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Hell, I’ll deadass reheat my food mid-meal if it starts going cold, so I can enjoy the last bits just as much.

There are a lot of cases where rules are a bit too strict, and it’s expected you might violate them where they don’t make sense - though if you do, you might be putting yourself at risk, and if something happens, the rule might protect anyone else involved.

But what pisses me off is that speed limits are consistently ignored. People might get mad at you for driving the speed limit. Either the limits are set stupidly low and need to be changed, or society needs to get its shit together and stop endangering people. Probably both.

If it makes more sense to focus on your specialization while paying somebody who specializes in local food delivery to do the delivery… No, yeah, that kinda sounds right. The actual issues I see here are not valuing the labor of delivery and getting too lazy, and maybe an issue where people are generally too time-pressured to take a break to get the food.

That just makes you more vulnerable to semi-illiterate hackers!

I think in this case it’d be the user not putting in any sensitive data or downloading executables to run from an internet radio.

I think if you tried to spend hours in there the water would go cold, but it’s comfortable for, say, 20, 30, maybe 40 minutes, which is enough to read for a bit or watch an episode of a series. It’s indulgent, but it feels relaxing to shut yourself in the bathroom, go into a tub of hot water and relax isolated from the world outside.

Maybe if a fish was hooked up to a machine running terabytes (edit: actually, petabytes, probably) of stolen data through its brain, punishing it when it fails to produce similar results, until it can produce them… Then I would hate the people who did this to the fish, and the people who support them by using the fish to produce art.

Isn’t installing extensions in it also a pain, since the Google webstore doesn’t let you install from it?

I guess to answer my own question, I looked it up - there’s an extension to let you do that alongside some flag changes, so I guess not too bad… But it’s another step on the list of things you’d want to do as a user

It sounds simple and not at all mental gymnastics - they encountered this issue with a minor thing, started reading up on it online, and when digging into that kind of stuff ended up reading on what the legal situation is with discriminating based on it in general, finding out that companies can discriminate when hiring.

If anything, I’d say half of the post is maybe irrelevant, since you don’t need the backstory of how OP ended up looking into it, but it seems to be a reasonable recounting of events.

Maybe I’m confused, but I feel like you missed the part when they went from the backstory (investigating google family features) to their revelations from looking into it (companies can refuse to hire you based on this information)

I had the impression cloud was about the opposite - detaching your server software from physical machines you manage, instead paying a company to provide more abstracted services, with the ideal being high scalability by having images that can be deployed en masse independent of the specifics of where they’re hosted and on what hardware. Pay for “storage”, instead of renting a machine with specific hardware and software, for example.

NFTs try to introduce artificial scarcity

Just want to add to that, NFTs aren’t inherently about artificial scarcity, they could also be used to track ownership of rights or real life items without a central authority that everybody needs to trust.

Of course, cryptobros immediately went to pushing them as an investment scheme, and the actual implementations are slow, inefficient, and downright expensive to use. I don’t think anybody has managed to make NFTs actually useful, but I imagine the original creators weren’t looking to create… Whatever this is.

I will point out, I don’t think “peer review” means repeating the test, it means more generally pointing out issues with the science, right? By that definition, sounds like that’s what they’re doing. That doesn’t make the criticisms inherently valid, but to dismiss it as “they’re free to do their own tests” because “that is how science works” seems dishonest.

big words from the DSM

Ah yes, the big word derived from the mythical Narcissus, who we learned about in school… If anything, the issue seems to be the opposite, where the word is too widely known and used without knowing the overlapping medical term.

I think that’s something Apple does, actually, where apps give explanations for every permission they ask for. No idea about allowing them later or if they state if they’re necessary though.

I don’t use a foldable phone… But you can’t put a tablet into your pocket. It’s meant to be the dimensions of a phone, just much thicker, so it fits into your pocket, while letting you fold it out to have double the screen size. For all the issues they have, that’s a very reasonable and somewhat appealing feature.

That makes sense, thanks for explaining! I saw “makes space” as what’s happening right now, since Android does let you install alternatives for all those, including third party app stores, but it does go farther than that.

I don’t think anything you said makes it not free, as long as you can fork it. The same can be said about most FOSS, since somebody, usually the creator, is in control of the repository.

That’s the point of FOSS - your repository isn’t becoming a democracy by virtue of using a permissive license, but it means somebody could outcompete you with a fork and effectively take over as the dominant project.

But… Aren’t all of those things still very much dominant?