ShellMonkey

Yeah, the whole ‘you now have a mandatory account’ made for a mad scramble of how to disable every possible scrap of data sent to them. It may have been some small push into the self hosting game too.

Republicans on the committee were also concerned by the impact of large language models that make it easier and quicker for these fraudulent businesses to mass-produce fake scientific content, flooding the literature with ‘AI slop’. “When bad science gets published, it wastes taxpayer dollars, misleads policymakers, and can even put public health at risk,” said representative Brian Babin, a Republican from Texas who chairs the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Republicans at large, and this administration in particular don’t give a damn about facts or science, relying on emotion and indignant moral outrage to guide their desicions.

I was thinking the dark side version of president skroob

Couple dead pixels from a particularly bright light might well make them unable to do their plate reading job efficiently. Might make for an interesting study.

That you should have the option to run locally without calling back to home base without a special pass from MS.

This is a company that’s been reported to use the dwell time of you mouse over a product as a potential indicator of interest. Something like a Citrix remote desktop is extremely chatty trying to keep the origin and server in sync with every move of a mouse or keystroke. If the ACKs from the origin confirming the receipt of screen change data took an abnormally long time it could show in system performance metrics pretty easily.

HSTS says it must be encrypted but a proxy will create two connections and look at it clear in the middle. On the other hand cert pinning says it must be a specific cert that breaks the site if decryption is used. Apple is big on doing that for a lot of their site and apps.

Works fine in they Voyager app

Looks like it’d still a thing

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/google-antitrust-ruling-firefox-search-deal

Google puts up a major chunk of the funding Mozzia gets in a year. If you don’t want them being the default choice in search or having your queries fed to their bots then start putting up the money to make their support no longer required.

In itself true, but if you have several competing distros then you run into the problem of attracting developers to the platform if none have a solid market share. It’s a bit of a chicken and egg thing, if a platform doesn’t have a sizable user base it’s hard to attract developers and it’s hard to get a user base without readily available apps.

Linux on phones or desktops suffer from one major problem as I see it, too much choice.

You make a Windows app it has to work with the latest couple versions, same with Mac.

Make one for Linux and you have to test it against dozens of popular distros, package it in multiple ways, and hope the dependencies are gonna match.

It’s an awesome system for IT people and server admins, but for the end user, ehhh… That seems to be the problem things like snap and flat packs are aimed at fixing, which could transition to phones but first you gotta herd the cats into an agreed state.

Seems not that long ago that it was a huge deal they where heading to $1T

This settlement might help because Trump has directed one $22 million payment YouTube will make to the body overseeing his pet project – construction of a ballroom at the White House. Another $2.5 million payment will go to plaintiffs who joined the case and also felt YouTube infringed their rights.

A true man of the people, a couple scraps for however many may have felt their ‘rights’ to spout their conspiracies in YouTube where infringed, and 10X that for a fancy room for rich people to party in and plan how to become richer.

Many places refer to secure email when they mean a portal that function is more like a private chat app. A lot of them are even sold as ‘secure mail’ but don’t use anything resembling SMTP.

Instead you log into a page, and send a message to the specified recipient who might have an email style address on it, or maybe on the backend it uses their email system for authentication even.