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I feel compelled to mention Oracle at this point. Isnt their entire business model suing their customers?

AI has successfully scraped enough of their content so that they are no longer needed. Thanks for creating the content, now someone else will make money with it.

Toward the top or at the top they look at dollars and cents, keeping investors happy. They are too detached from the people actually doing the work to understand when then harshly and coldly grind out a bit more profit for their bonus that actual people, just like them, bear the burden.

Toss in all the algorithmic cloud management of the people and they get completely disconnected from their workforce.

There are probably entities saving encrypted data right now for when that day arrives. Brings up many interesting lines of thought beyond "is it breakable right now?"

Now government overreach, apparently.

Sounds exactly like Stripe and PayPal. Arbitrarily turn you off anytime they feel like it for any reason they please.

Never build your whole business on using either or you are just a daily dice throw from being turned off.

The difference between you and TrueBill or Ramp is they have legal teams and founders/backers that have inside access and special approvals that ordinary start ups do not. Certain start ups get special treatment by the banks and payment processors because of behind the scenes actions you cannot take.

Banks and payment processors currently have the power to decide which companies can exist and which cannot. Sometimes for perceived moral or risk reasons and sometimes for random reasons. We really could use some sort of uniform legal appeals process rather than the standard of going to social media to beg for reinstatement.

Source? Just want to read about it myself.

"the activity of designing and building the plane became more important than the outcome / functionality of the plane itself."

Yes. After a while was it about building the plane or keeping the aerospace industry employed and engaged? The design tried to do everything for everyone and fulfill every Colonel's dream feature and mission. Its the ultimate story of feature creep.

On the desktop there has been minor movement as percentage of the whole market, but up 9% on their own share.

https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/worl...

Sounds like Google Play is treating Tor Browser like any other app. Randomly rejecting every 4th or 5th release of a long standing app for some random minor reason.

I get they need to keep trojans, spyware, adware, etc out of the store, but as a long time app developer it just seems like the algo says, "We have not rejected this app in a while, so let's do it this time."

Anyone checked to see what Tony Stark is doing these days?

Sadly, it likely helps in compensation and promotion opportunities.

Good. Facebook is just an echo chamber for hate speech and mis-information. Looking at you high school friends.

Where would the climate crisis be if we diverted all the energy spent on Bitcoin mining into carbon sequestration?

New Hampton, checking in.

Billy Brothers clocks, as a child in northeast Iowa that place felt world-famous.

Loading fonts is tracking and data collection. It's what Google does. If they build the fonts into the browser, then tracking/data collections calls are not made.

Iowa and West Virginia are bright green in all years. I guess no rich people live there.

Lets just call it what it is, welfare for the educated. Its a money giveaway to support defense workers.

Is this Heaven? No it's Iowa. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8-B5cyfK6A

License plate scanning = most likely, Facial recognition = probably not, Cell phone tracking = not necessary, Chemical / radiological sniffing = possible

Single payer health care already exists in one form, The VA. How is that working out?

So should you since that device you are reading this on was most likely sourced there. Likely sourced by underpaid workers in virtual enslavement to Foxconn or some other component manufacturer. Not to mention living in a toxic environment so we can all have our electronic toys.