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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 75 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (35 children)

Unfortunately some of the stuff that allows fingerprinting falls into a convenience vs privacy argument. It allows a website / web app to make changes to display things more appropriately, or have helpful functionality. That's why when you use a browser that is very strict about fingerprinting, some stuff will break.

An even simpler example is the screen aspect ratio. On a small screen, you want to use as much of the space as you can, but that information can be used for fingerprinting. This was annoying on browsers like mullvad, before they updated the aspect ratio to something more modern.

That doesn't excuse companies that abuse that data for malicious fingerprinting.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

There are people who use and prefer Bing

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I'm really hoping this is a joke website, or it was made for a TV show or something. It was the first result when I looked up "buy organs"

https://organcity.com/about/

If they are preying on desperate people, then that is just vile and the site should get shut down.

Because none of this makes sense, emphasis mine

ORGAN CITY is a group of US based Cardiologist, pharmacists, surgeons, medical doctors and physicians with more than 30 years of experience in the medical field, is the world’s premier supplier

We are the most reliable suppliers of well preserved and healthy human kidneys online with %100 discreet packaging and fast overnight shipping worldwide.

preserving it at near-body-temperature for up to ten hours

Your order will equally be coming with one of our agents who will travel to secure and safeguard same during transit and it can be delivered any part of the world without any problems. We offer shipping via FedEx, USPS or DHL both road and air transport

We have already extracted human organs in save, healthy and conducive conditions now awaiting orders from the general public. We have machines that can store these organs for one year without any issues, the heart is still beating and pumping blood normally while waiting for a new transplant. Our donors are usually our patients who probably suffered from accidents and other illnesses that does not affect their vital organs, as such we consult their families and also get their personal consent so as to help the world

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I think it comes down to

  • on paper it isn't gambling
  • in practice it has become gambling

ETFs are generally better, especially if you don't touch them for a long time.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'll edit that comment for clarity

We host a few of the frontends on our own infrastructure, which improves performance for users, among other benefits like reducing strain elsewhere. It's also easy for our local users to remember that old.lemmy.ca goes to the old interface, photon.lemmy.ca to photon, blorp.lemmy.ca to blorp etc. We are taking down the Tesseract one.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Winters' lawyers alleged the platform "repeatedly and insistently misdiagnosed" him while drawing on previous discussions about religion to assure him he would recover.

I forgot that it "learns" now, I haven't tried it in a long while 🤦

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think people are tired of these headlines because we've seen the same thing for many companies, without lasting consequences. It's even worse for elon musk related stocks, because of how much manipulation those ones go through.

I don't have a source, so take it with a grain of salt, but I vaguely remember a discussion that one of his companies couldn't remove him because the stock was artificially inflated by his presence. It might have been tesla

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

This guide page goes into what an alternative UI is, and some of the popular ones that are available. It is a little out of date, ~~lemmy.ca also dropped tesseract~~ we are no longer hosting Tesseract for lemmy.ca

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/alternative-uis

The controversy around tesseract is better explained elsewhere, but it boils down to a questionable blocklist that the dev was injecting into the tool, without it being made apparent to the users or admins

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Welcome!

Check out !newtolemmy@lemmy.ca if you have any questions

We've also put together a guide, and new users might find these pages helpful:

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/detailed-overview

https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/threadiverse/apps

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 month ago (9 children)

Sounds like we should get this place ready for another wave of people

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It seems like these articles came out after the huggingface ones

https://fortune.com/2026/07/20/hugging-face-turns-to-chinese-open-source-ai-to-fend-off-autonomous-ai-cyber-attack-after-american-ai-guardrails-stymie-defense/

Sounds like they got caught trying to steal from huggingface, and are now trying to market off of it

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

I would have expected people to be more angry at the US's actions than Argentina's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Trump%E2%80%93FIFA_red_card_controversy

During the 2026 World Cup, FIFA suspended the implementation of a one-game suspension that United States men's national soccer team player Folarin Balogun had received after he was sent off in a round of 32 match victory against the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team for a foul on Tarik Muharemović. Balogun's suspension was delayed for a probationary period of one year under the Article 27 authority of the FIFA Disciplinary Code. United States president Donald Trump had directly called FIFA president Gianni Infantino asking him to review the red card decision. The decision allowed Balogun to participate in the United States' Round of 16 match against Belgium despite the red card remaining in effect. Belgium won the match 4–1, with Balogun playing almost the entire match

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2026_FIFA_World_Cup_controversies

Another controversy, similar to when the events were hosted in Russia and Qatar, involves host countries immigration policies. The controversy during the 2026 FIFA World Cup, United States immigration and visa policies under the second Trump administration, which have affected players, officials, journalists, and fans from several qualified nations. A travel ban affecting citizens of 39 countries—including World Cup participants Haiti, Iran, Ivory Coast, and Senegal—has prevented most ordinary fans from those countries from obtaining visas to attend matches in the United States, though exemptions were granted for athletes, coaches, and essential support staff, as well as dual citizens, permanent residents, and valid visa holders. A separate visa bond program initially required fans from five African nations to pay deposits of up to $15,000, a requirement that was temporarily suspended in May 2026 for ticketed fans. Iraqi striker Aymen Hussein was detained for seven hours upon arrival at O'Hare International Airport, while Somali referee Omar Artan was denied entry and was unable to officiate at the tournament.

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