The proposed class action comes after Apple scrapped a controversial CSAM-scanning tool last fall that was supposed to significantly reduce CSAM spreading in its products. Apple defended its decision to kill the tool after dozens of digital rights groups raised concerns that the government could seek to use the functionality to illegally surveil Apple users for other reasons. Apple also was concerned that bad actors could use the functionality to exploit its users and sought to protect innocent users from false content flags.

Honestly, if they eat this $1.2B fee and chalk it up to standing up for user’s privacy, this is a massive win for them.

You don’t need price fixing for any industry to go this direction. Take the gas station idea. You’ve got a corner with 4 gas stations. Each one can see the traffic the other ones get and can easily see how much they charge. All it takes is them saying “well, people are still buying gas at that station for $X more than mine, so I’ll charge that as well. And soon they’re all skyrocketing to whatever the consumers can afford.

Calling a group put on Price Fixing requires proving they colluded together to do so, but that’s not required in this scenario. Every landlord can see how much other rents are and if they can make more money and keep their renters or get new ones, they will push that limit. And honestly if they can raise it enough to cover some vacancies they’ll do that, charging 30% more but having 10% empty is still a net 20% in their pockets.

I always have to imagine I’m playing Operation and it’s going to buzz and light up a red light over my head if I bump the sides.

Verified. It’s on the table entry for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamanend's_bottlenose_dolphin

Even AI can figure this out!

My wife and daughter use LibreOffice, neither one feels they are part of a community because they’re using FOSS. That’s not how this works.

People use a tool or piece of software because it does what they need and generally stays out of their way. They’re not going to jump ship to be part of a community because. Sure there are people that enjoy working on it, and there’s people who will donate money to make the software better, but you’re not going to convince people to choose FOSS for “the community”. You’re going to convince them by offering a better tool, at a better price without negatively impacting their workflow. That extends to all FOSS just as it extends to normal software and services.

Are there any other networks we don’t know about called Matrix we can clear out?

I always figure we ask kids what they want to be when they grow up because they have better imagination and we adults are looking for ideas.

Do I need to finish 13 first?

So you want people to report others accounts as being under age? There’s absolutely zero way that could go wrong or has ever gone wrong in history.

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HFW has a mode where the HUD doesn’t show you any of the things you need to find… like rocks, bushes, parts, etc. it’s more immersive and I beat the game with that mode on without too much trouble. Watching my wife play with the normal HUD showed me I probably missed a few things here and there but nothing crazy. I was always able to find enough healing and rocks and I got all the collectibles (I 100%’d it, I just didn’t go back and NG+ on Ultra Hard like she did)

Artificial scarcity is a standard part of capitalism.

And everyone liked that.

TIL: 20 years ago was just yesterday. Go buy CDs! They still make them!

I’d rather have one with no window manager than one with no terminal.

I daily DDG and either go to Kagi or, oddly enough, Bing if that doesn’t work. Google is too riddled with ads at this point.

One day I’m going to run out of free Kagi queries and I’ll probably have to pony up the money.

Honestly, I’d love to hear about ALL technologies on here, not just computer based ones.

Betteridge’s law of headlines is an adage that states: “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

I purposely don’t do the printer PS powers the octopi thing… I like to be able to drop some gcode on it for later or do updates when the printer isn’t on.