simplymath

Nah. the other commenters are wrong.

They're super useful.

Its just that anyone who isn't selling bullshit uses their real name- Merkel trees - which are fundamental to modern software development (git, zfs, nix, nosql).

lol. do you honestly think there are psyop campaigns on Lemmy? for all 12 of us? lololol. I thought I was paranoid, but goddamn.

Do you know how much it costs to run a chat bot?

Mac address absolutely falls under PII in my jurisdiction. I can't even use Google docs to take notes at work without violating a dozen laws. Granted this isn't the US, but it seems like the defaults have been moving towards the EU standards, especially after California vowed to write their own version of GDPR.

yeah. I misread your comment. You're very right about that and Google has "wifi hotspots" to track users around NYC. https://theintercept.com/2018/09/08/linknyc-free-wifi-kiosks/

however, modern android iOS also have Mac address randomization on by default, so google has that data but I highly doubt random retailers do. Unless you install an app or connect to the network wherein they do the other fingerprinting I mentioned.

Fracking. Immigration. fucking read, my dude

Oh. yeah. It's impossible to keep up with US sponsored atrocities or internalize them as personal failures.

Anyone who was alive in 2003 had good reason to be disgusted by the Liz Cheney endorsement though.

While that's true, modern versions of android/ios require you to enable location permissions for the app in question, so it's probably not true in general.

This is why you get weird prompts from apps needing to know your location when that's not really a functionality of the app. If the app can see the network name or Bluetooth hardware address, then it's considered personally identifiable location information and would be covered under something like GDPR, which is why they eventually implemented these features globally.

I dunno about that. A million people marched against the Iraq war and it was the defining issue for democrats until Obama doubled down on extralegal drone strikes and small scale troop deployments across Africa and the Gulf.

She literally lost the election over Gaza. 30+% of Pennsylvania and Arizona voters said they would be likely to vote Dem if the ceasefire happened (source linked elsehwere in this thread) and Michigan has 240k Muslims and Biden won it by like 20k votes in 2020. This could have gone very differently if she had listened to the base instead of appealing to some hypothetical "average" american.

She compromised on border policy, bragged about having a Glock, told Palestinian protesters to shut up, was a prosecutor with a spotty progressive record, and insisted that CPI and stock prices are good economic indicators for working people when the average house price is far outside the range of anyone without an advanced degree.

She also changed her stance on fracking in an attempt yo appeal to voters in Pennsylvania.

She didn't campaign on marijuana legalization, criminal justice reform, compassionate border policies, climate justice, increasing Union membership, student debt relief, or offer a concrete path towards enshrining Roe into law. Most of these have overwhelmingly support on both sides, but she didn't advocate for them at all.

She campaigned on "Liz Cheney likes me" and "the other guy is worse", which is far from motivating (source: broadly gestures at everything).

Hell, the singular progressive policy I saw from her (massive housing program to subsidize sub-prime lendees) is the exact bullshit that led to the 2009 crisis. There isn't a shortage of housing in the United States, but an issue of corporate consolidation and generational wealth gaps exacerbated by the huge demographic shifts towards a high tech economy based in a very small number of hyper dense cities. Using tax money to shore up the statistical risk of billion dollar lending institutions is worlds apart from something like Section 8 housing or the mixed income policies that have been recently adopted in places like SF and NYC that place the burden on the profit seeking developers rather than the (disproportionately poor) taxpayers.

4000 Americans and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Kurds and Syrians.

The Democratic party has adopted the majority of detestable border polices from Trump's 2016 campaign.

In 2016 there were appeals to voters to have compassion for the DACA cohort, but now the only discussion is about being tough on the border (and ignore human rights treaties about asylum claims at the same time).

Admittedly, they didn't engage in family separation or forced sterilization like the Trump administration, but they shifted hard right on immigration, like many other developed countries in the last few years.