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Comment Re:Censorship by any other name (Score 1) 14

Also to force ID on all social media accounts by demanding everyone prove they're not a teen.

I feel like trying to make everyone ID on social media for safety reasons is a lost cause because it's not hard to create homespun communication networks now. I've recently been playing around with notification services for my home server's apps, and I had a self-hosted ntfy server running at one point. Every connected device/application is a node on the network, and anything is capable of sending messages that are seen in the topic feed. This isn't designed to be a social networking service, but since you can send messages right from the Android app I started thinking "get some of your friends connected and you could treat this topic section like an informal chat room". It's not decentralized, but you could run it on a Raspberry PI or any cheap PC on eBay with SSL for secure communication across the wider Net.

Any group that wants to be able to chat anonymously can do something like this and just avoid the normal commercially-controlled services.

Comment Re:How a Society Kills Privacy. (Score 1) 64

Would this not require that you have privacy settings in Facebook set in such a way that allows you to be tagged in uploaded photos?

The privacy setting is for identifying you in photos uploaded to the public Facebook pages. It's not going to cover using facial recognition to identify you for "strategic partnerships".
You see, the thing about Ring doorbells is their view is limited to where they are mounted on a wall...

Comment Re:Zombies (Score 1) 89

So fb will turn my account into zombie account.

And you can bet they wont tell their investors how many "active users" are really still living people. Perhaps a acknowledgement that their user base is trending older and will begin dying off (or at least reach a point where they stop using a computer) in the near future.

Comment Adoption != Positive Impact (Score 4, Insightful) 53

I've seen many people comment on other discussion platforms they are using AI simply because the leadership at their employer is requiring it. And many of those comments follow up with how the results of the AI usage are not helpful, or worse, require checking/correcting work and resulting in a net negative for productivity verses if they had just done it themselves.

Comment Re:more like Broadcom (Score 1) 33

I don't see much of a difference between your 2 examples. ... Perhaps the difference is in the end-game in some way, but it doesn't seem like it matters because the "original company" is dead either way.

It's not a difference for the company itself or the rank-and-file workers. The difference is the founders/executives get an opportunity to eject with a payout and leave while the company is (reasonably) solvent. What happens afterwards is not on their watch and not their mismanagement action. It's classic "we got ours -- fuck you" thinking.

Comment Re:There's the tell (Score 1) 194

That stops people from getting vaccines because?

Because if the FDA doesn't approve the vaccine for use you can't get it. I've been getting Moderna since the start of Covid, but this year I was not able to -- because the Moderna vaccine was not approved for people under 65. Yes, I was too young, as a grown adult, to get the vaccine I wanted. Also, Pfizer approval for under 65 was tied to being in a high-risk health group. If you did not have risks from respiratory illnesses and other types of chronic health conditions you could not get one. This actually happened to me. I filed for an appointment at a local pharmacy online and they called me the next morning and said I was not approved based on the medical information I'd submitted online. I was too healthy. Almost sounds like some nightmarish conspiracy by the health care industry to increase "customers" for their services by impeding preventative medicine.

Comment Re:"buy for me" sounds like a bad idea. (Score 3, Interesting) 28

eBay really doesn't/shouldn't care if it is a bad decision or not to the purchaser....they just want sales, right?

EBay's buyer protections mean they will have to deal with more seller/buyer service disputes that may arise from people using agentic shopping assistants.

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