70/30% of the logs, not of the errors. It’s equivalent to what you’re thinking of as market share. (I can’t really blame you for misunderstanding, though; this article is poorly written.)

The proportion of errors is better explained in another article:

In fact, for one particular type of error (decompression, a commonly performed operation in games), there was a total of 1,584 that occurred in the databases Level1Techs sifted through, and an alarming 1,431 of those happened with a 13900K or 14900K. Yes – that’s 90% of those decompression errors hitting just two specific CPUs.

As for other processors, the third most prevalent was an old Intel Core i7 9750H (Coffee Lake laptop CPU) – which had a grand total of 11 instances. All AMD processors in total had just 4 occurrences of decompression errors in these game databases.

In case you were thinking that AMD chips might be really underrepresented here, hence that very low figure, well, they’re not – 30% of the CPUs in the database were from Team Red.

This is a good idea, as it might eventually lead to policies or laws that would reduce the spam.

I wouldn’t get my hopes up for resolution any time soon, though. Keep in mind that some of the biggest influence campaigns targeting US politics are run by foreign parties, and bulk text messages are cheap and consequence-free. Sadly, stopping it might require changing your phone number.

Yes, of course they could. Generating an image fingerprint is not all that computationally expensive by today’s standards.

Is it unique enough to track you? It doesn’t have to be, since online tracking generally keys off of a set of data, rather than a single item. But just for the sake of argument, consider that services like tineye and google images have pretty good success at matching images even with no additional data.

Is it (or will it eventually be) worthwhile for data collectors? You would have to ask them.

I find this to either be a lie or self inflicted.

“I’ve never experienced what you describe, so it must be either imagined or your own fault.”

I’ve seen this nonsense over and over again in communities of all kinds, most often in tech forums (where there are always a few participants suffering from a big-fish-little-pond effect). It’s a very rude and foolish bit of human behavior.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

Use Tor.

Do you mean Tor Browser? Because using Tor alone won’t stop fingerprinting.

I imagine he wants to avoid dependence on fuel suppliers, or pollution.

That explanation is fair enough but the headline is red meat the the EV disinformation brigade.

It’s funny how words affect people differently.

Not long ago, I posted a short, precisely-stated comment mentioning an observed fact that I had verified with a relevant authority. When I later checked in, I was surprised to find someone accusing me of spreading misinformation, and my comment removed by a moderator. It was clear that my accuser had badly misinterpreted my words. He refused to admit it or accept clarification. (And the mod had already acted, rashly.)

I re-checked what I had written about twenty times over the course of the day. There was nothing there to support the accusation. My best guess is that my phrasing or the subject matter might have touched on rough emotions from a bad experience, leading him to see what he expected to see instead of what I wrote, and triggering attack mode.

Communicating well really is complicated. It takes work on both sides, and can quickly turn into a bad time if it goes off the rails.

Because of this, I’ve been making an effort to read (and re-read) charitably, especially with people I don’t know well.

From the article:

In an EV era, tires are becoming the greatest emitters of particulate matter

The point being that electric drops tailpipe emissions to zero, making tires the next target for reducing emissions.

I couldn’t bring myself to watch more than half of this.

tl;dr: This video is a misleading, sensationalist, bad-fath, hit piece. It’s constructed upon faulty logic, fear of things used or supported by governments, and a single anonymous person’s poorly-reasoned conclusions.

I hate the formatting of most forums. Reddit and Lemmy’s comment nesting is excellent.

The funny thing about this is that it’s just plain old threading, which has been around since the 1980s or earlier, with the slight variation of showing message contents directly in the thread tree instead of beside it (thanks to today’s high-res displays).

Usenet readers did threading. Email apps could do it if the developers wanted to; the required information is there. I’ll bet there’s forum software that can do it if an admin enables it.

For some reason, most corporations seem to have decided that classic message threading has no place in their interfaces. They resort to piling things into stacks or serializing them into seemingly endless scrolls. It fails to represent the structure of group discussions, and sadly, has been going on for so long that many people might not have ever seen the better alternative outside of reddit.

Looks like they want to make a user-friendly tool for working with git repositories. Neat.

In that situation, I would also:

• Only use it through a browser (with fingerprinting protection), never a Discord app.
• Dedicate a browser installation, or at least a user profile, to Discord.
• Only use it over a VPN connection dedicated to Discord, or Tor if it’s allowed.
• Have an alternative channel (maybe Matrix?) ready and waiting for contacts who might be willing to switch.