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Rossman made a good point recently that the physical vs digital argument is mostly a distraction and DRM is the real issue that needs to be focused on. That said, there are specifi…

EFF has, on multiple occasions, specifically defended Kiwifarms, a site which unabashedly exists to turn people into hate-celebrities, with some members having kept "kill counts" o…

I too do not understand the downvotes. Unlike what Cory Doctorow implies, Facebook is not a Soviet Dictatorship. There is no Berlin wall. If you don't like it, you can just leave.

Misleading. Scanning is related to a setting called "Sensitive Content Warnings" and it's disabled by default on most devices.

Professional mathematicians and computer scientists use AI as well. Maybe that's not very reassuring from the standpoint of skills regression in modern adult work culture, but at l…

Some smartphones have a feature that detects if you're taking a picture of a menu/letter/etc and will automatically crop and unskew it for you.

Misogyny in government is a bellwether for authoritarianism. If a man doesn't respect women, you can bet they won't respect men or minorities either, although they may be less incl…

According to the poster, this is happening in Facebook's HQ, i.e. in Menlo Park, California, United States.

Reminds me of a billboard I saw where Apple was touting the alleged privacy of the iPhone with a guy wearing clothes nearly the same color as his skin. I know iPhone isn't really p…

That last quote is when I stopped reading the article. The opening with the premonition of personal computing moving to the cloud, followed by the heavy use of the word "consumer",…

> Trump in December said he would withhold federal broadband funding from states whose laws to regulate AI are judged by his administration to be holding back American dominance in…

YMMV based on the role, but some healthcare roles are highly stressful plus you're exposed to all sorts of infectious diseases. A more charitable interpretation is that these new n…

This is not the first time a Notepad++ release has supported human rights causes in China. For example, here is "Notepad++ Stand with Hong Kong Edition": https://notepad-plus-plus.…

Food for thought: hundreds of thousands of Americans have top secret clearance. These deaths could be within statistical expectations for both countries. https://www.bbc.com/news/a…

RSS is truly in its own little universe. I recently became aware of RSS stylesheets. Apparently there is a specification for that called XSLT which is distinct from CSS in both for…

Related: Microsoft-owned GitHub recently switched to token-based billing: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/github-copilo... Claude tokens are priced by GitHub at a di…

Surface laptops have always been overpriced, even before the RAM shortage.

Hard to say without more info but most at-home COVID tests have a very high false negative rate due to the virus mutating and generally how the test is designed.

FWIW it's feasible to make a "clone" of Notepad++ using the Scintilla library that Notepad++ is based on, but don't violate trademarks of course. That said, it's the details that m…

Current Usgov says they won't enforce COPPA, so I don't buy the idea that they care about privacy. Having the product call out to a fickle third-party service that could shut down …

Maybe if the LLM CEOs stopped spreading doomer narratives to sell their products, these people would chill out.

Sad that the Wikipedia page links to some specific commercial service rather than the actual programming language runtime (which appears to be AGPL-licensed).

I've opted in/not opted out to several class actions, and without saying the exact number, I'll say it was a lot more than that. Tech companies wouldn't be putting binding arbitrat…

busybox does a similar trick where it executes a different program based on the program's name. But it uses symlinks for the different names, so it doesn't use significantly more s…

There was a comment in this thread criticizing Kiwi Farms, but it was quickly removed. I'm not here to repeat their eloquent criticism, only add my own thoughts. > anonymous speech…