I like this approach. When I was growing up they'd assign six books a year, every year. Invariably, they'd be the most boring, dry reads to me. Once I discovered SparkNotes / cliffnotes, I would read the first chapter or two to see if it was another boring book, decide it was, and then just rely on the summaries. I'm very fortunate to have read other books so I still developed an enjoyment of reading. But I've never thought I cheated myself by not reading all of Moby Dick or Pride and Prejudice. There has been not one time in my career when I needed the skill to read hundred year old novels with no practical application.

I'm already hearing multiple stories of LinkedIn randomly demanding id scans and people switching to Indeed instead - and actually finding jobs that way. I think LinkedIn has already begun its descent.

Data sharing with the federal government. That's always why they were pushing it.

Maybe the citizens there trust their government, but I don't want my ID on my phone. Doubly so if the government was involved in chat control...

This; if a platform is informed of illegal behavior, they ought to have liability to take it down.

What you are missing is that the barrier to switch platforms is nontrivial. Consumers would have to buy a whole new phone and lose any purchased apps. Apple is able to leverage this to act anticompetitively and extort more fees from consumers than they normally would be able to in a completely free market. Thus, the government must step in to balance the scales.

They also knowingly provide services to a number of illegal businesses (ex: pirate sites, etc). When a company profits off theft, you know they're shit.

It's still greed, they'd rather companies plow their money into into stock buybacks instead of infrastructure. At least the data center projects created construction jobs...

Yeah, the MVNOs are where the customers are going. I don't know how long the networks will keep selling to their competitors at such good prices though. Somehow the MVNOs offer better prices and WAY better customer service.

This. Also, it's annoying because Google will use the scary warnings as a backdoor to disuade less technical users from using alternative app stores. Meanwhile everyone else gets trained to ignore warnings since they're being deployed unnecessarily.

Might also look into peertube

Trains are cool and all, but unless you're on the eastern seaboard, they have an on time departure rate of only 50% in most of US. They also travel significantly slower. Maybe trains could become popular again for 100 mile trips, but they're not going to replace planes for 1000 mile trips.

It's not even that good of a deal -- apparently there's also a 5% fee, so devs will still be paying 25% on some transactions instead of 30%. Most egregiously, Google is allowed to change service fees on third party payment methods. Seriously? Fuck off, Google. And none of this stops the developer signing requirements that will likely hamper ad block developers and anyone else Google doesn't want to give keys to.

I agree with you that it's patently illegal, but most likely ice will arrest decliners for 48 hours and not charge them with anything. It is a crime to not identify yourself to officers, but you're ONLY required to provide a name (or license if driving). They would not be able to get an obstruction charge to stick for facial scan. Just remember not to resist the arrest itself, and definitely don't fight back since then they can get you on resisting or battery leo. Just look down, close your eyes, anything you can do to interfere with the scan.

Yes; I don't want to hand my phone over to the government/airline employees.