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Being able to see stars in the night sky

Good riddance. Hope it extends beyond the EU as well.

One disgusting trend I see with many phone apps is notification spam with no fine-grained option to disable them without potentially disabling transactional notifications. Ride-sharing and delivery apps are particularly annoying for this.

I remember the time when phone OSes did not have notification categories but it’s not a useful feature if app developers don’t implement them.

Bugs, faults, errors

I think bootlicker is a stronger but more appropriate word. I genuinely cannot believe people support being sold a fully standalone physical product and being charged just for the ability to use it, while thinking it is in their best interest.

Stremio with torrent addons is extremely common.

My cynical AI opinion is that if it truly was revolutionary, we would be seeing private companies or governments use it internally to massively boost their productivity or achieve otherwise impossible feats. Instead, all we're seeing are consumer products or half-baked integrations that are another way to further centralize data collection.

Talks about all-powerful, malevolent AI or requesting to halt AI development just sounds like baiting for regulary capture to me. If AI research or use is deemed dangerous, it becomes even harder for startups or individuals to compete with established companies.

Also, I am not concerned about an all-powerful AI in the slightest. Humanity is excellent at oppressing others, and I have no doubt we'd be equally good at oppressing a true AI as well.

Drogon is similar to "drogón" in Spanish, which means "junkie" or someone who takes a lot of drugs.

> - Give me a setting to autoconfirm all cookie consent requests and lobby for a legally binding do-not-track header. Cookie consent was well meaning, but it has turned out to make things worse. Let's move on.

This can be done with uBlock Origin and an "annoyances" filter list such as EasyList Cookie. It doesn't actually give websites consent to use of cookies, only hides the consent form.

In the case of Google, not at all:

    $ curl -v https://google.com
    [...]
    < HTTP/2 301
    < location: https://www.google.com/

When you get the receipt back, you can request an item be cancelled because you "didn't take it". They will pretty much accept it, no questions asked.

I've seen this issue in Firefox Nightly when trying to perform the HSBC UK credit card verification, so it makes sense not to roll it out to the wider public yet.

Those discussions/articles are mostly started by Americans, not Europeans.