Yggstyle

This is a feel good poison pill to set precident. How do you stop developers from fiddling in their own hardware to adjust settings? Allow the poor defenseless manufacturers to lock down the system and give them more legal ways to attack people researching it. Wouldnt want someone to figure out that the subscription service we installed in their car is locally controlled! Goodness an error? Only our certified dealers can…

This is being approached in a way to weaken right to repair and ownership rights.

Sounds like the residents are free and clear to start a lawsuit of their own and name both the officials and the datacenter as the targets of it. A little something to say fuck you to the datacenter and a reminder to the civil servants as to who they serve.

Really appreciate the trailblazing done by Firefox here…

Can we just normalize beating ceos with blunt objects so we dont need to shuffle browsers every year? In fact I think that one simple trick may just fix society… And if not: it’ll be fantastic stress relief.

France successfully destroys encrypted messaging and immediately begins work on the rampant credential / financial / personal information theft. They believe that this “plain text” hacker is responsible. Who is this mastermind?

Dude is just a wealth of interesting videos.

Edit and speaking of which… He dropped this doozy today: https://youtu.be/lA8WuXDXfcI

Or just sleep on the job. Collect a paycheck and waste their time, money, and resources hopefully hiring another person who will do the same.

Fuck em right in the wallet.

Makes fire pretty efficiently, oddly enough.

Airtight contract. Locked up tighter than a family in one of these things when they’re burning.

I sure would want an overweight ford pinto reinvisioned as a modern brutalist steel casket that is less mobile than the original model-t.

This fine piece of… engineering that:

… struggles to run (and drive) in the cold…

… has routine problems in humidify and (god forbid) rain…

… AND elicits the same public response as a clown car …

… Really just fills that void in me.

… On my daily commute in my rental car to pay for the rental and my fortress of solitude on wheels that is out of commission - again - for another comical reason.

Is this also because they didnt use enough glue?

I’m not saying its going to happen quickly… But filtering in many forms has been tried in the past and they all died similarly. Some vocal group gets inconvenienced by it and then, under scrutiny, the blemishes get paraded out and the project dies a slow ugly death.

The actual reason for the push right now is meta (among others) just want to wash their hands of the responsibility… And that aligns with some tech bros wanting to hoover up peoples ids and resell that info. The whole thing will sour once there’s a significant leak that ties risk into that bottom line and nobody will want to carry it.

It pains me to say I do - hah. The south park movie bit on it was perfect.

As someone who spent my formative days figuring out how to bypass early digital locks my school was putting in place to “protect us” … The system loses this game. Every time. You are taking kids with nothing but time, no apparent drawbacks, and everything to gain… And placing them against “good enough” implemented by people who could give two shits about it.

This will continue to lose until they twist the knobs too tight and hit false positive central… And oops now the populace hates it. Control for thee is fine until its for me.

Tale as old as technology itself.

And remember: losers complain about woulda and coulda. Winners clear the jam and finish the job.

And nothing of value was lost.

Yup. It pains me to say that this AI bubble has something for every facet of this industry. Anyone looking to make a fast buck at the expense of the end user has this new blanket “reason.”

So we have AI confidently spewing bullshit… And conmen CEOs selling snake oil. Its almost too perfect.

I’ll be honest. If it were mulvad that’d be a definite plus… But I’m still pretty opposed to a browser building in hard coded things that should be leveraging their extension / plugin function.

It reduces attack surface, bloat, and base resource usage and I’d imagine would simplify code. It improves visibility on what has been “added” for users not reading patch notes and neatly dodges potential regulation issues to boot.

I daily drove firefox right up until the AI issues. It was efficient, transparent, and reliable. I have no issue with them taking money from wherever they can get it. I do take issue with bloatware being opt out: especially when I need to go digging through settings for a new toggle… Only to find out its still wasting resources until you dig in about:config for several more flags.

Looking forward - I think regardless of our views on where features go and what they do… We all can agree that especially now we should have developers looking to make their apps as efficient as possible. Because at least for the foreseeable future - resources aren’t getting cheaper.

I’m pretty sure Samsung (?) Is on record for saying they have no interest in ramping capacity. Historically they’ve [memory manufacturers] done this before.

Announcing a shortage this long serves no purpose but to stoke fear and speculation … Which drives prices up and hording.

Tools and methods used to jailbreak this generation can and will be refined and used on the next one. It should be noted that the full force of the hacking community wasn’t behind this effort. The homebrew function placated a lot of people. Had microslop pulled a sony and yanked a feature or not provided that outlet: I’d imagine we’d have seen more exploits sooner.