Price fixing is a form of collusion, and it's a crime - even if the sellers can claim they didn't all sit down in a room together.

Phoenix apartments had an inflated housing market that was caused by price fixing. The property management used software to set rental prices, and the terms of service required them to use the prices suggested. None of the managers individually spoke to each other, but the software algorithmically inflated rent based on what other properties could get away with charging.

https://www.azag.gov/press-release/arizona-attorney-general-announces-1-million-settlement-weidner-property-management

I'm willing to believe they toss out the video - after they process it and extract all the positioning and timing information. Toss the bulky vid and keep the metadata.

In fact - similar to how a police officer might erase a recording so the most reliable testimony is their thoughts‡ - once the original video is lost, the metadata becomes the only source of truth.

‡(At ~40 minute mark, the officer describes how he transcribes then erases tape recordings)

Yes! But I'm definitely an oddball. I also read the terms of serving refuse to use services that have terms I disagree with.

I happen to have seen that one before. It's very layered … like an onion.

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Cracking a phone is pretty doable. Cracking phones in a way that will hold up in a court trial, much more formal.

That … tracks

You do add important detail, but I'd make the counterpoint that if the corporation is bullying their least privileged users today, stealing their lunch money privacy, they're not going to stop with only them. This is testing the waters for them.

Plus - it's also messed up that they can fundamentally change the nature of the 501(c)(3) donated version and will likely try to claim a tax benefit as though it's equivalent to a paid copy.

Nah. The 24 hour window is so all the rich, connected people can apply for some grandfathered exemption clause that's not available to the rest of us.

The only reason I've never canceled is because I've never subscribed.

But I wish I had something to cancel in protest of the egregious 1st amendment violations.

Basically by allowing websites to refuse to load unless the browser the operating system running the browser promises that the user isn't allowed to know what the computer is doing. And Google super duper promises this won't be used for evil.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/

Not everyone thinks of dog, there's a bit of a bell curve.

This one features the number 19.

You're one of today's unlucky 10,000.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Counterpoint: tech literacy is irresponsibly low for a modern developed world that now requires it for everyday operation.

They took as much as they could digest, but it was a lot to swallow.

Checked post history. Shocking lack of noods.

A demon core was part of early nuclear bomb research. The type of reaction they were studying would emit blue light and a ton of radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

It's been a meme to imagine the demon core as an available weapon in medieval fantasy, since it looks somewhat like a mace.

But is it the same sponge? Inverse ship of Theseus!