https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html

Here’s the article. Imagine losing access to everything that your physical driver’s license can’t help you get back. I would be in jail for one reason or another if google fucked my life over that bad

As for Mark, Ms. Lilley, at Google, said that reviewers had not detected a rash or redness in the photos he took and that the subsequent review of his account turned up a video from six months earlier that Google also considered problematic, of a young child lying in bed with an unclothed woman.

Mark did not remember this video and no longer had access to it, but he said it sounded like a private moment he would have been inspired to capture, not realizing it would ever be viewed or judged by anyone else.

They could have just made this up wholesale. What is Mark gonna do about it? He literally doesn’t have access to the video they claim incriminates him, and the police department has already cleared him of any wrongdoing. Google is just being malicious at this point.

“The laws of mathematics are very commendable, but the only law that applies in Australia is the law of Australia.”

Brother thinks he can force companies to break unbreakable encryption because the law says so lmfao

Slavery. Notably not the same thing as chattel slavery. I’m not saying we can’t get worse than we are right now, what I am saying is that no matter how bad things get, we can come back from it. Hell, Germany came back from being controlled by the actual Nazi party.

I know someone is gonna reply saying how awful life was in Germany for several decades between Nazi rule and modern Germany, and I’ll note again that I never said life can’t get worse, I only said there’s no point of no return for a country.

Remember that time we as a country condoned owning people as property? No matter how bad shit gets in the next four years, there’s no point of no return

The trick is that you also have to follow rules 1 and 2

“Don’t be the reason why there are so few women in this field” is good advice for a great many hobbies and jobs

Can any ladies weigh in on that? Is astronomy that sexy? I’m gonna start leaning into that when I talk to people

And the third choice would have to be “I’m fine with either”

I really want to learn these, but every open-source alternative to fusion has a completely vertical learning curve. If I can’t intuit how to make a 20 mm cube without looking up a tutorial, then rebooting into my Windows install to use F360 will simply be faster

the user manual is shared with other 10 models and has sections like “how to share the scanner in the network”

I was so ready to call you dumb, but this is the most annoying bullshit. Makes the manual virtually useless when it has specs for shit that you didn’t buy. Needs to be illegal

Citation sorely needed

That’s not a citation silly, that’s a downvote. Don’t get mad at me because there aren’t actually any TVs doing this

Over the years, I’ve tried three different times to fix the backlights on three different TVs. At this point, I understand that a failed backlight is a failed TV

Not to jump to the defense of the cheapest Chinese manufacturer, but my parents’ TCL TV has survived for like 6 years

Day 1,826 of telling people they can buy a smart TV and just not connect it to the internet

You don’t need to spend $700 on a TV that doesn’t connect to the internet

For 6 bucks? I can goon with a spoon for free lmao

Mint, because it seems like the easiest OS for someone who doesn’t know wtf a flatpak is

The other hard drive has Windows, because Fusion360 doesn’t work on Linux. Hey Autodesk, can you hear me? Make it happen please

I love this meme because every app on my phone designed by a company worth more than a million dollars fucking sucks, and the best app on my phone is RIF, an app designed by a single developer, and reanimated into a lich by a team of programmers for free

YouTube recommended me a Jobst video the other day, and I thought “I’ve already seen his Billy Mitchell video, haven’t I?” And I had. What I hadn’t seen were the fifteen other videos he’s made about him. As I write this comment, his latest video about Billy Mitchell was uploaded 17 hours ago.

Most useful, or as some would say, best

That last sentence was a largely facetious, poking fun at people who live in areas where it can get colder than 0° in winter or hotter than 100° in summer, who have a habit of telling other people that the extremes aren’t that extreme. In reality the fahrenheit scale is pretty useful the world around, barring deserts