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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as I know Apple didn’t give in, Trump and the FBI wanted it during his first term but I don’t think it happened. At least I hope it didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Britain Orders Apple to Build a Backdoor Into Your iPhone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Global access is wild, basically it means if the UK could force this that any five eyes country would then have the same access without needing to look bad to their citizens.

  Also, how hard do we expect Apple to fight this? I have a hard time believing they would just pull out of the UK but I could be wrong. From what I understand China has this type of access because they don’t allow E2EE.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's slow Chrome Extension reforms anger developers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m shocked I say, shocked… well not that shocked.

  I think the most interesting part of that whole thing was the people at AdGuard and Privacy Badger apparently believing the advertising company wasn’t going to hurt them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

  Don’t apologize, this shit is rage inducing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mexico asks Google to reject U.S. renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not official until the Government enters it into the Geographic Names Information System. Once that happens Google will begin changing their maps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump signs exec order delaying TikTok enforcement action for 75 days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s interesting that under the law ordering the shutdown or sale he could have given them 90 days and chose to only do 75.

  Must be some kind of power move or they already have a deal and it’s all theater like that 12 hour “shutdown.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate to defend Zuckerberg but if true he turned down investing and claimed short form wasn’t going anywhere it’s because he had some proof of that. Vine wasn’t doing well and eventually shut down, as did WWE backed short form video app Tout. At the time it looked like it wasn’t worth it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta asks the US government to block OpenAI’s switch to a for-profit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They have Meta AI baked into their apps now and are building a 10 Billion dollar AI facility in Louisiana that they want to use Nuclear Power to run.

  So I’m guessing the plan is to hurt the competition that is already ahead of them and hopefully get enough time to buy them out or pass them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex redesigns its app to look more like a streaming service | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve put a lot of effort into making plex posters that match/have a uniform look for 90% of my library, from what I’ve seen this will make all that useless as they switch to what appears to be fanart only. I don’t necessarily care for that change.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is shutting down Freevee⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Once they added advertisements to Prime Video, they no longer had a need to have FreeVee. I assumed this would have happened sooner, but I’m not shocked. Hopefully this frees up space on all those Fire devices that were forced to have the app without the ability to remove it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not only do you have to watch cities for these things, you need to read the privacy policy on some websites to see what their physical locations are doing. Lowe’s and Home Depot both have Facial Recognition and ALPR policies.

  I can’t even come home at night without being hit by a Flock Camera, we have one outlet and they put it right when you turn into the neighborhood, for “safety” of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they going to name it WOPR or Joshua? Maybe some teen will feed it crazy info and it’ll start trying to find the launch codes on its own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨David Zaslav says Trump will fuel big media mergers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  From your list AMD+Intel is the most believable, allegedly Qualcomm has already made inquiries about buying Intel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive generational gap: Gen Z flocks to multiplayer, while 55+ sticks to single-player⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not that old, but time is flying at me, and in my experience it’s that older people don’t have the same time options and skill level to “git gud” at newer games and that just makes online games less fun for some of us. So single player games we can take our time on and finish without somebody in the headset barking at us. I really prefer things like Fortnite STW these days, I can log in and choose to pair up with others or go it alone and I have the option to choose my difficulty level with the different biomes.

  It’s ok, one day Gen Beta will be the same way with the Z’s, it’s the circle of life.

  I still play online some, but I’ve come to the conclusion I’m not great at it and never will be and I’m ok with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GTA Online is no longer supported by Steam Deck thanks to a slightly baffling Rockstar anti-cheat update⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There have been posts on X/Twitter/Nitter and some Discords that some of the Mod-Menus have bypassed the anti-cheat, which makes all of this crappy for Deck players.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Harry Potter: Quidditch Champions Gets First Gameplay Trailer, Will Launch On PlayStation Plus⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  JK Rowling doesn’t believe Transgender people are the sex they identify with and as such is labeled a TERF, Trans Exclusionary Radical Feminist, and many, especially on the internet believe she should be boycotted and no self respecting person would give her or her properties a money. You typically will see some form of that comment in most postings related to her or Harry Potter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google's Exclusive Reddit Access⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Search or website ads” as a “commercial purpose” and that no one can use Reddit data without permission or paying a fee.

  That stock isn’t going to sell itself, it needs value for Spez and friends to earn those golden parachutes.

  This is bad for the open web, especially if more large sites follow this idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police pulled over a Waymo car that drove in the oncoming lane in Phoenix⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This should be an automatic impound of the vehicle and when the rep comes to pick it up hand them the ticket. Or you know, make the police send them a damn ticket.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why won’t those people vote against the religious legislative class? Are they outnumbered?

