They've been crying wolf so many times.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
It's pathetic that news outlets just go with it. The headline should have a bunch of questions marks, not full stops.
My inbox is already "decluttered" because I don't randomly subscribe to newsletters I don't want.
Maybe a lot of people still need this, because they can't read what they click on, and that makes me sad.
The only place where a gun would have a valid use for self defense is when people are screaming.
But maybe you just want to ban guns.
Reminds me of the real mechanical turk (not the Amazon crap), which was a 16th century contraption supposedly using advanced mechanical intelligence to play chess.
It was really just a guy in a box.
I hated this bullshit from the first time I saw them popping up, and they've managed to insert themselves into so many retailers here.
"Larger customers like DuckDuckGo told Wired they won't be affected."
... for how long? While it is obviously a little ironic that DuckDuckGo routes the searches through Bing (and I was surprised the first time I read about it), it's still a sound idea and I'm glad DuckDuckGo can do it.
Or does DuckDuckGo pay dearly for the service, enough to compensate Microsoft's actual costs? Follow-up thought: If Microsoft no longer cares about Bing, will that cause DuckDuckGo to get worse over time?
A good start but it always helps to put this in perspective.
They made $350 billion in revenue 2024. Over $100 billion in income.
I assure you they make a profit breaking these laws. $1.4 isn't a small amount though, if it keeps happening.
My pet peeve is people uploading content with obviously incorrect aspect ratio to platforms such as YouTube, and the mass of people who watch it without realizing anything is wrong.
With that in mind, it doesn't surprise me at all that people think that "washed out" colors are normal, or just don't understand what they are looking at.
This is not as much of a problem, since the data recorder is local.
The problem is when they transmit data back to the company, who can be ordered to release it without you knowing about it.
This is worse than scripted "clapter" comedy, which is just designed to further an agenda.
Last time I was in China it struck me that my secure VPN solutions, using my own tunnels and pre-installed keys etc, they never worked well. They are throttled to death after a very quick time, since the firewall does not recognize the traffic.
Meanwhile, the VPN solutions my Chinese colleagues use seem to work very well, and it's an open secret. Everyone uses them.
This makes me pretty certain that every VPN solution that works within China, they work simply because there is a known backdoor.
Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division.
