wow this is fascinating, thanks for sharing!

I love this clip 😄 It’s even better with sound!

I only do manual backups, but I’m the kind of person who does it multiple times a day anyway - whenever I do a major edit on a work or hobby file - just for my peace of mind :)

And yes, only “airlocked” backups. I manually use FreeFileSync to mirror my files to a local backup folder on another HDD (I have multiple paired folders set up inside that, so FFS doesn’t have to check tens of thousands of other files if I only edited a particular project that day), and keep only that synced to Google Drive. So if either the active local copy or Google Drive is corrupted or lost, the file is not automatically lost on the other end. I also found it a neat surprise that Google Drive retains past versions of files, it came handy a few times.

their personal, legal files

Google doesn’t even care about hosting pirated content on Drive as long as you’re not sharing it to others.

two drives in the same PC/server count, but it’s sketchy on its own

If your house/office burns down, all your data is lost. At least one backup should be off-site!

ffs I had to fire up Tor browser to look at the photo from the UK… I guess I’ll start using it more regularly with sites blocking the entire country in response to these overreaching new laws -.-

I’m impressed there’s a gif for this 🤣

Ecosia and Qwant are working on a European search index.

There’s this article about the UK Socialist Workers party trying to hush it up when one of their leaders was accused by multiple women of rape and sexual harassment.

As an example there’s my mother who feels empathy for everyone, paedophiles and rapists included, and even acts on these impulses e.g. signed a petition to ask for charges against one to be dropped. I would say she’s misdirecting her empathy to a toxic level…

I use Macrodroid for similar notification handling shenanigans. I even bought it bc it’s so beautifully customisable 👌

We bought a smart TV a couple years ago, and it was so hard to find a model without a built-in microphone… No I don’t want my fucking TV to listen to every word said in the room.

Apparently they are “AI companions” in Grok: other comment in this thread

I kinda like it, feels cozy :)

We had Mastodon, which worked perfectly

tbh several of my colleagues complained that they found discovering new content and/or content outside of their servers really hard, and the whole federation is just too complicated for not-technologically-minded people 🤷

(no personal experience because I don’t use any microblogging platforms)

I see it as a curved sword handle on top of… idk a set top box 🤣

This really reminds me of Peter F Hamilton’s novels about the Void 🙃 (Void Trilogy and Chronicle of the Fallers)

as the kids say, this sent me 💀

eh I’m trans, and now that I’ve transitioned, it’s largely a neutral experience, neither good nor bad, it just is. But in my comment I meant that I think society (broadly) wouldn’t be nearly as transphobic if every 5th person was trans.

Also between 30% gay/lesbian and 29% bisexual, only 41% are straight 🥴

(Ignoring asexuals, etc.)