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wildrhythms··on TikTok goes dark in the US
>how much information is censored on Google.com if any?

Is this a serious question? Google removes all sorts of content from its index.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_by_Google#:~:text=G....

wildrhythms··on TikTok goes dark in the US
You are putting a lot of faith in the police and judges that issue those things.
wildrhythms··on TikTok goes dark in the US
>Would it be within the realm of possibility that US intelligence agencies have this proof and have not released it publicly?

I wonder where we've heard this before?

wildrhythms··on TikTok goes dark in the US
Why is the only solution to continue the competition rather than engage in mutual cooperation?
wildrhythms··on TikTok goes dark in the US
LOL, and what is your opinion on the Iraq War? Let's hear it.
wildrhythms··on TikTok goes dark in the US
Ironic to talk about China's 'warfare' while America has over 1,000 military bases around the world.
wildrhythms··on TikTok goes dark in the US
Rest assured agencies in the U.S. can (and do) do all of that and more to U.S. Google today with a simple warrant or takedown notice.
wildrhythms··on Google is making AI in Gmail and Docs free, but raising the price of Workspace
Same story at my employer last year and this year. Leadership very clearly stated their goal is to increase AI engagement. Solving actual user issues? Not mentioned once. At least the shareholders are happy, right?
wildrhythms··on Guide to mechanical keyboards
Every few years I try a mech keyboard, but I always come back to the Magic Keyboard. It's just way more comfortable, quiet, and I feel like my fingers are more nimble and less strained when I use it.
wildrhythms··on Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages
Electoral politics haven't worked, so here we are. Healthcare bankruptcy is the leading form of bankruptcy in the United States.
wildrhythms··on Healthcare companies are yanking info from their leadership pages
Or maybe vigilante justice isn't people's first choice, but justice is justice to them.
wildrhythms··on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
What ads does Chrome make money from?
wildrhythms··on DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome
Bookmarks, passwords, payment information, recent tabs, extensions... all synced with your Google account in Chrome. Firefox can't sync to your Google account. All that information is synced across the entire Google account system, to your Android phone, other Chrome browser instances and so on. Yes I know you could export your data from Google and pull it into Firefox's sync system, but that's a hurdle.
wildrhythms··on The Poor UX/UI of Major Cloud Providers: ECS/VMs Management
I work in front end and this is true. We have decades-old top feature requests, and we were told (by people far above my level) in January to only work on shipping a bunch of hairbrained AI features.
wildrhythms··on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back
My Whirlpool stove does the opposite thing: after I've finished cooking and it's cooling down, it will activate the Warm oven setting on its own. I find that the Warm touch button is especially sensitive on its own, so there must be some small flexing happening somewhere and activating it.

Solution: Immediately after cooking I walk over to the junction box and turn off the breaker to the stovetop.

wildrhythms··on Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back
I think it's just dry skin. When I worked in corporate IT we had the same issue with Yubikey 'not working' and almost all of those issues came from people working in an especially arid part of the country. "Lick your finger" fixed it every time.
wildrhythms··on Generative AI could generate tons of e-waste by decade's end
But have you considered all the money to be made storing and running ads on that e-waste?
wildrhythms··on New iMac with M4
I find the 3 finger swipe to be sub-optimal due to the animation time, and if you disable animations it switches to a fade animation that seemingly takes longer. The only way I can effectively use a low resolution screen is with a tiling wm like i3 or sway.
wildrhythms··on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC's click-to-cancel rule
They don't have to take you to court at all, they will just send your bills to collections and nuke your credit score.
wildrhythms··on Show HN: Ambulate – Detailed Trip Planning
I can't remember if it was booking.com or some other site like travelocity, but I booked a hotel for work in Dublin, I arrived, and they couldn't find my reservation. After about 30 minutes of the desk staff confusingly clicking around on a computer they 'found' it and I was able to check in. This was a modern hotel too. I stopped using those sites and now only book through the hotel's website, even if it costs more.
wildrhythms··on Google Drive Blackout in Italy After Another Major Anti-Piracy Blunder
It's still there, they changed the name to "VPN by Google". I'm sure some director got celebrated for that exciting 'new' product launch.
wildrhythms··on Eating less can lead to a longer life: study in mice shows why
Who is 'you'?
wildrhythms··on 200GB Free Cloud for Your Files
(translated from Polish)

Welcome to blog.tomaszdunia.pl Upload all files to the root directory of your account.

https://archive.ph/CNOLF

wildrhythms··on Canvas is a new way to write and code with ChatGPT
I tried Bolt this morning for about 5 minutes, and it did output valid React code, but things like inputs and buttons it created didn't work without additional prompting, and then it started throwing "There was an error processing your request"
wildrhythms··on Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public
This problem is already solved by a Patent License Agreement. I don't know why people think this is a difficult problem. It's not.
wildrhythms··on What Kind of Writer Is ChatGPT?
Are we reading the same academic papers? When I read ChatGPT output it reads like pseudo-educational blogspam.
wildrhythms··on EU: Definition of "potential terrorists" opens door to broad information-sharing
What's the point of this comment? Some violence is justified. Violence against the Nazis was justified. The destruction of the Berlin Wall was justified. Jesus overturned the tables of the money exchangers, violently I suppose, and that was justified. The focus on the broad term 'violence' without any additional analysis is completely useless.

And it's interesting to me that when 'violence' is used on this specific topic, it seems to only be used to label the reaction of the protesters and not the underlying issue they're protesting about, which itself is also a form of violence.

wildrhythms··on Show HN: Flyon UI – Tailwind Components Library
To be clear, you have to 'learn CSS properly' to make sense of Tailwind. I don't see how someone can not know CSS, but know Tailwind. Tailwind is just atomic classes for the underlying CSS styles.
wildrhythms··on Bots, so many bots
Dead Internet Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
wildrhythms··on Piracy
>The streaming platforms, for which you pay full price, don’t even let you choose the quality of the movie you want to watch

I wanted to re-watch Dune Part 1 before Part 2 came to theaters, so I rented the film on Youtube Movies which said it would be HD $3.99. I paid, but when the movie started playing it was NOT HD. The quality selector didn't even let me choose a HD resolution. I tried different browsers, I tried Safari on my Mac, Chrome on my Mac, disconnecting from my 4K display... was it a some bug? Was it a haywire copy protection because I opened the film on a 4K display over Displayport? I have no idea, but I felt cheated. I haven't paid for a movie since.

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