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EA employees brace for the worst under Saudi ownership: 'Hard to feel good about being bought out by a regime that's very much at odds with progressive society' in c/games@lemmy.world
Canonical lays out a plan for AI in Ubuntu Linux in c/technology@lemmy.world
Goodbye device ownership, and the last vestiges of free speech will die with this bill as well. in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] 50 points 6 months ago (4 children)

  1. This bill is being pushed by Meta and they are NOT going to stop with age verification. It is not about "protecting children" and it never has been. It's always been about surveillance and control. Meta wants to know who you are, where you are, what you buy, what you download, who you associate with and what your politics are.

  2. If Meta succeeds in putting all this on your computer at the operating system level, then what is the point of even having a VPN anymore? Also Meta will sell this information to anyone who asks for it.

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    Does the national Do Not Call Registry actually work? (USA) in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
    [–] 20 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    If internet companies would fix VOIP protocol, so that spammers couldn't spoof any phone numbers they wanted, then 95% of spam calls would disappear.

    The Do Not Call registry was the easiest thing in the world for Congress to do, because it didn't actually do anything and it didn't cost them anything to do. You can't catch a spammer unless you can identify them. And you can't do that with a spoofed phone number

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    Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018 in c/technology@lemmy.world
    Artemis II Astronauts Have ‘Two Microsoft Outlooks’ and Neither Work in c/technology@lemmy.world
    [–] 51 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Every time Microsoft does an update, they reduce functionality. Basic functions like print, search and file storage get moved into sub-sub-sub menus. The point of this is to make room on the main screen for ads. Screwing up your work flow gives you more time to look at them. This is intentional.

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    Turbines are our friends in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
    po-tay-toes in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
    White House App Found Tracking Users' Exact Location Every 4.5 Minutes via Third-Party Server in c/technology@lemmy.world
    ‘Visibly upset and struggling’: Acting ICE head hospitalized twice over stress, officials say in c/politics@lemmy.world
    [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    I find it stressful to live in a country where his goons can murder me or deport me for no reason at all. And I have no hope for any justice.

    Fuck his stress. I hope it tortures him to madness.

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    New York considers bill that would ban chatbots from giving legal, medical advice in c/technology@lemmy.world
    [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Chat bots should never give medical advice. Chat bots dispense basic, standalone factoids, like "aspirin is a pain reliever." But they don't know or care about dosages, comorbid conditions or whether or not you live or die, so they won't ask follow up questions.

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    big facts in c/science_memes@mander.xyz
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