Of course all the HTTPS certificates for the domains associated with this instance expired right as I left the hotel and got to the restaurant for lunch. Don't worry, we're back.
@lain@lain.com Like the only time in history either has happened, at least in recent memory. And then the new guy immediately undid all of that. @Moon@shitposter.club
@black6@gleasonator.com A fitting punishment would be to infect him with parasites that slowly consume him from the inside out, stealing subsistence from his body, weakening him daily, worsening his life by their mere existence---just as he does to society. @gray@ryona.agency@djsumdog@djsumdog.com
@jihadjimmy@the.asbestos.cafe It's one thing to need help getting back on your feet. It's entirely different when you have never been on your feet, refuse to get on your feet, and demand that the rest of society subsidizes your existence while you contribute nothing of value to the greater whole.
If you post mutual aide requests to Fedi and you're openly a loser parasite person that only serves to be civilizational litter or societal detritus gumming up the gears that move the species forward then I will (a) block you + (b) block whoever shared your e-beg posts to my feed + (c) I hope all the bad things in life happen to you and nobody else but you; I hate you, I hate you, I don't even know you and I hate your guts.
@dcc@annihilation.social By the very nature of the service and the application privileges afforded to it, it does not. Anything it has access to is equally accessed by other similar applications.
The "great firewall of China" and the TikTok ban are very different beasts.
China originally curtailed predominant Western IT giants from domestic Chinese spread because otherwise these preexistant Western IT giants would fill the void of domestic Chinese IT and remove any room for competition, rendering the PRC dependent on entities like Microsoft, Google, etc..
Furthermore, it's well known that "social media" and search engines, e.g. Facebook, LinkedIn (Meta), Google, are instruments of Western intelligence agencies---essentially, the privatization and commercialization of the Western equivalents to STASI. There are deep ties betwixt ostensibly private corporations like Google, Meta, X Corp., and agencies such as the NSA. These obfuscations are intentional.
TikTok, on the other hand, is not a giant data-collection apparatus designed to index and aggregate everything about you: your family, your friends, your job, the places you frequent, interests+opinions you have, your political+sociopolitical ties, the music you listen to, the movies you like, the hobbies you enjoy, etc. etc. etc..
Could there be an argument that TikTok is used for propaganda purposes? Certainly. But, in making such argument, the US government is implicitly admitting that the same is true for services provided by corporations like Google, Meta, X Corp., et al..
Once I was a pirateA bold and savage pirateI flew the skull and crossbonesAnd stamped upon the deckOnce I was a camelA handsome sort of camelWith princesses aboard meAnd jewels around my neckOnce I was a dancerAnd once a necromancerI even was a VikingWith helmet on my headI might have been a parrotA gay Brazilian parrotIf someone hadn't wakened meAnd pulled me out of bed