plz1 @ plz1 @lemmy.world

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Mostly, but it's not perfect.

URL's can have tracking/surveillance/data harvesting codes appended to them. This option removes those.

They should allow a backdoor, but only on UK Parliament members' phones.

Agreed, not a fan. The hand would look better if it wasn't aiming for realistic contours, and instead was more cartoon-ish

That's slightly different. You aren't paying them to store that specific content, you are paying to rent space in their service. They guarantee that space to be available for whatever SLA they have and for as long as the service exists. If they shut down the service, you are still SOL on that content if you don't have it backed up locally.

Contrast that to "buying a digital movie". You are paying to access that content, at that time, and as long as it's made available on whatever service you paid for it. The latter part is the kicker. My argument is that if I can't download it in a usable format independent of the platform "selling" it, I didn't buy it. I rented it. Buying digital movies is just renting them for a longer time frame, unless they let you download it.

I always argue with the less tech savvy people in my life that it's like buying a car vs. leasing a car. If you buy it, it's yours, period. If you lease it, it's not truly yours. You have to give it back when the lease is up, or buy out the lease. You don't truly own it until after that. The media companies just don't offer the "buy out the ease, later", part. While Microsoft retired the whole service, these companies also have this issue when they let media agreements expire with content producers. You buy a movie, but then they decide not to renew their agreement with Paramount? You just lost access to that movie.

I came in to ask how you ran cable above a ceiling, hehe.

I have 1st floor rooms I have always wanted ceiling fixtures in, but noooooo, I had to buy a two story house.

Ad companies are getting butt-hurt because the pages you are referencing are being seen even less, due to AI scraping by search engines. So now they are going after:

1. The consumer using an ad blocker. Last amount of protections/rights, easiest target to vilify.
2. The search engines, for stealing content views where ads would be placed
3. The publishers for allowing users that use ad blockers.

Even that video would be brushed off as "fake news" or a "deep fake".

YAML whitespace is cursed

YAML is cursed and shouldn't exist. I will die on that hill, with either 4 whitespaces or a tab to back me up.

If you don't own the storage, you don't own the content. You're just renting it.

Yeah, they can start with the actual unedited video.

Any level of UI element transparency is hard nope from me. Based on your screenshot, it looks like Apple was listening, on that front.

They'll criminalize personal VPN users for non-work purposes, next.

I mean, he's kind of right. Humanity is geo-engineering catastrophic weather events. By driving climate change. Morons.

Here's the kicker. You're not getting it wrong, you're just being forced to train AI on another one because greedy corpos gonna be greedy.

Not really. Anything you do would also likely be something their targets (AI scrapers) could be made to do. I also think this is a lead-in for Cloudflare to charge money for the privilege of being proven human to avoid their Turnstile platform. Create the problem and then charge for the solution...

Oh, I assumed this meant checking balance on a web site. Which should absolutely be free.

They got nearly $8 billion in the CHIPS act less than a year ago, and they are still laying off? I'm guessing they lit that money on fire with stock buybacks, as is tradition.

The voters put legislators in office that crafted this repeal. The governor didn't just unilaterally do it.

Getting charged to check the balance seems...not legal? I dunno, probably not. Some politician that also owns a payday lending company would probably ensure that's legal.