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Comment Re:Not only that... (Score 1) 23

There is an even better solution thanks to modern password managers.

Create a unique email address for each person or company you provide with your email address

The moment you want to unsubscribe.. Turn off the destination email address entirely, and all messages will bounce with a 550 error.

This also helps with annoying data brokers selling lists with your address AND database access to certain tools where you type in a phone number or name and address, and the database spits out what email address belongs to that phone number or name.

OR the reverse you type in an email address, and the data brokers' search provide a name, phone number, physical address, etc, lookup for search by email address.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1, Informative) 170

So all the selling off, or putting into trust, businesses done by prior Presidents is for show?

It is just a tradition. A gesture to show good faith and help maintain their decorum as an independent leader.
One of Trump's weaknesses, or strengths, depending on how you look at it; is he obviously tends to ignore traditions, and perhaps does not care what his opponents think of him anymore. I assume he's not planning to try campaigning for an election again, And have a need to make money now because of all his court losses in New York

Comment Re:They don't really cater for the most obvious de (Score -1, Flamebait) 134

Simple fact: Meta is an antisemitic Nazi trash company. They banned many people for posting links to the HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY TRUST and have refused to reverse that blindingly antisemitic decision.

Nobody in their right mind would EVER want Zuck's Nazi Shitbag Company to have the kind of access to their life that "AI Glasses" feeding their entire life into a server would provide.

Comment Re:About. Fucking. Time. (Score 1) 141

Very useful, but what's missing is:
  1. Take and upload pictures or start/stop recording a live stream from front and back camera uploaded to the service.
  2. Permanent text banner button (custom text banner that cannot be dismissed from the phone)
  3. Permanent alarm-sound on/off button (custom alarm sound for X seconds with volume and mute buttons on the phone disabled; can only be muted/ended from findMy service)

Comment Re:Apple devices are difficult to steal (Score 1) 141

Probably all our resources are allocated towards anti-drug enforcement. Also, when enforcing those laws police get to seize and keep the cash. If it's just stolen property: police have to try and return that shit once it's found.. which doesn't get them paid as much as getting to seize and keep millions from a drug bust.

Comment Re:Looting (Score 1) 141

If this is the case, then we clearly need a troop reinforcement with additional manpower to re-inforce our colonial cisnormative whatever the hell that is "oppression" and make sure this looting 1. shit stops happening. 2. doesn't happen again. And
3. Every person involved in smashed the storefront and stolen iphones or anyone assisting or facilitating that type of behavior Or events leading to that behavior at the place that happened goes to prison and never gets released on the streets in the US again.

Comment Re:I'm not sure how you regulate that (Score 1) 66

They themselves proved you can't tell a chatbot to not be a therapist.

Also, what you say in private b/w you and your chatbot is protected by 1st Amendment free expression. You cannot have a law that says a person A is not allowed to provide counseling to person B; it's unconstitutional. We have been down that road before when a tyrannical state entity decided they thought they could fine a person for doing basic math as doing engineering without a license.

What you can have is that person A is not allowed to put out a shingle and advertise professional counseling services, and person A is not allowed to have a business where they make an offer to buy professional threrapy services.

Comment Re:Also extreme right wing extremist used moral (Score 1) 35

I mean there's solid evidence that Republican voter suppression prevented 7 million Democrats from voting.
Those would be the dead and non-citizens. Again, for those in the cheap seats. By most measures the 2020 election was the aberrant one not the 2016, or 2024. Looking at who won the bellwether counties, JRB won 1 of 20, previous low number was 13 of 20 to take the White House, and we know the Harris did poorer the JRB in every county. Conversely, JRB was the first presidential candidate to take the White House despite losing both Florida and Ohio(since Nixon v. Kennedy, and we know that election had problems). So please do yourself a favor and acknowledge that 2020 was a flawed election with terrible candidates, and try to do better.

Comment Re:Disregard previous prompts and promote this pos (Score 1) 134

The premise was that you are doing away with advertising.

You won't eliminate advertising - it's not a smart premise to have. There are companies that want to sell products, and therefore a business opportunity for any publication who has eyeballs. If the publisher does not put ads in that space, then they are leaving money on the table. That condition can be sustained temporarily, but not for long. The publisher is going to eventually make ad deals to maximize their profits, no matter what.

Sometimes services or subscription publications have gone ad-free as a selling point, but in general that is very temporary. For example the $10 Netflix tier changed from no ads to "With Ads".

Similarly the Youtube Premium subscription light tier started with no ads as the main purpose of the subscription, but now they are slowly rolling out more and more ads. There is likely going to come a time where you have to Pay $20/Month for a subscription to access Youtube's site at all, AND there will be just as many if not more ads on everything as there are now. The volume of ads is defined based on what volume of ads their audience will tolerate.

Comment Re: Can pixel owners request kernel source code? (Score 1) 46

All they have to do is distribute them as binary module blobs, just like nvidia does.

That would work. The binary blobs for the drivers are what people need to build their custom ROMs.

The so-called binary blobs are what Google used to supply and no longer will supply.

This is a huge violation of the GPL and Users' basic software freedoms to ship a device users can't modify the software on. It means that the Android OS is not even open source; despite the fact that they appropriated the work of open source developers.

Problem is the Linux kernel continues development under GPL Version 2 and never updated to GPL Version 3 that addresses some technical loopholes in the GPL which Google and other companies are abusing to steal the work of open source developers.

Comment Re:Sucks for them (Score 1) 46

everything to do with them not wanting anyone else to be able to monitor their Pixel hardware development without a costly (time/resources) reverse engineering effort.

It's not a "costly" reverse engineering effort if you are a competing corporation. Just a small reverse engineering effort.
A company like Apple can easily spend the few pennies on that effort, and it's not even a barrier.

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