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  • Companies may very well jump at the opportunity. Make a contract with the US government, with revocation cost paid in case of cancellation or regulation/contract basis changes written into it.

    Like how a German minister contracted companies to implement the PKW Maut (Autobahn car fee), which was designed in a way criticized for probably violating EU law. And EU courts later ruled it to be in violation. The companies received 243 million €. (DE Wikipedia)

  • Chrome has added Auto Browse

    sit down, lean back, and watch the internet scroll by /s

  • I find the headline misleading.

  • The subheadline:

    Android users involved in the class action could lawsuit could receive up to $100 each.

    lol at the grammar though

  • Today, German public broadcasting morning show was showing a supposed video of the one recently shot dead, supposedly kicking ICE cars and cursing at them and then being wrestled to the ground, and supposedly escaping afterwards. The movement looked strange to me, which made me suspect AI.

    Can anyone confirm whether such a video is in circulation and the validity of it?

    I most certainly wouldn't be surprised if it were AI generated.

  • They should have put the images side by side in the article instead of only linking to X (where they may even disappear).

    via xcancel:

  • Those seeking truth are misled into lies. Those seeking things that fit their agenda or views find lies.

    It's a pretty asymmetric balance. No matter how much more time we have collectively, Trump and MAGA don't care. If we lie about what they will catch on to, I imagine it would be things they'd radicalize and self-validate them more. Everything else, they'll disregard. Like they have been doing for years with founded reporting etc.

    They also have the centralized platform to propagate and promote.

  • Does UpScrolled have a web or desktop version?

    Currently, UpScrolled is available exclusively as a mobile app — downloadable on both the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

    The app is fully supported on smartphones and tablets, giving you a seamless experience across mobile devices.

    Web and desktop version are on our roadmap.

  • Now it prioritizes its own suggestions.

    The article talks about search suggestions. Those are from the search provider, not Firefox.

    I've always had them disabled. It's not like I need suggestions of what to search for or what I may want to search for.

  • I'm pretty sure under Biden, it was a matter of Chinese control outside of US government control, not bringing it under US billionaires specifically. Now it's a political instrument of corruption and control, which is something different.

  • People are less likely to change their vote afterwards than they are influenced before voting. It's not meaningless. An opinion would form without first.

  • If you consider reading and writing as part of productivity then you became more productive! /s

  • Do you have a source for that?

    This article said "by default". The article they link to on that talks about encryption on by default on new PCs. The article I read before this one said "Microsoft recommends".

    BitLocker FAQ says

    How can the recovery password and recovery key be stored?

    The recovery password and recovery key for an operating system drive or a fixed data drive can be saved to a folder, saved to one or more USB devices, saved to a Microsoft Account, or printed.

    /edit: fix quote

  • Published on Nature. 40 € article.

    Here's the news article from the university.

    This advancement results from a synergistic combination of materials, heat transfer fluid and refrigeration structures.

    Operating at 1Hz, the desktop-scale device achieved a cold-source temperature of -12 ℃ from a room-temperature heat sink (24℃), establishing a temperature lift of 36 ℃. This is the first reported sub-zero Celsius performance in elastocaloric cooling. In a real-world demonstration, the system was integrated into a package measuring 1.0×0.5×0.5m3 and tested outdoors at temperature between 20 and 25℃. It successfully cooled an insulated chamber down to a stable -4℃ air temperature within 60 minutes and froze 20ml of distilled water into ice within 2 hours, validating its real-world freezing capability.

  • I think the dialog can be changed to give a more stern and obvious warning before escalating to no alternative installs without developer tooling.

  • That's crazy. Vimeo started as the opposite of that.

  • Your grandpa got greedy and wanted to invest money to make more money.

    What makes you think they got scammed with supposed investment, and not other types of scams?

  • So, this means Microsoft has copies of every single bitlocker key

    But, by default, BitLocker recovery keys are uploaded to Microsoft’s cloud

    Not everyone follows the default. So no, it doesn't mean Microsoft has copies of every single BitLocker key.

  • If you uploaded your recovery key to Microsoft, then recovery is probably available in the normal recovery workflow.

  • It's a consequence of the design.

    I certainly wouldn't want end users calling me because they lost their recovery keys and consequently all their data. So I can understand offering or even recommending fallbacks.

    The real solution would be clear and obvious documented choice for an informed decision. Online backup for fallback but meaning possibility of court order compromise and other external management risks, or self-managed with no recovery in case of loss.