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  • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.iotoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna.
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    9 months ago

    Not exactly. !showerthoughts@lemmy.world was a poor choice, as is:

    • !showerthoughts@zerobytes.monster ← Cloudflare
    • !showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works ← Cloudflare
    • !showerthoughts@lemmy.ca ← Cloudflare
    • !showerthoughts@lemm.ee ← Cloudflare
    • !hotshowerthoughts@x69.org ← Cloudflare, and possibly irrelevant
    • !showerthoughts@lemmy.ml ← not CF, but copious political baggage, abusive moderation & centralized by disproportionate size

    They’re all shit & the OP’s own account is limited to creating a new community on #lemmyWorld. !showerthoughts@lemmy.ml would be the lesser of evils but the best move would be create an acct on a digital rights-respecting instance that allows community creations and then create showerthoughts community there.

    (EDIT) !showerThoughts@fedia.io should address these issues.

  • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.iotoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna.
    51·
    9 months ago

    Normal users don’t have these issues.

    That’s not true. Cloudflare marginalizes both normal users and street-wise users. In particular:

    • users whose ISP uses CGNAT to distribute a limited range of IPv4 addresses (this generally impacts poor people in impoverished regions)
    • the Tor community
    • VPN users
    • users of public libraries, and generally networks where IP addresses are shared
    • privacy enthusiasts who will not disclose ~25% of their web traffic to one single corporation in a country without privacy safeguards
    • blind people who disable images in their browsers (which triggers false positives for robots, as scripts are generally not interested in images either)
    • the permacomputing community and people on limited internet connections, who also disable browser images to reduce bandwidth which makes them appear as bots
    • people who actually run bots – Cloudflare is outspokenly anti-robot and treats beneficial bots the same as malicious bots
    • …

    There are likely more oppressed groups beyond that because there is no transparency with Cloudflare.

  • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.iotoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•It's 2023/2024 and Roseanne Barr is now more attractive than Madonna.
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    9 months ago

    And cf also allows you to block and report child porn

    That’s been tried. When someone reported CP to Cloudflare, CF demanded the identity of the whiste blower then doxxed them to the offending CF user, who then published the whistle blower’s identity so their users could retaliate. When the CEO (Matthew Prince) was confronted about this, his reply was that the whistle blowers “should have used fake names”. Then this company you support had the nerve to claim to have a privacy pledge: “[A]ny personal information you provide to us is just that: personal and private.”

    Also cf is about the only way to make federation affordable and safe. (emphasis mine)

    Forcing children to reveal their residential IP addresses to the fedi whereby any interested person (read: child preditors) can derive their approximate location – do you really think that’s a good idea for safety?

    What are you even thinking? It most certainly is not safe to expose 20%+ of everyone’s traffic to a single corporation.

  • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.iotoTechnology@lemmy.world•Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why
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    10 months ago

    Not sure people are finding meeting-free gigs. I read about someone holding down 4 jobs who once had to attend 3 meetings at once (that story might have been in Wired mag, not sure). Like a DJ he had multiple audio streams going with headphones and made a skill of focusing where his name would most likely come up. I’m sure there’s also a long list of excuses like “had to run to stop the burning food” or whatever. Presumabely a long list of excuses to wholly nix a meeting in the first place as well.

    Some people are secretly outsourcing some of their work as well, which works for workload but not for meetings.

  • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.iotoTechnology@lemmy.world•Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why
    14·
    10 months ago

    it’s about time we restructure the workforce.

    I suppose a big part of that will be managers learning how to measure productivity more accurately than your clocked-in hours. That’ll be the most interesting change… the “corporate welfare” program of just getting paid to occupy a desk space will have to be replaced with more sophisticated real performance measurements.

    I have no idea how that pans out in software. Every bug is vastly different so they can’t merely count the number of bugs you fix. SLOC is a bit of a sloppy measure too.

  • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.iotoNews@lemmy.world•The US doesn’t have universal health care — but these states (almost) do
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    10 months ago

    More fun to mention 11 “states” at a 5.1% uninsured cutoff, because number 11 is Peurto Rico – a US territory that you might expect to be less developed. Since people are forced to run javascript to see the list, I’ll copy it here up to the 6% point:

    1. Massachusetts
    2. District of Columbia
    3. Hawaii
    4. Vermont
    5. Iowa (what’s a red state doing here?)
    6. Rhode Island
    7. Minnesota
    8. New Hampshire
    9. Michigan
    10. New York
    11. Puerto Rico
    12. Connecticut
    13. Pennsylvania
    14. Wisconsin
    15. Kentucky (what’s a red state doing here?)
    16. Delaware
    17. Ohio (what’s a red state doing here? OH will worsen over time; to be fair they only recently became solidly red)
    18. West Virginia
      …

    (22) California (6.5%… worse than we might expect for CA)
    …

    (52) Texas ← ha! Of course Texass is last. 16.6% uninsured in the most notable red state showing us how to take care of people

    The general pattern is expected… the bottom of the list is mostly red states.

  • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.iotoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Is mander.xyz down?
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    11 months ago

    If you search, you’ll learn several privacy-abusing ways to do that via enshitified exclusive walled gardens which share the site you’re asking about with US tech giants and treat users of VPNs, Tor, and CGNAT with hostility.

    • ❌https://downdetector.com/ ← avoid (Cloudflare)
    • ❌https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ ← avoid (Cloudflare); I think #downforeveryoneorjustme was one of the 1st of this kind but then it got greedy and became exclusive
    • 🤷https://www.isitdownrightnow.com/ ← meh (inclusive of everyone for the moment, but uses CF DNS so could spontaneously proxy through CF; broken on lynx because 1st party js req’d)
    • ✓#downinspector ← decent, lesser of evils (CF-free & always inclusive of everyone, but does not work on lynx and requires JS; it pushes CF JS but still works if you only run 1st party js)

    I only listed 2 bad ones (the 1st two) but when you search the first dozen results are shit. What could be more shitty than being directed to CAPTCHAs and other exclusive bullshit in the course of trying to troubleshoot a problem?

    Also, the community we’re in here is “nostupidquestions”.

    There’s also an onion one but I lost track of it.

  • ciferecaNinjo@fedia.iotoNews@lemmy.world•Ex-Americans are suing America to get back some of the money they paid to renounce their citizenship
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    1 year ago

    It’s not just about money. It’s a labor burden and a privacy intrusion. And even if iceblade02 could renounce for free, they then must carry the renounciation cert for the rest of their life and show it to every bank they deal with and hope that no data entry errors trigger data oversharing anyway.

    They must renounce to get their human rights back. Because without renouncing, they lose their human right to non-discriminatory treatment on the basis of national origin (article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights).

    But back to money, that annual tax filing accidental Americans must file costs them $300+/year – accountants do not work for free. It’s effectively a tax on the poor.