They know people lack better alternatives, since all the other tech companies are doing the same.

Maybe Netflix can commission a study to investigate whether viewers are put off by most of their shows being not very good. They might learn something.

When you recognize how common it is that sociopaths work their way into power, precisely because they get pleasure from controlling and being cruel to others, a lot of how the world is starts to make sense.

Adolf Hitler once said he wanted to ‘Make Germany Great Again’

Unfortunately they’ll repeat them on the rest of us.

The problem is, the overwhelming majority of Americans has far less power than the handful of rich Americans who want to own the world.

The other part is that DHH has a reputation as a fascist. The fact that he, of all people, is receiving a ton of money for his half-assed Linux distro makes a lot of people uncomfortable.

The archive link I posted gets you past the paywall.

You’d have to test whether the TV’s firmware allows it to run without the microphone or WiFi. Some manufacturers will anticipate people trying to control their own tech and shut their device down at any sign of tampering.

Upvote or downvote? It’s not completely clear what you mean by “they”. I think you mean American standards are below European standards. In that case, yes.

* If you’re a billionaire.

Still, Apple’s leadership and most of its rank-and-file are described as “resigned” to these kinds of concessions under Trump’s second term, understanding “that Trump will f— with the company if the company doesn’t do what he wants,” the person said.

Not exactly courageous leadership.

Republican fools.

There just aren’t any good deals any more. Prices for everything have gone crazy in the last few months. For coding LLMs the cloud services may now be the least worst value, by design, until they hike the prices.

That said, I still just paid way too much for a used graphics card so I could do many things locally, because I just don’t want to give the likes of Sam Altman a single penny.

To be weighed against the profits from having all that new data on user identities.

The grocery stores near me have big signs with Canadian flags on, marking some shelves as all Canadian. They wouldn’t bother if they didn’t think it would help sales.

Yes, but they’ll rule that using free open-source software is terrorism.

As long as you keep it below 88 miles per hour you’ll be fine.

So are half of his children.

Elon Musk’s satellites are currently re-destroying the ozone layer as they burn up on re-entry. And he plans to launch many tens of thousands more of them.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/how-elon-musks-dying-satellites-could-hurt-the-ozone-layer