From Sony's perspective, the ISP is the absolute *best* target here. Not only is the ISP a bottleneck through which almost-all copyright infringement happens now (thus making it the perfect place to greatly block it), but Sony gets to make some other business incur all the costs and consequences of enforcement, including eating the profit loss, while Sony rakes it in.

Sony doesn't care in the slightest if entire households are harmed because one member infringes in secret, nor if that harm is actually very grievous since Internet access is now essential for daily life (and even having a job) in most of the developed world. If families starve on the streets because of this, they think that's great, as it will serve as an example to all those other evil pirates!

So, they will keep pushing for this with all their might, because they have a mountain to gain and nothing but legal fees to loose. Maybe they will lose a little public goodwill, but they are too rich to care about that.

Sony did this twice, as I recall. After being hit with a class action lawsuit and forced to do reparations, they just went out an did this a second time. And got hit with a class action lawsuit a second time, too.

Probably most of the decision-makers who were involved in those decisions have moved on by now. It's probably safe to assume that this is a different Sony. Does that mean they deserve a benefit of the doubt? Absolutely not, since all evidence here indicates that the new boss is the same as the old boss.

Sony cares about profits, and will trample families and laws underfoot to achieve them, just like all the other big businesses who are rich enough to get away with it.

Then they'll find out the hard way that Steve was right.

Apple II, Mac, etc: write software to do anything you want to. Sell it, directly to your customers, if you want. Oh, you're just a user? No problem, just access the Free Market. It's your PC, to do as its user wishes.

iPhone: use the app store to access this approved list of software which does what WE want. Want something else? Go fuck yourself; this computer isn't yours. It is important that we all remain the same, and only do what nanny wants. (Oh, and if you do sell, and we deign to approve your software, we're taking a big piece of the action)

The iPhone is more like a videogame console than a personal computer. That's a step backwards, as if it's still the 1960s and those Jobs/Woz guys had never existed. I don't want a 1960s not-so-P C. I want a 1980s PC. Why the fuck would anyone want to go back to before Jobs & Woz?

Steve Jobs worked hard to undo his legacy as one of the people who helped to start the Personal Computer revolution, and the iPhone is his monument to the denial and refutation of his earlier role. He became a counter-revolutionary.

It wouldn't be so bad if the revolution were something lame, but the revolution was that We The People could use computers however we wish, instead of however The Company wants. That was innovation.

Thank you to 1977 Jobs, and Fuck You to 2007 Jobs.

It's just a matter of time until President Pedophile insists on a coin to honor Timothy McVeigh.

(No, Jobs isn't in that league, but he's a lot better known for the regression of the iPhone than the progression of NeXT.)

Agreed. The promise that limiting renter's choice to a single provider would result in beneficial cost savings was one of those lies that everyone knows is a lie the moment they hear it, yet everyone with decision making power pretends it is the truth (and many other adjacent parties just thoughtlessly repeat it).

Similar to "this merger will allow us to eliminate wasteful spending on competition and thus offer higher quality service at lower prices, without firing anyone!"

Or "disallowing third parties from making repairs will keep our clients safe"

I could go on, but I wouldn't be saying anything novel or revelatory.

There are other forms of crazy that also motivate self-cutting. Some forms of dissociative identity disorder include strong feelings of being fake, as in not a real person. One might think they are a robot or an animated manikin or similar. Of course this sounds unrealistic (and unlikely) to most of us because we don't experience this. But for people who suffer these episodes, they are extremely disturbing.

So they cut themselves to see their own blood. It helps alleviate the anxiety of the condition. Seeing their own blood helps ground them in their sense of being an actual living creature. Apparently, feeling the pain can help with this too. Though if episodes are lengthy, one cut isn't enough, because the blood dries and resembles plastic, which adds more fuel to the fire.

On a different spectrum, as I understand, there is "sympathy-seeking" cutting, where people cut themselves so their injuries will be seen by others who will then offer support and sympathy and attention. Our society tends to take a pretty dim view of this one, seeing it as mere selfishness or immaturity. Which it may be, in some cases. But in cases of extreme feelings of isolation, loneliness, rejection, etc., the emotional imbalances are enough to drive on to depression and suicide, so it can actually be indicative of a serious condition, and a legit cry for help.

I have read about religious cutting as well, as in "stigmata," where a person internalizes an expectation that this should be happening to them (from their religious upbringing) and experiences cognitive dissonance when it doesn't happen for too long, and wind up doing this to themselves with only semi-awareness so they can then surprise themselves at the discovery of the injury mere moments later.

"Ok class, the next time anyone disrupts class with an outburst like that, they will go into detention. Furthermore, any time any one of you does this, you are all getting extra homework assignments for the day, that will affect your grade."

Back it up with action.

Of course, I have never worked as a teacher and have no idea what the problem with this is. I wonder if someone with my "punish disobedience" attitude just wouldn't succeed as a teacher, these days.

They're talking about LineageOS. Think Graphene but it doesn't just run on Google hardware. Over a hundred devices and they just added mainline kernel and qemu support so it potentially runs on thousands of devices.

Sadly with less hardening. I wish Lineage would take some Graphene patches. The crazy thing is Lineage descended from Cyanogenmod which had many of these patches!

At which point it will hallucinate that every building is a McDonald's only to get you murdered by a drug cartel gang.

Lying to you to give you that terrible restaurant recommendation. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.06105 is a white paper mathematically proving that LLMs will lie.

I have said this all along- most of AI is GIGO- Garbage in, Garbage out. LLMs were trained on the largest garbage producer in our society today, Web 2.0. Nothing was done to curate the input, so the output is garbage.

I don't often reveal my religion, but https://magisterium.com/ is an example of what LLMs look like when they HAVE curated training. This LLM is very limited. It can't answer any question that the Roman Catholic Church hasn't considered in the last 300 years or so. They're still adding documents to it carefully, but I asked it about a document published a mere 500 years ago and it wasn't in the database, but instead of making something up like most LLMs will do, it kindly responded that the document wasn't in the database. It also, unlike most AI, can produce bibliographies.

If I want an app to draw over other apps (e.g. accessibility apps) I need to grant that permission (AOSP distro). How do they bypass that?