When people say things like this what they're actually doing is falsely associating walkable urban fabric in cities like San Francisco, NYC, and large parts of Chicago as being especially dangerous just because it's only practical to be pick-pocketed on foot.
They say this while ignoring the generally low crime rates of those compared to peers. For example, Chicago has an almost 20% lower property crime rate than Peoria, IL. Fort Worth, TX has 52% higher property crime rate than New York City. Carmel, Indiana, an affluent suburb with a public high school ranked #354 in the country and 6th in Indiana, only manages to have a 28% better property crime rate than NYC.
(And driving a car around is a lot more statistically dangerous to your life than walking around a big city. I'd rather have my phone stolen than be t-boned by a drunk driver)
> One of the main goals of metrics collection is to analyze whether Red Hat is achieving its goal to make Fedora Workstation the premier developer platform for cloud software development. Accordingly, we want to know things like which IDEs are most popular among our users, and which runtimes are used to create containers using Toolbx.
How is that any of their business? Usually there is a lot more misdirection in what potential benefits telemetry will yield. Not, “We would really like to know what software is running in their machine, there is probably something we can do with it”
Inspectional reading is one of the key limitations for me when reading books on the Kindle. I need to be able to quickly flip around from toc to glossary and between chapters. There’s still too much friction for that with the ebook format.
Though not completely surprised, I must say this collection of logos is a bad look for Mastodon's mainstream adoption. >80% of the sponsors are suspicious looking casino and adult sites.
Personally I find gambling sites (and alcohol ads amongst other things) abhorrent, however when I see sponsors listed like these it makes me feel that the portal has less censorship than [insert news / tech giant / etc here]
Which gives me hope / faith that a thing could be bigger / better than the narrow [other] -
It's like if there are only a dozen or so 4 color printing presses in the world - I'd want to support the one that prints Hustler magazines.. like Larry Flynt said something like 'if they censor me, whats to stop them from censoring you or anyone else'
I realize I am a bit of on outlier (I assume) than the 'mainstream adoption' group you may be referring to.
I also think 99% of the 'mainstream adopters' never look for nor care about a sponsors page.
Doesn't seem like that bad of a look to me. There's always been a bit of a symbiotic relationship between online anonymity/decentralization/freedom movements and "seedier" websites, so it doesn't really surprise or concern me too much that one of Mastodon's sponsors sells sex dolls.
Would have been nice if TikTok had suffered the same fate. Drastically higher societal damage caused to America through that platform. No one cares about RT, comparatively...