  For a lot of people religion is like a salad bar or buffet, they pick and choose the parts they like and ignore the ones they don’t. That seems to extend towards their politicians, be my brand of religion and policy and I’ll let you do almost anything because at least you aren’t that other person.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pornhub prepares to block five more states rather than check IDs⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you live in a conservative run state, watch what they do, in Georgia on the final day of legislation they do “sine die” which we sometimes call sign or die day where they just push through a ton of shit with little or no going over it before hand, they passed one of these social media ID laws that targets porn too, and it went through without pretty much anybody knowing about it from what I can tell.

  What kind of database of depravity to use against you are these people building.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adults and teens pick dumbphones to curb social media addiction⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I said I wonder if their was a niche market for something like those devices, meaning I wondered if some company could make a newer modern version, like Apple used to make the iPod Touch for a while, which were almost the same as the iPhone just without the cellular connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adults and teens pick dumbphones to curb social media addiction⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if there is a niche market for something like an old Dell Axim x50v or a Palm Pilot that could do those smartphone functions on a wifi connection, that way you have the best of both worlds, carry a dumbphone. However, you could still walk into a local Library or even some McDonald’s and connect if need be on the other device.

  Of course, then you have to inconveniently carry two devices and the temptation would probably still be there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Binit is bringing AI to trash⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Basic analytics will be free but it’s intending to introduce premium features via subscription.

  Nickled and dimed by a thousand subscriptions… Seriously who would want this? Who is going to pay to have their trash monitored by some data company?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They played the long game and got almost all modern browsers to become Chromium-based so they all will have the same problem. Is there any alternative other than Firefox at this point? If I were the one making the billions I’d almost applaud their tenacity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one should have to “grow a thicker skin”: Valorant studio commit to harsh penalties for harassment⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s their policy when someone buys one of these systems from one of these dickheads?

  Most likely their policy is the same as the one Microsoft has for their games and consoles. Microsoft once told me, we’re sorry you purchased a banned console but banned consoles cannot be unblocked, buy a new one next time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft: Windows 24H2 will remove Cortana and WordPad apps⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wordpad was my go-to for quick edits of things, it’s so much better than “new” notepad. I have Notepad++ and while good I just don’t think it’s a replacement for Wordpad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Prison Architect 2 developers part ways with Paradox months before it's due for release⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was already weary of the change from 2D to 3D, then they had a couple of delays and now the main dev is bouncing just before the supposed release, it all looks really bad. This seems to be a wait a year or two and see if Paradox sorts it out kind of title.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HELLDIVERS 2 sees over 130K bad reviews on Steam as Sony double down⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They should have taken the lumps on release when they couldn’t keep up with the demand to play and kept the Sony login requirement. It was there on day one but people couldn’t get in to make accounts so they suspended it. That was a mistake if this was going to be mandatory in the end. They also really screwed up by releasing the game in regions that don’t have PSN, how did that even happen is the big question I want to know.

  On the other hand, waving it and allowing people to play it without the 3rd party requirement also showed it’s a crappy requirement that doesn’t seem to do much other than annoy people to allow Sony to collect data. Sony also looks like assholes by changing their web page from “login is optional to play Sony titles on PC” to “some games require login.”

  Disclaimer here, I have a PSN account because I’ve owned multiple past Sony consoles so I’m not really affected so much, they already lost and sold my data multiple times. For everybody else, I get why they are pissed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence by using apps like Signal⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see.

  And because Amazon didn’t instruct employees to preserve messages sent in the app until more than 15 months after it was notified of the investigation

  I somehow misconstrued this line into thinking they had been using it for those 15 months and were then notified they weren’t supposed to. I screwed up there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence by using apps like Signal⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Amazon is just one of several companies recently accused of turning to encrypted messaging apps like Signal that can permanently erase messages automatically.

  You may recall the government making similar arguments about Sam Bankman-Fried’s use of Signal during his trial for fraud and how that verdict eventually shook out. Deleted chats were also a sticking point for at least one juror in Google’s recent courtroom loss to Epic Games and came up in the DOJ’s antitrust trial against Google.

  So are they using these trials in their crusade against encryption and having articles like this in hopes of turning the public against it? Because it looks like it to me.

  The FTC’s lawyers say Bezos, current CEO Andy Jassy, general counsel David Zapolsky, former CEO of worldwide operations Dave Clark, and other execs are all Signal users. Bezos is identified in the document as “a heavy Signal user” who instructed others to use the app, although the 2018 hacking of his personal cellphone may be part of the reason for that.

  Then a few paragraphs later they reveal Bezos has been an encryption fan and user of the service for 5+ years while trying to get others to use it… I get it, Amazon is doing shady shit, but this feels to me like the government is trying to get encryption frowned upon.