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A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

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Any enterprise working with sensitive data certainly has to disable the feature. And turns out, that's most enterprises.

I have heard very little, if any, enthusiasm about this. Nobody seems to be excited about it at all.

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It's an inefficient form of food, requiring more nutrients than we get out of it. But we like eating meat (it's delicious after all), so in theory it is purely for our enjoyment.

Though we also use it to feed our cats I suppose.

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Nuclear reactors are ill-suited for baseloads, because they can't scale their output in an economical way.

You always want the cheapest power available to fulfill demand, which is solar and wind. Those regularly provide more than 100% of the demand. At this point, any other power sources would shut off due to economical reasons. Same with nuclear, nobody wants to buy expensive nuclear energy at peak solar/wind hours, so the reactor needs to turn off. And while some designs can fairly quickly power down, powering up is a different matter and doing either in an economically feasible way is a fantasy right now.

If solar and wind don't provide enough power to satisfy demand, some other power source needs to turn on. Studies have already shown that current-gen battery storage is capable of doing so. Alternatives could be hydrogen or gas power stations. Nuclear isn't an option economically speaking.

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Yup, they shut it off for a couple of hours during exams so students won't cheat.

Or at least, won't cheat using the internet.

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It sounds more like Rashida Jones.

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The financial sector offers a magnitude more services than just "transactions". It's a stupid comparison.

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    A strong bias against genocide and in favour of peace is not a very disagreeable one.

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    Signal recently updated to allow usernames instead of phone numbers.

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    Ah, that may be true indeed.

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    Techwise it probably doesn't, but then there's marketeers, sales, accountants, legal, etc...

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    They're all gods among men.

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    Steam apparently has a backup plan in case of a looming bankruptcy. But they never elaborated on what that is.

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    Android has a garbage collector, meaning it requires an additional 2GB of RAM of overhead to keep things smooth. iPhones run significantly hotter than Androids, and consume more energy to achieve their performance gains.

    It's not true to simply state "one is better than the other". There's various metrics in which either one may be better.

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    Well, more RAM will always help. An iPhone with more RAM will allow it to perform better than one with less RAM. Similarly, too little RAM will hamper performance regardless of the device.

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    We see barely any building ever since the government introduced higher taxes on social housing corporations. And the nitrogen emissions are also very high due to industrialised agriculture, causing new build projects to stall (too many emissions in a certain area =/= no permit to build).

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    Tai was actively being manipulated by malicious users.

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    Yes, it doesn't rely on online services afaik.

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    As CEO he is ultimately responsible for his platform. So yes, in the end it's his responsibility. It's why he gets paid the big bucks.

    Please, for the love of God, VOTE! (pawb.social)

    I don't like Biden either, but anyone with half a brain knows there are two choices in the 2020 election. If we had a sane voting system, voting third party might be worth it, but as it stands, no one but you knows your favorite candidate exists and unless you want to become their campaign manager that will still be true in...

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    Democrats are unable to go further left because that risks losing votes to the GOP.

    In a 2-party system, you don't get the choice you want to make. Instead, you have to vote against what you like least, in order to motivate that party to move. You vote dem, so the GOP is forced to change. The parties grow closer together, giving the democrats room to move further left.

    It's a terrible system. The first candidate that wants to do election reform should be voted in ASAP.

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    Obama was not exactly a progressive, was he? The GOP moved right because Trump pulled them there, and there was a voter base to use. They also had the opportunity, given that Clinton was not as popular as hoped. The media has been shifting rightwards as well. And they will keep moving right as long as they believe it will win them elections.

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    I tried this but can't reproduce your results. AdGuard doesn't seem to be sending any weird DNS or tracking requests on my phone.

    I'm fairly certain you're seeing some kind of false positive, but I don't quite know what's going on exactly.

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    I don't think about them at all to be honest. Total disinterest.

