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520 , 1 month ago to Technology in People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?

Yep. They even made a new 3310.

520 , 1 month ago to Technology in People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them?

Uh, they DO still make dumb phones. And people still buy them.

520 , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?

And how do they make their money?

520 , 1 month ago to Free and Open Source Software in Why FOSS projects are using proprietary, privacy invasive infrastructure?

Because hosting shit yourself isn't free, and most people aren't up for taking financial losses for their projects.

520 , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Technology in YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong

and the government would have to explain precisely why they decided to ban all Google services over a song about freedom.

They wouldn't explain shit. This is an authoritarian government we're talking about; they have near total control of what information gets to their populace.

More likely they'd just accuse Google of supporting terrorism, and make a show of raiding their offices and jailing their local executives.

I don’t think the people in charge would last long if that happened, considering how integral Google’s services are to many people’s lives.

This is China we're talking about. Chinese equivalents to nearly every big tech service are more than present and accounted for, even often preferred by the local populace. Hong Kong is a little different, but the CCP still exerts near total control there.

520 , 1 month ago to Technology in YouTube Blocks Access to Protest Anthem in Hong Kong

It is literally either follow this law or cease operations here. Both would end in the song being blocked anyway.

Mind you, I wish we were that level of strict when it came to our data privacy laws.

520 , 1 month ago to Technology in Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away

Until they make the wrong call and it bites them on the ass.

520 , 1 month ago to Technology in Apple, SpaceX, Microsoft return-to-office mandates drove senior talent away

Yeah but they're called talent for a reason. The senior talent are generally better than the juniors at what they do.

520 , 2 months ago to linuxmemes in Well that wasn't what I expected had happened to neofetch.

Woodworking and rock climbing scratch the problem solving itch in different ways, on top of the creative (in woodworking) and physical exercise (rock climbing) itches common in most people.

520 , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to Technology in Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes

The problem is the cat's out of the bag.

Open source image generators already exist and have been widely disseminated worldwide.

So all you'd end up doing is putting up a roadblock for legitimate uses. Anybody using it to cause harm will not be seriously impeded. They can just pick up the software from a Russian/Chinese/EU host or less official distribution methods.

It would be as effective as the US trying to outlaw the exporting of strong encryption standards in the 90s. That is to say, completely ineffective and actually harmful. Enemies of the US were still using strong encryption anyway.

520 , 2 months ago to Technology in Spurred by Teen Girls, States Move to Ban Deepfake Nudes

Would it be a crime to have access to the software, or would they need to catch the criminals with the images and video files?

Problem with the former is that would outlaw any self hosted image generator. Any image generator is capable of use for deep fake porn

520 , 2 months ago to Technology in How come TurboVPN can have double the amount of downloads compared to NordVPN and ExpresVPN? ++

It's not specific to e-girls. Can be twitch streamers, bloggers, etc

520 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Why don't banks like root on Android?

Ah. That'll do it.

520 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Why don't banks like root on Android?

And desktop mode doesn't help?

520 , 3 months ago to linuxmemes in Why don't banks like root on Android?

Zygist is a way of hiding the fact that you have root access . Likely your bank changed absolutely nothing.