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> So you stop and resent the companies for ripping you off/manipulating you

It will probably work for both sides, as the only people left are either ok with that or clueless, perfectly self selected.



That doesn't look like Google, Apple or Microsoft though? It's some random guy.


> modifications or misuse by an operator could nevertheless turn the ADS into a more damaging weapon which could potentially violate international conventions on warfare

Safe? When manned by actors known to shoot journalists in the head with “less lethal” weapons?


> they just need to find a local young person that is willing to help them handle the requirements online

Is that an officially published guidance? Because it sounds awfully close to “social security/ballot harvesting” and will surely backfire on those old people.


Another sus thing about this Password app is what “App Privacy Report” shows.

Sometimes it would increment counters for visited sites without you using the app, which likely means that sites are able to track you if you have an entry in Passwords.

Alternatively, some sites do not show up in logs even though icon shows up for a site/password entry.


Facebook is now Meta and no one cares about the supposed titular product anymore.


That’s a “$1.56 billion” question…


> I can't imagine a world where we only have one x86 manufacturer.

Does it even matter? Some people won’t notice even if there are zero x86 manufacturers.

In fact I would say lots of people have not bought x86 CPU in while, between Mac, RPi and risc-v boards…


X86 is still needed for a lot of software. The emulation just isn't there yet.


That would be news to people on mac with Rosetta Stone / Crossover.


A lot of server code and specialized software won’t work.

Competition is always good


Server code tends to be extremely portable. Just recompile for the new architecture and you are done. The porting work for servers has already been done by the community. The main exception would be game servers, which are binary blobs, but box86/box64 can run those.

A number of businesses have switched to using arm EC2 servers from x86 EC2 servers for lower costs and things work fine on them.


Sometimes it can be ported, sometimes it can't.

x86 isn't going anywhere for a long time.

Imagine if AMD never existed. Everything about owning a computer would be worse. Likewise now we need Intel ( or someone else, perhaps a Chinese OEM) to make competition.


> tomorrow the President could proclaim that we are being invaded by, say, the Yakuza, and send any non-citizen Japanese person to a prison in El Salvador

Why would he do that? Manzanar is much closer and successfully tested even against citizens.

I’ve heard that interned Japanese-American did not like to bring the whole thing up afterwards, but it was clearly a mistake trying to memory hole that abomination.


For PR outrage/attention, just like most of the things he does and says.

If you keep trying to apply normal rational expectations to the current administration, you’ll always be ‘surprised’ at what they actually do.


> It was not a "kill switch".

Software is famously a munition, so maybe call it lack of ammunition…


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