IIRC they recently lost that google money in august since Google was found guilty of monopolistic practices. that is why they’ve been reducing budget everywhere (except AI….)

it’s also a quite terf movement. It basically mirrors MGTOW. I don’t think people should follow them.

they were just fined with 1.8B because of their anti steering practices. so clearly they don’t always comply

iMessages is like a footnote here. I was surprised it was even considered.

copyright has become a tool of oppression. Individual author's copyright is constantly being violated with little resources for them to fight while big tech abuses others work and big media uses theirs to the point of it being censorship.

I love how every thread or post about printers ends up in people just recommending a Brother. I really hope they keep going doing what they are doing.

If someone is putting civilians between you and them and you still shoot, you are not better than them.

This ban also legitimises the idea that supporting Palestine is equal to supporting terrorism or antisemitism, which also can increase hate crimes against them (and Arab people in general)

the issue is that Hue devices can actually be used offline without issues. They are changing that retroactively for users.

I just blocked my bridge from accessing the internet. hopefully that will prevent any sneaky update from messing with my local access

this is exclusively about protecting the meat & dairy industry. nothing more.

I would say that stop voting a**holes is even better (and the best thing is, you can do both!)