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• Post #651837

  You appear to have gone completely around the twist. You haven't shown a logical progression of anything you claim. You don't point to any current legal precedent, clearly aren't paying attention to the actual wording being used to draft this bill/law proposal, and are spreading what amounts to FUD. About the only truthful logical statement you've made is that it's not about whether you like or dislike these companies. Companies are considered a lawful entity with right...

• Post #474811

  They get recycled. Not saying this isn't hyperbole, but it's the fact that those numbers are attached to legal names (even if the person is deceased) that's problematic.

• Post #442196

  I have one question. From where? Name the other countries building equivalent aviation equipment and platforms. So far as I know they're pretty much all fascist.

• Post #440588

  And now it's $80 an hour or more to hire a plumber. This is a bad deal no matter how you slice it. And the commenter above is correct. If AI could do these jobs, so could cheap labor overseas. So the $80 an hour plumber is much more likely than the outsourcing that resulted in the destruction of Detroit as a manufacturing hub.

• Post #230471

  I wish I could put Linux on my work computer.

• Post #179739

  There's a hard fork in the works called Servo. The developers are attempting to hard fork Firefox so that they don't have to rely on it for updates in the future. There's another called Ladybird but there's controversy surrounding the person fronting it and the fact that they use AI to code it. https://servo.org/

• Post #179721

  More like fining a regular person $20.

• Post #150449

  You fail to understand that this wasn't an attack on you, but commentary about the state of things and how they look from the inside rather than the outside. And as someone who did enlist, I'm gonna just point out something. Your country should never have allowed allyship with the USA to divest you of a fighting force worthy of protecting your own assets, borders, or sovereignty. I absolutely don't agree that the US should be fucking about in any other country. But the entire wor...

• Post #150435

  I have tried to explain to Americans here and on reddit and other places too that the political landscape in Russia is very different and that what we think is possible is all passes through the lens of our own government and country. But people are gonna people. For what it's worth, I don't agree with those people whole sale either. I recognize that what they're asking the Russian populace to do is tantamount to a death or slavery sentence.

• Post #149867

  it's very real. This is history repeating itself for the umpteenth time. You aren't the first, nor will you be the last one to scream into the void about people who have been deliberately disenfranchised by their government with the direct intent of making them toothless against what is essentially a fascist regime. The problem is that you're screaming a lot but not offering actual solutions except a general idea of "Fight!". That's not helpful, and it sounds a lot li...

• Post #135377

  Lots of people who have taken to the internet at large may not understand the root cause of why, but they don't ke Google's reputation for killing projects and enshittification. That discussion is happening everywhere. And you should also note that a lot of the early adopters of Google Now and Google Assistant (including the hardware) are tech enthusiasts who absolutely did have the realization at one point or another about how these companies were essentially rifling through their email...

• Post #126031

  I need some time to think about what you wrote before I respond. I need to switch gears here and also give some thought to how such a thing would play out.

• Post #124825

  I'm not arguing against free speech here. Granted I also didn't downvote these comments. The main problem is that the original comment and subsequent comments don't explain what the alternative is. It isn't just the US that has such laws (as I tried to demonstrate by posting an alternative law from the UK. The thing is, generally the rights of an individual generally stop where the rights of another individual start and vice versa. The original comment doesn't even expl...

• Post #123949

  Corporations have rights. Quite literally. They are legal entities. We aren't required to use their services. They aren't required to provide said services. "In the UK, Article 10 of the 1998 Human Rights Act protects our right to freedom of expression: Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. In this c...

• Post #123827

  Corporate censorship is not illegal. If you come to my house spouting Nazi rhetoric I have ever right to call you out on it and kick you out of my house. There are laws deliberately protecting the people's right to free speech that is not infringed by the government. Now if you want to talk about how we should remove companies/corps rights as entities, we can have the conversation. Trump was banned from Twitter and it was a good thing because it was them enforcing their TOS/EULA rules...

• Post #123819

  and the citizens are doing?

• Post #123789

  I'm sure that app developers who want to sell user data because it is big business will find a way to do so, yes. Phones for the vast majority of people are a black box. Most of the users have no idea how their apps work or what data is going where and they don't know how to check. People who work in cyber security, or the tech field (engineers, coders, developers etc) who's jobs revolve around this type of thing know how to check and generally take steps to avoid apps and services...

• Post #120423

  Not with that attitude we don't.

• Post #119810

  Yeah. Typo. Seems to happen a lot when I'm typing fast on a phone screen. Sorry.

• Post #119808

  404Media say that their list is a comprehensive list of both Android and iOS apps. So no as far as I know that is the list.

• Post #119221

  https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Ukgd0gIWd9gpV6bOx2pcSHsVO6yIUqbjnlM4ewjO6Cs/edit?usp=sharing&ref=404media.co This is the link to the full list provided in that article but it may also be paywalled by 404 Media which I am a subscriber to. It's also got more than 1K entries on it. A lot of these seem to be mobile games, fitness apps, photo editing apps, and prayer apps though.