IllNess

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Technically we are just keeping the waters clean of unusable, useless garbage. The ad corps are invading our waters.

This is so stupid since several thousand devices can use one IP address. NAT exists.

If I download music in a Starbucks, can they fine the Starbucks CEO then?

Anyway I hope I hope online artists, and authors are able to use this to sue AI companies for stealing their copyrighted works.

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It's both. I'm sure Puff Daddy, and R Kelly would rather we forget all the horrible things they've done rather than make money off of it. At the same time the NYTimes and the Atlantic would love to make money off their articles about those two people.

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Also the "Think about the children!" states but force birth on minors, don't give healthcare or food to kids, and vote in pedophiles.

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But when he confronted the unarmed corkers 15 minutes later in another location, he said, according to an audio recording of the interview, “nobody pointed a weapon at me. This is all me. I lost it. I don’t know what happened. I don’t know why I did it. I don’t understand what went wrong with me.”

Even the shooter admitted fault and plead guilty.

Police dispatch records obtained through a public records request show that officers responding to the shooting were advised that “this is an anti-police protest”.

Yeah, the police wanted protesters to die.

The camera captures Beck’s anger and dismay when the police arrived and said they first had to “secure the scene” before ambulances waiting outside the park would be allowed in. “Will you fucking help us!” she can be heard shouting at the officers. “People are dying!”

It's on video.

Barbara Streisand Effect x 8000.

Imagine parents actually parenting instead of blaming everyone else but themselves?

This looks like a straight cash grab. I bet the whoever owns this github won't work on it at all.

I wonder if this would affect speed tests. I know using Ookla's speed test is inaccurate because ISPs change speeds when connected to certain servers.

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His other accomplishments.

Dr Goodenough started his career at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he worked for 24 years and helped develop random-access memory for the computer.

There, he became one of the founders of the modern theory of magnetism, which has played a pivotal role in the field of telecommunications.

We lost a great one.

Completely right. This is an education issue.

There are several other issues how these two handled this situation.

Court and police records show that police began investigating 17-year-old Celeste Burgess and her mother Jessica Burgess after receiving a tip-off that the pair had illegally buried a stillborn child given birth to prematurely by Celeste.

Don't discuss this or involve anyone else.

The two women told detective Ben McBride of the Norfolk, Nebraska Police Division that they’d discussed the matter on Facebook Messenger, which prompted the state to issue Meta with a search warrant for their chat history and data including log-in timestamps and photos.

Why are they even talking to police? Lawyer up, even if the lawyer is free.

(E2EE is available in Messenger but has to be toggled on manually. It’s on by default in WhatsApp.)

Facebook messenger and text message is the absolute worse way to discuss things like this. They should've at least turned on E2EE but they already admitted fault and their devices would've been taken away anyway.

They seem like they together. They should've just discussed this in person.

I bought two printers in the last 2 decades. One looked like the model in the article, which I gave to a family member. The other one is a Brother Laser printer with a scanner.

I'd rather get a 50 pack of markers and start coloring in my printouts than buy a crappy inkjet printer. Plus it's bonding time with my nieces and nephews. I pay them in cookies.

The mechanical keyboard community was working on an ortholinear keyboard module. Having every dimension in digital form would make fitting the keyboard a lot easier with less wasted materials for prototyping.

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What this would measure is how long you would stay on the page without scrolling. Less scrolling means more time looking at ads.

This is the influence of Prabhakar Raghavan.

BSD might be faster but companies choose BSD because the BSD License is much more flexible than the Linux General Public License. Apple was even able to create their own license, the APSL. They would not be able to do that using Linux.

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This does use OpenStreetMap. It adds other public data from other sources.

Out of the four layers Overture Maps provides, th ey use OpenStreetMap for the Transportation and Building layers.

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When is this shit pulled by Samsung and now Google considered stealing?

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We should leave the parenting to parents.

I love Dragon Ball but besides that Chrono Trigger is my favorite turn based RPG of all time.

Okay. Who are those people and why should they have to pay?

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All these AI and machine learning companies are taking content directly from websites and ignoring robot.txt files.

If your content is able to be crawled, even without being listed on search engines, I don't think it really matters.

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Developers were probably the first people to say that it isn't ready. Blame the sales people that will say anything for money.

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Pro-choice and birth control groups.

TikTok has briefly suspended the account of Hey Jane, a prominent telemedicine abortion service, four times without explanation. Instagram has suspended Mayday Health, a nonprofit that provides information about abortion pill access, without explanation as well. And the search engine Bing has erroneously flagged the website for Aid Access, a major seller of abortion pills online, as unsafe.

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He owns the Supreme Court. So no unfortunately.

Unfortunately, due to ASUS being based in China, we are unlikely to get a response until next week.

