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Yeah, I agree with that personally, but realistically, “your phone was near a place” is not the same as “you were involved”. If they hijack a phone onto a Stingray, they can get way more info than just IMEI.

Challenge to Google Chrome

Uses Chromium as the base

So basically they are doing exactly what Google is, and what Microsoft is with Edge.

I don’t understand why cell phones don’t authenticate the towers they connect to. Is this really just a “standards lag behind modern security” thing, or is it on purpose to allow these Stingray devices to be used?

Elon pushes directly to main

I wonder if this is Trump’s mission accomplished moment…

Samsung’s board of directors. Of which half are probably using iPhones.

Don’t worry, that’s all written by defense contractors anyways, so they’ll sell it to the US, and to others the US allows, all closed source. The source won’t even be open to the US government, either, as that’d harm the bottom line of the contractor (support & maintenance contracts for that closed-source software).

I’d still want the browser to at least be able to do it as a default, not at the whim of specific sites.

I build call centers.

When we design the call flows, those are the first tings we disable. You can tell a company at least slightly cares about their customer base if they actually do allow you to escalate to a human without a ton of effort. Most don’t, and want to shove “AI” in front of everything, so they can hire even less people in low-cost markets. Offshoring wasn’t cheap enough for these leeches companies, now they want AI to replace those folks making starvation wages to get yelled at all day.

And sometimes, these solutions work well. Most of the time, they work just well enough to not have people quitting their service in frustration.

They can, but this wouldn’t be a website thing, it’d be the whole browser. Not a bad thin, IMO, Recall is cancer that no one but Microsoft board members & investors are asking for.

I predict privacy-preserving browsers like Librewolf, Waterfox, etc. potentially deploying the same “DRM for a good cause” approach Signal is using.

I read that it’s “opt out” not “opt in”.

Nice, wholesale illegal wire tapping. It’s OK, it’s legal because it’s AI and Google is totally not storing any recordings. They say this is all on-device, but that’s an “oops” or equivalent from them hoovering up recordings of every phone call you use one of their surveillance endpoints phones on.

heavy /s

This is specific to the GH REST API I think, not operations like doing a git clone to copy a repo to local machine, etc.

They make you sign in to use search, on code anyways.

There are open source alternatives? Do they handle Plex/Infuse integration? Trakt’s obsessive march toward enshitification has been pretty predictable, but maybe this price hike will be the last straw.

Yeah, Proton is bucking the obvious trend, with this one. Most companies will totally take the profits rather than lowering prices.

If they are refusing to pay for them, leaving them there would be gifting them to those airlines. Boeing is owed money, not the other way around.

Maybe Ukraine shouldn’t have dressed so provocatively? FFS…

It would be nice if they actually fixed the stability issues in Apple Intelligence before they start adding more layers of slop to it. Writing tools summarization has been broken off and on since it launched.

Does SSH have to be your only way? Could you deploy something like Tailscale? Can you restrict the allowed IP ranges on SSH with a firewall rule?