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How so? Any competent intelligence service will not just depend on the goodwill of a corporation to secure access to assets and intelligence. If they cooperate that's good and conv…

I consider that plausible with Google due to Google's funding history [0], but Apple is afaik way less "influenced" and the way this pwn was pulled off could also have been done by…

The centralization of the web through a for profit oligopoly is not the same as having a central respiratory of data by a non-profit. One of those destroyed net neutrality and most…

This ignores that such a breaking up of the US would very likely be based on similar dynamics as "balkanizations" that see smaller groups put their own identidy above that of the b…

There is a lot to worry about, the modern web has become incredible bad at retention but really good at memory-holing escpecially of old content. So much more would already be lost…

Funny how the "top" on that seems to be a rather subjective interpretation, could have sworn China was made out as top, and two centuries ago it was apparently the US; https://apne…

You can talk to people with smart earbuds, but you have no clue if those smart earbuds are recording what you say or not. The person wearing them could be on a call, and the caller…

For motorbikes there are already options to get a HUD in the helmet, i.e. a CrossHelmet or Argon Transform. This is not an endorsement of these products, I have no idea if they are…

There is a SFW filter? I just let it generate a random woman with no prompt, and it gave me a pretty good result, except there is a mask on the face and literally bloody nude boobs…

As far as I remember CSGO did way better than CS:Source, which never really caught on until the point where it became a bit of a "retro" curiosity.

I'd argue the original mod/1.6 had a much bigger impact on gaming than CSGO. The impact of Steam, as the first digital distribution platform for video games, is probably magnitudes…

Then go right ahead and do that, there will be a myriad of official government instutions, from all over the world, that would be very interested in your findings. Or MS could simp…

That's the last ~10 years of web developement in a nutshell, instead we have darkpatterns as normalized "industry standard".

> I don't doubt that Windows collects and transmits telemetry data (hell, text editors do that nowadays), but if an analysis of that exists, it is not in this article. Such an anal…

There is a pretty decent chance some VPN providers are actually intelligence service, or other bad actor, honey pots. It's part of VPN that most users these days don't even underst…

> Nope! That would require the server operator to participate Or it would require compromising the server [0] [0] https://www.csoonline.com/article/3137065/shadow-brokers-lea...

> I don't share this opinion personally, it would be only two times worse, it could be considered but at 50 to 100 times worse than non fossil tech, it's just not worth investing. …

Afaik on an international level there's been a somewhat universal consent that natural gas is the "transition fossil fuel of choice" [0], due to being the fossil fuel with the lowe…

There were plenty of reactions, among them an attempt to get an international, and independent investigation going through the UN [0] [0] https://press.un.org/en/2023/sc15243.doc.h…

ChatGPT currently has some issues [0] [0] https://status.openai.com/

If you actually care to inform, then you can add a source to give the information some third party background and more details. Expecting others to put in the work to authenticate …

> A bad-faith request for a source is just an attempt to waste the other person’s time. Why not add a source to begin with, so others don't have to "waste" their time asking for on…

I see nothing wrong with an "obsession" with sources. The www was very much built on sharing http links as a form of citation, no reason not to make use of such an fundamental and …

If Twitter is the frame of reference being used, then Reddit wins out by virtue of layout and content allowances. Trying to cram context and nuance, about topics that can be very b…

> How often do you casually dispense medical advice to strangers? Semi-regularly, as I work in palliative healthcare. I'm just not sure why that would be relevant to "medical advic…