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Comment Re:Now Open-Source Your Code (Score 1) 56

Come, it's TiVo we're talking about, the ones who do all they can to avoid complying with FOSS requirements.

(Tivoization /tivozen, -a-/) is the practice of designing hardware that incorporates software under the terms of a copyleft software license like the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), but uses hardware restrictions or digital rights management (DRM) to prevent users from running modified versions of the software on that hardware. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Comment Re:Good luck! (Score 3, Insightful) 44

Even parents who *want* to keep their kids off social media, struggle to do so.

Of course, because the parents who really oppose social media to that point are very few and they find it impossible to fight against the majority. If you reverse the default, which is no kid has access by default, now it's the few parents who are extreme supporters of social media who will have to find solutions.

Enforcing will be by age verification tied either to the mobile OS or the social media platform. The rebel minds will be able to bypass, they could be a significant fraction but not an overwhelming majority.

We don't need a 100% enforcement like when we ban murder. Even a 50% enforcement is good for society as it improve the mental health of those 50% of children.

Comment Re:Digital Asbestos (Score 2) 20

Even if a company like Deloitte has a "no AI-generated text" rule, you know employees will use it to get a leg up on their peers.

If a government customer includes a specific no-AI clause, I expect the contractor to take means to enforce the policy. It could be IT policy to block the major AI chatbots at the workplace (which is commonplace right now); and statements signed by the staff involved in the work. Then if a report can be found with gross evidence of AI usage, the government can prosecute the report redactors for fraud and that's a big motivators for them to not use the chatbot, or use it but double check all the references and numbers, in other words to actually do their job.

Comment Re:Who runs a 20000 dpi mouse? (Score 1) 40

DPI and polling aren't the same thing.

Only one of the mice specifies a polling rate in the link above, and it's 2 kHz, which is enough to capture some voice frequencies.
The good old Logitech G502 is 1 kHz and available for like 10 years, so I have no doubt today's top is 2 kHz or more.

Comment Re: The Itsukushima girl is an absolute Karen (Score 1) 95

You site looks great, nice trick. I see it uses OSM data. Here is the direct link to the OSM map and hike (though it suggest another route), very similar look and feel at least without considering any paid features for Mapy. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.openstreetmap.org%2F...

Comment Re:Who runs a 20000 dpi mouse? (Score 1) 40

Apparently all the big brands have a model in that range already. Not saying it's useful, but gamers might have one.

* ASUS ROG Gladius III Wireless: 26000 dpi
* Corsair Sabre RGB Pro Wireless: 26000 dpi
* Logitech G Pro X Superlight: 25600 dpi
* Razer Deathadder V2: 20000 dpi

(2022) https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportskeeda.com%2Fga...

Comment Re:"very hard not to shop at Amazon" (Score 1) 116

What could make this work well is the existence of a few online shopping aggregators that combine searching across all of the online stores and centralize payment.

That absolutely exists in Europe (though not all centralise payment). Best known is idealo.de, but I know of kelkoo.fr and kuantokusta.pt

they won't steal and sell your credit card number (yeah, you aren't liable for the fraud, but getting a new card is a huge PITA).

EU mandates that online payments shall have strong authentication (anciently, an SMS code, now phased out and replaced by in-app approvals, most likely through biometrics). Many purchases don't use cards anyway as national payment methods are available; since you need to validate in the app anyway, you just type some codes or read a QR code, no need for cards. For sites that don't have that I use generated single-use card numbers from my bank app, but right now that's overkill as the real number would needs 2FA as well.

Comment Re:Effort (Score 2) 116

I'm not in the US, you guys don't have online shops that aren't Amazon? From memory I can choose from 5 marketplaces that operate in Southern Europe (cdiscount, rakuten, fnac, pccomponente, worten), several online petfood stores (zooplus, tiendanimal, miscota, goldpet, zoomalia), same thing for electronics. All of them deliver to my doorstep or to a nearby delivery point (otherwise I wouldn't use them). I'd really need a reason to buy from Amazon and there isn't one, as mentioned in the summary, their search engine is shit and their prices higher.

Comment Re:"very hard not to shop at Amazon" (Score 3, Interesting) 116

I think the question was not Amazon vs Walmart but Amazon vs other online shops that also deliver to your doorstep, and do not cost you much more time.

Not much more time: I mean, you're certainly very busy (like everyone else; I've had an awfully busy Sunday as well) and you're still taking time to reply here (so am I) so you could take the additional 5 min to log into something else than Amazon. So I think "busy" it's not the core reason, maybe it's more on the lines that you don't care enough about avoiding Amazon (which is fine, we don't all have to follow the same obsessions).

Comment Re:"very hard not to shop at Amazon" (Score 2) 116

1) I have understood on this website they're the better, or maybe the only one, to deliver in some areas of rural USA.
2) Many people just go for the most known shop. Amazon is most known. Like Microsoft for OSes, or Tinder for dating. People don't know better or cannot even conceive something better is possible.

Comment Re:Are people still using POP(3)? (Score 1) 47

except for being a simple protocol designed for someone to yank all their mail off their mail server onto their local machine

IMAP does this as well. In getmail6 (a CLI tool that downloads email for use with, say, mutt), just swap from SimplePOP3SSLRetriever to SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever. You get all your email downloaded without any difference.

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