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- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 2 weeks ago:
just to be clear, for fear we mentally normalize this
- this is hostile behavior from Chrome
- what the customer does with the browser, in a sane world, is of no concern of the guy who made it.
to accept that another person has one sided authority to determine what you can and can’t do with a tool, after it is in your possession is weird.
- Comment on Am I the only one who things the community is being to hard on the Rabbit R1? 6 months ago:
You are not the only one.
This weeks game of ‘Internet pile-on’
- Comment on Terrifying reality of what airport security could actually see through an X-ray machine 6 months ago:
its a good warning, but there’s no new info here.
- the scanners are usually not technically x-ray, some are mm wave, some are xray backscatter.
- the technology can see through clothes and produce a grainy bw image of a naked person
- the tech is very closed, and the customers are NDA’d into not letting the public know anything
- the enhanced privacy changes don’t change the device - its still taking naked pictures of people, its just doesn’t show them to the operator.
- before you look, as of a couple years ago there are just about 6 images from these devices out there on the internet. (iirc, there is a researcher who bought one off of ebay to study, but lost track of their work. )
- its in use in border patrol type operations to see into the trailers, trucks and cars.
- no one can prove they aren’t keeping a database of naked people. ;-)
- Comment on Instagram will blur nudes in messages sent to minors 6 months ago:
Which is a end-game around E2E. Saying ‘the message is encrypted’, but yes, I look at all messages before and/or after violates the expectation of E2E.
- Comment on Scientists find a simple way to destroy 'forever chemicals' — by beheading them 8 months ago:
Here’s a subtle thing…we say both the manufacturers and consumers have choices.
The manufacturer has the choice between all the thousands of possible ways to deliver a product, and picks one or two. A consumer has the choice between those two. ( or do without )
Those are all valid choices, but they are not alone of equal weight
- Comment on Disney+ Drops 1.3 Million Subscribers Amid Price Hike, Streaming Loss Shrinks by $300 Million 8 months ago:
( no english major here, by far)
but I suspect my qualm is: which entity is the actor and which is the acted upon.
Disney did not act to remove the subscribers, but rather the opposite, the subscribers acted to drop Disney.
One might extrapolate that Disney’s previous actions directly lead to the event.
Does that stand to reason?
- Comment on Disney+ Drops 1.3 Million Subscribers Amid Price Hike, Streaming Loss Shrinks by $300 Million 9 months ago:
Do they mean 1.3 Million subscribers dropped Disney+ ?
If that’s what they meant, english would actually let them say that.
- Comment on Which OS do you use for your homeserver? 9 months ago:
Win7 and Win10.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg says sorry to families of children who committed suicide — after rejecting suggestion to set up a compensation fund to help the families get counseling 9 months ago:
headline: “We’re still asking some people what they think should be done about the harm they caused.”
must be nice to get asked what you think you you might want to do about it.
- Comment on Apple Backdoor Discussion: Security Now 956 Transcript | TWiT.TV 9 months ago:
- In terms of terms of service -this is not in the terms of service. Its a secret social contract. What do we know about the lockset on our doors? not much. What do we know about the company that made it’s ability to make keys? not much. There is a trust that the creator will know things that we wont, and for everyone’s betterment, they go to the grave with that knowledge.
Security is always temporary. Security puts an obstacle in the path of the treasure, it doesn’t seal off the treasure. That’s not how the real world can work. Bury it in concrete, seal it in steel. If the owner can get it, with enough time, the theif can too. Perfect security isn’t real.
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Should they be forced - how can you? There are a thousand vulnerabilities to every product, its just that we don’t usually care so much. This is the idea behind many openSource ideas. We all know. In reality, businesses make and keep secrets.
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It already is a social contract. It just seems important because now it’s concerning something we care about.
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This is the struggle of law and order. To create laws that are never self-contradicting. Laws that don’t need exceptions. It’s hard math. Each society decides what IT values, and then makes laws around those values. Every fireman has a protected right to not simply break in to my home, but destroy my home in order to save lives inside it. It happens every day. They don’t come with keys, they come with battering rams and axes.
two things are different though- We trust them, based on years and years and years of faithful service. They are honest. the second, is their actions always leave Clear evidence that they did something. I wouldn’t come home and wonder if the fire department has been in the house. I would see the broken window and smashed in door and know. With the phones - we don’t know if anyone was in, and this is very very different. There’s nothing that prevents the phone from flashing a bright red warning that its been opened from the inside - except if the person disables the alarm :-) but its possible.
17 years ago Apple stated that they have a ‘kill switch’ for the apps, and this is similar. What do you do if a million phones go wild. If you could have set up a kill switch, would you regret not doing it.
What does it mean? It means that people who use these things HAVE to put trust in the person who made it. In the same way I have to trust in VW or FORD if I sit in one. There is no using the thing, without putting a tremendous amount of trust in the person who made it.
- Comment on Google Just Disabled Cookies for 30 Million Chrome Users. Here’s How to Tell If You’re One of Them | It’s the beginning of the end in Google’s plan to kill cookies forever 10 months ago:
Sure is nice of Google to change things for the better of the world. I’m sure they stand to gain nothing from this. < /sarcasm>
- Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. 10 months ago:
- Comment on Steam has now officially stopped supporting Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. 10 months ago:
People paid for particular product on a particular platform. That’s what they will get sued over. People made a contract with steam for product that runs on a platform. That’s just contract law.
