The only way is a data only SIM card.
It won’t have a phone number for anyone to call or text.
Of course you can’t make calls or texts either. You have to setup some kind of SIP service if you need to.
We’re not talking about individual people, but whole corporations and organizations.
For example. Instance.social is shutting down. Now the whole Org needs to migrate 150 accounts to someplace else. Oh and the old posts are being deleted, can’t migrate those.
And the support community you created on there, is going away also. Again, can’t really migrate all the old posts and comments. But the FAQ documentation we put there when people asked about it, can be manually copied to the new place. So that’s something
That’s not a situation any company would want to be in. Better to have their own social home, that they control.
Hard disagree.
Running your own social media server for official accounts, so you’re not beholden to the whims of other providers, is kind of an obvious thing to do for online organizations.
Yes that’s correct.
All has posts from all the communities the members on that instance subscribe to.
comes with their school districts’ decision to install AI-powered monitoring software such as Gaggle and GoGuardian on students’ school-issued machines and accounts.
That’s kind of standard practice on any company issued devices I’ve ever used.
Unless they’re being given for the kids to own. If they have to give them back at the end of the year, then they don’t belong to the kids.
I think I prefer eXcretions
Basically, RSS as you said, is a one way street. There is no feedback. It’s not so much communication, but broadcasting.
Hypocritical for sure.
Not really unexpected, so not ironic.
they say giving their biometric data to an unaccountable company crosses a line.
The company is unaccountable‽
That’s some projection.
Not really. One can be dealt with if needs be, since they’re US companies. The other can’t because it’s the Chinese government.
Nobody cares because they are US companies.
First, it’s not a TickTok ban. It’s a ByteDance ban. ByteDance could sell TickTok to another company outside China and TickTock would be fine in the US.
Second, it was never about protecting user data. It was about preventing China from tweaking the algorithm to try to subtly influence public political opinion, instead of maximizing generic rage and political polarization, to exploit for ad dollars.
Have you tried the “Stealth” protocol option ProtonVPN has?
It’s intended to bypass VPN blocks. Sometimes it works.
Commercial monitors or digital signage displays are out there.
B&H has a good selection.
They are a bit more expensive, but not crazy.
90% chance it was some kind of user error.
Monopolies don’t require 100% of a market. Just enough to effectively manipulate a market.
One firm might only be 10% of a market. But if every other firm is only 1-2%, that 10% will have an outsized monopolistic ability to manipulate that market.
Is he really saying it’d be better if they got more money?
I read the article. I still don’t get the argument.
He’s sounds disappointed they got paid so little.
As I recall yes. When the tech was new several years ago, just wearing flip-flops or jandels or whatever-you-call-them was enough to completely throw it off.
Sometimes people do the right thing, for the wrong reason. While not ideal. I’ll accept it.