tldr:

• CEO was forcefully ousted from Firefox for anti-LGBTQ views and donations.
• Replaced existing ads on sites with Brave's own "private" ads.
• Collected crypto on behalf of others without their knowledge or consent
• Injected referral links into crypto websites to steal crypto revenue
• Put ads in the new page tab
• Shipped a TOR feature that leaked DNS
• Doesn't disclose the ID of their search engine crawler via useragent
• Removed "strict" fingerprinting protection
• CEO is generally a right-wing dick.

Money? Is it money?

clicks article

For Meta, it's all about the money.

Shocking.

I think it's generally a brilliant solution but there are a couple of problems here:

1. The scanner seems to flag fucking everything and charge for minor damage where a human would probably flag it as wear.
2. No one is allowed to correct the scanner:

Perturbed by the apparent mistake, the user tried to speak to employees and managers at the Hertz counter, but none were able to help, and all "pointed fingers at the 'AI scanner.'" They were told to contact customer support — but even that proved futile after representatives claimed they "can’t do anything."

Sounds to me like they're just trying to replace those employees. That's why they won't let them interfere.

I feel like this is an incredibly obvious yes. They were down for 12 hours. They put Trump's name as their savior in the error message... Then the CEO shows up to his inauguration. Trump freely admits that it is because he believes TikTok helped him win the election:

“I have a warm spot in my heart for TikTok because I won youth by 34 points,” Trump said in December. “And there are those that say TikTok had something to do with that.”

So. Yeah. Of fucking course it was. Fuck national security and all that nonsense, ME ME ME!

I work across the street from a Waymo station and they just circle the parking lot aimlessly 24/7. They had to hire someone to monitor access because they were getting stuck and blocking the commercial vehicles from accessing the dock.

Not Just Bikes predicted this months ago. They can't be bothered to pay for sufficient parking space, so they just drive around in circles when they're not actively in use.

More like "How DMCA is ruining the internet" considering these companies are just complying with the law.

I'm not a tech guy

• Installs Arch
• Installs Hyperland
• Makes custom animated ASCII art for NeoFetch
• Makes custom bash script for his sponsor spot
• Creates a completely custom reactor-themed desktop

Yeah I think he's a tech guy...he just doesn't know how to build computers (that was painful to watch).

The whole article is a good read but this is the important bit:

Instead, the northern state will turn to open-source software to "take back control" over data storage and ensure "digital sovereignty", its digitalisation minister, Dirk Schroedter, told AFP.

They also blame Trump which is pretty hilarious but probably not terribly relevant to the community.

tl;dr you can still "sideload" via adb.

This is so incredibly inconvenient as to be meaningless.

Your threat model is being authoritarian + a moron.

They're using Signal with disappearing messages instead of official channels because they don't want their conversations documented for accountability. It's the same shit they relentlessly blasted Hillary for.

I was most disappointed when I read that he left the group chat. Missed opportunity for some top-class trolling:

We are good on OPSEC

Are you really tho? 👀 🥸 😱

Its really disappointing seeing the 3DP community continue to embrace Bambu after the inevitable closure and self-proclaimed Apple strategy. Disappointing, but not really surprising.

Hindsight is 20/20 but this could have been avoided by just not replying and blocking the number instead. Replying "STOP" just verifies that it's a good phone number and that you're reading their texts. Then they collect that information and sell it to other spammers.

Despite that, they say that GitHub didn’t even respond to their counterclaims, and just shut the whole thing down the minute Nintendo asked.

You are a fly on the wall of one of the biggest tech companies in the world. They have no interest in going to court for you just so you can keep your emulator on their site.

The most famous case came in 2018, when 25-year-old Tyler Barriss tried to swat a streamer, but instead sent the police to the wrong address. It ended with a father-of-two being shot dead by officers. Barriss was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

And the police who murdered the innocent father? How many years did they get?

If it were a "first-class citizen" there would be native Linux games and not rampant and intentional anti-cheat exclusions.

"First-class citizen" doesn't refer to the quality of the experience, but how it's treated in society. At this point it's mostly something that devs and publishers tolerate, and occasionally offer minor consideration on behalf of a single device.

Affinity is not affiliated with Adobe. And presumably because Affinity is higher quality than it's open source alternatives.

I don't understand why this needs AI. I'm guessing this is just more marketing nonsense. You can already see the "most engaged moments" by simply hovering over the timeline.

I don't engage with the community at all. I don't buy games on Epic because their launcher is ass. And last I checked they don't even have reviews for games. They don't require disclaimers for anti-consumer measures either like Valve does for 3rd party accounts, Denuvo, etc. and they even had the balls to criticize Valve's requirements for AI disclosure.

The fact that their CEO is openly anti-Linux is another good reason.

They just come off to me like a very anti-consumer company, like most all other corporations.

One thing you'll notice with these AI responses is that they'll never say "I don't know" or ask any questions. If it doesn't know it will just make something up.

"As someone who lives near a Best Buy, I'm at Best Buy often," Newsom told reporters during a news conference. "And I'm paying sales tax on a lot of this prewritten software. And then I find out that all my friends that aren't near a Best Buy, they're downloading and they are not paying sales tax. How is that fair?"

I agree, its not fair, let's just remove the sales tax, k? 👍

Also pretty sure no one is buying software from Best Buy in 2026, that would be dumb as hell.