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I saw this on my twitter and was kind of surprised that this was patented and had an expensive API to go with it. I don't see why this couldn't be on-device processing. Why utilize a cloud API for an accessibility feature?

I remember someone telling me one time that they were really excited that Twitter, Discord, etc. were making moves to support the blockchain because it meant they believed in a decentralized internet and were going to use their platforms to make it happen.

I still think about that guy.

+1 to Vivaldi. I use tiled tabs all the time.

Note that I have not even mentioned France.

Protonmail was forced by Swiss courts, period. Protonmail will not risk themselves for you. No client of Protonmail is worth fighting the Swiss courts over. Protonmail bowed down to the laws of the country they operate in, a smart move if they wish to continue legal operations.

If you still do not understand this fact, or that I am speaking strictly about the repercussions that a Swiss company could face by ignoring a court order from Swiss courts in Swiss law in Switzerland, then we have nothing else to discuss.

I agree that Protonmail has been dishonest in their marketing, but marketing =/= policies.

If you're storing any kind of information you'd rather keep private on a server you do not control and not diving into the policies and blog posts of said provider to make doubly sure they're all they say they are, it's no one's fault but your own when something inevitably happens. Either do your due diligence or blindly accept the risk. People took the second option and look what happened.

And yes, I would say an order from Swiss courts that was unappealable is an extreme criminal case. Anything that could threaten Protonmail qualifies.

This is exactly what baffled me about people saying "I'm cancelling my PM subscription" as if they didn't make this abundantly clear. In their transparency report, they state very clearly that they "may also be obligated to monitor the IP addresses" being used to access accounts engaged in criminal activity.

Privacy activists, for some reason, don't take the time to read transparency reports.

Something else that has happened since the mid 2000's is that the internet isn't a separate, mysterious black box anymore. The internet is now merging with real life and all the negative parts of it are the ones spreading like wildfire. This creates a responsibility issue where now that websites can host more content and connect with the real world in more ways, they need to cover their own backs.

I would say Linux works well for...70% of end user computing. Browsing the web, watching videos, reading the news, and playing low-intensity games. The newer your PC is or the more specialized work you have to do, gaming being a good example, the more tweaks you have to do.

Windows, unfortunately, just works. Games I play work fine, streaming doesn't require a workaround, and I don't have to hunt down a guide to tweak something that I wouldn't normally have to.

I'm not saying that in regards to voter fraud, but in the big-picture sense of how elections are run as opposed to other countries.

Apple's notification management has to be the worst I've ever seen. For a company that has made some serious advances in UI/UX and is single-handedly responsible for Android not being a Blackberry clone, their notifications are absolutely atrocious.

iOS 15 is introducing some welcome changes that I wouldn't mind Android copying in the future, such as notification summaries, but that does little to fix the core issues of iOS notification management.

Is there a conversation that needs to be had around the security of voting machines? Yes. Is America's electoral system fundamentally flawed? Yes. Should election machines be audited and held to the highest possible standard of information security? Yes.

Does this achieve any of that? No.

A lot of people had open minds about this whole situation, and I commend them. But it was obvious from the beginning this was going to go nowhere. It's the same with every conspiracy theory, someone claims to have proof but won't or can't show it for some reason. Whatever reason that is changes with the wind. The claim that the elections were hacked to give Biden the victory has now boiled down to con men conning other con men.

It's the perfect crime, how will they ever report it?

I shriveled up a little bit when I saw that electronic machines were becoming commonplace for voting. The more complicated you make a machine, the more it can be manipulated and the less resistance it has to public trust erosion.

All of that being said, I would love to know what the end goal was here. This (along with other things connected to the symposium) could be linked to massive security breaches if they're legitimate. I hope this was worth it to them.

Arthur was always my favorite as a kid. What kept me loving it as an adult is how well every episode holds up and how brilliant and absurd the humor could be. In one episode, a kid's head falls out of the sky and compliments the lawn it lands on. In another one, a tiny version of Neil Gaiman is just chilling inside someone's sandwich. Both of these make as much sense in context.

For me, the mastery Arthur had over complex themes and childhood experiences was best shown in its autism episode. It's called "When Carl Met George" and while it dealt with Asperger's specifically (which has since been wrapped up into the Autism Spectrum Disorder umbrella, thanks to the DSM-V), it still explains what being autistic is like to children in a plain, easy-to-understand way.

When the height of lockdown and the gas shortage in the US showed more people hoarding and scalping goods than trying to self-regulate and ration, I couldn't help but wonder what it would be like if people had to wartime ration in today's culture. There is a narcissistic streak in the Baby Boomers (they were called the Me Generation previously).