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This is exactly what Trump and Musk would want, privatization of what should be (and were) government services. No one — and I mean no one — should profit from the provision of wha…

No. But they could ban American companies from providing services directly to that French publisher (e.g., a US company couldn't print books for or sell paper to that French publis…

You are significantly overestimating the level of recordkeeping by random sellers of used and/or ultra-cheap phones. Manufacturers, major retailers, and carriers may keep this info…

Let's be realistic. Porn, the subject of this discussion, is not illegal in the US; this is about age verification laws that apply to the website operators, who then self-block use…

No. This is driven by a huge reliance on foreign migrant labor, which is overwhelmingly male.

And how many 60+ year olds know how to do that? Don't forget using private browsing / incognito mode; cookies will link your accounts immediately irrespective of VPN/SMS use. Oh, a…

Sorry to hear. As someone who works for a non-Google Big Tech company, you will get nowhere on this trying to work with Google (or any other Big Tech) support. If you believe your …

Yes, ad-supported social apps collect a ton of data. But the Apple privacy widget list is just a catch-all since people can post anything and Meta uses post content for ad targetin…

Yes.

Would be nice if either CitizenLab or Apple had published some IOCs...

I think this is just a standard API access prompt. The GitHub Next page clearly indicates it is (C) GitHub Inc and the blog post makes GitHub's control clear.

> You don't know if the place you are storing it is doing so in plain text, storing a decryption key right next to it, etc. Any service that is storing passwords in plain text is p…

Deleting a FB account is already trivial. Instructions here (essentially, press "Permanently Delete Account" in settings and put in your password to confirm): https://www.facebook.…

Companies shouldn't put themselves in this position: they should simply refuse to have a local presence or local employees in authoritarian-leaning countries.

I know aloe vera is often said to be useful in clearing benzene and formaldehyde from the air as a houseplant: perhaps this is being picked up from the environment, rather than any…

You don't rub gasoline into your skin. This is not hard to understand.

I find it rather odd that you can describe yourself as "aggressively liberal" and then go on to defend discrimination against an entire ethnic group because of one government's adm…

It seems likely that low wages are contributing to this shortage. There's lots of evidence that once employers bump wages to $15+ an hour, the have little difficulty filling roles.…

No, he's talking about the politically-charged issue of people discussing services to help voluntary migrants get into another country. But, at least in the case of Facebook, adver…

This "download random script from internet and execute" thing is a terrible idea, even moreso to put in bash_profile...