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Digital28on Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA

Changing from SK to CN is a trade from intentional vulnerability to unintentional vulnerability. I’ve yet to see a secure piece of software come out of China in my 30+ years of coding.

Digital28on Unesco calls for global ban on smartphones in schools

Majorly oppose this proposal for a bunch of reasons.

Also, fun fact: phone confiscation (except during midterms/finals) is a punishable offense at my university.

Digital28on 90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president

Never had this issue in the 90s in Texas, either. We also had a dedicated line so the Internet could always be on.

Digital28on How I regained concentration and focus

He also says the pandemic didn't affect him, but honestly, whether it was Long COVID or an indirect psych effect of isolation, I've had extreme issues concentrating ever since 2020 that have been absolutely bullshit to manage.

Digital28on More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade

It's an equal level of insanity that technologies like thorium breeder reactors haven't been getting whole number percentages of first world budgets, especially considering how extremely high of a priority climate change has become and how costly the alternatives (e.g., disaster mitigation) are getting.

Digital28on More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade

Don't forget that we're perpetually one temper tantrum away from nuclear winter now, which would cripple all solar infrastructure for years. I'm actually a little surprised the DoD hasn't deeply invested in fusion for this reason alone.

Digital28on More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade

This is great news.

That said, what the literal fuck -- we've previously been investing 1/850,000th of global GDP in one of 4-5 truly promising energy technologies while the world burns before our eyes?

Digital28on Tell HN: Discord is permanently locking out users with multiple accounts

This isn't just a Discord problem, it's a consumer rights problem.

I've gone through this same thing with multiple companies, most recently after an identity theft, and the only recourse for consumers at this point is to indefinitely wage a campaign of turning a grievous issue into such a massive PR and/or legal department war that they have no choice but to attempt resolution.

Digital28on Bitchute Has Been Deplatformed

The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. --H. L. Mencken, US editor (1880-1956)

Digital28on When You Get into Unschooling, It’s Almost Like a Religion

This sounds almost identical to how I was raised, even down to the age of transitioning between the two styles, and I was doing contract web development work by 13, too, before cramming for the GED and ranking 99th percentile in science. I'm now working in AI with a startup of my own.

I honestly can't say I've ever met (or even heard about) anyone with such a similar story -- care to chat sometime?