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rippersnapper

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  • OpenAI wants to buy Chrome and make it an “AI-first” experience

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  • I’ve said this before and will say it again. The only tech companies that should be allowed to buy Chrome are Canonical and its equivalents.

  • Tesla’s remarkably bad quarter is even worse than it looks

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  • One is remarkably worse than the other

  • France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools

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  • You compared smartphones to previous tech such as Walkmans, and I explained how they’re nowhere near the same in the extreme case (unsupervised access). No school is gonna confiscate the phones as long as the kids listen. And the kids need to learn to listen to parents and teachers. Discipline is sorely missing in the new generation. Look at that series “adolescence “ to see the real effects of giving kids a smartphone.

    And jamming is expensive and ineffective (you’ll end up jamming nearby devices not on school property too).

  • European Credit Card and digital euro is coming, end 2025

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  • Not all your money. Most people have more than 1 bank account. So this won’t change that. Also SWIFT transfers also include international transfers, and most people aren’t doing that outside of rare instances. Digital currency is only within EU regions, so this solution won’t affect non EU transfers. As OP said the goal is to reduce commissions to Visa and Mastercard.

  • European Credit Card and digital euro is coming, end 2025

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  • It won’t kill commercial banks because there’ll be limitations. Biggest is you won’t be able to take a loan from the central bank, which is the largest slice of the pie for any bank making money. They can also put other limitations, such as no non-EU transactions, or having a max limit per month.

  • France to ban students from keeping smartphones in schools

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  • Yeah I think the adverse effect of handing an iPhone to a 10 year old in Atlanta, when that teen is still highly impressionable unrestricted and unsupervised access to the internet is far worse than handing a kid a Gameboy on which they can only game, or a Walkman on which the worst thing they can do is listen to Cardi B.

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  • Why should a politician convicted of stealing money ever be allowed in a position of power? Why not just ban her for life?

  • Germany decides to leave history in the past and prepare for war

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  • Yeah I’m a bit tired of bought out politicians dismantling a country from the inside.

    Probably the biggest loophole that HAS to be fixed!

  • U.S. officials went door-to-door in Greenland to find anyone who wanted to be visited by the Vances. They found no one

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  • Eh, it’s over a billion people. Most people (who don’t live in cities) don’t know about Trump other than the fact that he’s the president. Even those who have internet aren’t going to see US news cuz their feeds aren’t curated for that.

  • Signal is not the place for top secret communications, but it might be the right choice for you – a cybersecurity expert on what to look for in a secure messaging app

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  • Also WhatsApp logs a bunch of metadata (who you contact, how often, profile pic, etc)

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    Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May

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  • Trouble is when you need to keep replacing your beater bike…

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    Cars don't belong in cities, says Top Gear's James May

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  • I just wish cycle theft wasn’t as prevalent as it is. If journalists can track down the shipping of stolen cycles, cops should be able to stop it.

  • Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome

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  • Sell it to Canonical

  • Justice Department asks judge to order Google the "immediate" sale of Chrome

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  • Spinning off AOSP into something like Mozilla would massively boost its appeal. I myself left android cuz of privacy issues (no I can’t use GrapheneOS, I need access to my banking apps).

  • The Big Question: would you still buy a Tesla?

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  • Exactly, even minus the Nazi thing they are terrible products. And they’ve been terrible for a while. The only good things were the first mover advantage, battery tech and supercharger network.

    Meanwhile the competitors like BYD have caught up.

  • With New Decree, Trump Threatens Lawyers and Law Firms

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  • Trump’s America has long crossed the Rubicon. He will continue to only double down, as any dictator does.

    America and the world (except for the Neo Axis powers) will continue to suffer. Unless by some miracle democracy still functions in US.

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  • They really rushed the AI part cuz let’s face it, iOS hasn’t really innovated in a while. They typically wait for other makers to make a new thing (i.e. the swipe down to access settings in android), then take a few years to polish it.

    Samsung and Google have been building AI models for a while, cuz they had access to tons of data. Post ChatGPT release Apple realised it’s suddenly light years behind its competitors. So yeah, this is likely the most half baked product Apple has ever released. Similar Apple Maps, but shouldn’t have advertised entire phones on these half baked feature.

  • I've updated the Digital Independence cheat sheet for leaving big tech

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  • I mean WhatsApp is already E2E encrypted. Meta doesn’t make money off WhatsApp (only WhatsApp business). Any IM service that’s big in MAU (monthly active users) costs big money in server traffic. Me using WhatsApp costs Zuck money. In return the only data he can sell is about my metadata (i.e. how often I contact someone etc). For normal usage I think WhatsApp is more than ok. However if you’re worried about govt snooping cuz you’re a journalist or some such then yeah, switch to Session.

  • Splitwise alternative

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  • Yeah, but all my friends use Splitwise so sich with it. Network effect is a real b*tch. (P.S: Dunno about swearing rules here).