Currently 25 states require it. Incidentally 23 of to lowest 25 states allow child marriage. Funny isn’t it?

Yep. Because they can’t do it with the law, they’re doing it with payment processing. Maybe crypto will be the answer, gods help us.

Hmm are you implying collective actions are in order?

I cancelled prime quite a while back and I’ll use the free month they offer and immediately cancel and also get it for the month of November to make life a little easier, and again, I’ll cancel it immediately.

It just isn’t worth it!

I came here to say obviously it’s enshitification, only to find that the article is actually written by the Corey Doctorow. Love that guy.

Thanks for mentioning that. Only lemmings.world? Do you have logins for others?

We jail execs in the US? Huh. Didn’t know that.

I don’t trust them not to monetize my data anymore. I quit using them.

I sincerely like your story.

From what I’ve learned recently, those may not be safe options.

Best bet would be Mullvad, IMO.

This video summarizes it well though it is a bit of a shill. I’ve actually taken the time to validate the claims made here and haven’t been able to refute them.

https://youtu.be/1opKW6X88og

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This is… Well, not entirely convincing.

So, say the computational cost triples. Intelligent methods to mitigate this would include purpose built hardware to optimize these processes. That’s a big lift, but the reward would be calculable and would have significant enough ROI that there’s no way they won’t pursue it. I think it’s a realistically conquerable problem.

And so what if it doesn’t know? Existing solutions will scour the Internet on command and this functionality, given a sufficiently high level of uncertainty, could be automated.

Combining the Internet access capability with a certainty calculation and assuming there is hardware optimization in the future, these problems, while truly significant, seem solvable.

That said, the solution probably will most likely make our world uninhabitable, so that’s neat.

My concern on top of this is that they will not exhaust funding even if private investment goes dry. The state (US, China) won’t stop funding till they reach total dominance.

We’re so screwed, guys.

As if the level of bullshit science produced by corporations wasn’t already high enough… Ugh.

The comments of this YouTube video are enough to tell me that your expectations are not realistic and that neither human nor machine is going to pronounce this correctly the first time except by coincidence.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W1qTNko7DU

Makes me wonder if something similar to the veilid architecture could solve some of the problems.

I hope and doubt.

Reminds me of the patriot act.

That is if it doesn’t kill us by engineering a bio weapon first.

But can it really be a breach if it was never secure in the first place? They put it a bucket with absolutely no security. Anyone, literally anyone could have downloaded all of that data.

Also the app looks like some sort of awful vibe-coded meme garbage. I noticed it on the app store a while back and kind of wondered who would actually use it. I guess we know now that we have all of their driver’s licenses available.

Oh well.

Thank you!