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Same as the current labeling/moderation service: any participant can verify any other participant. Which verifiers gets a check to appear is a property of the AppView.

If Bluesky becomes evil, you just configure your AppView not to trust their verifications.

Of course, that's the problem: right now we mostly have one AppView (bsky.app), which is the current SPOF in the mitigation plan against the "Bsky becomes the baddies" scenario.

No need for the monospaced requirement - it would reduce the search space, but it's solvable even before this reduction.

It won’t come back, as it never were in the US.

It also puts more tax burden on the less wealthy. Sales tax is regressive; income tax is progressive.

But yes, that’s exactly why the American right makes taxation so cumbersome and horrible: to make people think that taxes are bad, as there’s this assumption you can have civilization without paying for it.

> Hey has been doing great business with an only-paid model.

[citation needed]

Assuming you speak English.

All smoke alarms have expiration dates. Mostly due to the isotopes used in them, which decay.

The alarms themselves should be able to work even without network connection, but you won't get to use any of the connected features, loosing all the "smarts" that they charged about $100 premium over other smoke alarms for.

It seems the current plan is to let the device reach their use by date before they shut off the servers, but Google being Google, who knows if they won't change their mind and decide to shut off the server before that.

Can't wait for the Monday issue of Matt Levine's newsletter.

I don't believe it has to be said: It's not about product, it's about manipulating the balance sheet.

The problem is the camps. It's forces framing certain traits as something that requires exiling people who show them.

Tell that to your trans* colleagues.

He has no heart. He is cruel, as he subscribes to the idea that a disease isn’t something you get because you rolled the dice wrong, but something that can be avoided by being “pure”. For him, pure health is never systematic or unlucky; the person is at fault.

This is not only immoral and vile, but borders on the psychopathic. The man should have never been allowed to make any decision affecting public health.

Not if you know how militaries and intelligence agencies are run.

This is a wild exaggeration - very few people are a good fit for serving in a military, and while the Israeli army ignores that, and drafts many it shouldn't (resulting in high suicide rates on one hand, and alleged war crimes on the other), it still only drafts ~69% of AMAB and 55% AFAB.

It does gives free technical education and experience for some recruits (not necessarily the top, and that experience isn't always teh best), but of course that affects tech employment - you'd see higher rates of service across tech employees, as that service gave them a jump start on their tech education.

That said, even if the Israeli military decides to draft a person, that person can stand up and refuse. It ain't "free" (may result in imprisonment,) but it's a choice that even if too few make, it is one, and making it is a strong signal about what kind of person they are.

To comply, for every item in that list, Apple can decide to enable it world wide, or only enable it for devices sold in the EU.

The latter would cost them more, both to initially implement and to maintain.

It'd be interesting to see which items they'd decide are not worth the forking cost and would be enabled world wide then, and what they consider enough of crown jewels to be limited to the EU.

With Spotify app, some issues seem to be due to Spotify themselves. For example, even when you explicitly download music to your watch, the app needs network connection to start playing. This seems to be explicit design decision on Spotify's part.

A car analogy can work here, but a slightly different one:

Tesla remotely disable cars when they decide to, as they claim that they sell you the car, but only license the software. You get to keep the car, but loose the license to operate the software needed to actually make it useable.

No, that didn't happen.

You can get better in a Mercedes, but it ain't cheap. Tesla ADAS isn't all that it made out to be: it's mostly very aggressive, which imo makes it more dangerous, especially to others. No wonder Tesla owners took the "most dangerous drivers" crown from Bimmer owners.

Side windows in most new cars are also laminated. The quarter windows are the one you should try break.

Hyundai and Kias have good ADAS, and can be had for less then a Tesla.

AWS (which isn't Amazon, really, even if they share resources), used to bake the cost of keeping the lights on practically forever, or at least until the last user churns. The product may not see improvements if it didn't get traction, but you could bank on being able to use it forever.

When they did decide to kill something, like non-VPC EC2, you'd get the notice a literal decade ahead. For this specific example, sunset started end of '13, with the last instance shut off mid '23.

This all started to change a couple of years ago, when they became much more aggressive with doing the Googles and just killing a thing with a few months of a warning. Pity.

Using android.content.SharedPreferences, set one singaling the user purchased a license from the Amazon copy of the app, read it from the Google Play app.

It is doable, the main issues is: 1. Getting users to redownload the app from the Play store 2. Maintaining this registration transfer mechanism

It was named so based on the Idea is that like the author (who the term "Kafkesque" is coined after), Apache Kafka is a prolific writer.

That's not the same, right?

Not only I won't shed a tear, I might even throw a small party, but I would do nothing to hasten the day.

I don't wish harm on anyone, including people aiming to destroy my family and my community. I only wish them to stop.

I also don't care what happens to Thiel. As you wrote, he has enough wealth to escape.

I care for all the kids and adults that would suffer real harm, and would have no resources to escape.

No, people who actually have a clue know that there are 18 orgs that makes US Intelligence, and one of those is the NRO.

The National Intelligence Program (NIP) budget is classified, with the only released data is the top line number. The official disclosure reads: "Any and all subsidiary information concerning the NIP budget, whether the information concerns particular intelligence agencies or particular intelligence programs, will not be disclosed. Beyond the disclosure of the NIP top-line figure, there will be no other disclosures of currently classified NIP budget information…"

See the Director of National Intelligence website (dni.gov), assuming it wasn't disabled in the current dumpster fires.

"Some words" is like saying the ocean has "some water" in it.

And it's even not the article title. The og title is: "US Park Service erases the word ‘transgender’ from website commemorating Stonewall riot".

Trans people started Stonewall, and freedoms we all (including cis and straight people) have today are due to them.

TERFs outed themselves as exclusionary. As such, they can't be left wing, even if they would like to align with it on some other principles. You can't be humanistic only towards some humans.

I think it's called "from first principles", which is the laundered term for "disregarding context and previous work, because I don't feel other people's work is worth anything".