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by gzread 6mo ago
There is no other interpretation of changing "we respect your privacy and do not sell your data" to "we respect your privacy". Mozilla even tried to claim the old wording was bad because some governments erroneously defi
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by gzread 6mo ago
Not necessarily your real age. Plus on Unix systems age is not a required field in /etc/passwd.
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by gzread 6mo ago
Sensible people are pointing out that it means if you need to know if the user is a minor, you're required to check this new thing. You, however, are trying to claim grep has to check if the user is over 18. It does not.
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by gzread 6mo ago
As expected. However, since it's the law, there's some way to enforce it.
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by gzread 6mo ago
Google and Apple have been doing this for a long time, and Microsoft clearly got jealous. Their first big win was when they banned the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court from accessing any of the court's documents, th
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by gzread 6mo ago
Yes.
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by gzread 6mo ago
Yes.
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by gzread 6mo ago
It's even GPL compatible, because the GPL makes provision for additional notice requirements. That would be both hilarious and horrifying if the only thing stopping the corporate dystopia is that Microsoft doesn't want to say the
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by gzread 6mo ago
In the EU, under GDPR, it is legally required to explain automated profiling.
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by gzread 6mo ago
> This is classic legislative stupidity. Applications are required to query the user's age range even if they contain no age-restricted content? Brilliant. This is classic programmer stupidity attempting to read the law in the stup
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by gzread 6mo ago
The operating system already stores your full name. Isn't that a problem?
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by gzread 6mo ago
And you're incredibly naive if you think the TPM-linked internet usage isn't a shim to put a camera in your toilet bowl.
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by gzread 6mo ago
How would you implement a feed of mixed content? Say you're YouTube and some videos are about puppies and some videos are about guns? How would you hide only the gun videos from the homepage when the user is under 16?
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by gzread 6mo ago
When I am a fascist, I warrant being chucked into the sea. As far as I'm aware, I am not a fascist, even though actual fascists like to call everyone they disagree with a fascist and call for their execution. That's the real probl
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by gzread 6mo ago
You think they have these things, but they don't. I am theoretically eligible to get 60% of my income for 3 months after losing my job, while I look for my new job. But if I actually try to claim that, they demand so many documents and
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by gzread 6mo ago
We should make a website outside the US for posting drone footage of ICE anonymously.
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by gzread 6mo ago
Even the Allies hated the Jews. They just had a different plan to get rid of them. Instead of gassing them, the Allies expelled them to Palestine, so they'd be someone else's problem
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by gzread 6mo ago
Germany, the USA and Israel are doing the Nazi Germany thing these days, with strong public support.
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by gzread 6mo ago
We could call him by what he does: SECMASSMURDERER
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by gzread 6mo ago
Maybe they fired everyone who was working there in 2003. Would explain some things.
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by gzread 6mo ago
Is it your first time using an LLM? No, they generate plausible-sounding bullshit no matter the input. Sometimes that bullshit is useful. Other times it isn't.
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by gzread 6mo ago
Which law do they use to make it illegal?
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by gzread 6mo ago
Mozilla backed down due to the backlash. It still means Mozilla is untrustworthy.
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by gzread 6mo ago
You can submit a DMCA takedown notice to the app store, and they must take it offline for 14 days and give you the contact details of the perpetrator, or else you can sue the app store for not doing that.
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by gzread 6mo ago
No, it doesn't, and honestly, your comment comes off as trying to steer people away from clicking the link and learning the actual point of what's being linked to.
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by gzread 6mo ago
And if you're releasing open source software, learn the licenses you're using! You probably didn't intend a multimillion dollar AI startup to be able to just take your thing and call it their own.
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by gzread 6mo ago
It was their terms of service change at the start of 2025. It caused quite a shitstorm.
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by gzread 6mo ago
The best browser is either Waterfox or Librewolf since they're Firefox-based but don't steal your data or claim copyright on it.
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by gzread 6mo ago
Oh yes, that's really convenient for home users. "Install this thing on several computers and keep it in sync or you're not qualified to have a network"
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by gzread 6mo ago
And then if they don't like someone they should revoke their word. And they should make it so words with certain endings are delegated to other countries who can also revoke your word if they don't like you.

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