I had to double-check what Deflock was for:

DeFlock’s mission is simple: to shine a light on the widespread use of ALPR technology, raise awareness about the threats it poses to personal privacy and civil liberties, and empower the public to take action.

This app makes it easy to view and report AI powered surveillance cameras, automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), and other surveillance infrastructure near you.

Sharing information about where cameras are located is terrorism now?

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Pretty much, that’s what I understood it to mean anyway

I assume the phrase has been used in other contexts too

You can see a CT scan of one of these

https://www.techspot.com/news/105863-usb-c-cable-can-hide-lot-malicious-hardware.html

I understood “making it” as accomplishing what you were pretending to be, often in the context of self-confidence

• someone is scared of public speaking and thinks they’re no good at it
• they pretend that they are someone who is good at it, in order to get through situations where they need to do public speaking
• they eventually just get good at it

Whoops, I meant to say “only downside”. Edited it

There are lots of positive differences

Unless I misunderstood, it will eventually dry up? Investors aren’t going to be willing to give money with no returns indefinitely

The only difference downside really is the occasional extension that needs a manual install.

I’ve been trying out VSIX Manager for my extensions so that I can keep track of which ones I want to install on each machine. This can make it easier to install the weird extensions that you can’t install otherwise

https://open-vsx.org/extension/zokugun/vsix-manager

It’s hard to tell what was wrong with that post without seeing it. At the same time, we’re not a hive mind. People will disagree from time to time :)

or they need a third party APP

I’ve seen this complaint from other new users. Is there something wrong with a lack of an official app? Would it be an ok compromise for the official project to recommend some third party apps?

A lot of these projects don’t have the capacity (yet) to develop an official app on top of the main platform.

As for the recommendations

• Pixelfed is a good alternative to Instagram
• Mastodon and similar platforms are good alternatives to Twitter/X

These are harder, or there’s not as much motivation for them. The projects are still going, but they’re slower:

• Facebook: a lot of people dropped Facebook completely without replacing it with anything. The only real value is private groups and buy/sell tools, of which the first can be replaced with chat platforms and the second already has a patchwork of proprietary alternatives depending on where you are

• LinkedIn: network effect is extreme with this one since it depends on where everyone else in your field of work is hanging out. Some fields don’t use LinkedIn at all already

• Amazon: I don’t see the benefit of having a fediverse version of this? Building tools that independent stores can use to stay competitive might be better

• Spotify: Funkwhale exists, but there are some concerns around piracy. Other options are self hosting or using one of the many other proprietary streaming platforms

• Cloud storage: there are a number of alternatives https://ca.purchasewithpurpose.io/category/file-storage/

For those that haven’t read the link

A company or “yellow” union is a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer and is therefore not an independent trade union. Company unions are contrary to international labour law (see ILO Convention 98, Article 2).1 They were outlawed in the United States by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act §8(a)(2),2 due to their use as agents for interference with independent unions. However, company unions persist in many countries.

A company or “yellow” union is a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer and is therefore not an independent trade union. Company unions are contrary to international labour law (see ILO Convention 98, Article 2).1 They were outlawed in the United States by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act §8(a)(2),2 due to their use as agents for interference with independent unions. However, company unions persist in many countries.

I also didn’t know this:

Japan

Main article: Labor unions in Japan

Company unions are a mainstay of labor organization in Japan, viewed with much less animosity than in Europe or the United States. Unaffiliated with RENGO (the largest Japanese trade union federation), company unions appeal to both the lack of class consciousness in Japanese society and the drive for social status, which is often characterized by loyalty to one’s employer.25

Since you’re on lemmy.ca, are you Canadian?

If so, you can watch all the events on your own time through CBC Gem.

https://gem.cbc.ca/section/olympics

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/olympic-broadcast-milan-cortina-2026-cbc-radio-canada-9.6957085

Audiences can watch on CBC and the free CBC Gem streaming service. Once launched, CBC’s website, cbc.ca/milanocortina2026, will offer full event schedules, results, highlights, athlete profiles daily updates and more.

For those in other countries, check who is broadcasting locally and you might be able to access it for free through official channels

I found this

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/big-tech/openai-could-reportedly-run-out-of-cash-by-mid-2027-nyt-analyst-paints-grim-picture-after-examining-companys-finances

Great to hear! I’ve updated the post title and linked to this comment

If anyone else is curious, here is what I found on the link

https://docs.hollo.social/intro/

Hollo is a simple, single-user microblogging tool that lets you run your own little corner of the internet. Think of it as your personal Mastodon instance, but stripped down to the essentials.

I see the original post got removed by moderators to prevent panic. Would you have an update that you can share in this thread? I’m happy to edit the title of this post too :)

I think you may have accidentally flagged this as NSFW

or is that a joke about agentic coding being unsafe for code

Voyager works, although I don’t think it’s intended for Desktop use

Assuming you’re looking for Lemmy/Piefed clients, you might be able to install some of the front ends as PWAs. Photon and Blorp for example

Thank you!

@[email protected] is also on the threadiverse, and may post updates about this as it develops

Predictions

Showerthoughts

I had no idea Reddit invented having deep thoughts in the shower, or making predictions

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Am I the Asshole?

Yea they can keep that one