Valve are the ones who require tethering to their magical drm cloud - not my copy of ‘Monkey Island’.
- Comment on Why Masimo thought it could take on Apple 10 months ago:
This is a bit of misdirection. This is a patent issue not a stolen IP issue.
What’s the difference? IP is secret. Patents are public. Published by the Government for all to see.This would lead the reader to believe that the issue at hand is Apple was trying to steal secrets from Masimo.
The issue at hand is a patent violation: Apple using Masimo patents in its product. Masimo claims 5 patents were infringed ( used without permission or licensing ). On Jan 10th, the Judge found that Apple had indeed infringed on a Masimo Blood Oxygen Patent.
- Comment on Beeper vs Apple battle intensifies: Lawmakers demand DOJ investigation - Android Authority 10 months ago:
Ah, common misconception - hacking an API != creating a compatible program. ( reverse engineering)
Imagine a drill company has a special shape for its bits. Our law allows someone else to either… make bits that can fit in that shape OR make their own drill that can accept those bits.
“BUT they copied!” - it doesn’t have to be a copy to be compatible, and they don’t even have to use the ‘special shape’ just be able to work with the special shape. The law does not allow for protections around that. Doing so would be by definition anti-competitive. Our anti competition laws or rather our IP protection laws are not intended in any way to ‘ensure a monopoly’. The IP laws give a person a right to either keep something they do secret OR share that knowledge with the world so we all benefit, in exchange for a very limited monopoly.
Practically speaking, If I got the KFC Colonel to give me list the 11 herbs and spices in a Poker game, and then started making my own delicious poultry that is totally cool. Likewise, If I figured out that all that was inside a Threadr-ripper was blue smoke and started making my own blue smoke chips, the law is ok with that.
In this case roughly, Having a public facing endpoint. And then saying that the public can access that endpoint is cool Saying that only the public using the code I alone gave them – well… that’s not been litigated a lot, but all signs point to no.
It’s like Bing saying its for Safari only, and suing people who accessed it using Chrome. It is a logical claim, but the law does not provide that kind of protection/enforcement.
tl;dr these concepts are old but being newly applied to fancy technology. The laws in place are clear in most cases. A car maker can not dictate what you put in the tank. FedEX and UPS can’t charge you differently for shipping fiction books or medical journals or self published stories. And they’d probably get anti-trust scrutiny they even told you what brand/style of boxes you had to use.
- Comment on Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. 10 months ago:
Equity.
In total, at the close of last year, SEC documents show that exactly 65 percent of Spotify was owned by just six parties: the firm’s co-founders, Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon (30.6 percent of ordinary shares between them); Tencent Holdings Ltd. (9.1 percent); and a run of three asset-management specialists: Baillie Gifford (11.8 percent), Morgan Stanley (7.3 percent), and T.Rowe Price Associates (6.2 percent). These three investment powerhouses owned more than 25 percent of Spotify between them — a fact worth remembering next time there’s an argument about whose interests Spotify is acting in when it makes controversial moves (for example, SPOT’s ongoing legal appeal against a royalty pay rise for songwriters in the United States). Furthermore, according to MBW estimates, which my sources suggest are still solid, two major record companies — Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group — continue to jointly own between six percent and seven percent of Spotify (Sony around 2.35 percent and Universal around 3.5). With Sony and UMG added into the mix, then, the names mentioned here comfortably own more than 70 percent of Spotify.
- Comment on How Reddit Crushed the Internet's Largest Protest 11 months ago:
same. reddit is populated with users who’s comments are generally indistinguishable from those of a 12-15 year old.
- Comment on Italy bans cultivated meat products 11 months ago:
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
electrek.co/…/car-dealers-falsely-claim-voice-cus…
However, what those dealers are leaving out of their argument is that BEVs are not the only vehicles sitting unsold on their lots.
In fact, new-vehicle inventory is at a two-year high, according to Cox Automotive research.
As of the start of November, new-vehicle inventory volume in the US was sitting at a record 2.4 million units. It is safe to say that those are mostly gasoline-powered vehicles since the inventory level is currently higher than the number of EVs that the US will produce all year.
The truth is that the current interest rates have affected all automotive sales, EVs or otherwise.
It’s true some of those people who placed reservations for EVs last year are reconsidering their purchases now, as highlighted by the >group of dealers, but that’s not because they are not interested in EVs anymore. It’s because they can’t afford the several hundred >dollars more for the monthly payments now, thanks to high interest rates.
Some wont Stock them electrek.co/2023/05/09/us-car-dealers-evs/
- Comment on Banana Pi BPI-M7 - More Reasons to Avoid the Raspberry Pi 11 months ago:
Thanks for saying this. It’s features at price point.
“It’s better than the Pi at only 3x the price.”
And what’s with the “Avoid the Raspberry PI” sentiment? They are hard to get (?). I’ve been using the Pi for forever, and have zero ‘product’ complaints that would make me want to "Avoid the Pi’. If anything, I have plans for more. Again, the price - A Zero2W is $15 MSRP. For $15, You can put that in everything. A Pi4 is $35. Its just a great deal.
- Comment on Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station 1 year ago:
This exemplifies Fox - they provided a lengthy article, and a 3 person video with interviews, and yet the listener/reader knows no more about what actually happened than before they began. Its well produced hearsay.