I guess this will be logging that type of data, so another data logger.

Little Snitch is not a data logger. It's a real time connection monitor.

Let's say you're using an app, and it decides to make a random connection to some server. Little Snitch will immediately pop up a dialog asking what you want it to do - let the connection through, block the connection, and if you want to allow it always, block it always, etc.

The fact it's immediate generally is for tracking purposes - the event happened because you clicked a button or started an app. A logger just makes an entry in the log, and it's really hard to correlate that log with user activity. Maybe you were running Audacity, and when you start it up, it makes a connection to the owner's server completely out of the blue. Maybe it's checking for an update. Maybe it's trying to upload your data to its servers. What you learn is that it happened when it was launching. With a data logger, you just get notified of it but have no way to figure out what you were doing at the time of the log entry.

In this day and age of telemetry and such, having it show up immediately when an app tries to make the connection is far more useful than having to do rules of allow and deny lists and having no clue what's causing it. Knowing it was a specific app uploading all your personal information means you can choose to switch to something better, block the upload so you can continue to use the app, or some other thing.

But the thing is, the reparations that the courts can give are financial.

Injunctions are usually granted in cases where non-financial losses are likely - where things can happen that the courts might not be able to reverse through a ruling. For example, sale of a car with sentimental value at auction. The courts will likely temporarily block the sale of the car because once the car is sold, there's nothing the court can do to make someone whole - the transaction will be extremely hard to reverse (especially if the buyer disappears) and a simple replacement might not carry the same meaning or sentimentality.

But because Anthropic's damages are primarily financial, this is something the court can easily award. I mean, if it costs Anthropic $100M, they'll likely accept $100M in damages, it doesn't have to be specifically that exact $100M. Even better, if Anthropic is able to get customers to claim they could not use its product, that could add to the damages while the case goes on.

Companies can encounter damages that do require injections - like say a partner wants to sell the company to a competitor, but the other partner doesn't. The court will likely hold the sale while it resolves the case because if the company is sold, it's going to be very hard to undo that if it has to. So sometimes the damages aren't all financial in nature.

The organisation, after Musk took over, became a cesspit of far-right extremism, in which anything the far-right "disagreed" with (such as facts and other inconveniences) were censored.

The EFF has, by this announcement, basically said that censorship did not bother them at all, that extremism did not bother them at all, that death threats against the left didn't bother them, that the only thing they were bothered by was the fact that the intellectuals had all left.

That does not give me overwhelming confidence in the EFF as being concerned with freedom.

That was actually my thought. It wasn't until I got to the mention of Twitter than I figured out they didn't mean X11.

I did think switching from X11 to Wayland was a funny thing to post publicly about. And a funny thing for /. to pick up.

Yeah, the privacy aspect of EFF doesn't align with social media in general IMHO.

Are they trying to "earn" some $ from social media? That's a silly goal, but might be a nice side benefit.

It's worse than that, because with proper skill, it isn't even a copy/pasta. It is one app that posts to everything all at once. Even the social media places that didn't make the list.

  Buffer, Hootsuite, Metricool, Robopost or Later ... just off the top of my head.

One could probably tweak posts for each platform with AI effectively.

While I can't drop $2K here and there throughout the year without thinking.....I don't consider $2K a bank breaker. I'm not rich, but I do like to save up and drop some coin 1-2 times a year on something nice.

Maybe cameras or new lenses (lenses can be $$)....or the odd cell from time to time.

I think last time I dropped about $1100 or so for my iPhone 12 Pro Max.....and I did pay it off 12 mos interest free with Apple Pay....

But that's just me using their money...in truth I almost NEVER buy anything I don't have cash in hand for.

But if they let me finance interest free I'll do that and keep the cash in an interest bearing account of some kind.

Again I'm far from wealthy, but I have no real debts.....but I know a lot of people and $2K is pocket change for them....and these aren't few and far between types of people, I see these types all the time all over the place.

It's not rare by any stretch of the imagination.

Here is the list they are staying with ...

  Bluesky, Mastodon, LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube

So, where did the audience go? It didn't go to the existing places from 20-8 years ago. And I doubt it went to the two new kids.

What this tells me is that their audience is aging/dying off, and the younger generations aren't there in numbers. This requires little to no political inferences to understand. It is easy to mistake one for the other.

Yes, I am a Boomer. I don't rely upon AI to tell me what to think. I am also a Libertarian and interested in Privacy and been a long time proponent of Open Source. Maybe figure out what intersections to the younger generations align and go there.

I think the history lesson is stop listening to bros who slept through history class saying things like "{X} pulled it off."

I doubt Trump will be remembered for the Iran war. Most American presidents for the last half century have gone and killed a bunch of people in the Middle East. He's much more likely to be remembered for some tariffs and comments about crippling export weapons freeing a bunch of countries from the burden of being American allies.

With their new Mythos model they can take Pentagon down, that's what I hear anyway. Maybe Pentagon needs to be taken down as well as the rest of the regime and all of the regimes.

That's 10 times more than I'm willing to spend on a phone.

That's fair.

But do remember, there are a LOT of people out there with a LOT of disposable income.....

I don't trade phones often I currently have a 12 Max Pro....and it's looking a bit long in the tooth. Not holding a charge long enough, and the lightening connector isn't dependable for charging, so I've been using nothing but magnetic charging past year or so.

While I'm quite interested in hearing about and seeing the "fold" Apple phone.....from my early understanding, it will NOT have the camera specs they 18 Pro Max (or whatever they call it) phone will have.

I'm MUCH more interested in camera than folding...

I think it was brought up because a youtuber brought it up recently in one of their videos and it probably went viral.

He mentioned how it was billed as supposedly a relaxing spa type retreat that wasn't, and what was a disaster for some, others found fun and team building.

It wasn't captured as anything other than "CEO misreads room for team building event". All I know is such activities aren't for me so I don't know if those who weren't equipped to do that sort of thing had an alternative thing or they were forced to participate.

Which it was.

I think you give him too much credit. I don't think his "messaging strategy" has any design, nor is it a strategy. It's just Trump saying whatever shit bubbles to the top of what sometimes passes for a mind. And it's random and changes every four hours because he's random and changes what he believes every four hours. Or every four minutes.

I don't think he even "learned" to act like a reality show... I think this is just who he is and who he always has been, albeit with an added layer of growing dementia. He was moderately successful on reality TV not because he figured out how to be moderately successful on reality TV, but because his normal personality, style and complete lack of ethics, morality or consistency just happens to be perfect for reality TV.