Hey, so this is super cool.
Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf
Microsoft steals name of Linux Desktop project (MauiKit and the Maui distribution) for their project that does the same thing and then blames Linux community for using that name to begin with (which is obvious trademark infringement as they've both had those names for years now). Abusing power over GitHub to then delete any issues on their project related to the name collision and deny they are at fault for ignoring the first search result that comes up for the name Maui.
https://medium.com/@probonopd/microsoft-loves-linux-a-little-too-much-cff91023e4b8
You can tell they are trying to embrace, extend, and extinguish. But with blunders like this and the way their megacorp stooge bosses like to handle it they won't be extending anything.
Weekend CHOP/CHAZ shooting, cops are liars, anger
Just watched a press conference wherein police chief Best said that first responders were prevented from reaching the victim
and implied that his life might have been saved if the SPD still had tear gas
when in fact he had been evacuated several minutes earlier by volunteer medics in a private vehicle, when they realized official transport would be too slow. They performed basic life support in the back of a moving fucking pickup truck.
I'm fuming.
pitching firefox to the mastodon furry community: look it's uh, it's like chrome but it has a fursona,, and uh,,,,,
why is this a hot webdev take
hiding URLs from the user may look much cleaner but only because the corporate web loves making their URLs incomprehensible by tacking on a disgusting amount of query params for tracking and other purposes, as well as just not having good site architectures
doctor who fuckin rips
ASTRONAUT: the moon is gonna blow up
THE DOCTOR WHO: no it won't, it's a giant egg that's about to hatch
ASTRONAUT: that's even worse
THE DOCTOR WHO, SAGELY: no. that's not true at all. it fucking whips
ASTRONAUT:
THE DOCTOR WHO: you fool. you disgrace. you absolute piece of garbage
Transgender catgirl dating a transgender enby.
AnCom pal. Ask me about SBARG.