Ah that makes sense. Personally, I tend to avoid urban areas if possible. Too much air pollution, noise pollution, light pollution, people… Maybe it’s a sensory thing. I could see how it’s much easier to build a public transit system when everyone’s so close together though

Honestly, it’s just so convenient to be able to get in the car and go (unless the destination’s parking situation is really bad).

Americans value convenience quite a lot. We even trade our personal data for it.

I kinda wish the big companies would do the same and just block the states that pass these laws. Like, the state just loses access to a big chunk of the internet as soon as the bill passes, prompting an uproar and a learning opportunity for those lawmakers.

Obviously that’s probably unrealistic, but I can dream 🙂

By verifying that they’re correct…? 🤔

They aren’t a solution to the problem today, but they’ve advanced quite a lot compared to when I first had this idea like three years ago, and lots of tech companies continue to dump massive amounts of money into advancing it even more.

I’m not saying LLMs (or whatever the next big thing after LLMs might be) are the whole solution though. They’re just tools.

I really hope this can be improved with AI. A teacher can teach in ways that are effective for most students, but not all. But an LLM can scale up more than a teacher. Hopefully educators can somehow leverage that tech as a tool to multiply their own effectiveness.

🤔 I kinda want to type “illegal content” into Yandex now

Aren’t smart TVs basically dumb TVs when they’re offline?

Again.

If you own your own domain name, this process is easier. Your email address can stay the same, even when moving to different email services.

Well I don’t think Spotify wants to do it, but it’s probably a better option than abandoning their UK users.

I assume the other streaming options will do the same in the UK market, so probably better to look at self-hosted alternatives, if you’re into that

+1 for vinyl. The album art, inserts, etc. really adds something to the experience that I had long forgotten over the years of downloading and streaming music.

Like… In general, or are you referring to a particular situation in which that happened?

I’d disagree with the “never” part, in general. For example, it’s probably good not to know how it feels to murder.

Well I don’t see any reason why I should, despite the “YSK” part

🤔 why should I know this?

Many years ago, when I was repairing computers for a living, spyware like this was highly frowned upon.

I haven’t touched Windows in a few years, but I’m still somewhat saddened to see how normalized this has become. Why did society stop valuing privacy?

reputation laundering against Ukraine

What does this mean?

I don’t disagree with your main point, but I’m not sure it’s really even “stealing”, as that means to take without permission. In this case, the storage permissions were configured so that the files were publicly available to everyone, so everyone had permission to access them.

Semantics though. It’s still unethical to access that data, even if it’s not technically stealing.

I’m no lawyer, but this seems like at least grounds for a class action lawsuit, I would think. Like, it seems like privacy and security is implied (however ironic for an app like this) when requiring users to upload their PII.

Also, I assume their privacy policy didn’t mention that they were just gonna publish their users’ PII.

Thanks! I edited it

A good craftsman never blames their tools

EDIT: I misquoted

A bad workman blames their tools