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    Doesn't matter. Lemmy instances are technically "entities" so the law applies to them. You don't have to be a business, just "anything that processes EU citizen's personal data".

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    Instances located in Zimbabwe still have to comply with the GDPR, as the law applies to any entity that processes EU citizen's personal data, regardless of where this happens. Instance B would also have to comply with a deletion request, or whatever EU member state the citizen is from will impose a fine and seize assets if necessary.

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    It's both indeed, citizens as well as residents.

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    It absolutely is enforceable, and the EU has already enforced it several times.

    The EU can of course try to seize assets, but in many cases they have signed a treaty with other countries stating they have the right to enforce the GDPR within their borders. Think a bit in the sense of an extradition treaty. For the US, this is the EU-US Data Privacy Framework for example.

    This means the EU absolutely can, will and has the means to enforce the GDPR abroad.

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    GDPR applies regardless of any "business". It applies to any entity processing personal data.

    Which is incredibly broad by the way. IP addresses and email addresses are personal data too. Same goes for "account data" in a broad sense. So Lemmy does collect personal data, and has to be compliant with the GDPR.

    Of course, for a fine there needs to be an investigation and the entity has to not comply with GDPR requests after a warning. And you're absolutely right that devs can't be sued for this, but the sysadmin running the instance can be. But that would only happen after GDPR noncompliance.

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    I'm not sure if Milei has been in power for long enough to have any sort of meaningful impact.

    I don't expect him to have a positive impact, mind. But it always takes a bit of time before things change.

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    It functions more like a drawing tablet, with the ability to put something behind the screen allowing you to easily trace it.

    Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying (www.wired.com)

    Reddit Is Letting Power Users In on Its IPO. Not Everyone’s Buying::Reddit says it wants to reward users by letting them buy into the company’s public listing. Some say it’s too risky—others say they won’t pay a company they’ve already given hours of free labor to.

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    Same here. Quite bizarre too, since I'm not even a US citizen so I'm not even allowed to buy in. And surely based on their user data Reddit should know that...

    I am genuinely horrified to see how much data google collected from me

    I created a google takeout and in that zip file I found some files containing a ton of data about me. It has logged every single page I visited while using the google search engine and chrome browser. It even logged every single time I opened an app on my old android phone. It even has VOICE RECORDINGS of me and a log of every...

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    As if Google doesn't already know.

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    "ente Verification Code" also looks like a misspelling of "Enter Verification Code". Might also be tripping something up.

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    IIRC this is because Spotify wants to generate translations for these audiobooks in the original voices. At least, that's what I think I remember from a long time ago.

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    Meh, lots of Apple products have heat dissipation issues. Most notably some of the recent macbooks had that issue iirc.

    They're good, but some of the design choices force some hefty technical compromises.

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    If your code takes up so much horizontal space with 4-space tabs, you're putting too much on one line or indenting too deep. 4-space tabs keeps your line length manageable.

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    Enormous Elizabeth could also work I guess.

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    They put money in Bitcoin, but not the tech behind it. To them it's just stocks to be manipulated in order to get a profit.

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    Water has a flavour you silly billy.

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    Hogwarts Legacy was cracked in less than 2 weeks after launch iirc. Public release of the crack was a few days later.

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    The prosecuting lawyer would argue the intent was in fact criminal and not fair use.

    You can't just state "I had a fair use intent", you state your intent (e.g. selling an AI model that creates content for financial gain) and the court determines if that intent was criminal or fair use. And considering criminal copyright law is intended to prevent others from financially profiting from your work, this can be construed as criminal intent. So I would not be so sure that the criminal matter would be dropped so easily.

    Of course in this specific case, there's a bit of a grey area, so the first case would not have criminal intent. But if ruled against the AI companies, subsequent cases could argue criminal intent as the AI companies should know by then that what they're doing isn't allowed.

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    That's why he's a terrible burger flipper.

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    ... Are they? I've never had issues cleaning them at all.

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