The whole âoeitâ(TM)s super dangerousâ thing served two purposes. First, it hyped the product. It must be earth shattering if itâ(TM)s super dangerous. Second, it was a naked play for government regulation to protect them from competition.

The irony of course is that they played up Skynet, the real societal danger was never going be stopped through regulation. The danger I speak of is that of generated content being taken as truth, whether itâ(TM)s propaganda or just lazy danger like putting glue on pizzas or misidentifying mushrooms.

But of course theyâ(TM)re not concerned with that. That makes money, and anyway, it will get better⦠eventually.

Itâ(TM)s âoequid pro quoâ not âoequid pre quoâ. ;)
If you get the money after the act, then itâ(TM)s not a bribe, but merely a thank you gift!

So does this mean that pressing play on my keyboard will now launch Spotify instead of Apple Music, or what?

Fair use is for everyone.

This really isnâ(TM)t that hard. Fair use is not â" nor was it ever intended to be â" a backdoor âoepay what you can affordâ.

Undoubtedly there are many in the antigenai and antioligarch crowd are going to be cheering this ruling, but I canâ(TM)t help but think this is going to absolutely gut fair use and just make rent seeking by megacorps become even more pervasive.

Information wants to be free, and we scraping is not a crime.

Why is Tesla on the list? Is a car company. How is the entire company that is trying to combat global warming and move to a sustainable future a threat to democracy?

Or are they just talking about its CEO and tarring the entire company for him?

If they hate Musk, X is a more appropriate thing to list. But Tesla?!

Years ago, my parents that live in rural Illinois had Verizon landline service. Verizon wanted to get out of the rural landline business and sold it to Frontier. Frontier at the time boasted about their rural service. Now Verizon has bought Frontier.

This doesnâ(TM)t exactly bode well for rural landlines.

Their usefulness for me finding answers to tech problems has nose dived lately due to SEO shenanigans to get these tech solution pages full of ads to top of results.

Like no matter what error code you search for lately you get the first page full of

"The problem you searched for" [SOLVED] ... then a bunch of pages that say to run SFC /SCANNOW, the trio of DISM commands and if that doesn't work, try system restore.

It's gotten so bad I get better answers if I just append "site:reddit.com" to any issue I want to look for.

Without RMS *AND* Linus, all the benefits of free "Unix" we have now would have never existed.

It used to really suck when a copy of Unix, even for a 386, was a few thousand dollars.

...but my wife caught a flu-like virus last year - around January of 2019 - where she lost both her sense of taste and smell. Neither have fully returned. Couldn't have been Covid, so it makes me wonder if there's some combination of symptoms from different viral strains coming into play here.

Congress went to year round DST back in the 70s and people hated it so bad it only lasted one year.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mercurynews.com%2F20...

Why would it be different this time?

Well that article was lacking in a lot of details. It'd be helpful to know how the compromises happened.

From all the cases I've read, none of the MSPs had 2FA enabled on their accounts.

I'm old.

I don't get people around my age who are starting to retire and complain they have nothing to do and are bored. My God, I wish I had the time to play the games I want to play.

I just hope by the time I end up in a nursing home they are equipped with decent VR stations. Just plug me in in the morning after breakfast and don't bother me until it's time for dinner. Then take me back and plug me back in again.

And when these inputs are ignored?

You can't make blanket statements about how some group "should" behave, when you don't know what's going on.

To follow up on your concerns about " damaging your employer's reputation" and "disrupting your colleagues". If this is disrupting them, then they are bad at their jobs and should be fired. If someone's reputation is being damaged by simpily having their actions known, then that person shouldn't be doing things that damage their reputation. The alternative is "Snitches get stitches."

You aren't being paid to post opinions on social media either, so shut your mouth and know your role. Be drone.

That's how it works right?