islander wrote:
True. As black321 wrote, people should self-regulate, though many don't seem to care. A lot of people reveal more than they should: when they'll be out of town, "extreme" opinions, criticisms of their workplace while still employed there, etc. It's one thing posting pictures of the lunch you had, but a lot of people give away too much. It's like this odd and annoying habit of people having phone conversations in public with their speakerphones turned on.

 black321 wrote:

Should we also worry about what the 'domestic' companies are extracting?  And how are we defining domestic? Is it location or loyalty, and how do we test/track loyalty (does party matter)?

 black321 wrote:
Old habits die hard

MAGA! Love and Peace!

 Steely_D wrote:
I’m really not into social media tbh.

 buddy wrote:

Join us on Bluesky. 

Given what's going on with Meta & Mark Suckerberg, I'm seriously considering deleting my FB & IG accounts. I'm not very active on them at any rate.  I only have 15 friends on FB & have other ways to stay in touch. No big loss.

 miamizsun wrote:

I was saying this in jest, but...if we take a look at this a bit further, is it really?
Looking at how China is behaving, and not just in its own neighborhood against our allies, are they not a clear adversary?
I'm not smart enough to know exactly what a china owned company could pull from phones, but it does seem menacing.
 consumers should be smart enough to self-regulate without the interference of the gov, but many just arent or dont care. 

 R_P wrote:

The propaganda continues: hate Americans. Everyone is doing it, so you should too.

 kurtster wrote:
Think I may still have a copy somewhere but I may have given it away. It was a pretty boring read.

 R_P wrote: 
I think that reference got missed here for some reason, or it's just me ... I really dunno anymore.

 black321 wrote:

then we would be like the ccp?

 R_P wrote:

US should just ban any chinese media. 

With a TikTok Ban Looming, Users Flee to Chinese App ‘Red Note’
Some say they joined Xiaohongshu, which translates to “little red book,” to spite the US government after a ban on TikTok became more likely.

 Beaker wrote:
Good to know.

 Proclivities wrote:

This is a trusted site where your email address can be scanned to see if it's affected by any data breaches.  Better yet, sign-up on it (free) and be notified of any new breaches.

';—have i been pwned?

 Beaker wrote:
I think I may have briefly had the same password (different user names) for my Netscape Mail account and my eBay account back around 2000, then I thought about it and changed them.

And this is why you never, ever, use the same password on more than one site.  

Meta Fined $102 Million For Storing Passwords in Plain Text

Though I have a hard time remembering my RP password, so to make it easier, I use the same password for my account at my bank.


Password Entropy: The Value of Unpredictable Passwords

 miamizsun wrote:
plus an ever-increasing similarity to shopping malls

 thisbody wrote:

shortages of nuance and tolerance toward peaceful people/pluralism