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The link wouldn’t let me read it with an adblocker enabled. A window took up the screen telling me to disable it.
Which is why I went to an archive site and read it there.
This is the way 👍
Use a Javascript blocker, as well.
I have uBlock Origin and NoScript, together they disabled the ads and the demand to turn off your blocker.
This is a good thing, though. Anyone so antagonistic to readers needs to be avoided.
One reason why you need to use a proper privacy respecting E2EE messaging e.g. Signal.
Bonus points for one that does not even have your personal information e.g. Session.
+1 for session
also matrix....
Wasn't session closing down?
Yes, but they met their funding goal, pared their team, and are alive and well, for the time being.
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she sent a private Snapchat message referencing shooting the child or the school
Yeah talking about committing a school shooting is going to get you flagged.
I don't think the government should be reading private messages
exactly. someone letting off steam to family or friends is as old as time. heck. bar conversation even.
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It usually (probably) isn't. Snapchat (meta) is reading your private messages and then sending problematic ones to the government.
If you don't like that, then you should be using a messaging system that's actually private. Which means, at a bare minimum, end-to-end encryption.
They're not private. Never were. Snapchat was always a lie.
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Pick up that can
"should I shoot him?" is not a threat.
Also, who made you the judge jury and executioner of Snapchat messages that get you fired from your job?
That's the AI's job and I don't want to see you stealing jobs from hard working AIs.
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oh but I thought you had nothing to hide Sharon?
I thought you didn't care about using private messaging?
I thought you said to me that Signal is used only for creeps and drug dealers that need to hide from the police?
Well, thank god you're not one of those, I guess...good for you Sharon
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Oh cool. "Thought crime". Great.
And still Snap says they can't stop the snap drug trade..
What I don't get is how simply closing the laptop deletes anything.
On every laptop and every OS I used closing the lid just makes it go to sleep and everything is the same when you open it back up again. Never was anything deleted.
If somebody know a scenario where stuff would be deleted, please explain so that I can avoid it.
You can set the lid-close trigger to do nothing, suspend, hibernate, or shut down. I'm assuming it was an unsaved document and the lid was set to shutdown on close.
I wanna know what monster sets the lid close action to shut down.
Like yeah it should be an option. But nobody should ever pick that option. And anyone who does should be shunned and socially isolated.
When my PC suspends it unmounts the sd card, which can cause data loss if I am working on something that is not saved to the internal SSD.
ok... in my experience when shutting down windows it asks to save files and blocks the shutdown until then. Same for kde linux. No idea what mac does.
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you have to go out of your way to disable autosaving drafts these days
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The real question is who has an unsaved lesson plan open on their laptop. Just fuckin' improv style teaching method.
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Private message - it isn't private if it can get flagged 😅 .... and seriously, think about everything you have ever said or written, imagine someone taking one of those private sentences out of context... To even think that was a real threat you had to act upon says tons about the country and system, the work- and school environment. Just sad really😢
That's why big tech renamed them to direct messages (DM).
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"private" snapchat.
The privacy vs convenience trade-off is real. I've been slowly replacing cloud services with self-hosted alternatives on my homelab: Nextcloud for files, Jellyfin for media, Immich for photos, and Gitea for code. The upfront setup effort is real, but waking up knowing your data is truly yours? Worth every minute. What's the one service you'd never self-host?
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