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How is Adobe modifying a system file at all? Does Adobe run a background process with root privileges?

> But when all of the Epstein thing happened, I genuinely thought that US media which moved the headlines faster than I can think about the issues for, would actually slow down given the severity and we as a society could think about it.

Not to worry since the public face of the Epstein files coverup is back in the news.

Suppose for argument this statistic were true. It still does not fully capture people's risk.

P(malware) = P(nalware | Google Play) * P(Google Play) + P(malware | non-Google Play) * P(non-Google Play)

It's the combination of both factors that counts. Even if Google Play has a lower malware rate, a user is still far more likely to try to install apps through Google Play given the sheer size of its catalog and its prominent, default placement on people's devices.

Are there any anti-trust angles to this?

Perhaps if you're the highly motivated type who would excel even without ai. But it's far too easy to become like maths students who learn only how to use a calculator instead of how to actually add fractions.

In fact, he is trying to pave the road for these "age verification" laws in multiple projects:

- https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/pull/4290

- https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_request...

- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1...

- https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-desktop-provision/pull/1... -

It boggles the mind how so eagerly open source projects are trying to pave the way for these laws.

> People tend to distrust websites.

How did the world come to this when the internet long predated smartphones and so many "apps" are little more than bookmarked wrappers around websites?

Don't know why this was downvoted. Some people prefer to access online services from the safety of a web browser sandbox than through an always-installed wrapper app.

> As far as I could tell, they did it by convincing her to install some android app on her phone and then grant that app accessibility permissions.

Did she make it through the non-google play app install flow?

Wouldn't a wait time like 2 hours with some jitter make it more difficult for a scammer to pursue the case? People aren't going to be willing to stay on the phone for hours at a time. With 24 hour wait, the scammer could just schedule another call for the next day.

The one-day waiting period is so arbitrary. Have they demonstrated any supporting data? We know google loves to flaunt data.

Something like Github's approach of forcing users to type the name of the repo they wish to delete would seem to be more than sufficient to protect technically disinclined users while still allowing technically aware users to do what they please with their own device.

Snap supports programs running as real root. Would those work with user namespaces?

Isn't the point of Linux kernel live patching (kexec, ksplice) to reduce the need for rebooting after kernel updates? There's certainly a user base that still aims to maximize system uptime.

It doesn't make sense to move this function to the OS because so long as the OS remains under the user's control, any signal from the OS has no value because the OS reports whatever the user wants it to report.

At any rate, why legislate operating systems when all of the harm comes not from computers themselves but rather from certain websites? And there are already mature solutions for controlling access to specific websites. Client-side parental controls for internet access have existed for decades, dating back to Surfwatch from the Win95 era. A credit card requirement would also effectively impose an age filter.

This. People seem to have forgotten their government works for them and exists only with their consent. They are not subservient to the government.

The schools could also simply not distribute tablets or laptops to students. The technology has not produced noticeably better readers, thinkers, or writers compared to the days when students read actual books and wrote on paper.

"Should the government censor speech it doesn't like? Of course not. The FCC doesn't have a roving mandate to police speech in the name of the \"public interest\"." -- Brendan Carr 2019

The overwhelming majority of programmers likely cut their teeth on computers as kids. Any attempt to restrict computer access to 18+ will only handicap American programmers in the job market.

Is there a common group of lobbyists trying to push these laws in multiple states? It doesn't seem like a coincidence that these are all popping up around the same time.

Firefox, Gmail, and ssh have essentially the same user experience on Linux as on macOS.

>It’s easy to point to China as a place where freedom of speech isn’t present, but try asking members of the current administration or even Supreme Court judges who won the 2020 election and see what kind of responses you get.

Freedom of speech and regard for the facts are independent concerns. People absolutely have the right to call out lies about the 2020 election and have repeatedly done so.

>The fact that many independent national newspapers (including this article from CNBC) are openly calling-out the surveillance state and entering the debate into the public conscience should tell everyone that USA (and the West) is very different from Russia or China or Dubai.

For how much longer will they stay independent? Media empires love to consolidate; most of the largest video services will soon be owned by a fan of govt surveillance.

This is obviously not about helping Iran, as the article tries to suggest, but rather to observe US assets and strategies in a live war, especially when lots of stealth aircraft are flying around without Luneberg lenses to mask their true radar signature.

To be pedantic, the post you responded to asked about "storage medium", not storage services, which leads to the question of what storage medium they use and how long the services will be around.

>The current basis of their suit is largely ideological but if they instead argued the designation was arbitrary the APA could very possibly be used to overturn it.

Their front-line complaint (Count 1 in the brief linked elsewhere in this thread) invokes the APA.

The TikTok ban upheld by the courts was a law enacted by Congress, not an executive action, specifically targeting Tiktok. The legal challenges were all about the law's constitutionality.

This dispute challenges the executive's action, not the underlying law (10 USC 3252). Anthropic does make some constitutional claims regarding the 1st and 5th amendments, but they also advance procedural challenges under the Administrative Procedures Act and statutory arguments about whether the law authorized the action.

>All this began after the Maduro raid, when executives from Anthropic allegedly called an intermediary vendor, Palantir, seeking specifics of how their software was used....

Let's see if the govt includes these assertions in their reply brief since such a factual record would obviously help their case.

How can a review of a smartphone not comment on how well it works as a phone? Calling, texting, and battery life are table stakes for a mobile phone, and the last time I heard about this device it was still struggling with those basics.

> The trick there is to include your damn dependencies… via symlink to a shared cache.

Isn't composefs[1] aiming to do basically just that?

[1] https://github.com/composefs/composefs