Man this thread is making me mad so I'mma head out
Hate that phrase. Great way to excuse malice.
I was on it back when it was in closed beta and even went to their launch party. People were even saying how much the quality was declining as the closed beta got larger. It's been a shitfest for a while - it seems tailor-made for blowhards to speak authoritatively without having any real authority on an issue.
To react to the article:
most interesting and longest-lasting corners of the internet: Quora
The first one is subjective but the second one isn't - and neither are true.
It "stems" from a deliberate effort to conflate them by the likes of the ADL .
Your article itself says:
Police now believe this was a Russian-inspired destabilisation operation rather than a home-grown intimidation campaign.
Your article itself also says that the police are the source for this assertion, and goes on to say
In June, the fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old driver of Moroccan and Algerian descent in a Paris suburb sparked almost two weeks of riots across the country in which schools, buses and police stations were torched, shops looted, mayors assaulted and police attacked in nightly clashes. The violence, which did not specifically target Jews, was fuelled by widespread resentment of perceived police racism.
And if that weren't enough, it's already demonstrated that expressing support for Palestine is being conflated with antisemitism.
The government initially banned pro-Palestinian demonstrations
So the government bans support for Palestine, the police enforce that ban, and the police say antisemitism is rising among young Muslims.
All this from the same article, that you posted. Very weak sauce.
Huge resources have been devoted to tracking down people, mostly anonymous and with little reach, over speech that authorities interpreted as supporting Hamas, the letter notes. By late November, 269 investigations had been opened and 86 indictments filed.
“It is quite amazing the number of criminal investigations, when it comes to Palestinian citizens of Israel, most of them completely anonymous, many of them almost with no audience,” Sfard said. “The gap between that and the freedom and impunity for those who advocate all kinds of things – ethnic cleansing, killing civilians, bombarding civilian areas, and even genocide – doesn’t square up, and that’s something for the authorities to explain.”
This right here. Don't let anyone tell you Israel is not an apartheid state with separate sets of rules based on who you are.
I'm torn on this topic because on the one hand there's enough evidence for the harm it does, but one thing these finger wagging experts seem to ignore is that if you keep kids isolated from the tools then you're leaving them behind.
I was probably an Internet addict as a kid with dial up and a CRT monitor, but I don't regret it given how well it prepared me for the tech-dominated present.
If it's a third person game, I'd rather be looking at her ass throughout the playthrough than his.
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Maybe some examples would be in order.
Counterexamples might include Firefox, Blender, and Lemmy.
Speaking with the Financial Times last week, Figma chief executive Dylan Field said: “It is important that those paths of acquisition remain available because very few companies make it all the way to IPO. So many companies fail on the way.”
I.e. "Our business model never included plans for us to actually have to compete!"
Be that as it may, the more relevant effect to this article is the Dunning-Kreuger one. The author seems to have no idea that his dismissal of the limitations of manifest v3 means he is dismissing that this absolutely constrains what ad blockers can do, and very significantly. And his confident tone only adds to the discord he believes he is correcting.
Yes. Thank you. This article is apologia for Google, and very unhelpful. There is a reason anyone interested in controlling their own browser is unhappy with this arbitrary limit.
Refresh the page once in reader mode if that happens