Every sub I was active in has become one of two things:

• Bot spam
• Dead

Pretty sure this kind of thing has been illegal since before Edward Snowden became a whistleblower, tbh. The US Government hasn’t cared about people’s privacy and the laws surrounding it for decades.

“Researchers scrape thousands of hours of news footage from their TVs!” is about as big a deal, honestly.

the Israeli military’s usage of Microsoft’s Azure cloud technology and artificial intelligence products

Genuine question, but doesn’t this just mean that Israel paid for a Microsoft Azure subscription and used it to host web services? Like, anyone can do that. What am I missing here, exactly?

They say Microsoft have “deepened” their relationship, but how did they do that, exactly?

Yeah. What company wouldn’t allow it?

My IT department uninstalled it from my work laptop, and told me not to reinstall it because - and I quote: “The only browser IT officially supports is Google Chrome.”

What makes this doubly stupid is that I’m a web developer. I literally can’t test my stuff on another browser…

No one outside of China has their data stored there, though. Every tech company that complies with China hosts the data in China and usually makes the Chinese version of their software work differently as a result. The Chinese government isn’t able to just see everyone else’s data.

Someone else in this thread mentioned that going to about:config and typing telemetry will apparently show that some things are still set to true despite unchecking the settings in the Privacy section.

Note: I’m not the guy you originally replied to, and I haven’t personally tested this. Just pointing out where you can allegedly find those settings if you’re interested. (I personally don’t care and think this whole thing is overblown by the community, for what it’s worth)

The UK government’s obsession with being a Big Brother is so damn frustrating. A preview of what other governments will try and become in the near future, unfortunately.

Not daily, but their canvas feature has a feature that lets you embed previews of your files into the flow charts you make. It’s pretty nice, since you can have shorter files entirely visible with everything else. Makes it pretty good for software development and project management, in my experience.

Careful not to go overboard with it, though. I feel like a lot of people fall down the “productivity pipeline” when using it, where they end up procrastinating by trying to optimize every little thing and end up doing nothing at all.

Any good web crawler has limits.

Yeah. Like, literally just:

• Keep track of which URLs you’ve been to
• Avoid going back to the same URL
• Set a soft limit, once you’ve hit it, start comparing the contents of the page with the previous one (to avoid things like dynamic URLs taking you to the same content)
• Set a hard limit, once you hit it, leave the domain altogether

What kind of lazy-ass crawler doesn’t even do that?

Honestly, I don’t even believe it’s inefficient. There’s plenty of documented/recorded evidence of child labor around the world. Sometimes, all you really need is a pair of hands, and kids are physically capable of doing it. Countries with shitty labor laws are ripe with child labor abuse.

That’s not what his video showed though. They don’t change the URL, they open another tab, which then overrides the cookie/session variable that is used to determine who the referrer is. It’s still scummy, but it doesn’t seem to be swapping links outright.

This gist of it from the WAN show was this:

• They were unaware that it was intentionally not looking for the best deals (thus, scamming the consumer)
• They stopped advertising Honey because of the referral hijacking
• A ton of creators knew about it, and had already dropped Honey (people just talked about it via DMs, not publicly)
• This all happened when YouTubers were getting shit on for even doing ads/sponsors, and they didn’t want to make a video that was basically “stop using this thing that saves you money because it takes my money” (see first point)

Today we’re announcing a new end-to-end encrypted, collaborative document editor that puts your privacy first. Docs in Proton Drive are built on the same privacy and security principles as all our services, starting with end-to-end encryption. Docs let you collaborate in real time, leave comments, add photos, and store your files securely. Best of all, it’s all private — even keystrokes and cursor movements are encrypted.

Literally the second paragraph of the post (but I’m sure you haven’t read it, since you seem so busy replying to every comment here about how Proton is becoming Microsoft or something).

C’mon now. “Laptop monitor turn off” has never generated a good result

That’s not what they’re saying. They mean that if your search contains that or is somewhat adjacent (despite being more specific), your results will be drowned in it. For example, if you had something like “laptop monitor turn off when bla bla bla”, 90% of the results will completely ignore what you’ve added.

I’ve got to deal with the same shit whenever I have to deal with complicated programming questions. Half the results will be related to some really basic mistake on the user’s side that I haven’t done, and I’ll need to spend a lot of time trying to find the magical word combination that doesn’t trigger those non-related issues and actually show me what I need.

I’ve literally only talked to Shadowheart when the game forces me to (wanted to romance her on a different playthrough), and if I ask her about our relationship after the goblin stronghold she literally goes on and on about how I’m her closest confident and that she’s a completely different woman now. All the other NPCs also offered to fuck during the celebration, despite me being confrontational with some of them.

This is after all the patches to romance stats, too.

Wish they didn’t throw themselves at the player’s feet so hard, to be honest.

Me: “Damn Lae’Zel, you don’t have to be such a bitch constantly.”

Lae’Zel: “You are competent, and worthy. Tonight, I will find you, and claim what is mine.”

Me: “Yes, ma’am.”

That was my impression too. The costumes and CG seemed a bit goofy to me. But then again, so did the original Witcher trailer, and that ended-up looking mostly fine when I actually watched it, so…

shrugs

And then there’s the Fox Engine. God I hate what Konami did to Kojima.

Decided to give Dredge a shot. It seemed like a decent enough game to play while listening to podcasts. It makes me uneasy and I’m barely paying attention to the podcasts 😅

It’s got a killer atmosphere, I’ll give it that!