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Google will be deleting inactive google accounts together with all data on them starting December 1, 2023
  • Thats pretty reasonable. I'm sure there are a ton of orphan accounts just lingering out there. Including accounts that other people may like to have.

    All of these companies are tightening their belts. Those interest rates going up are sure making companies reassess their business models.

  • New poll shows record number of 40 year olds that have never married
    www.pewresearch.org A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married

    As of 2021, 25% of 40-year-olds in the United States had never been married, a significant increase from 20% in 2010.

    A record-high share of 40-year-olds in the U.S. have never been married

    Personally, I married pretty late. I was 17 years older than my parents when I married.

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    Dev creates 32-bit computer INSIDE Terraria

    This is incredibly impressive. The level of talent here is humbling.

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    Beehaw's Demographics survey of June 2023!
  • A couple of things: It sounds like you are assuming I am white.

    This response doesn't seem all that nice or inclusive. Calling someone with an, ironically, slightly different opinion than you (read: diverse), fragile and sensitive seems to be counter to the community you are trying to build here. Right? Am I crazy?

    I think we need to strive to have an environment where we can have open, honest, and sometimes uncomfortable conversations about all of this stuff. Being dismissive of it as "white fragility" isn't productive or helpful.

    As I said in my initial comment, I understand the intent of that section of the report, and I think more diversity is better than homogeneity, but the way that information was conveyed, and almost specifically that information, seems unwelcoming. For what its worth, I very intentionally joined Beehaw vs any other instance because I truly appreciate what you are trying to do here. So hopefully you take this in the manner it is intended: (hopefully) constructive criticism and food for thought.

  • Beehaw's Demographics survey of June 2023!
  • I understood the intent, but words mean things and phrasing matters. As written, it doesn't seem welcoming or inclusive. They phrased the other sections much better--(which almost makes it seem more targeted even though I sincerely doubt it is)

    "We don't have as much diversity as we would like in this area, so in an effort to cultivate a richer community, we'll need to do more analysis and outreach. We are open to ideas!".

    The reality is: you can't force diversity. You can only make an environment where its welcome and encouraged--and you should be welcoming to everyone. Obviously this rubbed some folks the wrong way.

    As an aside: it's also a little short sighted to assume that bucketing people in a "white" group means they aren't diverse in their own right. I'd imagine there is quite a diverse makeup of "white people" on here-- people from Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the US, Canada, Australia, and elsewhere who all have very different perspectives, cultures, and norms that they bring to the table.

  • non-stickied PSA: Beehaw has signed the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact
  • Look at what they are doing with Mark Zuckerberg. Their big PR campaign to show him as a mans man. Posting that he did the Murph challenge, talking about ju jit su, and accepting Elon's ridiculous challenge for a cage match.

    There is this fairly obvious PR campaign to make him seem less like a emotionless robot.

  • DeSantis vows to end birthright citizenship as part of immigration plan
  • “I have listened to people in D.C. for years and years and years, going back decades. Republicans and Democrats always chirping about this, and yet never actually bringing the issue to a conclusion,” DeSantis told a crowd in Eagleton, Texas, announcing the plan Monday.

    -The guy chirping about it with a plan that wouldn't possibly bring it to a conclusion.

    Any "policy" that requires a constitutional amendment isn't ever going to be implemented. This is grandstanding at its worst.

    The immigration issue requires nuanced understanding problems and compromise. Those aren't earmarks of most of our politicians--especially not a blowhard like DeSantis.

  • We're Now Finding Out The Damaging Results of The Mandated Return to Office — And It's Worse Than We Thought
  • Most companies that are going back to the office are STILL HAVING VIRTUAL MEETINGS. The hybrid environments ABSOLUTELY are. So you are getting all of the shitty aspects of going into the office and all of the downsides of not-in-person collaboration. It's the worst of both worlds.

    When you ask an employee to wake up an hour earlier, spend an hour in traffic, to pay for parking, to sit in a 'hotel cube', to get on a virtual meeting that they could have done at home...you are absolutely going to have people leave your company.

    The data on people equating lack of flexibility with a 2-3% paycut seems incredible low to me.

    I think its a much more significant impact than that. I know people who have basically taken a 20% paycut (lost their cost-of-living adjustment) to move to a different state--doing the same job remotely. That's basically a way of saying flexibility/remote work is work 20% to them.

