I’m not sure. Maybe, for a small minority of people, that’s the case. But for most… The reason they flocked there first, while there were plenty of fediverse options already, wasn’t lack of ads. It was the opposite, ads from a platform with ads that led most people to threads in the first place.

Add Periodical to the list. Data stored locally, and you can export it and transfer it to your new device in a .json file.

Ohhh didn’t know about libredirect

Never welcome news to hear studios closing down :(

Wait the IA is still going on? I’ve been getting an error whenever i tried to access it for days now

They work at a mannequin warehouse

I’ve had Proton for a while, I’m satisfied, would recommend.

Previously I used to use Nord, but ever since… Uh I forgot what they did. They changed headquarters? Disclosed something they shouldn’t? Somebody here will correct me and point out what happened.

Anyway, Proton 👍

Fair enough, though there aren’t any bulletproof solutions for this. I am inclined to think the solution would be with encryption and security and not so much altering the images themselves. Fuck AI, corporate greed and the uselessly slow legal system.

I haven’t, I’ve only heard of Nightshade and Glaze as promoted on Cara but it’s not what you describe

They do say straight away that the concept and design departments are getting slashed, now with very few human artists, all who are forced to use AI in their workflow.

The same is happening in VFX and film to some extent, though I know that from personal acquaintances and not the article.

That’s it. The rest is conflated as you say. It is a very loooong article so I didn’t finish it. Perhaps I missed the real horrors at the end of it.

So it sounds like saying “Christmas in christmas in”?

These headlines, sometimes…

#nottheonion

I have Jabras too. The only apples I buy are by the kilo

Ufff that sucks… I’m impressed that you changed the batteries on the buds. I’m not even sure I could open mine without destroying them.

That wouldn’t belong in this forum… Definitely beyond mildly infuriating! I’d be pissed too :(

Noted! Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll try it out

Yeah sometimes that happens too. My fix is very simple, if I’m not using my buds I turn off Bluetooth.

One of my pairs has weak magnets too, but the other one doesn’t. 🤷🏼‍♀️

I got a Jabra and an Mpow. It happens with both, sporadically and unpredictably. It feels like your Huawei case scenario.

Sure, I still use those too. They have their own pros and cons though, but you are right, you won’t have that particular issue

Thanks, that was a good read. FB is so disgusting. Had I known a tool like this existed I may have stayed. I haven’t used for at least 5 years, but I kept the messenger lite app to stay in touch with people via chat. They killed the app and that was it for me. The feed is garbage. Meta is garbage.

I’ve read the ars article linked too, and I think this attitude is so petty- most people aren’t power users or inclined to customise their social media/browser experience. The amount of people who would use the tool would be minimal in comparison with the majority who happily eats their feed without question. Meta is greed incarnate.