SGG

2030: Come on, it’s just 50 bottle caps, it’s basically the price of a coffee.

The wording I would say is correct more than it is wrong.

Companies did pay tariffs directly, and because of this I would say nearly all increased consumer pricing for effected goods, so indirectly people paid for those tariffs.

With the refunds going out, while ideally it would be a simple refund, the cost is performing the refunds (in man hours and potential transaction fees) which is the additional cost to taxpayers.

I would also say the number of companies deciding to send those refunds on to consumers is extremely low, they’re just keeping the refund.

So it is definitely not regular people being “double dipped”, which is what the original line may imply, but yeah, it’s seemingly been used as a way for companies to make extra profit from people at the taxpayers expense.

I looked at the permissions the camera app has on my phone. While yes it has a few they don’t seem unreasonable to me.

Camera, microphone, photos and video are the absolute bare minimum to be able to capture pictures and video and be able to save them locally.

Notifications while not critical makes sense so it can show a recording notification.

Location once again seems common sense to me because lots of people want their photos geotagged. I believe this is also why nearby devices is required.

I was able to disable location and nearby devices and the app still works, which I think is acceptable.

I’d be curious to see what permissions your camera app has/had/requested to see if it was after more suspicious access.

I’m perpetually tired and stuck in a loop. Full time job, and carer for a disabled parent.

It’s not easy, I do get frustrated, but I would not change it because it would make things worse for mum.

I have no doubt the training data includes drunk players, so yes!

In most countries charities have reporting requirements and rules to follow to stop exactly this method of fraud.

Taxpayer money will be used to refund businesses.

People will not receive a refund.

Prices will not go back down.

#America

I setup a local ollama instance trying to look for ways to integrate it into my regular work. I do IT stuff, from basic helpdesk to office 365 Configs, and almost anything in-between

At best I just use it as a sounding board, basically rubber duck debugging.

I prefer the rubber duck.

The Nazis want violence, that way they can justify even worse acts. Not that they need justification, they’l just keep getting worse anyway.

Enshittification, just like with online services.

Reading? No. Tasting? Yes.

Customs cannot possibly scan every package coming in.

Parcel gets marked as childs toy.

Honestly pretty good chance it gets through.

That’s kind of telling in itself to be honest. Services for most people these days mean subscription (or some kind of recurring cost). The nature of the overwhelming majority of businesses means they will be looking to increase profits. One extremely common way is to degrade the service you provide slightly. Increasing ads, lowering quality, etc.

One of the only exceptions I would say is Steam. But people could argue that Steam isn’t a true service because it’s closer to a store front, at that point you’re arguing semantics though.

There’s also self hosting a service to consider? How would that count in this instance. I self host a few things like nextcloud, Plex, and others. Yes it’s still a program and technically a service as well?

Taco Tuesday Turnip tells genocidal maniac to stop using bombs while continuing to give the same genocidal maniac as many bombs as possible.

I hope they include wave motion guns even though they’re not battleships.

Please drink a verification laxative?

Germans gender hats? But I’m masculine and love wearing bunny ears! /s

Ironically having a giant security breach happen in a security focused messaging app was good advertising.

Of course in this instance the breach was not because of the app, which is a good thing I guess.

Capitalism.

Side effects include electing a complete moron and his piss baby groupies to the presidency

It might help the readability?