Nice, that makes sense. Doesn’t is store more data than just an IMEI number though, like make/model, did you have to spoof that as well or was that easily ignored

I was thinking crabs, many are slimy, have legs and have an exoskeleton, but maybe that’s different than a house.

I was going to go with tree, but they obviously overlap. Tree just had the advantage of being alive still. Unless we count roots as legs… shit

That’s interesting. I was just checking to see if Cromite showed up there but couldn’t find it, is there a menu you found yours under outside the update tab? If something as simple as a browser I use is going to be blocked from installs/monitored I can’t see why I’d stay in this ecosystem.

What is blocking it? I haven’t done much research yet but was hoping to find a new OS if this goes through. Wouldn’t it be the same as putting a sim card into a tablet/laptop? Or is there something specific to your country that stands out?

I give it 2 years till Netflix requires you to have an ID every time you open the app because it has rated R movies.

This is the same principle. The account holder agreement should make the account holder responsible for the use of the service.

The government shouldn’t be parenting our minors, their guardians should be.

Otherswise we should put digital locks on every beer bottle, pack of cigarettes, blunt raps, car door, etc. That requires you to scan your ID before every use.

“Kids shouldn’t be driving cars, it isn’t safe!” Yes, but somehow we have made it 100 years without requiring proof of age/license to start the car.

And the car is far more deadly than them seeing someone naked.

Makes me curious if they think their monopoly or whatever they were called cases making them split their browser are going to go though. If you are going to have to sell parts of the company, now would be the time to hammer home any last minute bad things that would make the companies more profitable. Shows higher income for the sale, and gets it out of the way so the new purchaser doesn’t look like the ones who did it, but rather the ones who will make announcements on how they will review things to make them better for the user base.

Doesn’t mean they’ll follow through on them, but it takes the evil and sticks it with the old owners.

I don’t know much about it, but what did they change with the whole Real ID / star on Licenses and such. I believe the purpose was to make it so the IDs were to a minimum standard so they could be accepted in all 50 states. If they all had unique ID numbers (I don’t know that they do) they could have just used those, or expanded on those and already have the ID system in place. To travel to another state and have a valid ID, I believe the cut off date is November of this year. (At least for my State, because my spouse doesn’t drive and her ID she was told would no longer be valid post November if she doesn’t go in and get it done)

That makes sense. And seems like it would have much easier implementation as well.

Meta is actively pursuing government contracts for uses of its supercomputer it’s putting online next year and it’s AI investments. They are becoming a defense contractor essentially. To acquire contracts during this regime, I’m sure they will give any backdoor and facial recognition assistance the Pentagon asks for.

Being redundant to say this. People are actively posting pictures of themselves, their families, and their locations continuously and sending them to a government defense contractor. Posting their activities, hobbies, who they interact with, their food, et cetera.

If news companies cared about people’s privacy, they would be broadcasting that on every network warning the population in my opinion. But that would piss off the U.S. government, and they don’t want that.

Yeah my first thought was maybe I should add more butter

So if I’m reading that right they set for $700 billion worth of purchase during the Bush admin, it got reduced to 426.4 billion by 2014 and they claimed they made $15.3 billion. It sounds like they made a 3.5% gain on their investment total. A win! Yay… Only if you ignore the fact that if that money went in from 2009-2024, the money averages out on inflation to have been worth 481.29 billion. A loss of $12.15 billion dollars if they would have done anything else with it.

Overall I wouldn’t be mad that they wasted that money if they had focused on structuring the company moving forward in a manner that wouldn’t end up supporting a wealth divide moving forward. The CEO “only” had a salary of $2.1 million in 2024. Which actually sounds mildly alright. Yet her take home was $29.5 million when they got done throwing stocks and bonuses at her. That’s after GM stock started 2024 at $55.50… and ended the year at $35.64.

So the company lost ~36% of its “worth” and she got more than 13x her salary in stock and bonuses.

Yeah, sending it wirelessly would have massive loss, probably around 90%+

I do wonder how many people have copied config files to diagnose issues into Grok/other AIs not remembering they had IP addresses, certificate security information, or maybe even server credentials

Ah okay. I didn’t look into them. I just used it to try to send some instructions on how to get a game install working on Mint when I didn’t want to ask for their email address or give out my IP and a temp login so they could download it off my fileserver. (I haven’t exactly put a lot of effort into security there)

AI tokens? Is that something your seeing on a desktop page. I only see the send file option on Android. I don’t even see a donations button

https://filetransfer.io/ Was the site I came across

I ran into a online file transfer site last week that was apparently run or owned by likewire. Was really surprised.

I do have to say peppers on pizza is a great choice. Can’t say I’d want to go beyond jalapenos, habaneros, banana peppers, red/green/orange/yellow peppers though.

That said, is trying this pizza, but I’d have to start crust first

I just saw another candidate doing similar running for a Senate seat in Maine. He’s already said he would vote out Schumer