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It's not? Everyone at my company has the same experience.
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It's not? Everyone at my company has the same experience.
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Automakers could halt car sales in California without delay in vehicle tracking law
Weird to call this a "vehicle tracking law" when its whole idea is to give drivers the option to turn the tracking off.
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The 2024 California law requires automakers to set up a clear process for drivers to submit a copy of a restraining order or other documentation and request termination of another driver's remote access within two business days. It also mandated that carmakers enable drivers to easily turn off location access from inside the vehicle.
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White House delays release of US voting machine study as midterms near
The report, produced by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, concludes that voting machines could be further safeguarded by, for example, updating their software, the sources said.
Are voting machines connected to the internet???
I mean, yeah, updating software is nearly always better for security, but why wouldn't you just run the machines disconnected for max security?
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Same, very same
Most of us didn't grow up suicidal and we still don't know, either.
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Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers
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Why wouldn't you just switch to a non-Chromium browser instead?
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Already going to be a problem child
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Tell me you haven't watched Serpico without telling me you haven't watched Serpico.
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Anthropic warned against “[t]he prospect of ruinous statutory damages—$150,000 times 5 million books”: that would mean $750 billion.
So part of their argument is actually that they stole so much that it would be impossible for them/anyone to pay restitution, therefore we should just let them off the hook.
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Mexico’s Socialist President to Roll Out Universal Healthcare
Somebody better put up a big fuckoff wall between the US and Mexico to keep the Americans out.
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GOP's Texas map has Austin residents sharing district with rural Texans 300 miles away
This repub regime is really showing us how much our system of government depends on having good-faith actors in (elected) positions of power. There truly are not sufficient checks in place to protect against one election's worth of bad actors.
Kind of amazing that this all worked for about 250 years, and heartbreaking that it could crumble in the next 2.5.
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Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward
I suppose this means Microsoft will not count Word doc file sizes against users' cloud storage quotas, right? Right??
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Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. In other words, they are losing money on every user.
Isn't this true of like everything AI right now?
We're in the "grow a locked-in user base" part of their rollout. We'll hit the "make money" part in a year or two, and then the enshittification machine will kick into high gear.
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Democrats reach deal to end government shutdown before Thanksgiving: report
And we will once again be forced to watch as the Democrats find a way to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
They won the elections in a landslide only to turn around and IMMEDIATELY fuck it up.
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Deuces
A lack of adequate planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
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Welcome Aboard Rule :3
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Adblocking is security and I will die on that hill.
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Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
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The extra fun part is when it starts bitching at you for filling up the cloud storage allotment that you didn't know you were using.
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Zohran Mamdani says 'I don't think we should have billionaires'
Wholly agreed. There are no ethical billionaires. Fight me.
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Release the Elmo!
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Hilarious that they blurred out "fuck" but the calls for genocide were totally cool to keep unedited.
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Two billionaire Harris donors hope she will fire FTC Chair Lina Khan
Amazing that we don't consider shit like this to be bribery.
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The Supreme Court Is About to Hear a Case That Could Rewrite Internet Access
I'm gonna go to businesses I don't like, hop on the Wi-Fi, and pirate from all the most obvious trackers.
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[UPDATE] "The Day The Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie" will reportedly be pulled from theaters this Wednesday
I literally did not even know this movie was in theaters yet.