I get the unpleasant impression that we are doing a corporate reenactment of that period in European history where basically everyone was ruled by Habsburgs who were incestuous and incompetent in equal measure.

"All the websites offering downloads of pirated movies and television shows have them in .MKV format, probably because of its good picture quality and smaller file size."

You have no idea what you are talking about. MKV is a container format, not a video codec. It does not offer smaller file sizes than any other container.

If you don't know, you don't care.

If you care, you know.

I think Bitcoin has shown that there is a deep well for irrational exuberance.

It's the end-point of America's post-9/11 fetishization of police out there to solve a societal issue with violence

I have seen this repeatedly in different categories. You have a space for thousands of characters to provide detailed information about whatever it is you're posting. Someone writes a single sentence of about 100 characters with misspellings.

....transforms Edge into an AI-powered browser experience

I wonder what is setting the filter off, and I doubt it's intentional because if Microsoft got caught, it would be a disaster.

realtor.com won't load for me. I've seen a few more. It's *probably* because of cranking security settings up

That's why the Mozilla community is demanding that Meta:
- Shut down the Discover feed until real privacy protections are in place.
- Make all AI interactions private by default with no public sharing option unless explicitly enabled through informed consent.
- Provide full transparency about how many users have unknowingly shared private information.
- Create a universal, easy-to-use opt-out system for all Meta platforms that prevents user data from being used for AI training.
- Notify all users whose conversations may have been made public, and allow them to delete their content permanently.