Sssh. Don’t give them ideas.

reduce ads and pop-up interruptions

Or they could just … Idk … Not put that shit in there in the first place?

Phone bad

From the article, it seems like it isn’t overriding preferences if you have it set in the app. Looks like it’s an analytics thing in the backend at the moment. Of course, I wouldn’t put it past them to eventually require ID if your settings don’t match their prediction.

$10 says their “solution” involves some combination of wildly expensive tech that doesn’t work, inappropriate use of AI, and raging privacy violations.

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Not really, but I have 18 months to migrate all my shit away from there. I’ve already moved a lot of my critical stuff to FOSS software running under win10 and I’m more than passing familiar with Linux. Shouldn’t be a massive deal.

Either that or bad speech recognition and someone left the mic on

The specs are insane, but you can’t use it because the servers it needs to phone home to don’t exist yet.

Considering how much of Reddit is already bots, I’m sure this will end fantastically.

It’s plausible. Could have been a low-effort typosquatting site loaded with porn ads.

This is about control. If you’re forced to upload ID, the government instantly has a watch list of people and associated sites. Then there’s the flexibility of the definition of porn. Once the legislation is in, anything regarding sex, sexuality, or gender education gets quietly reclassified. Because you know, to these people being anything but straight is inherently pornographic. Then you have a watch list of potential LGBT+ people and allies to harass.

Every kitchen I’ve ever worked in has just used dish soap and water, followed by a spritz of alcohol - based sanitiser. The reason professional kitchens look immaculate is because the surfaces are all stainless and designed to be quick and easy to clean.

Hmm probably nothing to do with their boeing stock or defence contracts

This is either something that will only ever be selectively enforced, or designed to be so outrageous they can walk it back to what they actually want and look like they’re compromising.

I like self checkout as a concept. I don’t like the implementation or what it stands for.

Australia isn’t that much better. Yeah, you’re much less likely to get shot unless it’s by the cops, but housing and grocery prices are insane. Public health is kind of okay at the moment, but it’s slowly and surely being gutted along with most other public services. It’s honestly worse than it was even 2-3 years ago. Disability and unemployment are a labyrinthine nightmare of maliciously incompetent bureaucracy. Workers rights don’t suck in some places, but if you’re coming in on a visa, you may be required to do work in regional areas, and the employers out there 100% know this and will take advantage of it. Some industries have very strong unions (construction). My state has sick pay guarantees for casual workers and jail time is a possibility for wage theft. I think it’s the only one where that’s true tho. Otoh we just voted nationally to continue systemic racism, we have nazis sieg heiling in the streets, our prime minister is a non-event and the opposition leader is an angry potato.

I’m studying at the moment, so I do a -lot- of research. A tablet + stylus is perfect for me for taking notes on top of lecture slides and reading / annotating pdfs. A folding form factor would be really useful for me, so I wouldn’t have to carry around a second device.

I always liked Calhoun’s solution. Obliterate the Maru. It’s either a trap or it’s not. If it is, you don’t want to leave it there for someone else to fall for. If it’s not, you don’t want to leave it there to cause a diplomatic incident, and fiery plasma death is probably better than whatever the Klingons / Romulans would do to the crew.

Of course, I don’t recommended launching a full spread of photon torpedoes at your gf.

They’re both valid. It just depends on your mental model of the control scheme; whether you feel like you’re moving the crosshair, or your character’s head.