i think they mean patrick breyer from the german pirate party

You need to verify your hypothesis if you want other people to build on it or everything will eventually crumble down like a house of cards.

mattermost is meant for big corporations or governments

they’re probably gonna remotely disable them or reclaim them before they ever end up in your hands

but it’s also difficult to permanently change something in our bodies. just about everything only has a temporary effect. life is incredibly dynamic and everything changes over time.

no. jensen huang was born in taiwan and spent part of his childhood there but nvidia was all american right from the start

don’t believe companies when they tell you they don’t want all the money on the planet by any means possible

there are technically alternative marketplaces on iOS in the EU, but they do the exact thing google is now copying off apple: apple still has to give the green light. apple “notarizes” every app, even if it goes through a third party app store. this changes the app irreversibly, and ios/ipados devices can only install notarized apps.

that’s a cool feature i guess. every once in a while i get some interest in iOS but it being such an incredibly walled garden with only the tiniest of technically compliant escape hatches and only in the EU really dampens my enthusiasm. the depth sensor for scanning your face is a neat idea and imo warrants the massive notch, i think i prefer fingerprints though. seems like a simpler idea for authentication, and with auth and security simple is always better.

that’s an odd thing to hear

for the biggest crypto investors it isn’t even really gambling. they use celebrities to hype a memecoin and then rug pull and split the profits harvested from the celebrity’s fans.

the city is in key national focus for prototyping modernization and creating a smart city.

phones are already very full and dense, and a headphone jack is a very large component. plus, the Bluetooth is simply part of the small SoC, it’s a microscopic size. That doesn’t mean I prefer Bluetooth, but it makes some sense.

as someone has been fiddling with dongles for years, it’s not that bad, and you can just permanently connect your headphones to your dongle. the apple dongle is excellent and beyond enough for iems and a lot of headphones. I personally have one dongle + iems for my phone and another dongle + headphones for my PC, and that setup works really well for me. You might want to consider it. Otherwise, those big beefy Bluetooth headphones might be semi-repairable, and there are of course also Fairphone Bluetooth earbuds that are apparently fairly repairable (though I know nothing about those). At least you can replace the batteries and the ear tips or pads, and that’s usually enough to last you a decade with these things.

yes but what if a company has the ability to create billions of close friends who can recommend sponsored products to you? why would it care about whether you want that or not?

also bard was a way better name for google’s LLM. it has its origins in an isaac asimov story about a robot who is programmed to tell random stories.

i meant other types of captchas as well, but yes, cloudflare is fairly configurable. I also know other captchas can be more aggressive. And of course captchas can also block or harass “high privacy” configuration browsers and clients, and there’s also the strategy of infinite delay, where a captcha is never quite sure you’re really a human, so you have to work through 12 phases of it only to have to do the exact same thing again the next time you’re on the site. Recaptcha V3 with its “automatic” background captcha is also in a surprising amount of places you’d never know about unless you’re infected with some kind of The-Mainstream-Internet-Hates-You disease. Captchas discriminating against poor countries isn’t some big secret though, as far as I’m aware it’s fairly well known.

they also often prevent legitimate traffic from poorer countries, and aggressively so

I think you overestimate the average user

To be fair, it’s sort of the way of the internet and modern western society to love to nitpick and especially nitpick character flaws, and maybe some of that accidentally bleeds into spaces and people that want to be above such things (or at least not in a reductive or destructive way)