Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
"Explanations which require fewer unjustified assumptions are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary or improbable assumptions."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

I am aware of the antics of the D66 affiliate, lol, well, from a number of years ago.

For a bunch of people in politics, it's remarkable how they might put something across in the worst way possible, when they could just point to censorship of sexual expression being a violation of fundamental rights or something.

I remember that ORG, a sort of British EFF, had to lay off a bunch of staff, because one of the funders whimsically decided to spend a bit more money on a different type of non-profit.

So, if someone cares about that sort of thing, they have to donate.

I'm not really dissing them for that, but it is something to keep in mind, if you care about civil liberties.

The home feed might soon go back to working normally rather than having random posts pop up as if we are using Twitter.

Actually run locally. No "partial" processing or other nonsense.

Ideally, a "virtual girlfriend" app would be run locally, rather than on an external server.

I wonder how many people overlook the funding issues which these orgs run into.

Sometimes, Salter's takes are so wrong that I wonder for a moment whether he generated them with ChatGPT. #auspol

If it's those transported to another world novels, there are probably tens of thousands of them, or more. They're everywhere.

If someone really doesn't like being tracked though, they probably won't like being tracked with an analytics tool which uses a free software license.

A random post from eight months ago appeared, lol.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/salt-typhoon-hack-shows-theres-no-security-backdoor-thats-only-good-guys Even conventional "lawful access" wiretaps can be abused by third parties.

https://www.eff.org/join Orgs like this often have a hard time raising funds.

https://archewell.org/news/prince-harry-attends-who-dinner-to-end-violence-to-children/
Prince Harry virtue signals by attending "think of the children" event. I mean, let's face it, does anyone get any value whatsoever from having him turn up?

"think of the children" is a whole other problem.

Prince Harry of all people plans to show up to tell people to "think of the children".

Re-reading a study can take a while (there might be dozens of pages to go through) so that is one reason why it might take a while for me to post an update for the science post. It's not the only reason.

"Digital Fairness Act"
"addictive design"
How much is the "right amount" of use? Do you want the State dictating that? Also, do you want States going out of their way to make products harder (or more unpleasant) to use in an attempt to make them less "addictive"?
#eupol

While I'd like to supplement it further, my current science post is already very good.