Valid points.
Sadly the large social media sites will continue to be "free" but for them end users are not a customer but a product.
In terms of remaining open free sites there could be more use of sites like wikipedia, https://www.openstreetmap.org/ and the Fediverse.
Websites that rely on surveillance advertising to provide "free" content are not your friends:
https://lemmy.ca/post/73824048
Micro payments for advertising free content can preserve more of your privacy.
This is interesting and rage inducing reading. What a deep rabbit hole the whole surveillance advertising industry is and how its used by surveillance state organizations to identify individuals of interest. Paying for content by accepting targeted advertising comes with the cost of loss of privacy.
No vetting required to bid on user data with the ability to plant spyware on your target's system
This is very interesting. A way to do micro-payments to get content over the web using the existing but rarely used HTTP 402 status code.
I wasn't aware https://x402.org/ existed and is stable to use. I'm wondering though what the impact on performance will be if a payment needs to be processed for every request.
It will be interesting to see how this changes the economics of the web. Advertising revenue and hits are down since search engines use AI summaries to show contents without a user needing to visit the original site.
Content producers don't necessarily need monthly/yearly subscription paywalls but instead can have a small payment per page of content.
It would be interesting if a "Requested Donation" could be deployed for sites like Wikipedia where users can control if they want to make a donation when downloading content.
Andy Yen from Proton is not the same person as Andrew Yang
There's a "law" about the trend to a two party system under FPTP in political science called: Duverger's law
For Elections BC most recent counts see: https://results.elections.bc.ca/
It's a Conservative majority government. Here's a snapshot of the current standings:
Performative grievance politics for the top issue Quebecois are worried about.
The PQ are off to a great start.
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It's still an early work in progress but it has very high velocity with PRs and issue activity:
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/pulse
Something to keep an eye on and see how they progress against their roadmap:
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/blob/main/ROADMAP.md
So what penalty will be given for those performing these unlawful activities? Some snippets from the Guardian article:
Sooknanan said the department “improperly” disclosed and maintained records.
In her ruling, she cited two people who had been incorrectly removed from their state’s voter roll list because they had been wrongly identified as non-citizens.
Here's the video for that scene from Starship Troopers:
Here's the relevant truth posted about this on Trump's private social media:
https://www.trumpstruth.org/statuses/42215
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