paraphrand

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paraphrand, (edited )

How does it heal, does it still work 10+ years later? How many major OS updates did it get?

paraphrand,

Oof, the article goes on to say all the platforms failed. X just failed a bit more.

This is going to lead to some “well, they’re all about the same.” discourse shenanigans.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9f692471-85e8-4a51-b0f3-77609c83e63c.jpeg

Decentralized Systems Will Be Necessary To Stop Google From Putting The Web Into Managed Decline (www.techdirt.com)

Is Google signaling the end of the open web? That’s some of the concern raised by its new embrace of AI. While most of the fears about AI may be overblown, this one could be legit. But it doesn’t mean that we need to accept it....

paraphrand,

“Managed Decline” That’ll be big.

paraphrand,

Damn. The race to be first to report is a problem. It’s worse than the old race you see in movies and tv about broadcast news and newspapers.

paraphrand,

jesus christ, what’s that terrible noise?

paraphrand,

Because Elon is a child.

paraphrand,

No, nothing like that. I’m just calling Elon a petulant man-child.

paraphrand,

Like most things, it was nearly 30 years ago. So everyone acts like they can’t remember it.

Institutional knowledge is not something corpos seem to like anymore. That hampers next quarter thinking.

Apple limits third-party browser engine work to EU devices (www.theregister.com)

The Register has learned from those involved in the browser trade that Apple has limited the development and testing of third-party browser engines to devices physically located in the EU. That requirement adds an additional barrier to anyone planning to develop and support a browser with an alternative engine in the EU....

paraphrand,

I assume they are doing checks of other things. Local software is not the same as a web service that is checking your IP for your location.

They could use location services, your registration country for your Apple ID, the sale location of your device, and other things. They could even aggregate indicators and use that.

paraphrand, (edited )

If you’re legit and not shitposting, or just looking for a reaction, I see where you’re trying to come from. (Namely the humanity in everyone)

It’s nearly impossible to express, with this guy, though. No one is going to view him as someone swept along by social structures and ideologies and the circumstances of his upbringing. Or something like that.

paraphrand,

Perfectly?

I guess we understand more about the brain than I thought. 🤔

paraphrand,

Lemmy on the ground with first hand reports!

Connected cars’ illegal data collection and use now on FTC’s “radar” (arstechnica.com)

The Federal Trade Commission’s Office of Technology has issued a warning to automakers that sell connected cars. Companies that offer such products “do not have the free license to monetize people’s information beyond purposes needed to provide their requested product or service,” it wrote in a blog post on Tuesday. Just...

paraphrand,

People who are blindly data driven piss me off so much. It leads to these practices where they demand data and act like they have the right to collect it.

They often don’t like to act like they have to properly protect the data either.

paraphrand,

I wonder if this will slowly morph towards Reddit/Lemmy structure. All the major platforms are becoming homogeneous as they chase each other.

paraphrand,

Wow. Let’s hear people just say they should “grow a thicker skin” and “block and move on” to this one.

Firefox 126: New Search Data Telemetry, Improved Copy Without Site Tracking, Security Fixes, and More (www.mozilla.org)

Telemetry was added to create an aggregate count of searches by category to broadly inform search feature development. These categories are based on 20 high-level content types, such as "sports,” “business,” and “travel”. This data will not be associated with specific users and will be collected using OHTTP to remove...

paraphrand,

Thanks! I did some googling and didn’t find this. This is what I was looking for.

paraphrand,

That tracking removal feature is awesome. Anyone know of versions of that for Safari on macOS?

I hate cleaning those out on YouTube links. They started adding it this year 😞

paraphrand,

heh, just adding dots to everyone’s screens by default. Sounds logical.

paraphrand,

That’s true! 😰

That’s actually an interesting oversight in the reporting. But I can see how it woulda been a can of worms and would have caused scope creep for the piece.

paraphrand,

Amazon and other stores are cracking down on returns.

paraphrand,

Is this what Kevin Costner meant when he said dvd wasn’t dead? I didn’t realize it was still over half the physical market. 😯

paraphrand,

huh, I didn’t know these Lego sets existed. I looked them up and now I understand why they would be exploring this. The creatures look great as Lego.

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