Have you people never heard of a phone book? Phone numbers aren’t sensitive information. If they want to scrape your phone number they can legally and trivially do so through public data sources. Google does plenty of sketchy things around privacy, but this isn’t one of them, it’s just about security.

Wait until they hear about this thing called a phone book.

There’s also this thing called a phone book which has almost everyone and their number in it. Phone numbers are not sensitive information, period.

Especially when they already have access to your entire email history. If they wanted your phone number for nefarious means it will probably be somewhere in that history already. Your email already requires complete trust in the email provider service, there’s so much more sensitive stuff they already have access to.

The people that need the most help have the least capacity to help others. You should also get close to people with the strength to help others too. Having to be there for everyone will become exhausting, but not everyone is like that, you need a balance.

Also, could it be that you’re not reaching out enough to ask for help?

Even for indexes I do index or something more specific for what it’s indexing. Any simple iteration I just do map or each so the only time I ever need to actually index things is for more complex scenarios in which case it’s worth it to have better names. Also with modem IDEs, auto complete is really good so you don’t need to write a full variable name more than once.

Sure, in this case it was rich idiots spending millions, they’re only upset that they missed the opportunity to pawn it off to another idiot first

Even still, they take 30% of a studio’s revenue which is a ridiculous amount that’s only possible through a near monopoly

The benefit is that you could have a distributed marketplace. Instead of having monopolies like steam where one company accumulates a bunch of power they can abuse you could have multiple small companies band together to support a common standard of ownership so you could buy from any company and all the companies supporting the standard would respect it. You could also tie it to a legal contract so it’s actually enforceable.

Of course you could just do that with an centralized standard that’s backed by multiple companies too.

NFT buyers were also scammers since their intention was to sell it off to the next patsy

They weren’t even uniquely drawn, they just mr potato head combined a handful of components

Lol, I’d be super surprised if open ai started adding ads, it doesn’t make sense with their business model.

To a certain extent lemmy is inherently at a disadvantage because of how Google ranks things. Google gives a lot of weight to site trust which works on a per host basis, and lemmy is distributed meaning the trust of the system as a whole is diluted across instances. It’s a really stupid system that just helps big sites get bigger. It’s made even worse because big blog sites are actually only owned by a small handful of companies and since single companies own many properties that can collude between them to funnel their page ranks between their network of sites.

What do you mean by combining in this context? If they mutually agree to combine because they have aligned interests I don’t see anything wrong with that. An external entity combining them I agree would lead to a bunch of problems.

Strikers were bombed back in the day by aircrafts. Unionization was won through enduring warfare yet we just gave it away. Shows how powerful unionization is that the elites are completely terrified of it, and that they have surpressed the history of it so few will know how much blood was shed to get it.

If the printer costs less than or barely more than an in cartridge, it’s a scam. If you want a non scam printer, it will be more expensive. And never buy HP.

Advice on what instances to join, coordination to move communities, technical advice for those communities to form instance, etc.

Thanks spez! You sent all the best devs making free programs for your platform to your biggest competitor, plus enough users for it to reach critical mass and allow the snowball effect to grow. And it’s FOSS so it can’t be stopped!

Open source, open standards, open protocols. We need to stop allowing centralized control which let the rich accumulate more power.