Even responses are late. Maybe Asus is using the snail mail for everything. They are going to sending floppy disks with the unlocker next month.

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Most content creators don't make money from ads. Google keeps on changing the rules to be able to monitize or keep monitizing their own videos. Google has put ads on videos when the creator did not reach the requirements to make money on ads.

This is why creators have sponsorahips, affliate links, their own merch, Patreon, or OnlyFans. They also use Youtube more as an ad platform for their other social media accounts like Instagram and Tiktok. Depending on the content some creators get paid more on Tiktok.

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He is also the Ice King in Adventure Time. He last worked on a spinoff series called Adventure Time: Fionna and Cake.

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Tomorrow, it wants to be a consumer electronics company, period.

Patel won’t say — I only get the barest hints, no matter how many different ways I ask.

If we hit these AI companies with targeted suing, like how Scientology got their way with the IRS, maybe we then they can listen to not steal our shit.

The MPAA and RIAA have created all these laws and used our own government againat us. Maybe we can use these same laws and do the same.

They kept on putting "shouldn't exist" in quotes.

An editor probably changed the title and made it clickbait.

It got me to read the article...

Lets put name to the IP address. Yup, that is the same as just the IP address that can be shared by multiple devices.

To OP, I really appreciate you posting the entire article. Really interesting read.

As for the subject, the difference between Wall Street and Silicone Valley is Wall Street accepts that they have illegal activities, immoral choices, assholes, drugs, and greed. Silicone Valley rejects those things exists in their world and tries to have show that innovation is the most important goal. They are lying.

“We had exercised our right to organize as members of the Alphabet Workers Union-CWA in order to bring both Google and Accenture, a Google subcontractor, to the bargaining table to negotiate on several key demands, including layoff protections.”

Google only started accepting contractors and recruiters because they were expanding before the pandemic. They probably wanted to get rid of both of those anyway.

They will show through internal communication that this was planned all along. Any retaliation protection this union thought they had doesn't exist.

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Abortion Groups Say Tech Companies Suppress Posts and Accounts

The groups say they are increasingly confused and frustrated by how major technology platforms moderate posts about abortion services.

By Emily Schmall and Sapna Maheshwari

June 11, 2024

TikTok has briefly suspended the account of Hey Jane, a prominent telemedicine abortion service, four times without explanation. Instagram has suspended Mayday Health, a nonprofit that provides information about abortion pill access, without explanation as well. And the search engine Bing has erroneously flagged the website for Aid Access, a major seller of abortion pills online, as unsafe.

The groups and women’s health advocates say these examples, all from recent months, show why they are increasingly confused and frustrated by how major technology platforms moderate posts about abortion services.

They say the companies’ policies on abortion-related content, including advertisements, have long been opaque. But they say the platforms seem to have been more aggressive about removing or suppressing posts that share information about how to obtain safe and legal procedures since the Supreme Court ended the constitutional right to abortion in 2022. And when the platforms do restrict the accounts, the companies can be difficult to contact to learn why.

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, an organization dedicated to abolishing abortion, said big technology companies had routinely limited its and other groups’ pro-life speech, suspending accounts and blocking ads with little explanation.

“Transparency is the main point,” said Jane Eklund, a fellow at the human rights group Amnesty International USA, which released a report on Tuesday calling on tech giants to clearly outline and explain their rules around abortion-related content. “Without clear guidelines, it’s difficult to hold them accountable for their actions that could be impacting users or to identify and address any content moderation that affects what people can find online.”

Concerns that some of the tech platforms are suppressing posts about abortion have led to changes in how women and organizations talk about it online. They intentionally misspell the term as “aborshun” or “ab0rti0n,” or replace the “bor” with a boar emoji in hopes of reaching more people.

But that can also make it harder for people to find information, and coded language risks adding stigma to the procedure, experts and content creators say.

“We shouldn’t have to substitute words — we shouldn’t have to censor ourselves,” said Ashley Garcia, a 24-year-old part-time creator, who made two videos promoting Hey Jane last year.

The tech companies did not detail how their moderation of abortion-related content may have changed since 2022, though TikTok said it had not made significant shifts. The companies said the issues with suspensions and flags of Hey Jane, Mayday Health and Aid Access were mistakes that they rectified.

TikTok said accounts can post about abortion. But it has a longstanding policy against advertising abortion services, which it counts as “unsuitable businesses, products or services,” along with plastic surgery and organ transplants. Instagram allows ads for abortion services.

The report released Tuesday from Amnesty International USA included details on how at least six organizations that promote or provide abortion services have had their accounts and posts moderated by Meta, the owner of Instagram and Facebook, and TikTok in the past two years.

