Yeah, we fired the cyber security people.

The corruption is clear, obvious, and blatant. Everyone knows about it, but there’s not a whole lot they can do. A good chunk of our citizens picked it on purpose.

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Of course not. Why would they? I don’t want that either. But we are considering the actions of an authoritarian system.

Individual privacy isn’t relevant in such a country. However, it’s an interesting choice that they implement it this way.

Hm, that’s true there’s no way to distinguish between editing software and photos that have been completely generated. It only helps if you want to preserve and modified photos. And of course, I’m making assumptions here that China doesn’t care very much about privacy.

Would it be more effective to have something where cameras digitally sign the photos? Then, it also makes photos more attributable, which sounds like China’s thing.

I think the downside is one of consent. There’s no way to categorically indicate that you don’t want to participate in the play protect program.

This is an update to the standard, right? No actual software support, so we still don’t have it. Is that correct?

It is Linux, but with a bunch of non-free software on top of it.

It’s a problem with the business in general. As an employee, you’re not rewarded for good practices and maintaining systems. You’re rewarded for new ideas, which sounds good on paper, but creates a massive motivation to throw everything out and start over each year. Google can’t commit to anything because of that culture problem.

It’s reflected in their products, their hardware, how they treat developers, and so on.

Didn’t he sell it to Facebook? A sellout doesn’t bode well for him.

Have to learn to laugh or you’ll cry. That’s life.

It’s always a good idea to check out your instance policies. Mine blocks porn, for example. It’s a very important lens through which you will view the network.

It wouldn’t make a lot of sense to register for an instance that has very different beliefs from your own, unless that’s expressly what you want for educational purposes.

Maybe we do want a minimum barrier to entry that involves the slightest amount of patience and forethought.

Maybe just maybe a link aggregator and discussion platform doesn’t need to make money. Maybe it can just be good and make the users happy.

A democracy, if you can keep it, in a sense. Lemmy is healthy. Time will tell if the idea works, but I think it is a huge advantage tearing away corporate ownership and really investing in a platform that is owned by its users.

Onboarding process is definitely smoother, and we fixed a lot of the Federation bugs. Usability is an all-time high. I don’t know what the critical mass is, but we are definitely gaming momentum.

Far more impressive and interesting news.

Perhaps he would be willing to offer a public apology and an agreement to step down?

Nah. Still no.

Trump is doing an excellent job. At this rate, we will be destitute by the end of the year.

I can only hope these actions put enough pressure on people to do something about it and make their anger more publicly known.