Can we please ban electronic advertising already? And billboards? Society would be better off without them.

My 17-year-old account is at $600. That’s an average of $35 per year.

Most of my gaming spending for the last 8 years has been on Nintendo Switch. That number is too embarrassing to post.

Do you know what their enforcement mechanism is for a situation like this, where a company like Clearview is doing it against Illinois residents but it’s all happening online?

Yes. I use a FireFox extension called ViolentMonkey that allows you to install scripts.

There is a script called Simple YouTube Age Restriction Bypass: https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restriction-Bypass?tab=readme-ov-file

Install the script in Violent Monkey and you should be all set to watch age restricted videos in Firefox without signing in.

Yeah. It is oddly worded in places, but otherwise seems fine. I didn’t see any grammatical errors.

Edit: No, you’re right:

Windows 11 Phone Link accomplishes the same thing, and it approaches Android connection in the same way Unison does. However, it’s limited to Android and iOS users who can’t utilize the function due to how Windows approached compatibility in the first place.

That makes absolutely no sense.

To be fair, plenty of telemetry is still being sent by Microsoft in Windows 10. It’s not as bad as 11 though.

Where is kryptkey? I don’t see it on F-droid.

I do see KryptEy, which sounds like what you’re talking about. What’s important to mention is that it’s a proof-of-concept app that hasn’t been updated in two years. It may still function fine and be secure, but I wouldn’t necessarily assume that, especially when we are talking about high stakes like avoiding government intrusion into chats. Has anyone ever checked or audited it?

Everyone talks about inflation but the reality is that people’s incomes generally have not risen to match it, so while I understand inflation, I also understand that I’m not actually making more money to offset it.

Lol…that’s funny and also so depressing.

Well I’m hoping to live in a world where banks don’t provide loans anymore. I’m demanding a better world than this nightmare that is unregulated capitalism in the US.

I’m demanding a better world than any economic system that incentivizes and rewards screwing each other over and hurting one another in a race to get ahead.

Loans with interest rates above inflation are weapons. They are violence. Why should we all have to pay more than something is worth for our education, our transportation, our housing? Why are we paying directly for these things at all?

Government should be providing all this for its people. Higher education should be provided. Starter housing should be provided. Public transportation should be provided.

I don’t think there is anything stopping nintendo from making 64GB or larger cartridges except the cost.

Thank you for the clarification!

I still don’t like it.

So they essentially stuffed a download code into a physical cartridge to make people feel like they are getting something?

Isn’t that needless and wasteful? Isn’t it also going to trick unsuspecting people into buying something they think is a physical version of a game but isn’t?

I can’t tell if this is just Wizards of the Coast panicking and flailing because they are out of good ideas, or if they are actually carefully analyzing and re-evaluating older cards because the balance and synergy of the current cards allow for the use of these older cards without being game breaking.

So this may still be possible

This article seems to be saying that’s it’s not only possible, it’s being actively (and I would assume widely) exploited on current versions of Android. Google is supposed to catch any abuses of listed exceptions, but they are either missing a bunch or letting them intentionally slide through. Either way, apps being able to see other apps is a big security risk that IMO only the user should be able to explicitly allow, and on a case-by-case basis.

Yeah, meaning all newer phones past Android 11 shouldn’t have this issue, but they do because of a workaround by shady companies that Google is either not aware of or not addressing. This issue isn’t limited to older phones – quite the opposite.

Well that was a horrifying read. Is there any software that can protect against this? GrapheneOS? LineageOS? A Magisk module?

What do you mean? The article is talking about current versions of Android.

Chandler’s “dad” was trans, but they didn’t use that word. I don’t remember if they ever put a hard label on that character, but his dad wasn’t just a drag queen. Chandler’s growing acceptance over the course of the show was a positive, but the jokes made were not.