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jiofj··on Everyday uses for PVC water pipe
You don't let the water run for a bit before drinking it?
jiofj··on “Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases
I know many people in my country, Spain, who are 60+ and have smallpox vaccine scars.
jiofj··on Musk’s X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called
That's the way it worked before but I don't think it works that way now that you have to pay for the check.
jiofj··on Yes, Android 14 still allows modification of system certificates
cert pinning is done by the apps, not by the OS
jiofj··on TikTok fined €345M for breaking EU data law on children’s accounts
That's how it already works for youtube. The EU mandated you need to prove to google that you are of age to watch certain videos.
jiofj··on ‘Sea is constantly dumping bodies’: fears Libya flood death toll may hit 20k
Why is it a knee-jerk reaction to think that the NATO shouldn't meddle with the politics of other countries?
jiofj··on FindMyCat – Open-Source Pet Tracker
You have a nice cat but please don't use huge png files to show it to us.
jiofj··on Liquid Bewitchment: Gin Drinking in England, 1700–1850
Lidl sells lots of liquors like that. Usually water, alcohol, syrup, and some kind of flavouring.

It's disgusting to me because I have always seen alcoholic drinks as something holy - just adding ethanol to water sounds like something deserving of the wrath of the gods.

jiofj··on Rivers are rapidly warming, losing oxygen; aquatic life at risk, study finds
What's very bad, that people have the freedom to use personal transportation? Would you rather see us on a bus or something?
jiofj··on Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates
Expiry date? It's not like after 10 years those laptops will simply shut down.
jiofj··on I think I kind of hate lazy loading
In firefox you can set dom.image-lazy-loading.enabled to false
jiofj··on How mobile apps illegally share personal data
>Lomg story short: There is nothing that actually prevents an installed app from collecting all your data.

"all your data"? What data exactly? My contact list? My gallery?

jiofj··on Don't use Discord as your Q&A forum
>You’re taking away a community from someone, and in my experience, usually it’s someone who doesn’t have many other social outlets.

This is not your problem.

jiofj··on The trouble with supermarket self checkouts
I would use self checkouts if they offered me a discount on the price. But if they don't they're just asking me to work for free, and on top of that randomly accusing me of being a shoplifter, so I'm passing.
jiofj··on Credit card debt collection
>It isn't fair but in the US money carries moral weight, and many people assume the less of it you have, the worse of a person you are.

This isn't about money, this is about debt. Owing money around really does sound like something a bad person would do.

jiofj··on iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation
The WHO said so: https://www.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/pr208_E....

(Not that I trust the WHO, but just saying)

jiofj··on iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation
Does this mean it's now illegal to sell your used iPhone 12?
jiofj··on Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware
>Other than using MoveFileEx with a NULL destination file and the MOVEFILE_DELAY_UNTIL_REBOOT flag, then suggesting/forcing a reboot, I can't think of a straightforward solution.

And what's the problem with this?

jiofj··on Gmail and Instagram are training AI, and there’s little you can do about it
The article says "Your Gmail and Instagram are training AI.", emphasis on the "your". Of course I can't do anything about someone else distributing data I gave them.
jiofj··on Gmail and Instagram are training AI, and there’s little you can do about it
When you send mail to someone else, they can do whatever they want with it, including giving it to google.
jiofj··on Gmail and Instagram are training AI, and there’s little you can do about it
>Your Gmail and Instagram are training AI. There’s little you can do about it.

You can stop using those services.

>It’s your data.

As soon as you decide to upload it somewhere else, it's not.

jiofj··on iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus
I have none at all. So I'm not so happy about this. It means I will have to throw away lots of good lightning cables I've amassed over the years. Thanks EU, I guess.
jiofj··on Dutch groups sue Google over alleged privacy violations
They are asking for 750 euros per user. How was this number calculated?
jiofj··on Chrome: Heap buffer overflow in WebP
Then transcode in a different server.

Not transcoding user-uploaded files is borderline negligent.

jiofj··on No Google Topics in Vivaldi
What tech community’s acceptance of privacy invasions? I have yet to hear someone say something positive about floc, lol
jiofj··on SEC, See You
I don't know anything about crypto, can someone explain this?
jiofj··on Morocco earthquake kills more than 1,000
Heh, I live in Spain, a country that receives a LOT of immigration from there, and I couldn't help but think "what kind of moroccans has this guy seen?"
jiofj··on X challenges California’s new transparency law as unconstitutional
This is starting to sound like concern trolling to me.
jiofj··on X challenges California’s new transparency law as unconstitutional
Read the original quote from the article. It does not say that the state should say that there should be some moderation, it says that the state should say how platforms are moderated. "how closely the state should be involved in the moderation practices of private platforms"

Also, again and again: the fact that all platforms you know are moderated does not mean that this should happen by law.

jiofj··on X challenges California’s new transparency law as unconstitutional
Of course.

I've seen this argument so many times. I like something, so we have to make a law to force it to exist. Or, I don't like something, so we have to make a law to make it illegal.

Unless there is a monopoly, and social networks certainly aren't one, there's no reason to force them to do anything.

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