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What's a good throwaway/single use email provider these day?
  • I had this issue - I was trying to cancel my Guardian online news subscription, and they make it painful. Insist the email must come from the address, they didn’t allow a code validating ownership etc, was a complete pain

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    It’s Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
  • Crypto and blockchain is tech coming up with a solution that no one asked for. Blockchain is just a database that is (at best!) extremely energy inefficient. Trust comes from the same sources (brand, marketing, advertising, social cues), it being on a blockchain does not magically generate trust.

    And crypto’s biggest strength as an uncontrollable and decentralised store of wealth ignore the fact you can only buy and sell it on marketplaces, which control and centralise it, so for nearly everyone involved it’s a pyramid scheme, those at the beginning persuading new people to join to prop up their assets profits

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    Sound Off: How many 10+ year redditors have left the site?
  • 16yrs, made an account before the Digg drama, migrated there after.

    I’ve not been back since, other than friends linking to stuff there basically

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    What would you considered "Ethical Piracy"
  • I’d say that there’s a scale

    ‘pirating’ an abandonware PC game that has long been left by the original devs, and isn’t for sale anywhere legally - this is still illegal under most laws, despite their being no legal routes to buy it at all legally. Most sane people don’t think this is unethical.

    But downloading a hacked version of an app or game developed by a tiny independent team that truly care about the product, and invest the profits back in it - I say that this is unethical, as the people you are stealing from are directly affected by your actions. If you bought this game or app, your money goes directly to them, and they are more likely to keep developing other things.

    Adobe, MS and the like have billions, so piracy has less of a direct impact on them -

    So yeah, for me it’s a scale of ethical piracy - and you have to draw the line where you feel comfortable

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    The U.K. Government Is Very Close To Eroding Encryption Worldwide
  • Scottish Indy movement has been put back by 10+ years after the political and possibly illegal financial fuckups of the main indy party SNP.

    They still have control over most of Scotland, but their political power in Westminster is still fairly small, this might change next election though

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    Twitter account suspended for tracking Elon Musk’s jet joins Meta’s Threads
  • The data is public, the feed just only prints out publicly available flight data - if Elon wants privacy, he should just charter a private jet used by other billionare dickheads, it's not exactly a hardship now is it

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    YSK: Lemmy DOES have a karma system
  • I'm similar to you here, helped mod a subreddit a few years back - simple controls like minimum age for accounts was a simple measure but wasn't enough on it's own.

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