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jumelleson Secret 3D scans in the French Supreme Court

> if I take a screenshot of OSMand on my phone and send it to a friend, that I've broken the law

I'm not sure what exactly you're misunderstanding but this is not how the law works.

jumelleson Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

It was certainly more decentralized, less corporate, and a lot messier.

jumelleson Top news app in US has Chinese origins and 'writes fiction' with the help of AI

There's this pesky concept called free speech...

jumelleson Amazon Returns Have Gone to Hell

I have specifically asked Amazon customer support if they could do this (pick up the return) for my elderly parents who have Prime. They never agree and insist on printing a label. They don't have a printer. I have asked them about this at least five times.

jumelleson XZ backdoor story – Initial analysis

Honestly? Good. Anyone doing this sort of work willingly deserves worse.

jumelleson I continue to no longer attend vintage computer festivals

I'm infinitely thankful most people don't think like this. History is a treasure.

jumelleson Rogue editors started a competing Wikipedia that's only about roads

https://www.wired.com/story/guerrilla-wikipedia-editors-who-...

They seem to defend against conspiracy theories and falsehoods. Why are you calling them a "gang"? What are the "dominating"? Why is this bad?

jumelleson Move to Texas or else: Apple sends some California employees clear message

Which metrics?

jumelleson Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

That's not at all how the law works. No one has been defamed.

jumelleson Emmett Shear becomes interim OpenAI CEO as Altman talks break down

The dirty secret of the business world is that the C-suite is the most easily replaceable.

jumelleson I Hate the News (2006)

Well this sure has aged poorly.

jumelleson Apollo will close down on June 30th

Do you have any invites?

jumelleson r/ProgrammerHumor will be shutting down to protest Reddit's API changes

Do you have any remaining invites?

jumelleson Statement on AI Risk

No. It’s not reasoning in any way. It’s an impressive parrot.

jumelleson Statement on AI Risk

Okay, so AI has access to a gene printer. Then what?

jumelleson FBI chief says TikTok 'screams' of US national security concerns

The slippery slope argument is a fallacy.

jumelleson Tech Leaders in Israel Wonder If It’s Time to Leave

https://archive.ph/3TM7H

jumelleson Why does it feel like Amazon is making itself worse?

I needed a new toner cartridge for my Brother printer, so I typed in the exact cartridge code on Amazon and got pages and pages of third-party options.

Googling for it brought up the Amazon page for the genuine product, first hit.

jumelleson The Twitter Files, Part Six

No one has a right to use Twitter. It's a private website.

jumelleson Yahoo Pipes

Don’t forget Wikidata

jumelleson Shell Signs Two-Year Sponsorship with Bitcoin Magazine

This seems like remarkably bad timing.

jumelleson 3D OpenStreetMap

All the info is coming from OpenStreetMap.

jumelleson Walmart Still Doesn't Accept Apple Pay in U.S. Despite Many Customer Requests

No, Walmart doesn’t accept any contactless payments in the US.

jumelleson How to become a pirate archivist

> Was any data lost between the two services?

Undoubtedly.

jumelleson Jessica Wade made more than 1k Wikipedia bios for unknown women scientists

The issue is that on Wikipedia, you knowing something is not a reliable source.

jumelleson Alex Jones told to pay $965M damages to Sandy Hook victims' families

> This case presented the greatest financial risk to Mr. Jones, because he was found liable of violating Connecticut’s Unfair Trade Practices Act, by using lies about the shooting to sell products on Infowars. There is no cap on punitive damages under that law.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/10/12/us/alex-jones-verdic...

jumelleson School vs. Wikipedia

> No effort to distill key elements of these entities' impact -- let alone the how and why of what they do. It's just endless what and when.

This is tricky, because some editors on Wikipedia would interpret that as "original research" and remove it. The rule of thumb is that the citation needs to contain the information added, not just allude to it.