This happens in other countries as well. I've been told to speak the local (non-English) language when visiting friends overseas when having a private conversation.

Generally, it seems to be nosy old people who are upset about not being able to eavesdrop

Literally one of the very few things keeping me with a Windows partition, though it doesn't get used very often

• Login as a user.
• Delete the user while still logged in
• Run command

You should get a message "you don't exist, go away"

Not sure if that one is still around but I know one person who ran a script with "deluser $USER" and it ate root resulting in fun messages like that

Also, the iFrame is particularly asshole'ish in that the original author's site is still out the bandwidth for content, but somebody else is making money off it.

I fully support his response. Personally, I'd love to see the same done to certain scraper-bots

This initially sounded like they were forcing users to their history under the guise of providing suggestions, however it really just means "no history, no suggestions"

I'm ok with this

Honestly, I doubt this was even AI. I know it's he buzzword of the month but it's just as easy for some asshole to do with Photoshop

Fun thing, if you don't sort by "Prime" you'll often find that there's another one of the exact item you're looking for - without Prime - but actually for a lower price. The Prime isn't actually free shipping, it's just baked into the price

Honestly, people have been ringing warning bells for a while regarding how Amazon facilitates illegal behavior, including:

• Products like this whose purpose is obviously got illegal purposes and even described as such

• Counterfeit/knockoff goods

• Unsafe and/or not adhering to legal regulations in the country which they are being sold (sometimes often faking the certification logos)

As somebody who has dealt with the latter two, I hope this lawsuit puts on enough hurt and/or spawns similar suits so that Amazon cleans their shit up. It's enough advantage that they don't need to stock local stores without them being able to constantly thumb their nose at the regulations actual B&M stores need to adhere to

Firefox with good plugins is even better!

Honestly, I kinda hate the idea of a browser being able to access hardware devices.

Yeah, and Nvidia is pretty guilty for time and time again trying to lock people into proprietary solutions, while AMD introduces public standards like (Freesync comes to mind)

Yup. Back to charging users for the "nav package" and subscriptions for updates. No more pesky Google Maps with their constant-updated content

Interesting no mention of encryption-at-rest (disk encryption), which is something I'd recommend for servers in general.

While they're at it, investigate the use of digital price tags on store shelves, especially grocery stores

Yeah it's hard to disagree with this. While I don't think that the US or Canada can do much to influence the situation politically, neither should they be providing support militarily.

Let fucking Musk be the next one to be chipped so he can prove how safe and comfortable it is

Young Koreans favor whatever is new and cool from year to year. One year I was there everyone had iDevices, a couple years later it was Samsungs. Trendiness with electronics is a big thing.

Should have kept the pictures, let them fire you, then persued for wrongful termination

I could likely finish my actual work in less than my allotted work week, but the rest of the time is spent on meetings, waiting on tasks that depend on others before I can move forward, and a lot of general bureaucracy. Sometimes my weeks are quite idle, and other times they're overstacked.

Rather than take chances with a second job, I try to will the spare time with updating documentation, learning, etc

Actually it's usually more "you own the content but by posting it grant is an irrevocable right for us and our partners to use it"

Basically allows them use without the responsibility for ownership of inappropriate content

So if they actually implemented E2E encryption like they said (last time they were called out on lying about it), how exactly would they even collect this information?

You'd need to MITM the calls for it to even be possible, which raises other issues...

It's probably a combination of the lighting and how your phone takes pictures that makes it seem a bit off. A lot of phones these days like the pixel actually do a bit of automatic post-editing the clear up images, but can sometimes make things a bit surreal

I liked the idea of DirectMusic. Gameplay influenced music scores are an under-used concept

Screenshots of text preserve the state of the text at the time it was seen...

Yes, it's not good for accessibility but it's a good way to quickly capture a moment in time.

(I would recommend perhaps also copy/pasting a synopsis for people who might be vision impaired etc)

Because when the deck is stacked against you with even finding a place to rent - let alone one of decent quality at an affordable price - reviews might not be that helpful?

If you're starving, a stale hunk of bread is better than none.

The funny (in an "wtf" not "haha" sense) thing is, individuals such as security researchers have been charged under digital trespassing laws for stuff like accessing publicly available ststems and changing a number in the URL in order to get access to data that normally wouldn't, even after doing responsible disclosure.

Meanwhile, companies completely ignore the standard mentions to say "you are not allowed to scape this data" and then use OUR content/data to build up THEIR datasets, including AI etc.

That's not a "violation of a social contract" in my book, that's violating the terms of service for the site and essentially infringement on copyright etc.

No consequences for them though. Shit is fucked.

It's not just a training issue. Lighter (color) tones reflect. Dark tones absorb. There have been lots of issues with cameras or even just sensors having issues with people having dark skin tones because the lower reflectivity/contrast of dark tones. 3D scanners - even current models - have similar issues with objects having black parts for similar reasons. Training on more models can help, but there's still an overall technical difficulty to overcome as well (which is also a good reason that using facial recognition in this manner is just bullshit, period).

Feels like Elon bought Reddit and we just haven't heard about it yet

Honestly, this is why we should have stuff like anti-monopoly laws breaking apart too-large corps.

Being a behemoth that can just buy up almost all the content producers and then starting your own content distributor (/steamer) and undercut the competition is dirty.

Partly, but scalpers buying up what inventory there was for reselling was absolutely rampant as well

It's not a problem until more sites start REQUIRING it, and then it's too late. Even if some Apple already provides it, it's more dangerous as use grows

More like sad how such a sad fucker can coast for so long on inherited wealth and reputation by buying up useful stuff and taking credit for what was developed by actual smart people

Dude doesn't even pay for the rent on his office buildings. Did we really expect he'd pay for fonts or creative work?

Well they specifically calls out ISP's, rather than the media companies running forums or social media, etc.

The latter SHOULD be policing their platforms to some extent, but ISP's can't even do so without being pretty invasive/authoritarian, so they should stick to providing internet service.

I've always seen it as "they tried to monetize a platform before they had a platform that anyone wanted to use"

Basically, the thing was made from the start to have a bunch of ways to make money, but that didn't actually put a lot of effort into thinking on what would make it fun it attractive to users.

I don't really have a problem believing this. There seem to be an increasing number of apps - often promoted through ads in social media - which are required to do operations that just as easily could be done via a website, but are likely a requirement in other to additional harvesting capabilities of an installed app or malware

And possibly legal orders to not discuss it in public

Per the article It's an "opt-out" feature, which means they turned it on by default.

Honestly I'd rather it was the manufacturer etc selling directly online rather than through Amazon.

Wait until we get a seller HYUNDAISHOPCH that has 5/5 ratings but sends you a scale model car instead, them you find out the ratings were for carpets not cars.

Easy enough to test though. Load the page with a UA changer and see if it still shows up when Firefox pretends to be Chrome