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Leadership and governments. I agree that there are civilians who are completely against the war. Many Israelis don't feel like they can speak out right now, because of the noisy ones foaming at the mouth.

Before the trial happens, it could really go either way, even if the defendant is obviously in the right - there could be some procedural slip up that causes them to lose anyway.

However, a lawyer isn't going to assume that they will make some slip up, so if it is obviously in the defendant's favour they will work pro bono. There is still some risk for them, because if they lose they don't get paid, but they're confident they'll win.

Edit: wrote the reply thinking this was a conversation about awarding costs to the defendant, that was a different thread. The first paragraph remains unchanged though.

I wish Lemmy showed you more of the context than just the last reply.

Actually it’s a little more than just that. It’s a way not just to show the image auto-scaled down to the comment, but to create a popup option that can display a full-size version of that same image when clicked.

Ahh I see, it's a nested link.

It doesn't so much expand the full sized image when you click, it links to the image directly. It could link to anything.

Nightlife in Prague

Oof, yeah.

Yeah the code you've mentioned is the standard for posting images within a comment. What annoys me is the text in square brackets is merely used for disability apps - I would like it to pop up as alt-text also, like in an xkcd comic. But yeah you don't actually need to put anything inside the square brackets. If you look at the source of my comment above, it only has the link in the round brackets. This is what happens now when you simply past an image into the comment box, it uploads to your instance and generates the link automagically.

With regards to the auto-expand function, I also don't completely like it, as I said in the OP. On old reddit there was an extension called Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES), which added a bunch of extra features and buttons. One button was "Show Images", which would expand all images and gifs (not videos that might have sound) that you had on the page. The button would then change to "Hide Images", which would contract them. This is the best functionality, imo, as it gives you full choice. But if I have to choose one default and manually change, like lemmy makes you, I'd prefer auto-expand, as I don't like having to click every image to expand it - I just want to scroll down a page, view some memes, and open news links and comment links in the background to read when I feel like.

I also use an extension that makes opening links a lot easier. If I hold right click a link and drag down, it opens in the background; if I hold right click and drag up, it opens in the foreground. I use the background one extensively to queue up a bunch of tabs to read, as I scroll through some memes and whatnot until I want to view something in depth, then start going through the tabs.

Fujitsu aren't blameless, not at all. They were going into user's accounts and fiddling figures, correcting the errors the software made.

Then when a sub-postmaster went to their office and saw this, they retaliated by setting his account to debit and erased records of him being there. It may well be that many of the victims were targeted for complaining that the system was flawed.

Also people from Fujitsu committed perjury in court.

I enjoyed reaching the gist of your meaning: Legislation needs to be written.

So let’s hope that can happen.

Agreed. The first step I think is education, letting people know the value, pointing out that it is a pandemic problem that affects everyone, then convincing politicians that they are being robbed too. If a lawmaker thinks they're a victim, then they might actually pull their finger out.

And on a personal level, what have you heard about people who intentionally make their data useless?

This has been my strategy.

I do that to some degree, with some things. Like with captcha, I play a game of getting things wrong, but just enough to get through. Not every attempt though, I want it to still think I'm a human that's smarter than the machine, then when I think it's giving me a genuine training screen I spoil it.

I don't use cash as much as I maybe should, I prefer it in some regards, but contactless card purchases are just so easy. I've never used Google or Apple Pay, though, but that's more because I run custom firmware. Also, I've since learned that when you use your phone to pay it's the equivalent to chip and PIN. You are authorising the transaction and taking responsibility for it, whereas if you use a contactless debit/credit card it is processed as "cardholder not present", whereby the seller assumes more responsibility if you dispute it. This method of transaction isn't new, it's how catalogue or telephone purchases were always done, as well as online purchases. But if you use your card with chip and PIN, or if you use your phone, you will have a much harder time disputing any transaction.

Have you heard much about this strategy? How might it work if everyone used it? Generally thoughts for how we can defy their machine and protect ourselves?

In terms of user data protection, really I think the cat is long since out of the bag. There's no putting it back in - and in many ways we shouldn't, as data is useful and has benefits to society. I think it should go either one of two ways:

1. Allow businesses to continue their free data collection, but force them to make the raw data public. Any processing they do can be private, but the raw data doesn't belong to them.
2. Have businesses start paying the data subject for their data.

In the meantime, one way a user can limit their data collection using restrictive privacy browsing settings. For my personal PC's, I not only run uBlock Origin but also uMatrix - a deprecated extension made by the same author. This has similar funcionality to uBlock Origin when you set it to author mode, where it can selectively block different domains, but uMatrix presents it as a matrix which also allows you to select the type of content as well as domains. By default, it blocks all 3rd party frames, audio/video media, scripts, XHR, and "other", so quite often it leaves websites broken on first load, but then I pick through and enable the bare minimum of content to get it working. This isn't for everyone, of course, as it can be a hassle sometimes - particularly with payment processors which are all done on multiple 3rd party servers. However, it does highlight to me how endemic Google are with captcha, even when it doesn't give you a captcha prompt. I can't log into some of my online banking without enabling connections to Google, which is sickening. This is an example of what uMatrix looks like:

The extension doesn't get updates anymore, so my lists are out of date compared to uBlock Origin. I'm pretty sure I could update them manually, but since I run uBO as well I don't really feel the need. I've tried running just uMatrix, but uBO has its own array of special lists and without those YouTube ad blocking doesn't work.

Yeah I really hate that kind of thing. I went into a gas station once, and at the registers it had a tiny little label saying they had CCTV with facial recognition, for crime prevention and "legitimate interest" - the GDPR term that websites always hide and sneak in pre-ticked, even when you think the main points are completely unchecked. There wasn't even a clear way to opt out either, just a QR code you could scan. I didn't scan, I've avoided that place since.

I also vote for finding a new weed shop, but ideally do tell them your reason why.

I'm referring to the option in settings that was added at some point, which automatically expands the post media on the front page.

Not sure when it came in, but I'm pretty confident it wasn't there when I created my account.

I was thinking more about the occassions where there is no news article whatsoever, but you make a good point also.