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Yes! Honestly, I mostly just use it as a really, really fancy iPad. It's great for watching content, like movies and TV shows. Some of the games are also fun too in small doses.

I think prosecutors would probably argue that even using a pencil purchased locally meets the bar of making the "visual depiction... produced using materials.. or that have been sh…

(Also not a lawyer) The point of (d) is to create a jurisdictional hook for the US federal government. The federal government only has power over a limited number of offenses, incl…

The first, second, and fourth charges in the indictment[1] is for violating 18 USC 1466A(a)(1)/(b)(1)/(d)(1)/(d)(4), which are the statutes against producing/distributing/possessin…

I'm not sure that this continues to be true, now that Git supports partial clones[1]. It's now a fully supported feature in Git to work with only a partial copy of the code and met…

This is explicitly the case according to Microsoft documentation[1]. "When the administrator uses a Microsoft account to sign in, the clear key is removed, a recovery key is upload…

I quote that exact part of the documentation in the post. I also talk about the difference between "Device encryption" and "BitLocker Device Encryption" My argument isn't that this…

It is on by default in Windows 11 Home if you go through the normal setup experience completely according to the Microsoft documentation. As part of the setup, you sign in to a Mic…

I’m fairly concerned about how broadly some are interpreting “operating in the EU”. The furthest this has gone that I’m aware of is the Dutch, alongside other EU authorities, has i…

The DSA itself imposes EU-wide requirements on the “mitigation” of “illegal hate speech”, although it does not define the term. Section 35, 1(c). My amateur guess for how this woul…

I think the negative attitude towards the EU on Hacker News is the product of a couple things: - The EU has drastically scaled up regulatory requirements for tech businesses, start…

Honest question as an American who speaks English as a first language and is studying German as a second: Section 8 paragraph 1 seems to clearly not require a service provider to b…

Good find! I was always curious how this worked. I'm a big fan of tools like secretive[1] that can help solve this problem by using biometrics to shift the UX/security trade-off an…

Isn’t it well known in the Android modding community how to replace and make custom APEXs? E.g. XDA has some good documentation. That seems like the right way to solve this problem…