> How does someone get access to his location data?

  You pay $50 to a data broker, AIUI.

Half of the convenience apps you download include tracking libraries. Free apps often make their money by selling your location data to surveillance companies.

Ads are included so you don't think to ask what their revenue stream is.

Stock ROM's don't prevent most of this.

The merits aren't the point - bankrupting the little guy and sending a message to the other little guys is the point.

"The process is the punishment."

It's interesting to watch old movies and the credits are maybe 30 people.

If you see a modern CG flick there will be thousands of people in the credits including the barista at the coffee shop down the street from where the IT backups subcontractor's office is.

Similar idea with IMDB and basically everybody lying on their resumes otherwise.

Interestingly software had credits pages in the 80's but California prevents noncompete agreements and poaching was rampant so the opposite occurred.

They're reeing about cuts to funding for medical programs in Africa that American taxpayers were funding.

When 25% of Americans can't even afford to get their own medical care.

At least Medicine stopped injecting kids with SV40 promoters from green monkey cells from 1970-2021. Massive cancer cause.

"Sony didn't make its compact camera bigger. Waaaahhh."

Imagine just buying the bigger camera.

What's worse is that Steam could obviously make certain titles crypto-only but MasterCard gets to tell them they can't sell those either.

It's a hostage situation by Fed member banks.

In his ZFS use case you want to flash your HBA to 'IT mode' which gets rid of all RAID logic on the card.

ZFS is much more reliable if it can see the disks directly. And more reliable than HBA-based RAID too.

Let them pass.

I drove 3 hrs once to see a film in IMAX only to find out it was liemax.

Imagine how happy I was.

The only IMAX I've paid for since then was "Sully" at Air & Space. Or "Avatar" in Omnimax. I was a huge fan in the 90's. They burned my good will.

The primary theme seems to be tattletale outrage bait from them. Easy content.

Maybe there's something more interesting behind the paywall.

It's an obvious standards violation to not call themselves 402 Media.

Anyway do they address the Doppelganger Problem?

For the lawyer cost of these audits every one of those companies could have an OpenJDK Core developer on staff and get first-class support in-house.

KLED

Every TV sold in the stores today has xxLED in the branding.

Only the akshully crowd would be triggered.

There is no right to privacy.

There is no right to your image.

Government can TRY to make those rights, but the freedom of expression is superior to the idea that you can stop me from hand drawing your image when you're at the beach.

How many companies used llama instead of paying OpenAI for API access?

If Meta saw OpenAI as a market competitor then denying them revenue is a cunning move.

Especially if llama isn't Meta's core competency but ChatGPT is OpenAI's.

Maybe even legal in that aspect, though they both seem super guilty of not paying for copyrighted material.

The COVID mRNA vaccines were the culmination of decades of research into genetic vaccines that could be in essence engineered to target a selected antigen without the years of trial and error that are required by the methods we have been using since the 1950s. Within days of the virus genome being published, they had a vaccine design, the months it took to get to the public were taken up with studies of the safety and effectiveness of the heretofore untested technology, ramping up production, and preparing for the distribution of a medicine that required cryogenic storage.

It would be unreasonable not to give the Trump administration credit for not mucking up this process. But the unprecedented speed of development wasnâ(TM)t due to Trump employing some kind of magical Fuhrermojo. It was a stroke good fortune that when the global pandemic epidemiologists have been worried about arrived, mRNA technology was just at the point where you could use it. Had it arrived a decade earlier the consequences would have been far worse, no matter who was president.

The lesson isnâ(TM)t that Trump is some kind of divine figure who willed a vaccine into existence, itâ(TM)s that basic research that is decades from practical application is important.