They’re working on a non-Google alternative, last I heard.

This looks like brainrot, just from a different era.

That said, I’d be surprised if the members who left the NRA went to join Giffords instead (pro-background checks organization).

There’s plenty of other gun groups ready to exploit MAGA voters defend the second amendment.

Thanks for explaining. TIL.

Does changing my DNS server change this result?

That one’s down for me, too.

For the most part, it’s believed that carmakers are doing way with Android Auto support simply as a way to expand their control over user data. Because Android Auto utilizes your phone’s connection, all of the data that runs through it goes straight to Android and the phone manufacturer. So, by utilizing built-in systems, the car manufacturers would indeed be able to collect more data about how you use the systems in place, while also possibly getting more money out of you through subscriptions.

You are unfortunately correct.

Why did Flattr dissolve?

Depending on where you look, Grindr CEO George Arison’s net worth is $20–80 million.

He joins a growing list of gay executives hell-bent on proving that enshittification isn’t just for the straights.

To Torvalds, Chromebooks “are the path toward the desktop.”

What does he mean by this?

I struggle to believe Chromebooks will meaningfully contribute to more people adopting Linux, because Google is more interested in getting people to adopt Google instead.

Simone reminds me of the class perspective: musicians here behave like atomized small owners, caught in their enterprecarity, who (legitimately) ask for some defense of their property rights, attacked both by hackers and by the big monopolists of platforms and AI. Because from these property rights, in this case IP, comes a rent, and from this rent, independent artists and label owners try to make a living. Again, right or wrong, this is what’s happening.

I remember reading somewhere that independent artists make basically no money from Spotify.

Is that still true, or have creators found a way to claw back value from the platform, and that’s why they’re defending it?

Now that we’ve gotten what we wanted (seeing him get his ass beat in a real fight), I hope the world forgets him quickly and permanently.

He has contributed nothing of value to the world and deserves no more of our attention or money.

I agree that the (primary) problem is the state.

We’re talking about surveillance in the context of a surveillance empire, not just cops having bodycams (that they they can turn off at will).

Surveillance at scale is like giving a chronic pain patient a freezer full of fentanyl.

With perfect discipline, it’s not a problem. It’s effective pain medication that they’ll only use when they need it.

They will always find excuses to “need” it.

After all, why not?

This is how people justify surveillance states.

What you actually get is “accountability for thee, none for me”, because people with power get to turn the cameras off whenever they want.

Just look at !Epsteinfiles@lemmy.world to see how easy for people with money and power to [REDACTED].

We don’t need (state) surveillance (on citizens).

We need (citizen) surveillance (on the the state).

Alice Cappelle has the best “who is Erika Kirk, actually?” video essay I’ve seen so far.

Basically, she’s always been a girl boss (derogatory).

Erica Kirk is in many ways a millennial Beverly LaHaye. She has become the female voice of Turning Point USA.

Thanks for the transcript and the tl;dr.

What is punycode?

We even had a huge reminder with V for Vendetta, but maybe that was too subtle.

Under Vincke, Larian has been pushing hard on generative AI, although the CEO says the technology hasn’t led to big gains in efficiency. He says there won’t be any AI-generated content in Divinity — “everything is human actors; we’re writing everything ourselves” — but the creators often use AI tools to explore ideas, flesh out PowerPoint presentations, develop concept art and write placeholder text.

The use of generative AI has led to some pushback at Larian, “but I think at this point everyone at the company is more or less OK with the way we’re using it,” Vincke said.

This reads like “some part of his salary stock portfolio depends on it” copium.

The video codec was AV1. Saved you a click.

Queue 80’s movie where the dog throws a massive party to try to get laid with the girl next door but then they wreck the house and the last few minutes are just him trying to hide the evidence before you get home.