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I thought that’s what sponsors and advertisers are for
Same for Flock cameras, running a 2017 kernel.
Re:Apple reports fourth quarter results on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:54PM (#50345211)
Apple can pivot Siri pretty easily.
Re:Never Complain, Never Explain on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:29AM (#50337298)
> where being duped with propaganda into believing falsehoods should not be something to look up to.

I agree, but believe we’re now in a regressive society, moving as fast as we can to repeat history, investing vast resources into effortless propaganda machines.

How many municipalities offer the services of ISPs? I know it’s not zero, but decades of private ISPs leading the market leads me to believe municipal data centers won’t be made available to residents.

How often would municipal data centers need to upgrade/replace hardware? What impact would that have on local tax levy rates?

Would you choose to relocate your family to the next town over because they have more available RAM?

Re:Anthropic orders AI tool Claude to stop remaking video games on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:14PM (#50320306)
Next, they’ll order it to stop remaking software.
Is there no difference between posting something publicly and prompting a tool privately? Intent seems different to me.

I’ve said some pretty obscene things to Siri out of frustration and haven’t gotten arrested yet.

Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:25PM (#50312330)
It won’t happen overnight, but I would love to see the source on those figures.

Trump is cancelling rallies left and right in key states as we speak, because he has put himself and “that Hitler shit” on the midterm ballot, and it’s not going well.

The man claims he doesn’t know who David Duke or the KKK is, like we’re all that stupid.

All while he sends Americans to die in Iran for “nuclear weapons” while ignoring North Korea’s heist of $5B in crypto to do the same. Giving Russia billions of U.S. tax dollars for a few days worth of diesel just prolongs the Ukrainian defense against their invasion.

How’s the national debt cost per American trending since the start of the 2nd term? Has the massive taxpayer funded budget increase been worth ICE detaining 500 American citizens and killing at least three citizens without any shred of accountability?

You may be right that 75% of ~50% of voters approve, but the negligent spending without accountability will only be allowed to go so far. Fiscal conservatives will step in when their stock prices tank.

Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:20PM (#50312299)
As a guess? The same amount of customers that left Gmail for Proton vs. those that signed up for Proton without ever having a Gmail account.

I’d wager that most of their current customers have left something else to sign up for Proton in the first place, because of the privacy and security offering.

When Proton leadership abandons those values in favor of “move fast, break things, lay off engineers”, their customers are more likely to follow the people that take privacy and security seriously.

The CEO and CTO have made it clear that they want vibe-coded product updates without pentesting before exposing their customers to whatever may happen.

If you bought into Proton for privacy and security, that’s a red flag and a sign to find an alternative.

Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:56PM (#50308563)
> There’s investors out there that would support Proton’s original engineers to fulfill Proton’s original mission

Compromising on pentesting and security reviews is not in line with their original mission. Their customer base (including employees) knows this.

Re:US tech stocks see sharp falls over AI cost fears on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:50PM (#50308474)
At what point do constituents of Republican Senators have an influence over them?

Democratic and Republican voters are suffering equally.

At some point of rising costs of living, Republicans will break with dying Trump. They’ll blame his old age, and as Lindsey Graham put it “that Hitler shit.”

Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:34PM (#50308270)
The thing with tech products is they could just leave and start another company. No need to go through union-busting behavior.

Every discussion of Proton leadership shortcomings shows a market of users looking for a better run company.

And if it’s all AI developed moving forward, why not? There’s investors out there that would support Proton’s original engineers to fulfill Proton’s original mission, without the AI psychosis abandoning security as a top priority.

Re:Proton's CEO Cancels AI 'Re-Interviews' on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:17PM (#50308008)
Like I said earlier this week, this re-alignment of the people that built and maintained their products is also resulting in a re-alignment of their customer base.

Hopefully we’ll see those talented engineers leaving to build an alternative to Proton products now that we know corporate leadership at Proton can’t be trusted.

The board should really oust the “loser thinking” CEO and CTO if they want to minimize the damage to their brand.

The company not providing even a written statement in response to 404 reporting speaks volumes. They don’t see themselves accountable to their customers.

Re:The $6.3B Binance Hack Was Pulled Off in Just 20 Minutes on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:36AM (#50305448)
Even if they weren’t, they could buy a few Trump Gold Cards for U.S. citizenship.
Companies themselves can’t be economic bubbles. Amazon survived the economic bubble it was in, but many others didn’t.
Sucks that most of the country didn’t vote for the $100 billion, but will be left holding the bag. Are we witnessing the fall of an empire?
And that's going to take another year?
With 20 seconds of audio, I can make MLK Jr. say whatever you want.
Re:Git for US Legislation on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:47PM (#50284336)
Neat! Are you going to add a LICENSE.md with CC0?

https://creativecommons.org/public-domain/

Re:About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @11:41PM (#50284310)
Did they forget about their “Background Security Improvements” feature??

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102657

The interstate highway system is also a hugely expensive endeavor, but boy am I grateful for it. Maybe we should privatize that too?
Re:Leak website releases data on DHS employees on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @10:28PM (#50283871)
Why would I want them to worry? Are you insinuating they did something wrong?
Re:Leak website releases data on DHS employees on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:59PM (#50282665)
Public servants? It’s the line the government uses to justify dragnet mass surveillance.

No harm in knowing who is working for you.

Re:MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:49PM (#50282585)
iMac G3s with touchscreens were great point-of-sale systems in the late 90s. The movie theater I worked at had four of them.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/apples-15-inch-imac-g3-had-a-3d-t...

All they have to say is “the voting machines were secured by PHP and eMuhdra certs, and weren’t patched” and SCOTUS will decide the outcome of the elections, like they did with “hanging chads” in 2000.
Re:Leak website releases data on DHS employees on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @07:04PM (#50282211)
If those employees didn't do anything wrong, they have nothing to worry about.
John Ternus’ team ended that tradition and doesn’t accept emails from his customers. Just ask Siri AI.
> The article gave no evidence that these people hadn't committed any crimes

Are we now doing “guilty until proven innocent?”

> there's no mention of the ~10 million people who entered illegally under Biden. Is it democratic to have open borders?

Where is that figure sourced from? Are the borders still open?

You’re ignoring the bipartisan bill that would have increased border security in 2024, but Republican politicians shot down for political purposes to help Trump in the election. What did that bi-partisan solution get wrong that you would have done differently?

I get the sense this writer believes Immigration Enforcement Officers deporting and tracking legal American citizens is anti-democratic.

They did send out an update this week…that undid this mitigation for users that already removed the certs.

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