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I haven't encountered such a thing on private trackers for a very long time. Like, for years. They usually have a very decent moderation and if they say that an entry has some part…

On the other hand, privacy becomes a luxury. People love signaling their status and standing out from the crowd. Entire car and clothing brands exist solely because of that. And if…

True. Though I have mixed feelings buying new pixel from Google after all these actions.

The API behaves this way: > To request a user's age range and sharing status, you call the Play Age Signals API (beta) from your app at runtime. The default age ranges the API retu…

Apparently, looking at Iraq and Vietnam, US citizens only believe in "personal freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and the value of human life" when it comes to US citi…

The point is not what they believe, but how to avoid both breaking the law and not giving up your data, isn't it? As long as that's legal, what they believe doesn't matter. You are…

Well, adware and spyware just became a normal thing that people surrendered to and don't call a malware anymore due to heavy lobbying. Google adds cloud AI spyware to the new andro…

Such a convenient time frame with all think-of-the-children bs wave to point fingers at the one of the best VPN services our there with spotless reputation and raise a hysteria wit…

> Or does this -just happen to be- the kind of shady data gathering that they're warning against? How? There are no forms on the website. Wouldn't it actually be logical for a pers…

World is not black and white. Most people would probably prefer to live in a world with low-power petty-crime rings and ability to be free and safe apart from having their wallet s…

The first law about building technical and legal infrastructure to enable website blocking in Russia in 2012 was passed under the name of children protection. Everything else is an…

>signed/sealed OS image This way we will just have unremovable age verification, spyware, online accounts to use the os, name another bs from other vendors. What's the point of Lin…

That only works for the infrastructure of one entity. It doesn't establish direct connection to my friend's device by a key pair if he is outside of the particular organisation tai…

Isn't that a good thing in a way? If everyone has the weapon and defense at the same time, we will fix security holes and live safer lifes instead of having some three letter agenc…

That's called NSA.

Studies say otherwise: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-40654-6_... Cash is actually faster in many cases, the 'slowness' is the matter of perception and the nee…

I don't feel that LLMs are replacing books for professionals. The problem with LLM learning is not that they can't explain a concept, but you have to know what to ask in the first …

> There will be businesses no human can comprehend or manage. If nobody neither fully created nor manages the business, then we probably shouldn't assume any property rights on it …

Law enforcement of another jurisdiction won't, but can try to snoop into the data.

Why would it? It's a technology, not an artifical belief system to just disappear because people got tired of it. Hype might go away, along with some of today's usages, but the fac…

I hope regular people will stop using "national security" and "national interests" as euphemisms and framing, and will call these things a psychopathic fight for power. Assuming th…

Some anon hero cleans up backdoored garbage. This year looks very refreshing for software. My guess is because of the AI-assitance in grinding an unlimited amount of code. While I …

AGPLv3 does.