Operationally, what she experienced is not distinguishable by multiple counts of assault with deadly weapons, followed by false imprisonment (which, in law, applies for detainment of *any* duration).

All parties conspiring to create this situation should be held responsible (this includes you, Flock); IMNHO, damages should be in at least seven figures. Sovereign immunity should NOT apply.

(Note that for the record, "qualified immunity" is a Constitutional abomination: Article I, Section 9, Clause 8: "No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States..." -- and one of the big deals with "Titles of Nobility" was immunity from prosecution.)

Copyright law is very strict on copyright ownership, very nearly as strict as real estate law: in the absence of "work for hire" (which doesn't apply here), a specific written-document transfer is required. It is also strict on creation of derived works (which is what's happening here).

META seems to be engaged in the creation of unauthorized derived works here, and as such should be subjected to such penalties as copyright law provides. All the way up to ex parte seizures of their computers for examination of the evidence (thanks, Scientology, for the precedents on that...)

About 20 years ago, Boeing was sued about boot times and lost: the time-card system they were using required the employees first to boot up their desktops before they could sign in to the time-card system to record their work-times. FWIW

Well..

performance or yield, combined...

This needs an anti-trust lawsuit.

Why should this not be a violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act?
My eyes cannot deal with the "flyspeck 3" fonts used by smart-phones, and as I result I cannot use one. Can I get the statutory $15K per violation specified by this US law?

See https://scitechdaily.com/scien...

This means that the climate-modeler assumptions about the lifetime of free CO2 in the atmosphere are out to lunch.

See https://judithcurry.com/2024/0...:

The analyses posted completely ignore the 2022 Hunga Tonga volcanic eruption, which increased the amount of the greenhouse gas water-vapor in the stratosphere by more than 10% in just one day. And, stratospheric circulation being as it is, that water vapor has a residence time of years.

That volcano-induced greenhouse effect is the largest cause of global warming over the last three years.

The Post, in their incompetent political correctness, ignores this.

According to Fred Brooks (father of the OS for IBM 360's, author of The Mythical Man Month, Turing award winner, and many other things):

If you are encountering a truly new programming problem,

1. You should do the best job you can of analysis, design, and implementation: if it is truly a new problem, your solution won't quite work.
2. Then throw it all out and take a two-month vacation;
3. Using that knowledge from the first system, do the best job you can of analysis, design, and implementation: the result will actually solve the original problem, but will be overly-complex and won't be robust nor extensible. The dangerous thing is to try to use this second system.
4. Instead, throw it all out and take a three-month vacation;
5. This time, when you do the best job you can of analysis, design, and implementation, the result will "solve the problem behind the problem" and will be elegant, robust, and extensible. Use this third system.

They clearly don't understand copyright law: Following the Berne (1980) Copyright Treaty, it's a copyright work as soon as it is "fixed" in non-transient form (e.g., RAM, disk, USB stick, CD, ...), unless it is either a "Work of the Government" or has an explicit, written declaration as public domain. FWIW

Requiring the use of a smart-phone is an ADA violation. And (for the next poster) when you look at GitHub's "authentication methods" documentation, devices such as YubiKeys are not listed...

Why the fuck would you be on your computer on Github without your phone somewhere in the same general vicinity?

For some of us, the "flyspeck-3" fonts used by smart-phones make them un-usable. This is a Federal-law matter (the Americans with Disabilities Act); note further that statutory damages for ADA violations start at $15,000 per offense... are you volunteering to pay that?

More than a decade ago, did a search on Amazon for "30 inch 2560x1600 monitor".

Only 3 of the top 10 results, and 7 of the top 25, actually met even the "30 inch" spec.

So "poor search results" is not a new thing.

24x7x24x7x365.2422 FWIW

$6,688.56 times 100 million people is something over $6billion...