I went to a gas station that had facial recognition cameras. They cited theft, but also their “legitimate interest”, using website cookie language - only there was no easily apparent way to object to their legitimate interest.

What we really need is legislation. The law needs to recognise that businesses cannot just steal data from people for free for their own profits - not to mention exploiting that data against the data subject.

If you build and sell a car, you have to pay for the nuts and bolts. You can’t just take them and say “well, you wouldn’t know how to build a car, and they only cost a tiny, tiny amount, so we don’t need to pay you.”

Personal data has value. So much value, the businesses that focus on collecting it are some of the wealthiest in the world. We are all being robbed.

In an internal memo sent Monday afternoon to Reddit staff, former r/jailbait moderator and paedophile Steve Huffman addressed the recent blowback

FTFY

What happens to your account on a federated server if that one fails though?

Eh, it’s a misconception to think that capitalism is evil, and the problem. Capitalism is neutral, it’s a simple method of value exchange - it takes x time in man hours to extract raw materials, y to manufacture a product, z to distribute it so the price should be x+y+z.

The issue is with people. People lie and try to inflate or deflate the value of things. They’ll imply that it takes longer to do something, so they can sell it for more, meanwhile they’ll pay their employees less than their time is worth. Capitalism’s main failing is that it is too simple, it is unable to account for these human flaws.

I might still google “[question] reddit” when looking for how to do things, and there a couple of subs I’ll check for that kind of purpose, but I’ve already stopped actively contributing to the site and have edited and deleted most of my comments (at least the ones shown on my profile, reddit doesn’t show all of them - need to find a way to automate editing + deleting from the GDPR CSV files).

Hopefully Lemmy will grow and take over to fill the reddit knowledge gap.

What’s more, they’ve blocked old reddit if you’re not logged in. Now it either redirects to new reddit or you get a “you broke reddit” error page. It won’t be long before they block old reddit for existing users, I reckon.

No, but my mum did buy me one of those when I asked her to get me the CatFace one lmao. Even though I gave her the specific link. Ended up having to buy it myself.

This is CatFace, and like I say the clock face is his giant cat head. Then his little dangling body is the pendulum.

apparently Jebora lets you upload images directly.

Badger Badger was made by the creator of Weebl and Bob. It found its way onto Ebaums no doubt, but he had his own site, weeblsstuff, that had a bunch of stuff.

One of my favourite possessions is my Cat Face pendulum clock!