What else would they be trying to preserve? Notice they never tried to preserve strong unions, or high taxes for the rich.

This reminded me immediately of The Coffee Machine short story published last year. Reality manages to be stranger and weirder than fiction.

And centralization solves this how? The other social networks are giving more checkmarks to grifters and scammers than they are giving them to honest people because, spoiler alert, con artists are very good at both building a following and paying bribes.

Because nothing helps a struggling economy like legalized nepotism.

It’s inevitable for ads supported social media.

They need to keep you “engaged” to show you more ads, and the most effective way to do it is to foster conflict.

You underestimate how much interface and algorithms impact how people interact with eachother.

They can’t close the kernel. They already distribute Android with proprietary software - for example Google Play services and DRM services.

It’s almost like LLMs aren’t capable of understanding or something. /s

Antennapod and not depending on the whims of whatever a CEO feels like today.

Please do. I want to train an AI on Disney movies. (Dear Disney lawyers please take the bait)

All of the above and more? There’s always the risk of something falling through the cracks, so the more layers of security measures you add/can afford the better.

90% of security vulnerabilities are caused by “let’s just use/do this for now and change it before production”.

Two Mac OS VMs enforced at Kernel level, which wasn’t a thing on Intel Macs.

Did they remove the stupid limit of 2 VMs per machine or is it still an expensive toy?

I think they just figured out they can offload the modernization of old games to the community. People will still have to buy the game to get the assets needed to play it legally.

Back when silicon valley wasn’t all about fellating boot Google left China for much less.

Of course it’s feasible, that’s why there are courts. And even if they lost in court they could leave the British market instead of complying. But Apple will always kiss boot no matter how much they tell their cult otherwise.

Weird, every time I went to my local GameStop before it closed it looked like a diversity fair.

Just a reminder that alternatives like open street maps and Here WeGo exist and are not taking marching orders from Trump.

Firefox+U-block Origin works pretty well on mobile