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>simply stop using Google products Google squashed most of the competition in a lot of sectors, and the few remaining competitors aren't any better often. Aside, even if you do not…

Right. The point is: it absolutely does NOT measure what it claims to measure, i.e. truthfulness. You can detect indicators of stress... or hot weather... or stage-fright (admitted…

Sure. Or it could just the kind of mistake that is being made all the time. I remember for example facebook taking itself offline[0], or cloudflare taking itself offline[1]. And of…

Why would it be abuse if you just asked for the data to be deleted? As long as you do not misrepresent things and do so politely, of course. If Disney wants to spent time and money…

Farmers have to put in constant work to generate revenue. "IP" revenue too often entails create-once-earn-forever. However, "IP" often has a higher upfront investment attached to i…

Exif itself defines three main times: DateTime, DateTimeOriginal, DateTimeDigitized. To add insult to injury, each has an additional SubsecTime* Then you have in the GPS tags: GPST…

As others have mentioned, the time range of when the data was scraped seems to be end of 2021 to start of 2022, maybe into mid 2022. If correct, that was certainly before Elon Musk…

The problem with that is that the skipped data will still be present and therefore easy to recover if you know what you're looking for. That may "leak" seconds worth of video (and …

In my German circles, that spot has been covered by whatsapp for a long while now. It never has been instagram or anything else really. For me it went from studivz (long defunct Ge…

It sure can be a problem when people initialize stuff with nonsense to avoid running into nullable warnings. However, accidentally running into null pointer exceptions is still wor…

I am not trying to comment on anything else here, but this: >>Minimum Those are the norm for most fulltime people in most jobs. You know that, right? Right?

No, I didn't say that. And there it really becomes tricky, If they try to unilaterally change terms of the contract, they cannot do that. However, at the same time an employee is n…

I wonder if this legally really is the case. Twitter seems to have asked "Do you still want to work here", giving an option to affirm. They didn't say "you have to go", they said "…

Artists - just like inventors etc - should be compensated for their work, but in my humble opinion not in what has become now essentially perpetuity. So, an artist eeking out a liv…

Distribution can be figured out, same as it was for fossil fuels and as it was/will be for electric energy. It would be a chicken and egg problem, for sure, however hydrogen has so…

I'd say it's good enough. An adversary would need to know the file the secret is hidden inside, what method was used, probably would need the unaltered container file to compare wi…

>And it is very well enforced on both sides. That guy or gal calling your grandparents about that "fixing that virus" or "refunding that amazon purchase" begs to differ...

My guess is that when such high profile cancellations happen, it's more of a matter of perceived zugzwang. Some platform does a high profile ban, and then the PR inboxes of the oth…

Labor protection may help with keeping your current job. But they probably will not help with you advancing your career, and they will not help with your co-workers looking funny a…

>only true in an edge case Sorry, when it comes to passwords, in particular plain text ones, this is not good enough. Then you repeatedly say "hashes", which may mean anything from…

There were many useful facts that I hadn't considered, to be honest, especially regarding what was counted (probbly print sales tracked by BookScan) and how (unique ISBNs). Also, w…

I have no issue with Microsoft setting community standards for the online spaces they run, or anybody else for that matter. But Microsoft is setting community standards for places …

For context, because I didn't know and I'd think others might not either: Apparently Chloe Segal killed herself by going to a public park and lighting herself on fire, telling witn…

Seriously?

They do have an agenda for sure. That wasn't the question, tho. The question was whether they condone or even encourage their users to target people with the goal of driving those …