For most people, a fingerprint is a decent way to unlock their phone. It's fast and good enough for banks to trust it with payments. It can easily be disabled in an emergency situation (press the power button 5 times rapidly). Thieves aren't equipped to lift your print and unlock your device, and will just sell it on or break it down for parts.

For fingerprint unlock to be an issue you would have to consider a threat actor who can get your device before you have a chance to disable it, and then force you to unlock it before the biometrics time out and it defaults to needing your password (Pixel devices do that, not sure about others).

Well, with a police interaction, especially if they suspect you of something...you will be quickly separated from your phone and not be given a chance to click anything on it.

This is quite common....and even many cops have common sense to know this.

For what? Who I am is more relevant than what I know for the vast majority of transactions I have. Phones have functions to lock out biometrics, simply rebooting the phone would trigger a password requirement on every mobile I've used recently. I can't face unlock or thumb unlock a freshly started phone. On the iPhone you can simply press power + volume for 2 seconds and it will disable touch/face ID until the next time you enter your passcode.

Keep in mind, you likely will not HAVE the opportunity to click or hold anything on your phone with a cop interaction....quite often the first thing they'll do is separate you from your phone if they suspect you of something.

So, keep in mind, if you can't disable your biometrics....you're screwed.

Typing in a passcode/password is fast enough for any transactions I do with my phone...it isn't rocket surgery.

Why you should (if you own an iPhone) lock it with 5 clicks when doing things like going thru security lines or getting pulled over. Always. It requires the pin to enable touch or Face ID.

Why not just avoid using the biometric crap entirely?

I mean, I'm guessing the defendant, like many people would not have had a chance to click anything 5 times.

I've never used the biometrics, just a complex passcode/password.

We know that's protected the most to date.

It puzzles me why so many participate in that voluntary hoovering up of personal information....

IRS agents go after wealthy tax cheats because they are scored and graded on how much money they recover and they're going to recover many many times more going after a wealthy tax sheet then they are going to go after some random Schwab who makes a little six figures or less.

I saw something on one of the news channels the other day, that seemed to indicate that the IRS indeed is going fairly heavily after the "Schwab" who makes 6 figures or less....

There's a ton of those, and they are easy pickings since they dont' have the resources for lawyers and heavy duty CPAs.....so, you can recover a LOT of $$ shaking down a LOT of small fish.

It's quicker too than going after a well lawyered up rich guy that can take years.

Google is one of the companies that built the tools that allow propaganda to be made much more efficiently, funny its own employees fell for it hook line and sinker.

In the age when males are beating females in sports by pretending to be females the structural inability to tell the truth, to provide negative feedback is not only hurting female sports. Musk will never land a star ship on the Moon or Mars or anything because he is a sharlatan and he hires former government officials who signed government checks, he is burning through billions of tax money with every flight, all of these star ship flights are pointless. Gaza residents and Hamas operatives not only indistinguishable, they share the same values. People protesting pro terrorism (against Israel) are wrong for the same reasons this male athlete is participating in female sports. USA denying help to Ukraine is literally murdering thousands of Ukrainians and promoting putinism, which is terrorism. USA federal reserve has created the inflation by monetizing government debt and so the economy is dying. The planet is going to become extremely hostile to people because we are still burning coal, oil and gas for power and heat production instead of building more nuclear power plants. There are more and more lies all over.

These Googlers are a sad reflection of the modern approach to reality - our game is ignorance, lies and denial and these protests are just a form of it.

There are well established limits to the 1st Amendment, which is why some states have laws against "involuntary pornography" that have stood up to 1A challenges. The key is not just classifying anything pornographic that was manufactured without consent as illegal, but also considering the intent behind it. To protect 1A rights, things like public interest in disclosure have to be considered. Only where intent to hurt the victim can be established (i.e. revenge porn) can it be made illegal.

But, this law in the UK is saying you can't even generate it for home collections or use.....and the 1A definitely would protect that here in the US.

Libel isn't protected in the US so writing fiction about real people can and has got people sued. I don't see why pictures get stronger 1A protection than words.

Well, it isn't libel if you create it for your own personal collection/use...you can make pictures or write anything you want here to keep private.

And to a large extent, you can publish it too...as long as it isn't libelous.

Writing fiction, wouldn't necessarily be libelous....and for celebrities/public figures, they have less protections than normal folks...so, there's that too.

Terrorists are very good at pushing their messages, this is clear today. ruZia, hamas, Iran, north korea even, apparently they are very effective at this entire psyops thing. Israel needs to eliminate the threat, AFAIC this can entirely mean whiping out the entire Gaza population also I hope they take out Iran's rocket and drone manufacturing capabilities, this would help both, Israel and Ukraine.

Why does anyone use F-droid? Why does anyone use F-droid to install NewPipe?

Well, that answers none of my questions...

I have no idea what the fuck F-droid or NewPipe is....

It doesn't sound very iPhone-ish to me...?

and why do you need that?

Well, aside from "what does NEED have to do with anything....they are quite useful for protecting your hearing when you are out target shooting.

But seriously what the fuck does "need" have to do with getting a suppressor or a few of them?

I don't "need" a corvette or Porsche...but they are fun to own and drive.

Same in that suppressors are fun to have...it's nice to shoot without having to wear hearing protection, etc.

Hell, silencers/suppressors are MUCH easier to get in countries around the world that are VERY strict about firearms ownership, primarily due to hearing concerns.

It's a breeze to get a suppressor in much of Europe...that is if you can somehow get past the draconian gun laws.

That is making shareholders money. That is it. That is the goal.

How do you figure?

Disney stock has been tanking badly over the past few years, and I"m not talking about covid problems.

Only thing I can figure is, they are more beholden to Blackrock and Vanguard than they are their other stockholders.

YouTube used to be great early on. Lots of interesting people posting about interesting or genuinely funny stuff. These days it's just a bunch of influencers trying to sell you crap. They've turned YouTube into yet another marketing platform. Fuck them. I can't actually remember the last time I watched anything on YouTube anyway. It's not worth coming back to in the first place anyway.

You and a few others have made very similar statements.

I seem to always find something to watch on YouTube....but then again, I'm generally searching for specific subjects, or looking through subscriptions from people that speak to my specific subjects...examples being photography, cooking (specific styles or ethnic foods).

Anyway, the algo seems to have pretty accurately figured my interests and if I'm wanting to be passive in my looking for content, well, it seems to accurately suggest videos that are in my interests.

I dunno that I've ever seen a true "influencer" as many have stated.

How do you watch YouTube...is it only passive scrolling, or do you usually search for specific topics/subjects?

Can someone make an enumerated list of all things good this means for the user, that they could not have or do before this EU law took effect?