Notices by Jargoggles (jargoggles@mstdn.social)

@stux
This is why I cleverly throw would-be hackers off the trail with this clever combo:

Username: password
Password: username

@renegadejade
Way too many people confuse being polite with being kind and it shows.

@DaywalkingRedhead @augieray
I got COVID once and I did something similar, though thankfully it didn't last 55 days. I even give it I think maybe a week after I tested negative based on some guidelines I read.

Thankfully, we were very careful and she never caught it.

@clacke @thomasfuchs @halfbloodprice
It also depends on the opinions or, more specifically, what comes along with the opinions.

For instance, if someone has spent years spreading hate, then a simple "I was wrong about that" doesn't go very far. If someone is content to just stop there, then it's perfectly justifiable to push them to actually make amends.

@mattly
“how can we make sure you’re not using TikTok”

"How about you fucking focus on whether or not my work is getting done instead?"

@StillIRise1963
On the one hand, cancer sucks and I wouldn't wish it on anyone.

On the other hand, kings suck and I wouldn't wish them on anyone.

@jeffowski
I was told that if we didn't preach the gospel to our friends, it would be our fault if they went to hell. I lost one of the best friendships I've ever had over that. That's a pretty traumatic thing for an elementary school kid.

@ArpComics @jeffjarvis
Capitalists.

@futurebird
Antifa super-soldiers protecting drag story hour from a violent conservative mob (2022)

@emilygorcenski
Recently, someone told me that I was enabling Nazis because I said -checks notes- we need to completely deprive fascists of platforms so they can stop having their message amplified.

@feditips
John Mastodon told me that I needed to give him a photo of my passport, my social security number, and my credit card information to sign up for an account. Why would he lie to me?

@gsuberland @jan
Decentralization is too important to be left up to so many people who are spread out all over the place. Thank goodness we have a corporation to oversee it.

@ryanhoulihan
Yikes, I don't remember a time when that has ever been a good time.

I haven't been on Reddit in a while (except when I stumble across months- or years-old threads in search results). Would you say things have stayed generally about the same the past year or has there been a noticable downtrend?

@ryanhoulihan
Why didn't they just take their case to our country's leading healthcare provider? You know, GoFundMe?

@Obdurodon @parismarx
Companies have been pretending like nobody is personally responsible for shitty behavior for a long time by saying "it's just policy." However, people have always known that, at some level, people wrote those policies.

Much more recently, it's gotten worse when they can say "it's just the algorithm." Sure, people wrote the algorithms, but they're much more arcane than a written document.

LLMs are going to escalate this even further.

@ryanhoulihan
Generally, I think people's issue with TikTok isn't the content so much as the fact that the app itself is a massive privacy violation.

@feditips
-No algorithm that can be gamed to influence public opinion.

@eris
@stux
Right? Let's get a class action going.

@mattly
I don't see any numbers, how high does it go to?