  • Its Time to Subsidize E-bikes
    clivethompson.medium.com It’s Time To Subsidize E-bikes

    We offer tax credits for electric cars — but ebikes are arguably even more transformative

    It’s Time To Subsidize E-bikes

    Its an interesting article about subsidizing ebikes.

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    Considering changing to PopOS as a content creator
  • I game on Pop. I left windows on dual boot just in case, but I have only logged into Windows 2 times in 18 months and that was just to run updates because I realized I hadn't logged in.

    Since the Steamdeck came out, TONS more games work on linux.

    Davinci Resolve works on Pop as well. You are kinda screwed with Lightroom and PS though.

  • Poll: A historic number of Americans don't want a Biden-Trump rematch
  • My hot take:

    Biden has been the best President we've had in 30 years.

    He's exactly who we needed when we got him. He got us out of Afghanistan. As much as a debacle as it was, he not Trump and not Obama pulled us out. His deft handling of the Ukrainian conflict where he used soft-power and influence to let the EU and NATO members come to decision to enact the super harsh sanctions themselves. Knowing that if the US pressed, they'd resist. It had to be their decision. He's continued to say and do all of the right things. His attempt to forgive student loans his huge. Some of the measures worked even if all of them didn't. He got the most meaningful infrastructure bill passed that I've ever witness. Neither Trump nor Obama could make it happen and Biden did it with a split Congress That infrastructure bill was also the most meaningful environment legislation that we've ever had That bill also paves the way for significant investment in our broad-band across the country Passed the Safer Communities Act ...actual gun related legislation since the Brady bill. Again, with a split congress. Gave us our first public defender SCOTUS justice. This might not seem like a big deal but I think its pretty significant given the amount of case law that exists that, so far, hasn't had a public defenders 'say' in it.

    I could go on but I gotta go eat dinner.

    People want to shit on Biden, but I actually like him. He's not perfect, but he's been insanely effective given everything he walked in to. Including him diligently and quietly rebolstering the executive branches that were gutted and had people leaving in droves in the last admin. Eg the Department of State. He's assigned quality folks into key roles and its making a difference.

    I voted for him without hesitation because well, the alternative was terrifying, but I was not expecting much from him at all. He's surprised me.

    edit: I literally can't figure out how to make this a list. Sorry for the wordblob.

  • Google has a hidden browser inside the settings
  • 100% but I believe these are typically locked down to one domain, and in this case its not.

    At least thats how I understand it. So I guess the article is a little misleading in that sense, but the net effect is the same. You have carte blanche access to the web, via android system webview, thats acting as a de-facto out-of-band browser. So its misconfigured or not locked down, which means you can use it effectively as a "hidden" browser.

  • Google has a hidden browser inside the settings
    matan-h.com Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings

    I recently discovered a secret browser located inside the "Manage my account" popup that Android has in various apps (quite important apps, such as Settings, and all Google suite apps).

    Google has a secret browser hidden inside the settings

    A dev recently discovered a browser built into the settings (for any google app that lets you edit settings). From there you can bypass parental controls or enterprise restrictions.

    This is a pretty exciting "extra feature", Google!

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    Netflix got rid of the $9.99 basic plan in Canada

    It's like they are trying to irritate people into canceling their accounts.

    Imo, this one might actually be worse than the account sharing and cause people to quit. As soon as you have people messing around with their subscription version, it's all too easy to just say "nah, I actually don't want this anymore".

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    All programs should tell you where they store config files

    I wholeheartedly agree with this blog post. I believe someone on here yesterday was asking about config file locations and setting them manually. This is in the same vein. I can't tell you how many times a command line method for discovering the location of a config file would have saved me 30 minutes of googling.

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    1password implementing privacy-preserving telemetry system
    blog.1password.com Rolling out our privacy-preserving telemetry system | 1Password

    We’ll soon be rolling out a privacy-preserving telemetry system to customer accounts. Learn how the rollout is going to work, and the steps we’ve taken to protect your privacy.

    Rolling out our privacy-preserving telemetry system | 1Password

    "We won’t be collecting your saved passwords, passkeys, usernames, and any URLs associated with your items. Your private information is just that – private.

    All event data will be de-identified and processed in aggregate before it’s used for analysis. "

    It sounds like they plan on releasing the technical details in the coming days/weeks. I'm curious how its de-identified and processed.

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    "Stacy's Mom" on bagpipes

    I am not sure if this is the right community for this, but this made me chuckle.

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