Slim shady

…antisemitism… chud

Brain rot grows strong within this one.

Those bad actors are really stupid, a VPN isn’t going to protect them. You’re not magically anonymous behind a VPN, and such material is obviously going to attract the attention of very skilled cyber security experts & law enforcements.
Idiots doing crimes never understand basic OpSec.

Not all instances keep logs…
Some intentionally discard them, look into the policys of the instance you’re signing up to.
All your comments and posts are hosted on your parent instance then shared to the federated instances.
Some instances don’t even let you sign up with an email or make it optional.
Lemmy.world keeps logs, but much more controversial instances often don’t.
Also it’s much more complex, because you have to think about the scope of the potential lawsuit as well as the given evidence that a user is actually sharing the material infringing on their copyright; which will not be a large amount of the user base. They can’t simply sue a user for having an account, the user has to actively be sharing infringing material.

Oh. They sued an instance? 😱
Anyway… here’s another 5 hosted in Russia, or a country where piracy is legal, or just don’t give a fuck.

False equivalent.
It’s much easier to ban big tech companies than you think, it’s literally what China has been doing forever.

Just ban Google already 😈

I do plenty.
You still using Gmail? 🧐

Here’s an extreme case example why markdown isn’t great for this purpose. Also, not every client renders the markdown the same, Lemmy has no standardized markdown syntax/implementation. For example, my client won’t render your example the way you think it will; it renders the link at the end in text and has a [ before the image, and my client hates new lines in markdown alt-text. If you use \ in the alt-text, it render the image twice, and if you use a blank newline it will not render at all.

HTML is a pretty damn nailed down standard and can already properly handle Alt-text.

It’s not good enough. Google must DIE <3 ◉⁠‿⁠◉

You can already use Protonmail for a Google account, It’s what I do.

Doing it in markdown isn’t a great solution, that’s more for hover text then anything. Having a bunch of text in markdown Alt-text clogs the hell out of the post body and makes it harder to copy the raw markdown if you’re not trying to grab a fuck load of additional text.

See HTML Accessibility.

No. Basically just hidden/invisible text that only a screen reader would see.
You’d just upload an image and type alt-text in a box, hit enter and the alt-text would be added to the HTML of the page but not rendered and the image would be added to the markdown as usual, when the screen reader gets to the image, instead of just skipping over it, it’d pull the hidden text from the HTML and read that.

See HTML Accessibility.

Lemmy needs to add real alt-text functionality, putting in the body works, sure; but it’s not going to work out for posts that have both post text and images in the body. Such as someone posting text along with additional screenshots.

Alt-text should be hidden visually, but readable by screen readers.

What client are you using? I’ll try linking it in a way your client can handle.

Text transcript for the blind :

Keep your Google services, like YouTube, linked?

YouTube, Google Search, Google Play, Ad services, Google Chrome, Google Shopping & Google Maps.

New laws in the EU mean that, starting on March 6, 2024, Google needs your consent if you want to keep these services linked. When linked, they can share data with each other and with all other Google services to :

• Combine data to help personalize content and ads.
• Develop and improve our services.
• Measure and improve the delivery of ads
• Perform other purposes described in Google’s Privacy Policy at g.co/privacypolicy

Things to know : Other settings let you control whether you see personalized content or ads. Linking Google services is not about sharing your data with third-party services.

What data is used : All types of personal data described in Google’s Privacy Policy can be shared across linked Google services.

What’s not changing : Even if they’re not linked, Google services can always share data with each other to prevent fraud and abuse, effectively help you complete tasks, and for certain other purposes.

You’re in control. You can change your choices anytime in your Google Account. Choices will take effect on March 6, 2024. Learn more about linked services. (I don’t have the link to transcribe).

Here’s a relevant article : https://www.androidauthority.com/google-services-dma-3402702/

So basically nothing changed.

You have a point, but you said it pretty abrasively.
I’ve made a transcript here.

Exactly what I’m saying. It has nothing to do with his mental disorders, it’s purely social influence from the cybercriminal ring and egotism.
He desires to be seen as a legend and the members of Lapsus$ are no doubt going to be praising the hell out of him for pulling off something so audacious.

OP is making it out to be like he has psychopathy or ASPD or some shit, which is not a diagnosis that’s publicly known at this time even if that were the case. I’d rather not make massive generalizations of someone based on something that has 0 backing too.
The only disorder we know he’s diagnosed with is acute autism and nothing else, which just as you said :

It could be something as simple as needing to feel powerful in their space. That’s something a lot of people, autistic or not, can fall prey to

Which is exactly the point I’m making.

Like what? If it’s not something he’s publicly diagnosed with, then how do you know it’s not just main character syndrome? Remember, he’s not a solo act; he’s apart of Lapsus$ and there’s no doubt they helped create his twisted personality.