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“Get me there as fast as possible. Hey! I never said you should speed!” This is literally the bad genie / monkey’s paw plot. Give a powerful entity a goal and act shocked when it g…

I block numbers at that point. I don’t get how anyone would decide to open up after repeated attempts on their number.

Oh, it saved money for someone all right

The fact that an AI work was selected says more about the judges than anything else I’m not an AI hater; I use it every day now at work. But the output is obviously not human expre…

My son is also named Bort

The past decade has shown people will still buy iPhones even with Siri being the worst assistant of the major players, even with Liquid Glass UI debacle, etc Their hardware is just…

> Many say they want small phones and manual transmissions but then don't show up. I wonder if this is some kind of enthusiast bias where owners of these niche products love them s…

This should be an interesting case in today’s legal climate Obviously grafeneOS has no liability. But the owner of the device didn’t take the action to remove the data, the CBP off…

So the federal government can disenfranchise anyone they want by issuing that class of taxpayer a refund?

Everyone needs to remember those who were deniers and followers of them Never let them live this down

Yeah not only are we dealing with third party consent issues…but that kind of log is not going to hold up in court as OP suspects It does not really prove anything. So you have a b…

I mean, that’s a MUD for you. It’s inherently text based. It’s of the golden age of the internet where passing the UX bar meant you earned your place in the community. The genre op…

> Netflix is a provider of content. If I have the content, why do I need a provider for? I have never used Kodi. Does it organize your content? Does it download summaries for every…

The problem here is that when the consumers try it they go to actual jail. Meanwhile the producers have been richly rewarded for getting away with their side of it. So yeah, corpor…

If they do, oh well. Passkeys are a convenience and as I stated above I always have a password as a fallback

Are you serious with this question?

It’s really not that hard. Most of your devices are in the Apple ecosystem and when you are prompted to create a passphrase it will ask you to put it in your iCloud Keychain. Boom,…

Check out bandcamp. It’s artist focused and they have shows with DJs that focus on highlighting new releases. I even subscribe to one for Metal for $10/months they’ll give you a ne…

I’m no expert but I can imagine a scenario where an x-ray scan can notice an SD card embedded into the controller and flag that for follow-up SD card the author says was added to o…

Ah yes, real estate speculation. What a boon for society this betting market provides.

no, the photos you take with the lenses on your phone are not AI generated. They are generated from the sensors on your phone. Have you seen some of these listings? We are talking …

Haha sure. He also said that cybertrucks would be deployed to Mars, it would be amphibious and bulletproof, people buying Teslas would make money turning them into to self driving …

I am not saying it’s impossible. I am saying the means to achieve would cause me to be banned if I spelled it out

ok but who enforces the law? If you haven’t been paying attention lately, laws are only as good as they are enforced and it has become obvious that the ruling class is not going to…

If we could ignore them, this thread would not exist. and I support extra legal measures against these people. They do it for the attention and they deserve the attention they will…