Came here to say this. I will never be compelled to install an app on my phone by an eatery the first time I go there. That is severely hostile design. Don’t willingly inconvenience yourself just to freely provide them your tracking info to sell.

a relic of a time where memory was scarce

sighs in 2026

People worried about “digital eavesdropping” aren’t paranoid. There’s an entire class-action lawsuit based on Apple’s Siri getting caught being activated without the trigger command and data that was captured being sent to third party providers.

security researchers have repeatedly demonstrated that implementing so-called "lawful" backdoors is inherently flawed as such vulnerabilities would inevitably be discovered, accessed, and exploited by cybercriminals and black-hat hackers.

Yes, that. Every time this comes up, it requires a rehashing of just how dramatically bad it is as a practice. There’s no such thing as a “back door only for the good guys”

Notably, the European Commission makes no mention of new partnership initiatives with the United States.

Probably wise.

Get Kali out of the Chad tier, please.

“Gay men yaoi” as shown is known as “bara”.

Still a very accurate graphic.

Edited for clarity.

That was my guess as well, but so far, as reported to Ars Technica, they don’t intend to intervene

There is no shame in your ownership of the vehicle based on your intentions; I would humbly assert that anger is a more appropriate reaction to the current leadership of the company that made it. If strangers judge you, that’s on them.

If I had had the means to purchase one 10+ years ago, I would have. Most people who claim they wouldn’t are not being honest with themselves or disapproved of the virtue signaling associated with them at the time.

I was curious why someone downvoted you, so I took a look at the video.

That is absolutely 100% CGI and I’m not sure why anyone is doubting that. I’m on mobile and I can still see it.

Take my upvote.

This guy lubricates.

Username checks out.

I have this book and that’s her son

Mattel partnered with Adobe to use supposedly copyright-cleared AI-generated imagery for the backgrounds in some of their collector edition Barbie boxes last year.

They were spanked so hard by the collecting community over it that they followed a now-deleted suggestion from one Redditor to start explicitly crediting the packaging designer on each information page for new collector releases.

Mattel has a strange history with balancing what the people want with what their shareholders want.

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They didn’t spend eight years in moneybags medical school to be Mx/Mr/Ms/Mrs, thankyouverymuch

I can chime in here with “my former employer hired a full-time lawyer after being sued by Oracle over something trivial”. Company of less than 200. They settled and they still have at least one permanent legal staffer.

Temporary plates could be someone moving out of state. Are you sure it was the latest model?

GNU cat blesses us with a 25-year-old CRT monitor

I thought that until I was downvoted a bit back for calling them “M$” in reply to someone’s post about how they don’t want to switch to 11. I can’t imagine where that’s coming from, but it was a good few accounts.

I was told it came across as “unserious” and childish. I think it’s neither: I’m adamant that M$ is garbage and I’m quite serious about the advice I had given in my post to prioritize getting off of 10 before the hackers manage to find something worth exploiting.

M$ managed to make hating on them uncool somehow. Boggles my mind.

I dunno why the dollar sign version lost favor with anyone. It’s perpetually true, easy to type, and communicates far more succinctly than any screed about M$’s greed and enshittification.

I’d been debating commenting on the unexpected factorial. Thank you for doing the honors.

Nailed it. This platform needs awards.