No ads and no spying sounds good. But how do the actually sustain it economically? Without a clear answer to that quation its just pre-enshittified...

There are a couple of names im disappointed to see there. Robert Cialdini, Adam Grant, Jonathan Haidt stand out as likely speakers rather than members. Tim Urban and Josh Brolin are odd inclusions... unless the latter really is Thanos

Another vote for supernotes.
Its software designed and made to be good, not to chase an inflated ipo or speedrun enshittification.

Whatsapp preinstalled... hard pass from me. All the other considerations like price, browser block, app emulation implementation; those are all things I could probably get past but preinstalled spyware is unacceptable from the get go.

Edit to add. The app blocking is interesting to me. Instead of thinking about the user being blocked from unstalling and using the app, I'm curious about the technology they will use to block the app (and app maker) from running activity on the device.

Hopefully the solution includes something like DNS blocking rather than a blacklist on the play integrity api and a reliance on Google killing the unstall of apk from other sources.

Not sure if DNS blocking explains the browser exclusion which is otherwise a bit odd.

I wish headlines would start to qualify market share. They had over 50% of the active usera/subscribers/acticity or something like that. The addressable market on the other hand isna lot more people and they probably never got anywhere close to 50% of that.

Im fortunate enough to want neither of those things haha

sadly i do actually need to work still :(

Yeah, everyone i know turned off or ignored the prediction crap back in the day.

Wait, where? Is that in te video i didnt watch? Preloaded whatsapp spyware is a dealbreaker if it cant be removed easily and immediately.

When microslop withdraw all services from Israel I will pay attention. Until then, its all marketing.

So the agreement could be simpler.... It basically says the US (and allies) stop breaking internationallaw, and pay Iran a fuckload of money to rebuild all the stuff they blew up while breaking international law. Iran must agree to continue to abide by the lawful agreements that were in place before the pointless and illegal US military assault.

Can we apply the same logic and principle to self driving cars now please and hold the owners of the proprietary software fully and properly responsible for every poor judgement, traffic violation, accident injury and death that happens in self drive mode.

Wheres their letter to Israel and their north american colony...?

Going to get down voted to hell and back for this I expect, but hey, different opinions generate discussion right?

This is good legislation for the environment, for non-smokers, for the NHS, and has zero negative impact on smokers. The ONLY parties I see really hurt by this are tobacco companies, since retailers make minimal margins on tobacco.

The constant use of the word freedom in the thread comments just seems odd to me. This isn't a question of freedom, and the comments mostly seem to ignore the paradox of tolerance as it applies to antisocial activity. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/.... Individual freedoms have limits and must end at the boundary of another persons personal space and freedoms. That's why smoking is banned in confined public places.

Its all very well to say tax the shit out of it and fund the NHS, but that will feel pretty shit when your parent/partner/child has to wait for an operation because the queue is full of smokers who are entitled to that spot by having paid for it. Which also veers dangerously close to creating paid tracks within the public national health service.

This is ridiculous and clearly shows both nefarious intent and complete disregard for the GDPR and it's core principle of data minimisation. There must be a simpler solution to this - maybe through attestation from a trusted third party who has already (legitimately) verified the user's identity - like a bank. Imagine a user creating and providing a token that allows a one-time request through the open banking standards to receive an attestation on whether or not the user is over 18 - without disclosing the users actual dob or any other personal information except who and how the attestation was made. Not sure if it would even be necessary for companies to store precisely when the attestation was made if the banks themselves record the event.

An proven moron said something mind numbingly stupid. News at 10...

Why do people keep giving this idiot exposure?

You are free to disagree but as a man who wants to be considerate and respectful to all people, this is my take on your comment.

Assuming fake and appreciating anything that doesn't contravene your own boundaries is vastly insufficient. The creation process is irrelevant. The objectification and accompanying dehumanisation is the problem.

That woman was denied agency in a manner that any and all right thinking men should be denouncing as being outside their boundaries, regardless of whether you have ever encountered the person in the images... If you aren't objecting, you're complicit as a member of the audience.

"If the AI determines you’re impaired (blood alcohol ≥0.08% or showing fatigue), it can prevent ignition startup or limit vehicle speed"

So if I the driver is injured, or distraught over an injured passenger, the car will limit how fast they can get to a hospital?

Reckon this needs a little more time in the thinking through phase of the process.

You can still go graphene and isolate play services in a secondary profile.

For a better future: Organisations and services that structure themselves to require third party services need to take contractual responsibility for the actions in their fulfillment supply chain, just as an online retailer takes responsibility for delivery agents. Google play services harvesting needs to be reflected in the privacy policy of every company that doesn't provide alternative access.

Wonder what will happen if we all start making data protection complaints about enforced non contractual third party data harvesting?

What is being pushed for implementation is better described as identity verification, not age verification.

I would have little issue with a solution that purely gated services on age in a secure and privacy respecting manner. This OS level garbage is not that, its creating an oligarchy run identity gate to control access to personal computing.

For years, fuel stations have been putting their forecourt price up the instant there is a hint of global supply cost increases, making a shitload of extra margin on their existing and contracted stocks. Then when global prices reduce suddenly it takes months for those reductions to filter even partially back to the actual pumps.

No sympathy.