How have I not seen this before lmao

Of course it can be proven. You said it’s explicitly exempted. So prove it. You can’t.

Companies cannot publish personally-identifiable information about their customers without consent.

Nokia was purposely sabotaged by Stephen Elop.

Elop was a Microsoft employee who moved to Nokia to become their CEO.

Elop scrapped Meego as well as the rapidly-improving and highly promising Symbian OS that Nokia had, killed internal projects that used Android, and went all in on Windows Phone 7, a completely unproven platform that just happened to be from his ex employer.

After the market really didn’t like that, Microsoft was able to buy Nokia for a bargain price ($4.6bn), and Elop was given a €18.8m bonus.

Curiosly, that bonus works out as €1 million for every €1 billion that was wiped off Nokia’s market cap during his time as CEO. But I’m sure that’s just a coincidence…

When he was asked for the good of the company to take a smaller bonus, Elop said that he couldn’t.

After the deal to buy Nokia went through, Elop moved to a different cushty position within Microsoft.

Nokia didn’t really fumble smartphones. They were purposely ran into the ground by Microsoft so they could use a powerful brand name as the the thing end of a wedge to take over the phone market, without having to pay much for it. Then Microsoft fumbled it from then on out.

Yet you can’t prove it. Interesting. So strange.

You cannot publish personally-identifiable information about your customers.

We already went over this.

Data protection laws exist, and you cannot publish information about specific customers online for the world to see.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but Pornhub won’t do this. I get that you want them to break the law, but they won’t.

It does exist.

You cannot publish personally-identifiable information about your customers.

Please stop lying.

Pornhub cannot go around naming and shaming specific users without consent.

This stuff never works. And plenty of sites don’t even implement the checks anyway.

I’m all for preventing kids from seeing harmful content, or being on social media at a young age, but these solutions are just plasters on an open wound.

I’m not saying it would be perfect, but it seems to me like routers should come with a QR code sticker on top that, during initial setup, will take you to a parental controls menu. One that should be vastly more idiot-proof than they currently are.

From there, people with kids can decide whether they want it on or not.

Will it prevent everything? Of course not! But it does place control in the parent’s hands, makes it much simpler to understand, and doesn’t come with data-handling plus privacy quandaries.

Trouble is, in addition to it likely still being taken down, or you being sued still, that also means you can’t ask online for assistance in building it.

These things are rarely one person working on it. They get the word out to find more modders who want to help.

Reminds me of my old N-Gage

Taking phone calls on that thing was so strange. You had to hold it like you’d hold a sandwich.

Point to a single law.

Go on. Show me a law where it says companies publicly sharing personally-identifiable information about users without their consent is fine.

You are so wrong. Companies cannot just release personally-identifiable data about people. You’re being crazy if you think they can.

Information that can be used to identify an individual cannot be shared without consent.

Publicly outing specific people with their names falls under that.

It’s hilarious how wrong you are.

No they can’t. Please stop making stuff up. Please stop the lies. You’re spreading misinformation.

Pornhub cannot go around publishing info about specific accounts holders, such as their name and job.

It’s actually insane that you think that’s the case.

Of course it is protected.

How the fuck is that not illegal? Companies cannot just release private information about their users.

The US doesn’t have a full-blown GDPR, but it still has laws about what companies can do with people’s data. They can’t just publish information about specific users without their consent. It’s honestly laughable you think that’s legal.

That would be hugely illegal, so no, they can’t threaten that unfortunately.

E: people, tone down your anger. I never said I like these Republican shitheads, I said companies cannot legally publish personal information about their customers without permission. And they can’t. Data protection laws exist.

Saying “Pornhub should just, like, break the law, mannnn, it would be funny!” is not a serious position. It’s not going to happen for obvious reasons.

I guess I should’ve seen this coming. It’s far more fun to be angry than to have reasonable discussions.

Anybody being realistic knows that sites like pornhub cannot legally release personally-identifiable information about their users without consent. It’s illegal, no matter how much dumb-as-fuck people like the person below insist it isn’t.

Honestly, I feel like I’m chatting to climate change deniers here or something. Companies cannot release personally-identifiable information about you without your consent. This is not news.

The “Web Store” part of that headline is fairly redundant.

Even non-technical people know 80W is more than 10W. They know that Watts usually refers to electrical power.

People have been buying lightbulbs of varying wattages, and understanding it just fine, for many decades now. Even my grandma who can barely operate anything more complex than a kettle has a good grasp of it.

I think you have it the opposite way around. The average person has a much better grasp of Watts than they do of data speeds in Gigabits per second.

I’d encourage people to read the article, because it’s pretty no-nonsense and has some other interesting details and background information. It’s not very long, either!

But here’s the important part that the headline speaks of:

Decentralized social network organization Mastodon said Monday that it is planning to create a new non-profit organization in Europe and hand over ownership of entities responsible for key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components. This means one person won’t have control over the entire project. The organization is trying to differentiate itself from social networks controlled by CEOs like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg.

While exact details are yet to be finalized, this means that Mastodon’s current CEO and creator, Eugen Rochko, will hand over management bits of the organization to the new entity and focus on the product strategy.

Yes. They broke the news on this branding guidelines change in 2022.

It’s unclear why it’s making the headlines again now - perhaps they started enforcing it somehow (although I’m unsure how that would even work) at the beginning of the year?

Firefox has offline translation and image alt-text tagging (for screen readers), but people bitched about it when Mozilla introduced it.

I’m glad people seem broadly receptive of it now that VLC is doing something similar.

Mate, you don’t even need to read the article, you just need to look at the pictures.

Wattage is part of the branding guidelines.