For example, TikTok removed videos from the account for Hey Jane, which has 105,000 followers, for promoting “illegal activities and regulated goods” — including one that detailed the states where it operated and how it hoped to expand to other states. That video wasn’t restored.

Last month, Hey Jane struggled for days to determine why TikTok had abruptly banned its account. The tech company eventually reinstated the account; Rebecca Davis, Hey Jane’s head of brand marketing, said TikTok had told her that “the suspension was due to ‘over-moderation’ of their policy surrounding prescription drugs and it should not have been removed.”

“That’s pretty much all they can say — just that it was a mistake and they will try their best to not have it happen again,” Ms. Davis said.

TikTok declined to comment on details about Hey Jane’s experience.

Groups have complained about similar issues on Instagram. Last year, the social network removed a post from Ipas, a nonprofit that promotes abortion rights, that had shared the World Health Organization’s recommended protocol for having a medication abortion. Instagram said at the time that the post had violated Meta’s policy on the “sale of regulated goods or services.”

Instagram suspended Mayday Health’s account in March for a second time since 2022 “without any clear explanation or justification,” said Olivia Raisner, the group’s executive director. Mayday Health was told that it had violated Instagram’s guidelines for posting about “guns, drugs and other restricted goods.” The group appealed and regained its account, with more than 20,000 followers, after five days. Meta said last week that the Mayday and Ipas issues were errors.

“Our fear would be that for every day our accounts are down, there are fewer people in states with bans who don’t get information about how to get pills,” Ms. Raisner said.

Ryan Daniels, a spokesman for Meta, said Instagram allowed ads and posts of abortion services, as well as content by groups that oppose abortion. “We want our platforms to be a place where people can access reliable information about health services, advertisers can promote health services and everyone can discuss and debate public policies in this space,” he said. “That’s why we allow posts and ads about, discussing and debating abortion.”

Some women’s health groups, as well as some doctors and creators, say they fear the platforms are also suppressing the distribution of posts about abortion services.

Mayday Health said the number of people who saw its Instagram posts had plummeted this year. An infographic it posted about abortion pills reached 15,730 accounts in April 2023; a similar post from this March reached just 1,207 accounts, even though the account has more followers now.

Ms. Davis said TikTok representatives had explicitly told her that if videos or captions used the word “abortion,” content would be flagged and might not appear on users’ main feeds.

TikTok said it did not prohibit posts about abortion from appearing in personalized feeds, but did not address whether it limited such content. Instagram said this year that it would not recommend “political content” unless users opted into seeing it. Abortion advocacy groups haven’t received clarity on whether the topic is deemed political, and Meta declined to specify.

Abortion rights groups say the issues have also extended to search engines like Microsoft’s Bing.

Aid Access, based in Europe, is among the most prominent online suppliers of abortion pills in the United States, where medication abortions have been rising sharply. In a search query for abortion pills on Thursday, the Aid Access website was on the first page of Google results but not found within the first 10 pages of results on Bing.

A Microsoft representative said sources that were similar in relevance and quality were showing up instead.

For months, Bing erroneously tagged Aid Access with a red warning pop-up that said the organization was on the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy’s “not recommended” list. The pharmacy association removed Aid Access from the list in September after the organization switched the source of abortion pills from a pharmacy in India to providers in the United States approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

Bing kept posting the label even after Aid Access informed it about the change. The label was removed after an inquiry from a reporter at The New York Times in May.

In several Republican-led states where abortion has been sharply restricted since the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision, state officials have introduced measures to punish organizations that provide abortion pills or information on how to obtain abortions online.

Tim Griffin, the Republican attorney general of Arkansas, sent Aid Access a “cease and desist” letter in May, saying the organization was violating the state’s law on deceptive trade practices because its ads could be seen by women in Arkansas, where abortion is prohibited unless necessary to save the life of the mother.

Dr. Rebecca Gomperts, the founder and executive director of Aid Access, said the threat would not change the organization’s approach. The organization does minimal online marketing because of the challenges posed by big tech companies, she said, depending instead on word-of-mouth referrals from patients and physicians.

“It’s been a game, up and down, with all the social media and search companies,” Dr. Gomperts said.

To reduce e-waste, a law should be passed that if hardware is abandoned, it should be open sourced.

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Archive.com is not archive.org.

Hopefully Secret Service is keeping tabs on this guy and microphoned his hair flap.

Putting their kids on Tiktok so they are able to poop in peace.

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On my browser, they blocked recommended videos. Lol. Now I use FreeTube. Anything like that happen to you?

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Thank you for this.

I don't want you to do more work than you have to but it makes me wonder the difference in SOT between Stock Android with Adaptive Battery on versus Stock Android with Adaptive Battery off. I wonder how that would look against your findings against GrapheneOS.