Ugh, I forgot about this. Aren’t you still going to be able to install apps from third-party marketplaces? I thought the plan was just that the phone was going to hassle you and require multiple hoops.

Syncthing is probably a simple fix.

Coincidentally, I moved to self-hosting Vaultwarden last night, which is open source but compatible with Bitwarden. If you want a simple transition and are capable of hosting it yourself, that would be my recommendation.

Genuinely no idea what PR hack thinks putting this dude in front of a microphone is a good idea. I’ve seen more of him in the past month than I can count, and pretty much each appearance is somehow worse than the last.

There is absolutely no way this blows up in their faces.

All of these guys benefit from government involvement early on. Elon went to Russia to buy rockets for SpaceX with the man who would immediately thereafter become the head of NASA. Facebook was started with outside investment from Thiel, who himself was the beneficiary of In-Q-Tel funding. The project that became Google Earth was also funded by In-Q-Tel.

Bootstraps my ass, and frankly, they’re all probably assets as well. It’s not hard to look at FB/Google/any number of tech companies and conclude that they collect information the government would like but politically can’t hold, but is able to obtain via national security warrants with little to no oversight.

Turns out all the government needed was some Trump branding in order to sell people on an invasive national database.

Genuinely miss the old Apple, but Linux is ascendant so I’m not too mad.

This article has me thinking I’ll get the two cheese graters out of my closet. For old times’ sake.

Guy whose ideal model would be to have no employees and pay $0 in wages, benefits, retirement, etc: “I think generative AI is great, actually”

We don’t need a podcast to answer that question

Absolute L take from the undisputed king of L takes.

They’re inhumane terrorists, and I think it’s important to point out they’re fucking idiots. DHS dramatically lowered its standards to recruit so many so quickly, and we’re dealing with some of America’s meanest idiots being given a badge and a gun and told to run wild.

They’re stupid even by American law enforcement standards, and that’s saying something. People are pointing out that this is against the rules, but I’m not even sure these guys can read the rules.

There’s no such thing as entrapment in the world of copyright, unfortunately.

That said, something kinda similar did happen in the Viacom v. YouTube case. It’s been over a decade since I read it so forgive me, but I think YouTube discovered that Viacom themselves had been uploading bits of The Simpsons, and I believe sometimes processing them to look like amateur clips because they believed that the exposure helped them in the long run.

To be clear, I’m not saying it’s a good argument. OP just grossly mischaracterized it.

The main issue with this is that it would either A. Be massively open to abuse in the same way that YouTube is now, but would come with greater penalties in that you can lose Internet access. Or B. Force your ISP to do a copyright analysis every time they receive a report.

Every illegally downloaded book is a lost sale

This is straight out of 2007. What an awful position to take.

And that’s fucking wild about someone fighting you over your own music. The DMCA is a fucking joke.

No, that would be if they tried to assign liability to Bell Labs. ISPs have traffic logs and are assigning IP addresses to pirates. I’d say it’s closer to holding Hertz accountable when people who rented cars break the speed limit. Still a terrible idea though.

But I’m concerned how they can request this with a straight face, since we’ve seen wholesale abuse of the DMCA since its inception. Ask anybody who has a YouTube channel with more than 5k subscribers about the false reports they’ve received from companies claiming to own someone else’s music. People are going to have their access cut off based on fake reports.

It’s really the latter, but the laws requiring notification are structured in a way that it’s considered a breach because the end result is the same for the individuals affected.

That’s weird. My wife uses an iPhone and it works flawlessly, and I don’t think any specific configuration was required.