As New Form Of Censorship (2021)

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 10 Feb, 2022 @ 02:09pm

  Re: Unintended Consquences

  I'm all but certain that officially sanctioned troll farms had their access to Twitter whitelisted since they were using it on behalf of the Russian govt.

• On the post: Texas Town To Start Issuing Traffic Tickets By Text Message

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 02 Feb, 2022 @ 01:46pm

  Re: uh huh,..

  ...
  "ding!"
  "texting while driving citation"

• On the post: Devin Nunes, CEO Of Trump's TRUTH Social, Confirms That 'Free Speech' Social Media Will Be HEAVILY Moderated

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2022 @ 11:00am

  Of course, the real irony is that along with that article on Fox Business is a video clip of Maria Bartiromo, whining to GETTR CEO Jason Miller, about how terrible existing social media companies are because they "censor" content, and talking about how great it is that TRUTH Social will be different.

  It is. Instead of trying to ban lies being spread by the Leopards Eating Peoples Faces party, this one prohibits complaining that your face got eaten by a leopard.

• On the post: New 'TLDR' Bill Requires Companies Provide Synopsis Of Overlong, Predatory Terms Of Service

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 14 Jan, 2022 @ 07:37am

  for 99% of TOS statements TLDR:

  U R FKT

  Still might be too much for a goldfish brain though.

• On the post: New Washington Law Requires Home Sellers Disclose Lack Of Broadband Access

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2022 @ 01:18pm

  The only gotcha I can see is with regards to DSL. A few years ago one of the major national landline companies (don't remember if Verizon or ATT) was prohibiting the direct transfer of DSL service when a property was sold and immediately scrapping the hardware when the old owner cancelled and thus when the new owner attempted to get service would be told "there are no free circuits in your area, sorry."

• On the post: Facebook (Again) Tells Law Enforcement That Setting Up Fake Accounts Violates Its Terms Of Use

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 30 Nov, 2021 @ 06:05am

  Re: Re: If Facebook wanted to discourage cops making fake users.

  It being excessive was the point. If it's just Officer Bob the computer guy getting banned probably nothing will happen. Put everyone in the organization at risk and if management doesn't act to protect their own accounts, they'll be facing a revolt from a large chunk of the rank and file individually and (if there is one) a union action as well.

• On the post: Facebook (Again) Tells Law Enforcement That Setting Up Fake Accounts Violates Its Terms Of Use

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 29 Nov, 2021 @ 12:13pm

  If Facebook wanted to discourage cops making fake users...

  They should do what Whatsapp did to NSO Group after they were caught hacking a few years ago; and ban all the personal accounts of employees of any police department caught creating fake accounts to snoop with.

• On the post: Nintendo's YouTube Video For Its Switch Online Upgrade Is Its Most Hated Video Ever

  

  Dan Neely ( profile ), 04 Nov, 2021 @ 02:19pm

  They're clearly demonstrating a sense of pride and accomplishment in the N64 ports; and Youtubers seem to agree even if not to the extent that Redditors did with Star Wars Battlefront II a few years back.

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