The voters put legislators in office that crafted this repeal. The governor didn’t just unilaterally do it.

Getting charged to check the balance seems…not legal? I dunno, probably not. Some politician that also owns a payday lending company would probably ensure that’s legal.

If only they had any consequences for blatantly lying to the public. Nope, not even a slap on th wrist.

It took Uber 15 years to finally be profitable. OpenAI has a long way to burn, before they give up.

Yeah, I agree with that personally, but realistically, “your phone was near a place” is not the same as “you were involved”. If they hijack a phone onto a Stingray, they can get way more info than just IMEI.

My favorite part of the Harry Kim joke is that at the end of Voyager, he was a captain, but Janeway rewrote that timeline to save Seven of Nine, so she ended up doing a retcon on Harry’s promotions from Ensign. Never my captain, that’s for sure.

I feel like it’d be canon for him to be Naomi Wildman’s first officer.

Challenge to Google Chrome

Uses Chromium as the base

So basically they are doing exactly what Google is, and what Microsoft is with Edge.

I don’t understand why cell phones don’t authenticate the towers they connect to. Is this really just a “standards lag behind modern security” thing, or is it on purpose to allow these Stingray devices to be used?

Elon pushes directly to main

It’s hard when they hide identifying info

Israel just doing totally normal violations of the Geneva Conventions, every day. No big deal.

Also, TIL the Red Cross is technically supposed to be the enforcer of these conventions.

The crappy design here is that this is called Core. Core implies it’s a central or fundamental feature. I wouldn’t consider that as part of a paid upgrade path.

I don’t get the point of this. Is the point to send people to some place so inhospitable that it scares future refugees from attempting to apply for asylum?

Well, his admin got SSA to send everyone an email saying it does

*for 90% of people

No, it was written by smart people with zero empathy and a plethora of conflicts of interest. Don’t make these ghouls out to be inept, they are smart, and just awful people.

Here’s $1,000 in less taxes!!!

takes $10,000 away from Medicare/Medicaid

Of course, only Republicans exploit a government majority trifecta so skillfully. Democrats just get Chuck Schumer’s stern looks and strongly worded letters, instead.

Just about all of the O365 apps can be run as PWA, with some working better than others. Shifting to a device-centric model would basically make them Apple, but, 30 years late to the party.

I know I’m not offering solutions, but what I will say is, I associate Microsoft with 3 things, now, that were not the case 20 years ago. Their focus is purely about shareholder value, not customer value.

• Data harvesting as a business pillar
• Forced adoption of Copilot (Jamming it into Swiftkey really pissed me off)
• Ads

People shit on Apple a lot, and many for very good reasons, but Apple has the customer base it does because it is actively engaged in keeping them happy with their products, not trying to jam AI down their throats, sell them and their data to the highest bidder, etc. Microsoft has the customer base it does because inertia is hard to break. I’ve never met an Apple user that said “I hate this, I’m going to Windows”. Most Apple users I know are Windows ex-pats.

I know I can’t be on here being all happy about Apple, but I can’t be a Linux fanboy like most of Lemmy, either.

You had me until the emergency services comment

• Fire department, available
• Police, available, you may end up murdered if you are the wrong skin tone
• Ambulance, available, but you’ll be billed for that ride. So what’d taxes pay for there?
• Mental health services, see Police
• Emergency room, available, see Ambulance and multiply by 50-100x

Cobra Kai over Deadwood kills me. I’d put Deadwood in top 50, hands down. It probably doens’t get ranked as high because its a Western.