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So it would be like a kitty snow board.

This is just their way of saying they want state sponsored backdoors into all private home networks.

Oh yeah it’s totally deleted from that one server! Of course all information is kept for “quality and training purposes” and to hand over to palantir and whoever is willing to pay.

The monkeypaw says they will stop updates for the java edition or release a new version that doesn't work on the java edition.

They probably see how many sales are generated from the free work done by modders though. If someone wants to come along and do for free the thing you might have to actually pay designers, developers, artists and all the support staff for and they still need to pay you to play it, you'd be foolish not to encourage the exploitation of free labor.

Makes sense. It takes years to complete construction projects and budgets always overrun. AI is a fad for most companies trying to get into it.

Think about the dotcom bubble. We went from having all of these businesses that shot to the moon for valuation... and then it collapsed. Feels exactly the same. A few will survive to become metas and googles because it is not a worthless technology, but most of them are going to be worthless companies when investors decide it's time to run.

Amazon Photos syncing, if I had to guess. It was marketed a free unlimited backup for amazon prime users.

WorldCat.org is provided by OCLC, a nonprofit global library organization that provides shared technology services, original research, and community programs so libraries can better fuel learning, research, and innovation.

In what way does anna's archive work contrary to their mission?

It doesn't. It does their mission better than they ever could. They provide no value beyond the database that is being shared for free by anna's. There must be some salaries or some soft power being wielded somewhere by someone who doesn't want that to go away.

if I was on this guy's jury I would flat out refuse to convict him on any charge for this.

Shouldn't be legal to setup systems outdoors for mass surveillance. Cameras outside to inhibit vandalism is one thing, but this is warantless wiretapping equivalent.

Sir you need to activate your linux XP system.

The idea that hibernation is going to cause substantial SSD wear is ludicrous on all but the smallest SSDs in systems with large amounts of RAM.

Hibernation is only going to be saving ram in memory, so for most consumer systems 8, 16 or 32GB. Most SSDs nowadays are rated for hundreds to thousands of terabytes written as an effective life so you would need to hibernate hundreds of thousands of times. Even an aggressively low lifespan drive like a 256GB with ~500TBW would last over 18,000 full 32GB writes. Let's pretend you hibernate four times a day every day, every year. 365*4 = 1460 hibernations per year. 18,000/1460 = 12.32 years. Long past the lifespan of a computer. No spinning disk is likely to survive this long either.

They even call it out in their article with their own math of twice a year and come up with 25 years of life. Just not something to worry about, at all, for almost any practical use case.

Do we really need to bomb Iran again?

Can’t we just… not?

$159,974,600 in "Salaries, wages, and related fringe benefits" for 2025.

Why would a nonprofit company that supplies databases of library metadata need to pay $160 million dollars to staff? You can run a midsized business for that. https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/annual-report/2025/pdf/2025_OCLC_Audit_Report.pdf

2024 executive earnings: https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/310734115

Key Employees and Officers Compensation

Prichard David (President & Ceo) $1,347,322

Rozek William (Cfo, Treasurer) $832,584

Murphy Bart (Chief Tech. & Info. Officer) $765,667

Leeches.

The fact that in lieu of paying them they simply want you to log in with an account they control should speak volumes to the privacy implications.

Come on, they want a genocide of the ukranian people and to annex the territory.

That's all this has ever been about. Money. Land and resources.

affects mobile the most obviously... but google's playbook is to basically have forced telemetry always and enforce integrity of their telemetry, and by extension advertising etc.

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/05/07/google-recaptcha-play-services-requirement/ - this just seems like an ok article for it, I did a simple web search and it came up, but others certainly exist if you dislike the source.

They're also upping the sub price for some home user office plans. Apparently it's milk the customer time at microsoft.

This is the wrong fucking outcome...

The verdict should have been what protects consumers the most, not what benefits advertisers the most. Apple should have been forced to add the same privacy inquiries to their own first party apps.

Advertisers REALLY want to know what age groups are into what.

Oh, and uploading your ID or whatever to do this guarantees they know who posted those pesky comments that do not align with the party values.

"We're protecting the children" per usual

I swear people do not understand the point of what microsoft does.

There isn't a team tasked with making teams worse. They're tasked with extracting all possible value out of their product. Part of that value is infromation like where you are, what you're doing, what you're talking about, what you search for, what you actually do for your job, who is around you, what they talk about, where they are, what they are doing, what they search for, and what they do for their job and how everyone spends their money.

All of this is incredibly valuable data to governments, businesses and private individuals that want to advertise, suppress dissenting political voices, enhance useful dissenting political voices, and otherwise manipulate global influence.

They just don't want you to think about declining any permissions, triggering regulatory action, or switching to another platform.