Umm ... PDF is proprietary. The standard is ancient. At least as of 2013, if you saved a PDF with some changes in Adobe products, it would just append those changes (including redacting/blacking out documents) unless you used "Save As.." (not sure if that's been fixed). It'd a descendant of Postscript and literally still has support for Shockwave and Flash in their standard.

Scrape enough of other peoples work and content, then, don't LINK to it. No need to visit the sites made by creators. Not when Google can monetize it to everyone with advertising. If searchers go to the original sites, then Google might have to share a bit of ad revenue. (Can't let that happen again!) They do it with photos/images, news... virtually everything. And sadly, most folks are happy for the convenience. Saves them time.

The thing prohibiting them from doing it is that the constitution doesn't grant them that power.

It also doesn't say they can't do it.

From what I've read, ownership of the cameras varies by location. In many municipalities they're owned by Flock / Axon and rented by the government. Destruction of these cameras costs Flock or Axon directly.

I suspect that Microsoft, not unreasonably, thinks that the value of their AI slop will be enhanced if they can use an existing property to get people to classify particularly grating AI slop so that they can tune their copilot-related stuff to produce less grating or less obvious slop in the future.

Maybe someone in the org actually cares about linkedin's reputation as a hellscape for aura-farming lunatics; but I'd be shocked if the incentive that MS is actually motivated by is anything but the chance to get a dataset of text ranked by how unpleasantly bot-like it is to try to make their bots less visible.

Looks like Microsoft is trying to convince people to classify more and less distasteful bot slop for them so they can tune copilot outputs in the future.

The winning move is not to play.

Yea it's used so much is literally has zero real meaning anymore. Nazi == Satanism and Hitler == Satan. It's pretty much a religious belief now.

They don't need to add any of those. They already have all that. The "age verification" just helps tie you to that data more concretely.

I stopped running GApps years ago. Most normal people would never wipe their phone and delete their major social networks. I admit it's hard to do, but it's a lot better on this side. I know my mobile provider still sells my location data, but at least I'm not sending any to Google and that's a big chunk out.

I wish we could educate people on how to reduce tracking, but people keep allowing schools to force their kids into Chromebooks and childhood Google Accounts (unless you're rich enough to send your kids to a private device-free school like the Tech CEOs do). It's pretty fucked up and I don't see an end to it.

I don't like the world largest defense contractor either, but for the correct reasons (father's connection to Emerald mines, connections to Peter Theil and the PayPal Mafia, not raising any of his children, etc.) But he's not any more evil than the rest of the Epstein class. Calling him a Nazi is just so retarded sauce it makes you look sad and like an idiot. The bastard who's company is literally launching spy satellites for Israel is a Nazi? Seriously? Elon Derangement Syndrome runs both directions.

It's like everyone is literally ignoring every Science Fiction book/movie ever, and in those stories humanity is always taken off-guard by their hubris. I think the big difference is that in fiction, the machines are really intelligent and decide they want to kill us all. In reality, the machines are really stupid next word prediction machines that generate text based on all of our collective works (including those about Terminators).

The machines won't kills us all because they're smart/evil. It will be people who are so stupid they think the Machine are Oracles, giving more control to the random word generators, trained on the best and worst parts of humanity, and allowing them to destroy us (really us allowing them to destroy ourselves) by pure randomness and not any actual malicious intent.

But yea, keep making those robots with massive security holes and continue to give them guns.

Thanks for doing the actual research. That is kinda crazy. Why didn't he get the person hit with the cream pie onboard to sue? I wonder if that guy is still employed.

Also it seems like this manager watched too much Nickelodeon as a kid.

I'm sorry what? Where in the world is this a rule? You stop behind the white line, but up at it

You misread OP's comment. They're saying people stop a car length or more behind the white line rather than putting the nose of their car on the white line, and could they not do that.

Which is why you never answer "yes" to anything a prosecutor asks you. It's always a trap. In this case, asking if this is your account and not asking if you sent those messages is the trap.

Hard disagree.

There are mistakes that can happen - getting a phone number wrong, knocking on the wrong street number, stuff like that, sure.

But all of those mistakes need to be found and fixed DURING the investigation. This is the duty of the police officiers.

Not finding any evidence and STILL going to trial - that's on the prosecution. But I doubt that there would have been a conviction if police had not omitted things or outright lied in court. I doubt any courd would hand down a guilty verdict if all the police involved said that they found no evidence of anything.

Once the supply of customers flush enough to buy under more standard arrangements is saturated you are basically left between ignoring the demand for growth forever or deciding between handling...subprime...customers yourself or keeping the arrangement at arm's length.

This 'restricted mode' that Apple is vigorously denying will be used for lease enforcement suggests that the metaphorical arm is not that long and that Apple seems to be doing more than merely being willing to sell devices to whatever resellers; but it's not a huge surprise that they'd want the risk related to the debt and any shaking down handled by someone who isn't them.