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Also why is it locking certain posts behind signups now? Did it really only take them this long to turn evil and require signups to access the site at all, or is this selective for reasons I can't even fathom and probably neither can the people who made that decision?

Like I said, "climate change" makes it sound like something only an old fogey would be scared of; we need to start saying "climate destabilization."

Because they know the American public are too ideologically-minded to handle nuance and will accuse everything that doesn't pander to their exact worldview of being propaganda for the other side. Meaning anything in between will get accused of this and hated by everyone.

They won't. If their argument is "We refuse to comply because we're outside your jurisdiction", the UK will just respond "OK, we're blocking access to your entire site, just like we said we would do to any site that doesn't follow the rules, and in your case we probably should have done that a...

Not a problem our generation will ever have. We promise nothing and deliver less!

I have no idea what you're on about.

Tired: AI becomes self aware and immediately decides to kill everyone in the world Wired: AI becomes self aware and immediately decides to kill itself

Remember a few years ago when literally one whole third of the country had their data leaked, including SSN? It didn't destroy the system then, nor did it lead to all those people getting identity-thefted, although for the life of me I don't know why.

Is that what the 2008 bailouts were about?

Are you telling me even ICE has (well, had) people among its ranks who have too much of a functioning conscience to follow the orders Trump has been giving them lately? Well, that's... shocking, if true, but promising.

Every copy of Sonic Adventure is personalized.

It really is amazing that they keep pushing these kinds of transparent propaganda films like it's the 1950s. No other industry does this sort of thing anymore; no other industry has done this sort of thing in my lifetime. How can they possibly sell the idea that they're the way of the future...

Confirming that Id Tech remains the least worst of the big AAA ray-tracing engines.

You bring up a good point: Is blocking the malicious code contained in ads tantamount to blocking the whole ad, as per this ruling? And if not, what's the threshold? Most browsers already block certain tracking cookies automatically, without even asking. They try to block that one malicious...

And nothing of value was lost.

Germany has always been one of the worst countries when it comes to copyright. Stuff on YouTube that just gets extra commercials slapped on it gets outright blocked over there. I think their expiration limits are longer than ours too.

Yeah. And those people are too few and powerless to even get noticed, let alone affect policy. And, as we saw when the FTC actually tried to enforce COPPA against YouTube, their enemies are very effective at manipulating the narrative to make them look like they're just the same group of people...

That's a pretty radical assumption. Are there stats backing this up? Like I said yesterday, people who actually care about kids probably do not make up a significant lobby or voting bloc. And I don't count parents who care about their own kids but not anyone else's as part of that group.

They don't have to pretend very convincingly because the only people they're trying to appease are just pretending too. People who actually care about protecting kids online either don't exist or aren't a significant lobby. The state of the internet for the past 30 years should be proof enough...

The US was garbage to start with. Founded by religious fanatics and slave owners, built on slavery and genocide, sustained by exploiting other poorer countries. The only thing we've ever done to make the rest of the world a better place was remove ourselves from it.