setVeryLoud(true);

Yes

Thank you, I wasn’t aware of this term!

https://lemmy.ca/comment/15035910

That’s a good point! I’ve always heard it referred to as newspeak, but there is indeed a small but important distinction between the two.

The end result is similar, but the way there is the opposite (blocking vs enforcing)

I think comparing it to newspeak is still a good warning however, as they are caused by similar pressures applied in different ways, but algospeak is the more accurate term.

What you’re referring to is a recent trend of social media platforms enforcing a wordlist ban, causing people to resort to using “newspeak”, coined from the book 1984.

Newspeak was a language where negative words were not allowed. You can literally see it on platforms like TikTok, where people say “unalive” instead of “kill”, “seggs” instead of “sex”, or “oui’d” instead of “weed”.

Aren’t PDFs compressed? Doesn’t that mean we could turn a PDF into a ZIP bomb?

2g1c & 1m1j

Both can be true, Python does have a lot of examples floating online.

That’s because scripted languages are more forgiving in general.

You: “Public opinion is tanking, so it must be true!”

Them: Provides detailed, sourced information that explains the situation

You: “Nerd, I don’t read that shit”

Are you following your emotions or are you truly trying to understand the changes? You seem to be attacking / strawmanning people left and right in this thread and are generally not interacting in good faith.

Onus probandi.

You make the claims, you serve the proof. You can’t point at a vague, general direction and go “here, proof!”. Especially not a social media feed, that’s the most subjective, volatile “proof” you could provide.

Quote me the text, in its full context, where it says that Mozilla is selling the data they are “now collecting”, or that it was optional for them without degrading services. Because I can’t find it.

All I see is data that Mozilla is required to collect to provide existing services, they are now putting it in black on white. I don’t really care what the “general opinion” is, opinions do not automatically become facts once sufficient people hold them.

I’ve seen Mozilla do bad stuff, this is just a very standard privacy policy update. Let’s criticize them when they actually deserve it, and encourage them the rest of the time.

Also, nice strawman instead of simply answering my question. 🥰

Can you be more specific than pointing in a vague direction?