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Rossman made a good point recently that the physical vs digital argument is mostly a distraction and DRM is the real issue that needs to be focused on.

That said, there are specific legal benefits to physical media such as the principle of first sale, which digital goods do not have.

EFF has, on multiple occasions, specifically defended Kiwifarms, a site which unabashedly exists to turn people into hate-celebrities, with some members having kept "kill counts" of harrassed targets who committed suicide. The site is also known for spreading absurd false accusations, which has at least as much negative impact as AI revenge porn.

The EFF is not consistent in its principles. It has partisan bias. However, it can still be worth situationally supporting for certain causes.

I too do not understand the downvotes.

Unlike what Cory Doctorow implies, Facebook is not a Soviet Dictatorship. There is no Berlin wall. If you don't like it, you can just leave.

Misleading. Scanning is related to a setting called "Sensitive Content Warnings" and it's disabled by default on most devices.

Professional mathematicians and computer scientists use AI as well. Maybe that's not very reassuring from the standpoint of skills regression in modern adult work culture, but at least it demonstrates that skills and tool usage aren't mutually exclusive.

Some smartphones have a feature that detects if you're taking a picture of a menu/letter/etc and will automatically crop and unskew it for you.

Misogyny in government is a bellwether for authoritarianism. If a man doesn't respect women, you can bet they won't respect men or minorities either, although they may be less inclined to admit such in public.

According to the poster, this is happening in Facebook's HQ, i.e. in Menlo Park, California, United States.

Reminds me of a billboard I saw where Apple was touting the alleged privacy of the iPhone with a guy wearing clothes nearly the same color as his skin. I know iPhone isn't really private, and I'd rather not have a phone that isn't repairable, but I can appreciate the clever marketing in both cases.

That last quote is when I stopped reading the article. The opening with the premonition of personal computing moving to the cloud, followed by the heavy use of the word "consumer", made it clear that the author has a cynical view of humanity, but at that point it went too far.

I honestly think the use of the word "consumer" is intentionally dehumanizing, a way for corporate figureheads to ignore the humanity of the people they interact with directly or indirectly. This in turn makes them numb to the markets and institutions they are degrading.

YMMV based on the role, but some healthcare roles are highly stressful plus you're exposed to all sorts of infectious diseases. A more charitable interpretation is that these new new role openings are in response to high turnover.

RSS is truly in its own little universe.

I recently became aware of RSS stylesheets. Apparently there is a specification for that called XSLT which is distinct from CSS in both form and function. However, there are plans by Google/Mozilla to remove XSLT from their browser engines for security/maintainability reasons. Apparently RSS supports javascript though, so it's possible to manipulate the RSS DOM that way. One could imagine a javascript polyfill that interprets XSLT, although I'm not sure if there's some cross-site security issues that would make that impractical.