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phillaholic , 4 months ago to Technology in Biden orders crackdown on selling Americans’ personal data abroad

The US restricts export of certain hardware for matters of national security too, and doing it through shell corporations would get them in trouble too.

phillaholic , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Technology in Biden orders crackdown on selling Americans’ personal data abroad

The President does not have the authority to outlaw selling of personal data in general. This is why it’s being limited to a select few countries of concern and not all. There are national security concerns with these countries in particular.

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Technology in Google isn’t done trying to demonstrate Gemini’s genius and is working on integrating it directly into Android devices

Most of Apple’s AI will run on device and not online, so that’s something.

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Technology in White House urges developers to dump C and C++

NIST are the experts guiding the White House.

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Technology in Counties are blocking wind and solar across the US

Find an HOA with conservative leadership and you’ll find all sorts of bs. Worse when they weren’t like that when you bought, but have turned into a MAGA idiot and reject anything green on principle.

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Technology in Counties are blocking wind and solar across the US

Minorities in general. Some of the first HOAs excluded Blacks, Jews, Asians, etc in literal writing. It took a SCOTUS case to overturn.

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Technology in Counties are blocking wind and solar across the US

And they meant men too, not women.

But really they meant White Male Landowners with money.

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Technology in The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

That’s 99% of the reason we use HDMI…

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Technology in Actor at Willy Wonka Disaster Says Even the Script Was AI-Generated

You’re describing AI. We are in the get rich quick period of AI usage.

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Technology in The HDMI Forum rejected AMD's open source HDMI 2.1 implementation

DRM is mandatory in any spec you expect content owners to support. We don’t have to like it, but it’s absolutely not going away.

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Technology in GitHub besieged by millions of malicious repositories in ongoing attack

LastPass hack happened due to a developer logging I. On their home PV which had an outdated and vulnerable version of Plex installed. Swap outdated for “maliciously forked” and now attackers have legit code that can run for months before they use what they’ve injected to take over.

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Save 25% today! (j/k, it's only 5%)

I’ve had that happen recently too. Last one was clearly lost. It kept cycling in and out of their same warehouse. Happens with IPS and FedEx from time to time too.

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Save 25% today! (j/k, it's only 5%)

I don’t think two day shipping is an advertised feature anymore. Depending on where you live, I’ve seen ordering directly from manufacturers is the same or quicker than Amazon most of the time.

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Google Gemini refuses to answer questions about deaths in Gaza but has no problem answering the same question for Ukraine.

Clearly that’s the ideal, but getting that done is next to impossible and many of the surrounding countries that are bank rolling Hamas don’t want to see peace. It’s very difficult to fight a war against terrorism. Afghanistan/later Iraq proved that.

phillaholic , 4 months ago to Mildly Infuriating in Google Gemini refuses to answer questions about deaths in Gaza but has no problem answering the same question for Ukraine.

You neglected to include what should be done with the terrorist group that started the conflict by invading and killing a thousand Israeli citizens. It’s like you’ve read one side of the conflicts view point and ignored the rest. So you know how many times two state solutions have been negotiated and why they fell through? It’s really difficult to compromise when some people don’t think Israel should even exist. I don’t expect you to solve it, it’s impossible. There’s hopefully some good news coming out today https://apnews.com/article/palestinians-abbas-israel-hamas-war-resignation-1c13eb3c2ded20cc14397e71b5b1dea5