CatWChainsaw

So do you support media-streaming services being able to modify or deny you content because that's part of the true price?

And there's already huge vulnerabilities. Whoda thunk.

Fascism is definitionally when government and companies team up to screw everyone else.

wine, WINE, or both?

They want everyone using Microsoft accounts so they can turn computer usage into a subscription service, plus with Recall you get perfect telemetry. Panopticon is here and you pay for the pleasure.

Addressed in another comment: close all loopholes, then make using your computer a subscription service. It's a great business decision. It's a horrendous decision in all other respects.

You were downvoted, but once this is fully closed it's obvious they'll remove local account creation entirely within a year.

Why would you say that? How is the current timeline not already shitty enough for you?

Still a no from me. Right now passkeys are just a way for services to exert more control over users. I don't see that changing for decades at minimum.

The Streisand Effect exists and yet every company thinks they're the special snowflake that will get away with it.

If it doesn't make as money as addition tech it will lose.

Well, now it isn't even that we can't be convinced. Companies have decided that they like this way of operating so they are refusing to offer what you propose. They're more than happy to double-dip and lock people into hard-to-cancel subscriptions while continuing to hoover as much data as they can, though.

But even if they did offer what you suggest, the next move would be to keep people poor so they wouldn't want to "waste" money on that option anyway.

It's like nobody actually learned anything from the Honey scandal!

"Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I'm willing to make!"

- Originally Lord Farquaad, emulated by every modern billionaire

It's always been filled with smug self-important techbro shitlibertarians (edit: with egos more fragile than literal snowflakes). Luckily, what's they've sent around is starting to come back and they reeeeally don't like consequences.

If they're going to cheat consumers out of billions of dollars by lying about the interest rates on their savings accounts then they should at least provide better service so you can see your money getting pissed away without interruption, ffs.

Unless compelled by the court? Or compelled to change the design so that it can be accessed?

Obsessively. I wouldn't do that for free.

Just because no one complained (except, you know, I did...) doesn't mean no one else found it obnoxious, but rather not worth arguing about. It reads like a redditor trying to add on to their reply after the fact to sound better than they did originally. I'm sure that's part of the reason why HN's edit window is so short.

You're annoying, easy as.

Only if by "just short" you mean they get life without possibility of parole or pardon in max security and never see another screen as long as they live.

According to your economic masters, yes, because engagement is a proxy for revenue.

Not until another browser with MV2 commitment picks up the banner that Firefox drops.

And they don't even warn you that's the case, or prompt you to save said key to a separate location off-device and in your control.

You're being deliberately obtuse and that kind of contrarianism is 100% correlated with douchebaggery IMPE. Be better.

Unless you somehow aren't kidding, in which I'll clarify: I'm skeptical that a modern electric vehicle that goes to the trouble of being a computer on wheels can work without an app. And I'll even clarify "can" - the car manufacturer allows you to operate the car without using its app.

That's a good primer, thanks. I hope we get through this bullshit to the wasteland quickly, it'll make it less painful.

I suppose, but I'm shocked that the numbers still come out ahead. Energy cost is way more intensive, and if everyone knows that it's Dead Internet and less and less reaches real consumers, why would anyone buy in?

What I want to know is why/how they looked at this inevitability and leaned 150% into it. How does this make them money?

Exactly like how Microsoft "backed off" Recall. Uuuuuntil they shoved it back in and made it undeleteable.

police using photos/location to figure out that a woman from Texas went to an address associated with an abortion clinic, and wow Texas has bounties, noooo potential for abuse there.

you've really been shilling apple and even obnoxiously giving multiple replies to the same comment, what's your problem?

And this is the only remaining loophole.

Because they closed the one where you use a fake email and get the password wrong.

Because they closed the one where you could fake not having an internet connection.

Because they removed the workflow to set up a local account. After they used dark patterns and misleading language to convince people to set up MS accounts instead.

It's a steaming load of shit.

Yes because that's comparable to a modern data-slurping EV, thank you for the useless comment.

So many billionaires talk about how the world needs more people that few actually question whether or not they mean that.

Meanwhile, they believe that AGI will render human workers (and humans?) obsolete, they understand that any resource is finite, including power, and although they talk big game about how it's going to be utopia, they have lived their entire lives being the most successful/ruthless in an economy that is, no matter what apologetics are spewed, a zero-sum game.

If I've lived in a world that has rewarded being duplicitous and merciless with great riches, and I know that having to share with an ever-increasing number of people also increases the likelihood that I won't live like a god-king, why wouldn't I sell a happy soma-vision while secretly hoping for (or planning) a great depopulation event?