DMCA is a tool for suppression of free information. It doesn't require evidence that you've made a good faith effort to consider fair use or other legal complexity as it's meant to take down the information before that is settled in court, but most commonly used to suppress information from a person or group who can't afford to fight it in court. Microsoft's Github has a history of delete first without risking their own necks to stand up for obviously fraudulent takedowns much less ones with unsettled law like APIs/SDKs.

They're basically trying to get rid of vaultwarden and other open source forks. I expect they'll get a cease and desist and be removed from github at some point in the not too distant future if they don't make some changes. I have a vaultwarden instance and use the bit warden clients. Guess I'll need to look for alternatives in case Bitwarden decides to get aggressive.

Gotta keep the population stupid and complacent somehow.

Hourly wage is just as useless as unemployed percentages since neither count a large group of people. Unemployed statistics don't count gig workers, service workers, etc., who are chronically underemployed. But even if you count their hours as a percentage you still would exclude all of the gig workers who are paid per job that can often span multiple hours. But none of that information is tracked, so it can't be accounted for proportionally. So these stats are purposely worthless and tell the story that the wealthy want to tell so they can keep getting wealthier and pretend they aren't taking that wealth from everyone else.

The real solution is the thing that the fossil fuel companies have been buying up the tech for and burying it for decades...batteries.

Also Firefox mobile has nearly all of the extensions as the desktop version so it's more similar across all of your devices. Personally, I use LibreWolf on desktop and Mull on mobile, but they're just tweaked versions of Firefox with some bloat and telemetry removed and preconfigured to be more private.

Depends. Is it a novel with a single entry? Is it a series of books with a lot of emphasis on world development? Is it an action video game franchise with little plot or lore? Or a video game franchise that prides itself on story? Is it set in the current world or in a wildly different fantasy/sci-fi setting?

In general, it's rare for an action videogame or book to convert well into a series because it requires lots of writing by writers who didn't invent the world and, vice versa, it's rare for a highly detailed fantasy world to work well in a movie because there's not enough time to do world building. Not saying it's impossible and there are great examples of both, but generally those are the ones that don't work out.

Unsweetened almond milk, unsweetened oat milk is second

You're not going to get carb free, but low sugar.

To some extent, that's true. But getting the data off of your phone is the first step. And that is where you have the most control and the bottleneck of poor internet service and data caps prevents transmitting too much data for now.

Audio data can only be compressed so far before it becomes impossible for a server to transcribe it. And you're talking about a constant stream of background audio which means you can't afford to lose much of that data to compression at all. The device might be able to differentiate speech from background noise and only send the stream to the server when someone is speaking, but that's about it for the large majority of devices.

To be able to interpret all speech, including accents, takes a server still, unless it's a high end device and you don't mind battery drain making the user suspicious. It's just not feasible with current processor, battery, and bandwidth limitations to listen to everything.

I don't think the NSA gets it directly unless they installed an app on your device which if they're using Google and Apple to do that for them could be fairly hidden.

But a lot of the apps people have installed do listen when people don't expect it, for commercial purposes. That information is then available to the NSA or any other law enforcement around the world basically at will. But there are things you can do to prevent that. Like not installing untrustworthy apps and if you have to, disabling their access to the microphone, storage, etc., if you have a device that allows that level of control.

But there isn't a blanket, listen to everything and record it kind of thing going on or you'd be using a lot more bandwidth. Most devices aren't powerful enough to even do voice recognition beyond a few key words, but definitely not full realtime transcription, so the audio would have to be passed to a server.

The real issue for now is things like keyboard apps and messaging apps that send everything you type, or the multitude of apps that don't actually do user to user encryption, but decrypt in the middle so the data can be stored, combined, and compressed which makes it available to commercial interests and law enforcement.

Regulation bad....

Why did you let that company poison me...

I mean it's not hard as long as you're paying attention. Pretty much everything the conservatives and centrist conservative "liberals" are using to convince their base are lies and exaggerations. They rely on basic logical fallacies that any seasoned debater should be able to recognize and shoot down the fallacies without engaging with them.

But that doesn't make for good entertainment, so usually they just move on from one fallacy to the next and interrupt anything heading towards fact and never actually debate anything of substance because they aren't there for that. They're there for ratings for their owners and advertisers. That includes the politicians as much as FOX News and the media outlets.

I don't always binge watch shows. And I'm not going to rematch all the episodes every time I come back to a show. And as an ADHD person I appreciate the reminders of what happened.

In 10 years they'll be swimming in waste with no permanent storage facilities in existence, a little will leak due to cist cutting, and they'll let those shell companies go bankrupt to avoid ever having to deal with it.

Can't even be bothered to bury their horse? Yikes.

So glad my state does mail-in/drop box voting and has a way for me to track that my ballot was received and counted or if there were any problems with it. And has a site to verify you're registered and email you when your ballot is mailed to you so you know to be looking for it. No waiting in lines specifically designed to keep you longer than your employer allows. No defective machines to deal with at the last minute. No registration issues you can't know about beforehand.

Plus Profond - Hooverphonic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxzX5RJWR2o

It has a fast beat, but mellow, repetitive feel, so it's fast enough to catch my speeding thoughts and pull them down.

He'll take one basket out of a fryer and say he worked as a fry cook for the rest of the campaign. Make him do it for a single hour at a peak time without any help and see what happens. Bet he or someone there will end up in the hospital and no one will get any fries.

I know where he is with the cow thing, that's been an intentional misinterpretation for a while, but what's the windows thing about. The article didn't seem to clarify it.

I own a small house that is 118 years old with plenty of issues, and the amount I put into repairs and maintenance is nowhere near the difference in what it would cost to rent a similar sized home in my neighborhood compared to my mortgage, taxes, and insurance. That includes a major sewage issue that required digging up and replacing the old clay pipes, something I couldn't do myself.

And I've only owned it for 3 years, so I haven't even gotten to a point where inflation has increased rent over the mortgage payments yet, mosly because the rental market is insane in most cities due to short-term rentals and offshore investors leaving lots of properties off the market, so landlords can charge way higher rents with so little competition. In 10 years, assuming there's not a market crash, I'll be way better off.

Renting only saves repair cost in the short term, spreading out those costs across time, because otherwise there wouldn't be profit in renting. As a renter, you're never in a position to do that saving because rent is always so much higher than mortgage cost. Even if you have to pay more for the home than the asking price like I did. I just happened to get in before the interest rate hikes is all that I benefited from.