The hardware team made a device that just couldn’t be turned into a good product no matter what the software team did. None of those AI-in-a-box devices are good products because they simply don’t have a reason to exist. Everything they can do, phones can do. If you have a phone, you don’t need one of those AI boxes, however if you buy one of those AI assistant things, you’ll still need a phone (which, again, can completely replace the AI box with no loss in functionality).

Daggerfall Unity.

One individual action is. Ten thousand are not.

uBO can bypass it too, if you don’t want to have to deal with old.reddit on mobile.

Because phones got expensive. If a teacher confiscates a phone and drops it/it gets stolen from them, who’s going to pay for it? At least that’s the explanation my teachers gave around 2010 or so, when they announced they’d no longer confiscate phones.

The Houthi are the ruling regime in Yemen, not rebels. This is a way to make them sound illegitimate.

The legitimate government of Yemen still exists, is still recognised as the government of Yemen by the United Nations, and is still controlling significant amounts of territory roughly equivalent to former South Yemen.

They are trying impose sanctions against Israel

They are attacking random civilian ships that are not headed to or from Israel. That’s not “sanctioning Israel”, that’s declaring war on the entire world.

I don’t disagree on a moral level, but I don’t think that “risk going to jail” is particularly good advice. If there’s any social programmes or charities, see if you qualify before resorting to desperate measures.

They intentionally decided to reinvent the wheel instead of using and contributing to ActivityPub. I wouldn’t get my hopes up.

Wikipedia is run by a nonprofit. They don’t monetise volunteer contributions and they don’t paywall the knowledge on their site, they run on donations. It’s not really a comparable situation.

Do they pay the people who answer the questions? I genuinely don’t know. But if they don’t then, yes, it is scummy to just profit off of someone else’s work and not pay them.

Human trafficking, illegal gambling, protection rackets, prostitution, etc. All of those are “markets” they are already involved in.

Directed energy weapons already exist today. They’re mostly experimental, but the US and Germany (and possibly others) are both investing millions into R&D and have working prototypes.

Appât faible, pote.

Sure, but the Fairphone 5 is €700 and, ease of repair aside, you can get a better phone for less than half the price. Repairability doesn’t mean much when buying a cheaper (and otherwise better) phone and fully replacing it ends up being, well, cheaper.

If they distribute the drawing, yes. And the difference is that a drawing is immediately recognisable as a drawing, but an AI generated image or video isn’t necessarily easily recognisable as not being real, so the social consequences for the person depicted can be much worse.

Even if you don’t want to consider it CSAM, it is, at the very least, sexual harassment. The kids making and circulating these pictures and videos should be facing consequences. And the fear of consequences does offer some degree of protection at least.

Not necessarily the same people. And besides, just because you don’t like A doesn’t mean you have to like B, maybe you prefer C or D.

What VPN offers 12 months for $12 and is there a catch? I’m happy with Proton but having something cheap and trustworthy to recommend would be nice.

That’s a significantly better source, thank you. But I’m still not seeing genocide. The ramblings of one cabinet minister in a coalition government don’t make something government policy. The only thing that Israel is actually doing is expanding its settlements, which is bad because it makes a two-state solution less likely, but it’s not genocidal.

Say the people who get their news from Al Jazeera. A Qatari state-owned outlet.