This is a win for everyone in Europe, and possibly beyond. [Emphasis mine.] Companies may no longer secretly track your behavior based on “consent” given under pressure. Hopefully, this will not only put an end to these dubious practices, but also to those pesky cookie banners.

But we’re not there yet. Regulators have ruled the system illegal, and the court’s ruling has now confirmed it. Still, the companies making billions from this model won’t stop on their own. That’s why European regulators must now truly step up: enforce the law and make sure these companies actually comply.

Regulators try not to get compromised by lobbyists when billions of dollars are at stake.

I sincerely wish you good luck.

I use Caesium for image compression.

Not shilling, since both seem to be free and open-source image compressors.

How’s MAZANOKE different?

Time to plug into a WIRED subscription.

Time to not read this article.

Just based on that thumbnail, I’m going to let it stay an unsolved mystery.

They had an AI regurgitate other people’s writing, and then had humans massage the vomit into a blog post.

All the models, at some point, returned answers that were entirely wrong. ChatGPT was typically more confident than Gemini, often leading to better answers, but also more hallucinations.

No.

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o7 to the developers, but I can’t help but think the Venn Diagram of people who would pay for this is incredibly small.

Texas moved closer to becoming the next state with a right to repair law on the books, as the state Senate unanimously voted 31 - 0 to finalize HB 2963 this weekend. It would require manufacturers to make spare parts, manuals, and necessary tools available for equipment sold or used in the country’s second most populated state.

You’re correct.

As of right now, Revolt does not feature any federation and it is not in our feature roadmap.

However, this does not necessarily mean federation is off the table, possible avenues are:

• Implement our own federation protocol
• Implement a promising up and coming federation protocol, polyproto
• Implement the Matrix protocol (unlikely, obtuse and unstable)
• Implement the XMPP protocol (battle-tested and stable)

For quality assurance reasons, we’ve defined ‘within the app’ as ‘everything on the phone while our app is running in the background’.

I personally agree, but I’m pretty sure WordPress is the architecture behind a bajillion sites. Technical term.

FTFY: Pretends to walk back his statements. Fools no one.

In 2017, I helped develop key recommendations for planning your digital legacy. These include:

• creating an inventory of accounts and assets, recording usernames and login information, and if possible, downloading personal content for local storage
• specifying preferences in writing, noting wishes about what content should be preserved, deleted, or shared – and with whom
• using password managers to securely store and share access to information and legacy preferences
• designating a digital executor who has legal authority to carry out your digital legacy wishes and preferences, ideally with legal advice
• using legacy features on available platforms, such as Facebook’s Legacy Contact, Google’s Inactive Account Manager, or Apple’s Digital Legacy.

I wish there was a test.

Not a bullshit CosmoBuzzfeed quiz, but an actual “if you answered A on these three questions, you tend towards MarxoCapitalist. Here’s a community full of people who mostly agree with you about political stuff.”

We’d still have Home and Local and All, but it’d be nice to know who my people are instead of needing a college degree to navigate the bullshit everyone says about everyone else.

I don’t think anyone knows what socialism is.

Well there’s your other problem.

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Next, you’re going tell me a billionaire’s involved somehow!

Well there’s your problem.

“This call may be used for quality assurance and training purposes.”

Every interaction costs them money, right?

Sounds like we need to put all the AI call centers on a conference call with each other.

Valve CEO Gabe Newell pretends to get a hole drilled into his head for a brain-computer interface.