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Problem is its not actually about the children. As always they’re the excuse. The UK Government will stoop to almost any excuse possible to give itself more surveillance powers - it took 1984 as a goal rather than a warning.

So the secret is the BS the administration made up after they were told that they’d need congressional approval if it really was just a ballroom

Well that’s gross. I’m just thankful you have to explicitly opt into this for now, cause I’m staying the fuck away

By that calculation, even on the lower end of only losing $20 billion that’d still be 10 years before it’d cost them anymore than this rancid business decision did.

They’re so determined to not negotiate with the union that they’d rather throw away the shareholder’s money than give it to workers… And that’s just this scheduled strike. If talks fail again, I bet you there will be more to come.

Samsung might have a difficult time explaining that one at their shareholder presentation next year.

What?! A soulless megacorporation pocketed refunds for tariffs that they never actually paid (because they forced the end user to eat the cost)??

I seriously hope this lawsuit works, because it’d set one hell of a precedent for future lawsuits.

Probably - because the amount of money they’re about to lose was probably less than what actually negotiating with the union would’ve cost them

Weirdly enough there’s a pretty easy way to stop emissions limits from being bypassed - make it a physical limitation, not in software.

But like with putting tablets into every fucking car nowadays, doing anything physically would require just a bit more money, ergo it won’t be done.

According to the Seoul Economic Daily, daily losses could approach 3 trillion won ($2 billion) if fabrication lines are paused entirely. Professor Kwon Seok-joon at Sungkyunkwan University previously estimated that the 18-day walkout alone would cause 10 trillion to 17 trillion won ($17 billion) in direct losses, while JPMorgan has projected total losses of up to 43 trillion won ($28 billion) when factoring in labor costs and extended production disruption.

Wow. What a huge amount of money to lose just because you won’t pay your highly skilled workers more.

As @osanna@lemmy.vg said, you really have to wonder how much it would cost Samsung to pay their workers more if they’re willing to tank a potentially $20-40 billion loss instead of giving the union what they’re asking for.

Yes - not because I particularly like the idea of bigoted speech, but because like most Governments have already started to demonstrate over age verification, any tool of censorship you allow to be used against your enemy will eventually be turned back against you

While I’m not going to say its over, it sure looks like Google is about to make it a whole lot harder for people to escape their influence.

And the worst part of this is it would seem even the most “privacy conscious” governments are on Google’s side.

Because locking everything down and removing our privacy is good for the children… Just never mind the rich pedophile cabal that almost nothing was done about other than slapping the wrists a few very high profile scapegoats.

The court that essentially determines huge swathes of law through constitutional interpretations, and whom have used that power in very partisan ways, thinks they’re apolitical?

The only part of the political process they’re not a part of is being electable, and therefore held accountable, by the public.

As others have said, a license is a legal tool that allows you to enforce how you want your program to be used.

And in the case of FOSS this is a really big issue, because just publishing code doesn’t put it into the public domain, and leaves you open to exploitation by big companies.

There are various types of licenses, but for FOSS the main ones are unlicensing and Copyleft licenses. Unlicensing essentially declares your code public domain, so anybody can use it for any purpose. Copyleft licenses are usually fairly permissive, especially for individuals, but obligate that any offshot/fork must also be made Copyleft - so prohibits close sourcing of your work.

Their attitude towards us really depends on what their evolutionary pressures were. If resources were/are plentiful, they might have a less aggressive nature and simply wish to meet us. Otherwise, we might be on the chopping block.

As for us. I imagine a decent portion of humanity would immediately default to rampant xenophobia or weirdly sexual obsession.

This game is so circular as to be ridiculous… Who’s actually making money if everyone’s just passing the same billions of dollars around and around?? At some point something’s gotta give.

Only thing it’s a threat to is his next bribe suite of undeclared gifts

Good on Starmer for having just a bit of integrity not getting us involved such a stupid idea.

Seems even a broken clock is right twice a day.

Yeah… Leaked… Definitely not any kind of insider trading or something like that. Trump’s government has neeeeever been linked to anything like thaaaat.

Was about to say, pot calling the kettle black much?

Trump’s administration doing something blatantly corrupt in the open and getting away with it completely… colour me shocked.

Understand there will be no justice. Even if Trump is kicked out, those with the power to go after him and his cronies simply won’t at this point.

For myself, it’s gaming consoles that I already own. Why go for the brand new when the things I already own not only still work - but have more functionality than they ever did before thanks to their respective modding scenes?

Hell, just in 2025 the Xbox 360 got it’s first software exploit that works on all models - which was thought to be basically impossible outside of very limited scenarios like the King Kong Exploit…

Forget soldering, forget RGH and JTAG - you can now have an almost cold-boot modded 360 with just a USB and 30-60 minutes of your time (and that’s not even counting the full cold-boot exploit teased by Grim Doomer on twitter).

If you’ve got the right console, you could be sitting on a goldmine of fun right now and never know it until you try.