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Putting aside whether or not I agree with the policy or whether it’s at all reasonable, a policy of restricting access to information because there’s a fear it could be used to create a weapon of mass destruction seems entirely different than restricting access to historical facts because they are embarrassing to the government.
The fact that your username is a racist meme seems relevant to this complaint and how legitimate it is.
But on April 21, I received a remarkable email. “Someone has filed an objection against something you wrote,”
No one in their right mind is going to do anything other than ignore and/or delete an email this stupid.
I think there might be a difference between “I’m violating copyright law to enjoy a work of art” and “I’m violating copyright law on a global, species-wide scale to create a trillion dollar company and enrich myself.” Maybe you can argue the former is wrong but there’s no way it’s equivalent to the latter.
If Google changes the internet so that no one visits websites anymore, no one is going to make or maintain websites. And at that point, A) What is left of the internet and B) What is left for Google to summarize via AI?
How the hell are most people supposed to balance the risk of not updating software against the risk of updating software?
Libertarian publication run by the wealthy suggests course of action that will disproportionately harm the poor, I’m shocked!
This system introduces a fun question: What’s more likely, that you suffer total spontaneous memory loss or your best friends betray you?
This is fanfic not science
RFK Jr: “Not so fast”
Because Firefox users have been clamoring for the ability to turn them off rather than the opposite.
Cool idea, bad AI slop execution
Still seems far, far more likely that the average user will have their account stolen via password theft/reuse than the more complicated scheme the author is describing. Links instead of codes also fixes the issue.
Big loss for the web.
This will never, ever, ever stop happening until executives start going bankrupt and/or to jail for negligence. Even then it won’t stop, but it would at least decrease in frequency and severity.
The author was not only a longtime CIA employee, but staff historian. Not the most trustworthy source here.
If you'd told me several years ago I'd be paying $10/month for a search engine, I'd say that's crazy talk. But it genuinely is worth it.
This is a really fun exercise; a rare example of something that's "data-centric" without being soulless.
I think it's fascinating how it illustrates weirdness about how Americans think about and categorize "ethnic" food. For example, the author's analysis of Google data shows Glendale, CA ranks #1 for "Highest prevalence of Mediterranean Restaurants." But I am nearly certain the majority of these, given Glendale's demographics, are in fact Armenian or Persian restaurants. Both Iran and Armenia are of course quite far from the Mediterranean region, but for whatever reason (rice? flat breads? grilled things on a stick?) have gotten lumped in with some Americanized, genericized conception of "the Mediterranean" that's indistinguishable from "the Middle East." I would imagine you'd find the same thing happening on Yelp etc.
Which brands?
I'd argue it's not extreme enough: Use an alphanumeric password or passphrase, as long as you can tolerate, instead of a PIN.
Right, I'd recommend anyone worried about this to power off their laptop (assuming you've got full disk encryption turned on) and phone before going through security, customs, etc.
Fun tip: If you have an iPhone, rapidly pressing the power button five times will force your phone to require a password before Face ID will work again. Turning your device off entirely will also necessitate password reentry.
We’re really messing this place up huh
This reads like a dispatch from an alien who’s spent the past year studying human beings.
Looks like an efficient way to lose a lawsuit.
Yeah this is the case—-sorry, should have clarified that
Weird! Every Mullvad server I’ve ever used is blocked by Reddit.
Reddit blocks it. Very annoying.
Edit: when not logged in.
That’s not a conflict of interest, it’s just an interest