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@scanlime Yesterday I got about halfway through writing a response to a techbro like that but then I realized it's just a pointless waste of energy, they're always acting in bad-faith..

Also looked at their profile and literally the only interactions this server had received from them were them were similar techbro-sealioning so, good riddance

oh so we're tech bros, just because we all share the exact same lack of empathy, certainty of our own intellectual superiority, panglossian view of technological intrusion into private life, and we all keep doing the exact same thing over and over that everybody here hates?

@rbairwell @aendra @doot As someone with ADHD, I have no right to feed data of others to some third party service, so I can make things convenient for myself.

I don't think anyone argues against having a private, self-hosted search or search on your own instance :) It would even be quite possible to buid it into a web client.

@rysiek disappearing scrollbars is a browser thing. CSS *can* fully hide a scrollbar but that's not common.

In Firefox you can use `about:config`and set `layout.testing.overlay-scrollbars.always-visible` to true

received my bulk pack of smd storage magazines, they're really nice. cool to see the design improvements compared to the ones I 3dprinted myself years ago

@natty@tech.lgbt ask not for whom the rays march

@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk and techbro almost rhymes with 'oh no'

❌​ percussive maintenance
✅​ giving your server a headpat

@Elenna exactly, which is codified in the GDPR but also like, how actual consent works in general

@Elenna searchtodon's (social.pixie.town/@f0x/1096779) only option to not end up in the index is taking action to opt-out by adding something to your bio, or changing a (rather hidden) mastodon setting for your profile.

The correct approach would be opt-in, having people actively consent to indexing by putting a clear-purpose hashtag in their bio when they *do* want this

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt @tobi a lot of others got fooled at first glance too..

update: Searchtodon meta, scraping related :boosts_ok_gay:​ 

Since then multiple others have mentioned these concerns to him, but they're dismissed just the same.

Yet again a recently joined twitter techbro is writing a scraper, but this time it's couched in language about "consent" and "privacy", it's still effectively building a centralized search index across users on his single server. Opt-out is also not actually consent, both legally (GDPR) and morally.

He keeps dismissing it as just a non-ideal stopgap-solution but that doesn't matter. it's about what's happening right now. random users logging in thinking there's *anything* private about this service, and feeding their entire following to the machine

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