Yes, but, from the article: ”GrapheneOS also says governments and banks are increasingly adopting these verification systems for things like payments, digital ID apps, and age verification services.

“Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they’re directly participating in locking out competition via their own services,” Graphene said."

I read an article years ago where the author played golf with him. The cheating was blatant and obvious, but not malicious. Cheating was a given. Trump expected everyone to cheat, and to not do so was foolish. Anyone who didn't cheat was a chump.

I don't think anyone has mentioned "helicopter" yet. It's not heli and copter like you might think. It's helico like helix meaning spiral and pter like pterodactyl meaning winged.

Her university has an unwritten rule that students must sign an employment contract or provide proof of internship within one year of graduation; otherwise, they won't receive a diploma.

That's some bullshit

While yes, Happy Tree Friends is probably not for kids despite how it might look

So this is actually real kinda, some men can cum so much that a woman has to size up their pants. It's called bigolspurtz and it's quite sexy. Definitely not uncomfortable.

Just because beer can doesn't mean that beer should.

My city council was fine with the data center. Then the citizens brought a guillotine to the proceedings, and they had second thoughts.

Even if you look at him in the best possible light, he's an absolute moron. A lucky one, but still. To the day he died, he still believed he'd reached east Asia. And it wasn't a case of not having the information to know better; he just couldn't fathom being wrong.

It's amazing how long I can stay pissed about how WebOS was squandered. My Pre had personality; it's the only mobile I actually miss (aside from nostalgia).

It's so dumb I have to assume it's satire

I think "mating" is more effective. A minor double-take means you're more likely to remember it. Besides, textbook writers should be allowed to fit in jokes where they can; their work seems dry as hell.

I tend to not get excited about the hot new thing in tech. Sometimes the thing has legs, like crypto-currency or LLM chatbots (probably), and sometimes it doesn't, like metaverse or NFTs. But I work in tech, so I know a lot of people - am friends with some people - that tell me that the thing is the future and that I need to get in on it, too. Of all the fads that didn't pan out, NFTs was the most satisfying to watch crash and burn.

I'm never going to be able to use the phrase, “Thank you for your attention to this matter," now.

He's just so, so dumb.

I really wish Randy would shut the fuck up, because it seems like the actual devs really care about this game.

Chill! This is a common problem that must people have.

I hear people say that all generations have their dumb numbers, but I don't remember so many establishments having to ban 69 back in the day. Yes, there will have always been something dumb getting popular, but I think it's more willfully obnoxious now, and I don't think I'm just an old man yelling at a cloud.

E: Thinking about it a bit, I think there's truth to it being willfully obnoxious. The rise of social media encourages being more disruptive, causing a bigger scene, anything to go viral. God, now I really do sound old.

Yeah, lemmy definitely isn't immune, there's just a lot less of it almost definitely in part because there is a lot less engagement in general.

Bust down a door and say, "Heeeere's Tronnie!"

Yeah, this actually sounds fine to me. Since they're entirely self-made men who acquired their wealth through their own hard work and gumption, it's only a minor setback.