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Comment · 1 year ago
> So you stop and resent the companies for ripping you off/manipulating you

It will probably work for both sides, as the only people left are either ok with that or clueless, perfectly self selected.

Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
> modifications or misuse by an operator could nevertheless turn the ADS into a more damaging weapon which could potentially violate international conventions on warfare

Safe? When manned by actors known to shoot journalists in the head with “less lethal” weapons?

Comment · 1 year ago
> they just need to find a local young person that is willing to help them handle the requirements online

Is that an officially published guidance? Because it sounds awfully close to “social security/ballot harvesting” and will surely backfire on those old people.

Comment · 1 year ago
Another sus thing about this Password app is what “App Privacy Report” shows.

Sometimes it would increment counters for visited sites without you using the app, which likely means that sites are able to track you if you have an entry in Passwords.

Alternatively, some sites do not show up in logs even though icon shows up for a site/password entry.

Comment · 1 year ago
Facebook is now Meta and no one cares about the supposed titular product anymore.
Comment · 1 year ago
That’s a “$1.56 billion” question…
Comment · 1 year ago
That would be news to people on mac with Rosetta Stone / Crossover.
Comment · 1 year ago
> I can't imagine a world where we only have one x86 manufacturer.

Does it even matter? Some people won’t notice even if there are zero x86 manufacturers.

In fact I would say lots of people have not bought x86 CPU in while, between Mac, RPi and risc-v boards…

Comment · 1 year ago
> tomorrow the President could proclaim that we are being invaded by, say, the Yakuza, and send any non-citizen Japanese person to a prison in El Salvador

Why would he do that? Manzanar is much closer and successfully tested even against citizens.

I’ve heard that interned Japanese-American did not like to bring the whole thing up afterwards, but it was clearly a mistake trying to memory hole that abomination.

Comment · 1 year ago
> It was not a "kill switch".

Software is famously a munition, so maybe call it lack of ammunition…

Comment · 1 year ago
This is high and mighty, but didn’t they fire security team a year or so ago (couldn’t afford pay for higher ups)? I like how everyone just memory-holed that part and moved on… why would you recommend that to anyone?
Comment · 1 year ago
Was it a blind trust instead? Which mismanaged the farm so much that Carter had to sell it…
Comment · 1 year ago
> concerns about US companies (especially in the last months) have led many to migrate to Signal

And then, footer at the bottom of signal.org says “Signal, a 501c3 nonprofit” which is clearly an American thing. Am I missing something here? Both look American from here.

Comment · 1 year ago

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