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Amen. Also, forcing us to tie our local OS into their cloud nonsense is a travesty. Hearing that they will soon disallow updates to those of us that don't capitulate to their cloud-account ransom has kick-started my efforts in formally moving away from Windows. I'd rather lose most games than get a cloud account.

"[...] porn sites have been seeding boobytrapped .svg files [...]"

I see what you did there ;)

"Last month, Meta-owned WhatsApp said it would join Apple’s legal challenge, in a rare collaboration between the Silicon Valley rivals".

Apple makes home computers, mobile devices, AV equipment and productivity/multimedia software.

Meta makes social media platforms, and vr headsets. What exactly makes them "rivals"? WhatsApp vs iMessage? They're two big companies in the same sector, sure, but do they really compete against each other in a major way?

This might be a bit of an oversimplification, but, if a bank robbery was committed and it came to light that an individual or party was the financier, they too would be investigated and likely charged.

In this case, Black Rock funds war crimes in China and Israel. Shouldn't they too be held accountable, as the financier??

What's so different between this and the other sites that already do this?

Shoulda never sold Virtual Game Station, they'd hold the gaming market in their palm today

Gen Z as well, I'm not excluding anybody in this

If you're an American, you're living in the "before times". You need to take action to preserve your freedom, or you'll find yourself in an Orwellian hell hole wondering why you didn't do something when it was much easier to take political action.

This is a pathetic example of what happens when entire generations are attention-starved from never not having a screen in front of them...

Fun fact: since an SVG is technically code and not a binary image file, LLMs are capable of writing them! I tested this with Claude Sonnet 4 and within 7 minutes I was able to describe what I wanted the animated logo to do, and it delivered the SVG faithfully. Even embedded it into the README.md

GIYF

This isn't reddit. Please kindly take your anger, ad homonims, and bad-faith arguments back over there. I'm sorry you had a bad day but nobody in this thread caused it, so take a deep breath.

Edit: before you -1 this out of homophobia, ask yourself what drives you to do so.

Yeah this is clearly another way that they're trying to make the LGBTQ+ community invisible and in this case make it illegal to discuss anything about them. It's a mask-off attack on about %5 of the population. As a non-American looking in closely, I lament the terrible environment my American LGBTQ+ peers find themselves in at home.

Agreed, there's a reason most of the world uses it.

Is there a strong reason people still support HP's printers after so many horror stories?

In fairness to Apple? Did they port it? I think you mean "in fairness to the maintainers"

I mean... The gold rush ended about 200 years ago but if you really think Dawson City is worth fighting NATO for, then I suppose that's a choice you can make.

YSK that the people who had their accounts frozen weren't simply protesting in Ottawa; they were blocking international borders to our largest trading partner, effectively holding our economy hostage. This absolutely constitutes behavior that's a danger to our nation so it makes sense to freeze the accounts of the people doing it. To be clear, there were many attempts to settle this without freezing people's bank accounts, but when nothing else works sometimes you have to get out the big guns.

What is this "remote system which keeps installing new stuff" that you speak of?

This reeks of insecurity

> Allow this device to privately match places in your photos with a global index maintained by Apple so you can search by almost any landmark or point of interest.

Couldn't they just make a k/v database that has coordinates of landmarks and then just pass the lat/long from the picture's EXIF in an API call for lookup in said DB when the user wants to make use of this feature? Isn't this part of why we have geotagging?

Why are we so quick to defend AI?

Why not shut it off in the bios?

Can we get a source on this?

Its only frightening if it's true, and there's no source, so I wouldn't sweat it

Whoops, you forgot to put your sources! Accidents happen, so I'm interested to read this post-edit.

Not to throw cold water on Artemis, because I'm enthralled by the mission, but... With all the things awry in our countries and the world at large, is going to the moon the best use of government money? There's an opioid epidemic, a housing crisis, a mental health crisis, food is getting more and more expensive, and climate change is exacerbating the pre-existing environmental racism not to mention resulting in an influx of climate refugees.

Is putting people on the moon for scientific exploration and human pride really a priority, budget-wise? That's not a rhetorical question, it's an invitation for discussion.

What specifically did you need to provide digital attestation of age from a verified government entity for during covid? Am Canadian, we had vaccine passports that were a QR code linked to your vax status but it wasn't required for the web.

Thank you immensely for your selfless contribution to the FOSS community. Xfce has allowed me to turn the dustiest of old laptops into media center boxes, though its so pretty and light that I use it on everything. You're doing the lords work my friend.

Honestly. Enjoy having a billionaire dictate your government staffing, WCGW