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New comment by hoshi73 in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

hoshi73 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:25:43 +0000

It's insane that their sign-up process now requires a phone number to complete on the web, and even basic features like playing a video in a tweet recently stopped working on x.com without an account. (In the past, searching for tweets, looking at an account's entire timeline, etc., never required logging in at all.)

New comment by hoshi73 in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

hoshi73 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:35:14 +0000

This clearly falls under the definition of automated individual decision-making per Article 22 of the GDPR and would be blatantly illegal if it were done in the EU. The GDPR is explicitly designed to outlaw this kind of algorithmic profiling and exclusion in hiring.

https://gdpr-info.eu/art-22-gdpr/

https://www.bloomberglaw.com/external/document/X4BBTPFO00000...

New comment by hoshi73 in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"

hoshi73 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 02:28:17 +0000

Many call Wikipedia "the last good place on the internet", but that's really only true of the English edition. Non-English versions are generally filled with political misinformation and propaganda from people trying to politicize a nation's history, which, frankly, makes them not worth bothering with:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/03/japanese-wikipedia-misi...