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A typo? Twice in the same post? In both places where "he" would normally appear? Localized entirely within your kitchen?

The latter, obviously, and that is what's happening with the Digital Omnibus.

Because that is the joke.

Electing a dictator because you like their policies does not change the fact that you end up in a dictatorship. Likewise, having voted for a corporation that takes away freedoms do…

What you want is not relevant, because you have no choice. Apple depriving you of that choice may not inconvenience you, but you are still being deprived of that freedom in the fir…

About a decade ago I worked at a water consultancy company (of which Thames Water happened to be a client) to build a catalogue website for pipe condition assessment technologies. …

I wouldn't mind a subtle HUD if I need to find my way to some place. Sure beats having to peer at my phone. Otherwise... Eh. I don't care enough. Yet.

He's a "Growth Engineer" from ElevenLabs. I'm not sure what that entails, but then I'm not familiar with that area of tech, so maybe someone else can explain it.

Why one would pay for such a privilege? Because it's the latest new gadget and it's very convenient and its users don't experience any immediate negatives of using it. That's how p…

I am curious, do you have the same anxieties about car drivers using maps applications to navigate?

You'd first have to make proprietary changes, which you are not allowed to release, and so there's nobody to sell those services to.

I usually just blurt out "cassis", a blackcurrant soda. I for one don't care about which brand. Does that count?

The parent comment is not making a causal claim. They're pointing out a double standard: "Anyone arguing this is about childhood IQ and wouldn’t similarly ban (not stop mandating, …

A lot of slang comes from street language, so that thought may still be right. :) It's a decades old word that used to mean trying to one up someone with tough talk, exaggerating, …

And what about the Butlerian Jihad? It was a war against Thinking Machines, devices that would do the thinking for people. People were becoming less critical, they stagnated, left …

Ah yes. Socialism is when intervention and subsidies.

...and because they want you to be on time, you end up waiting for another half hour at the gates to sit in a cramped seat near a narrow aisle. I went by train to Germany during th…

No, I made no such mistake. Nor was I talking about a "cocoon" or anything "isolatory". Taking what I said about a commercially sensical strategy about selling a - what was the wor…

I have a little unproven hypothesis that fits that last statement, that it would be absurd for a company like Apple to bring people together in the real world. My hypothesis is tha…

If being interested in something was contingent on whether or not you're planning on using it, this would be one dead website.

In German there's a similar word, "fahren", which means driving or traveling. In Dutch the word "varen" mean to sail or in an older sense of the word "to move". I can only assume, …

I did so too, and still had to reread and reinterpret the original comment after having seen yours. I didn't think twice about it, because if I would have my first date with someon…

> Is Soviet Union and Russia the same? Excellent question. Let's ask the person who justified Russia's invasion by saying that NATO contravened its non-expansion guarantee to the S…

I for one am absolutely against features not existing for customers who want it just because the Apple deigns that they shouldn’t have it. I don't want Apple to take away my agency…

It says cisgendered, not straight, though.