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  • Steve@communick.newstoPrivacy@lemmy.mlSpam in Signal?
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    19 days ago

    It’s a separate thread for each user or group you have. These bots come in as a new contact and thread. So no. Never in the middle of a preexisting conversation. I got one once, 2-3 years ago now. It was immediately apparent like this one. I just reported and blocked them.


  • We aren’t talking about They/Them vs she/her.
    This is about They/Them vs they/them.

    I can see there might be an argument for people to capitalize all pronouns.
    Doing it only for 1st and 2nd person pronouns might be my preference. I can see it accentuating a dialog happening between the reader and writer.
    But asking everyone to break a grammatical convention, specifically only for you; Giving no justification other than “I like it”, seems insufficient.

    If I were to tell you to use all caps when referring to ME, would that be reasonable?
    What about all lower case, even when starting a sentence?

    No. If you want everyone to change a standard grammatical convention specifically for you alone; One that’s been in place since the invention of the printing press (that’s when we started to capitalize “I”); You need to give more reason than you would for your favorite color.

    Of course you and I both, can capitalize any word, however WE Want, for our Own empahAses.


  • That never uses or explains the use of “My”.

    It’s actually not even explaining anything I imagined. It’s explaining, that some people want others to capitalize the pronouns used to refer to them specifically. I was thinking of a grammatical choice to always or never capitalize pronouns uniformly. But changing grammar rules on the whims of the person being written about, seems exceptionally odd. The closest I ever heard of to that, is in the spelling someone’s name.

    In reality it doesn’t explain anything other than to say, some people want it that way. It never goes into actually explaining the logic of that desire. It merely tries to shame people for not doing it if requested.




  • Most still have the computer built in. But the software is complety different. They have some different features that would make sense for an always on screen in a shop, office, or airport. You can load up a thumb drive with images for the screen to rotate through. Upload new images through WiFi or Ethernet. Use that same network connection to setup, synchronize, and controll dozens of screens, making a video wall. Pretty cool stuff really.

    Just none of the spyware. Since there is no individual or household to tie the data to, that part becomes pretty useless.







  • API index access is an important difference.
    If it was only that, without public facing ad driven search, I’d be more impressed.

    Maybe if you removed the adds, and severely rate limited your own public facing search, so it’s more of a demo than an actual service. This would force you to solely make money off the API access, without directly competing against those customers.

    That would be an honest buisness model. One that doesn’t turn users into eyeballs for advertising. Which seems to me, to be the most insidious problem of the modern internet.