We live in a society

Is the predatory advertising that Apple allows towards children in apps that Apple allows on their app stores going to be stopped by this bill, or does this only affect their competitors?

If you tell the o3 reasoning model to just search the web and give you the top results instead of answering your query it can actually be really useful for obscure queries. I was able to find specific spec sheets for my model of monitor when a google search would only produce the specs for basically any other model the manufacturer made. Even with the model number in quotes

There are two victims. The illiterate who get taken advantage of by malicious actors gaming the results and your company whose tech support center has to deal with the victims shame and distress and the reputational impact that your company faces from scammers impersonating you.

There is actually a third victim and that’s the rest of your customers who have to pay higher rates for services to cover the losses due to fraud.

The bad guy in this scenario isn’t any of the victims but if the two victims don’t have empathy for each other, ultimately the bad guys are empowered to further steal.

A boycott would work, I just think most Nintendo fans are empty in their threats and will still buy the switch 2 just like all those MW2 players did back then.

It’d be as effective as the PC players boycott of MW2

I’ve been playing more of my old retail games that don’t require any launcher or drm beyond requiring the disc. It’s nice.

I’m not exactly sure if “xfire on steroids” bloat of steam actually adds anything anymore these days. Steam is nice because my library is already there. Even the friends list has mostly been supplanted by discord now.

I use the epic launcher for 1 thing, to launch Fortnite to play with my son. I don’t want more steam features, I’d rather acknowledge its existence less. Start selling games without DRM that only use the launcher to update and it’s better than steam. That’s the 1 feature it needs.

I’d agree with others that have said to use a framework like Hugo to serve an RSS feed. I wrote an automation using Google apps script to scrape blog pages and manually update the RSS feed but it was more trouble than it was worth. Letting your framework automatically update your feed is much easier.

The Apple silicon Macs are really great when it comes to battery life. If you already use an iPhone it makes so much sense.

I’m still on a 2014 Air. It’s doesn’t work near as good. But still does well enough for me.

There are legitimate complaints against Apple for its iOS/iPad OS AppStore practices, their former hardware upsell practices, their botched AI roll out, and their corporate practices in general. But there really aren’t any legitimate complaints about their hardware, software, or services.

It’s within a standard deviation, it’s not like it’s getting him into Mensa.

They probably use a third party company to mail statements and such. I wouldn’t be surprised if they have already tried to contact the account owner but are unable to. They still need an address on file for account verification so they can’t exactly remove your address without an updated address from the customer. I don’t know why they asked you though. You wouldn’t have permission to update information on someone else’s account.

It collects and stores information about your system and also has your identity tied to your purchases.

I don’t think it’s a big privacy concern as far as tracking and spying on you.

But realize any device you install steam on then is tied to your real identity if you purchased games on that account. And can be used with data gained from other parties to determine your online activity if a government were to be able to obtain both.

It’s worth noting that I had to retire a few devices that I used with my iCloud before I could enable ADP because they didn’t support it. That may be why it’s opt in, although it’s not a very good reason.

The other reason may be because Apple can’t recover your passcode if you turn on ADP and they don’t want customer support nightmares of users losing access to all their precious photos and memories because they could be bothered to manually back them up or remember their passcode

If you don’t use a second factor to unlock your password database then you are correct.

Here is the real secret. If the only authentication you have on an account is password auth then you really have no authentication at all. Passwords are not security

Apple: “Brainwashed”

iMessage: “Beginner”

Well which one is it?

I think it’s probably cheaper in the long run to self host a tree instead, unless you live in an apartment with absolutely no green space. But I’d rather get a VPF and host a tree there if I had too

OP flies southwest. (And so do I usually, although they are going to pot with all the enshittification they are going through with no more free checked bags or open seating)

I don’t know what GenP is (sounds like a shorting of prison term general population) but welcome to the fediverse all 👋👋🫘

The fediverse has some resilience built in. As users have a back up account. As an admin with concerns of government control, have a playbook to be able to pass off control of the instance to another admin in a different jurisdiction and that they can restore the instance to a new provider from backups.

As for stopping corporate interference: making sure bad actors like meta can’t federate, good moderation practices, and anti bot defenses. Intelligence sharing between instance admins, cooperation not competition.

The worst person you know just made a great point