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Mongolia?

You just broke the secret law!

Typical fascist behavior.

Quality control is expensive, and all they ever do is complain about how my brilliant idea to save money will kill more trees or some shit.

Absolutely, that’s the problem that Google is targeting here. Republicans like to claim that federal regulation is bad for businesses, but in reality it’s state-level regulation that makes it harder for businesses to operate.

Not to be super pro-Google, this is purely self-interested for them. But it seems like people are interpreting this as Google being anti-regulation in general, and I don’t think that’s correct.

Or have a “tea drinking” session:

When I was able to speak to Ms. Wu about the “tea drinking” session (euphemism for police harassment), she sharply conveyed her sense of vulnerability due to the lack of interest in her stepping away from her popular Twitter account, stating,

Literally the only thing that was keeping me online for the past few years was they were worried it would make China look bad if they cracked down on me. Now that they know that I could be dead in a ditch tomorrow and no one would give a shit or say a word I’m 1000x less safe here.

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Wu added,

After years of doing this without anyone saying anything, on June 30th, out of the blue, they send plainclothes thugs to my house. Surprise! They were real cops.

Why? because she’s LGBTQ+, has a Uyghur partner, and has some friends in Western nations.

reference: https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/p/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes

https://x.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/1177145458503737344

I think there’s some confusion over the intent here.

Lawmakers in state capitals across the country […]

So based on this, Google is using “state” here to mean a US state and not the more general meaning of government.

For large corporations like Google, each state having its own local regulations (e.g. privacy regulations such as CCPA) is expensive because they have to account for different rules in different places, which means whole teams of legal experts just to be familiar with each state’s regulations and interpret what they mean for operating the business.

It’s also problematic in a technical sense, because on the internet how do you know if a particular user is a legal resident of Texas or Colorado or New Hampshire, and would even knowing that be a violation of their privacy rights?

So the intent here is to push federal regulation over state regulation, because it makes the legal and technical problems simpler.

Ultimately this is an argument against the way the Republican party does things, where they reject federal regulations saying that the states should be allowed to regulate themselves and that federal regulation is an overreach. This leads to weaker protections for citizens and weaker enforcement, which is the Republican party’s real intent. Every US citizen should have privacy protections, not just residents of California.

Assuming this gains traction, I don’t see how they’ll prevent it from being abused with targeted misinformation, short of manually reviewing and approving every new article and every edit.

Yes, it’s a more honest term which reflects the quality of work that was done by people who weren’t compensated for their effort.

So… we’re just doing blatant bribery out in the open now?

Cool. Cool, cool, cool.

What I haven’t seen in the discussions here so far is that Chromium is the web engine that most mobile apps are built on (you don’t build your own special web client to access the server for your app, you just use an existing system for that). Also it’s the engine used for most web apps for embedded/standalone/IoT devices. The Electron application framework has Chromium embedded in it for web access - every Electron app uses Chromium. If your climate control device has a little touchscreen and smart features it’s probably using a web app that runs in an embedded instance of Chromium. Basically any device that has a GUI and links to cloud services is probably doing the same thing.

Bluntly, when it comes to client-side access to web services, Chromium matters more than Firefox, and anything that happens with it is far more impactful because it applies to a broader context than just people using Chrome for regular web browsing.

It could be important in the future that you at least indicated to Meta that you wanted your information deleted, even if they don’t actually remove it from their servers.

If you just get banned then you don’t have that record of deleting your account, and Meta has no obligation to remove any of your information.

Google just lost a lawsuit about user data

the future

yet

Ah, if all of your email aliases trace back to your personal, locally hosted server, of which you are the only user, on presumably your personally owned domain, it will not be private… well private in the sense that it’s just you I guess… but super duper identifiable - because it’s just you. At which point why bother with the aliases.

What happens in the abyss stays in the abyss.

Hmm… maybe not? The low density of helium at 1 atm is what causes the amplification of higher frequencies in the voicebox, but in a pressurized container the gas would be higher density so it might offset the effect… I think?

I was a primary Kubuntu user for a long time, but I just recently started using EndeavourOS and I’m really liking it so far. It is Arch-based, but a usable system immediately post-install.

The notice recommends customers migrate to Kick, a new accounting startup that announced its $9 million seed raise in October 2024 in a round led by OpenAI and General Catalyst. Kick’s CEO and founder, Conrad Wadowski, posted a message on LinkedIn to former Bench users about how Kick is “working to get your financials back in your hands.”

This is weird. How did “Kick” have access to Bench’s customer list? Is there some relationship between these companies?

OK, this is very interesting. One of the biggest limitations with biodegradable plastics is that they’re water-soluble, which makes them useless for most food packaging applications.

If this only breaks down when exposed to saltwater at particular concentrations it might be a lot more useful.

That said, the article’s not specific on which salt… I assume NaCl because that’s the highest concentration in seawater, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that other salts won’t cause the breakdown to start… and the environment isn’t exactly salt-free. Most foodstuffs aren’t de-ionized either.

But also we’ll track everyone everywhere they go, with facial recognition.