The EFF warned that the legal risk could push sites to either ban all known VPN IPs or mandate age verification for every visitor globally.

This is the goal.

Way to go, Minnesota! 👏

They’re the same picture.

They thought they had captured the market and could get away with anything because there were no other options.

Now there are options. They fucked around, now they find out.

No.

You have my permission to write fuck on the internet. On the fediverse, Zuck is the more offensive four-letter word.

Sorry! I entirely missed that!

But yes, it’s an inefficient and buggy process. I think it’s also what makes text selectable in images, which is why it is always running. Since we’re living through a RAM apocalypse you would think that Apple would find ways of making always-on processes more efficient.

mediaanalysisd isn’t mysterious. It’s a ML process that evaluates your photos and videos and generates description metadata to make them text-searchable. It’s what allows you to search your photos for “flowers” and see all the photos with flowers in them.

The goal of neoliberalism was always neofeudalism. It was the means to this ends.

If bribing a fascist president with a literal gold bar, refusing to comply with EU law and then complying maliciously years later, global tax dodging, and anti-competitive behavior isn’t enough to piss you off sufficiently, I’m not sure what will.

When the Motorola Graphene phones are available, I’m dumping my iPhone, which is my last Apple device.

I was wondering about this. Do you have any resources for what they’ve been up to since their vile “big tent” statements?

until it fully integrates with a Photoshop equivalent and an Illustrator equivalent

If you weren’t aware, that’s Affinitys top feature. The new version is one app that can seamlessly switch between Vector, Pixel, and Layout modes without changing applications. It’s Illustrator, Photoshop, and InDesign rolled into a single application with dedicated workflows for each.

This is my first time hearing about Kobo. Do you like it?

This is how the Adeptus Mechanicus is born.

Got me thinking I should warm up my resume…

Don’t wait, start now. The job market is a nightmare and finding one that isn’t being consumed by incompetent C-level AI FOMO is getting harder every day. I work on life-saving medical equipment and AI is being pushed on us for things that could literally kill people if not done correctly. Why would anyone spend 30 minutes using AI and risking people’s lives when I can just write it myself in 5 or 10? Madness. Complete, society-scale madness. The people pushing AI have no fucking idea what they are doing or how engineering works. People are going to die.

Consider supporting ArmorPaint. It’s not a full Substance replacement yet, but it’s affordable and evolving well.

Have you tried Affinity Layout (formerly Publisher)?

What are the drawbacks or tradeoffs for cheaper brands? The recent Lumafield report on lithium ion batteries was horrifying.

Brain damage.

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