Me too. I thought I was safe as a Ottoman Empire expatriate living in Arrakis! I don’t want LLMs to connect this account to my pseudonymous mommy blog where I write about my three children who might exist but could be delusions of my untreated schizophrenia.
They don’t care. It’s a cost-benefit analysis.
If 5% of users can’t access a VDI because of poor internet connectivity but it means the remaining 95% create an extra 10% of annual profit, they will just tell that 5% to get fucked. Individuals don’t matter to them; only aggregates do.
I hope you’re not American or else that would be a big ol’ bowl of hypocrisy.
Is that for USB A and USB C? USB PD could be riskier if it shorts VBUS to D+ or D- since it can negotiate up to 12 volts, IIRC
Damaged ports with shorted pins, voltage fluctuations, etc.
The passenger electrical system is as isolated from the the rest of the plane as possible, but if the entire thing fails, sure then yeah you’re fucked and have bigger problems
Most modern airplanes I have seen have in-seat USB charging ports
You probably shouldn’t trust those to actually work. Or even to be safe enough to not kill whatever you plug into them.
No, it is bad.
Suppose it’s used to verify your age when visiting Pornhub. How is Pornhub going to trust the user’s computer didn’t lie about the user’s age? A “just trust me bro” sent by the browser isn’t going to suffice; teenagers would find a way around that.
Thr attestation will have to be cryptographically signed by some trusted party—and that’s either going to be the government, or the operating system vendor.
If it’s the government holding the signing keys: the website can now verify that you’re a resident of $state in $country and use that for fingerprinting and targeted advertising. And what if your country doesn’t participate, or if Pornhub doesn’t trust the signing keys used by the government of Estonia? Tough shit, no porn for you! It would be impractical to manage all those keys, though, so why not instead leave it up to the operating system vendor?
If it is left the operating system vendor, it’s going to end up being exactly the same as Google Play Service’s SafetyNet “feature”. If you’re not using an approved operating system (a.k.a. Windows, MacOS, stock Android, iOS) you’re not visiting Pornhub. Or a banking app. Or applying for jobs. Etc.
This bill is a poison pill for device ownership and FOSS operating systems being handed to corporations on a silver platter.
If Valve fails, we’ll have so many great alternatives, though!
Who needs a forum, mod portal, user reviews, or Linux support anyways?
I didn’t even need to click on the link to know it pointed to civil forfeiture. The fact that they’re not required to destroy whatever they steal creates one hell of a perverse incentive to keep doing it.
Their what now? That’s ICE’s money. After the pulled the immigrant out of his bed, that money was just laying there. Nobody owns it, so it’s finders keepers. /s
Hey now, it’s not just a scheme to deport legal immigrants—That second arrest also inflates their numbers to look successful.
I can’t wait for the Criminal Repercussions In Manipulating Electees act.
Spud also has a blue Twitter checkmark. If it walks holding signs like a Nazi and quacks on a Nazi-owned platform it pays to use…
Why days worth of farming? To help give the player a sense of “pride and accomplishment” of course.
It wouldn’t even work on paper. All it would take to twist this into something dystopian is requiring cryptogtaphic attestation for the age range, and knowing lawmakers, they would justify it as a countermeasure for kids lying about their age. Expand the feature as a web API so websites can use the “easier” and “more secure” system-level age verification process and—oh look, now we can’t use important websites without a commercial operating system.
It would be like Secure Boot but worse. At least with that you can turn it off or enroll your own keys.
The blogger in question doxxed the owner/maintainer of Archive.today who in return doxxed the blogger.
Did you actually read the two articles posted by the blogger? The archive.today owner wasn’t doxxed. No personally identifying information was provided; it only aggregates already-known info including a couple of fake aliases. The most it concludes is that the guy is Russian or operating out of Russia.
https://gyrovague.com/2026/02/01/archive-today-is-directing-a-ddos-attack-against-my-blog/
Oh, no, no. You misunderstand. They want small government as in physical size, not organizational size. The smaller it is, the more places they can fit it in your daily life. /s
I am a different person. For the record, I don’t condone making the uncensored videos public either.
Investigators need to see them
The ones at the DOJ, which is led by a corrupt loyalist?
The ones at the FBI, which is led by a different corrupt loyalist?
The public doesn’t need to see them, but investigators won’t do shit if/when they see them.
Using a reskinned Google Chrome protects you from malicious Chrome extensions how, exactly?
For this one, they won’t even call it that. “It can’t be sex without penetration” or something like that.