Because it’s ragebait. The restaurant accepts baht as normal, but the customer didn’t have any cash on them. The restaurant agreed to accept payment in renminbi as a workaround.

What they refused is one particular payment method called ThaiQR, which is not accepted everywhere.

No need for a toy gun. “3D printed guns” are all actually 3D printed gun components, printed separately, and joined together separately, in almost all cases joined together with metal parts.

So it will stop you from printing a camera grip, as that’s the same as a gun grip. It will stop you from printing a flashlight body, as that’s the same shape as a silencer. It will stop you from printing a switch toggle, as that’s the same as a gun safety switch. Almost all “gun components” are parts with legitimate non-gun-related uses that cannot be distinguished until you see what they are actually used for. A “3D printed gun” is not a gun coming out of a printer, it’s lots of separate components coming out of a printer, in separate prints.

And of course the separate issue is that even if your prints are allowed, it means everything you manufacture is uploaded to an online service for judgement, where I’m sure it will be stored securely and not stolen/leaked.

You can, but 90% 3D printer buyers can’t, and that’s a good enough amount of people to spy on.

Polymarket skirts gambling laws by insisting it’s not gambling. Instead it’s legally registered as a futures market (or something like that, I don’t remember the details). So all bets are legally stock market trades.

Knowing that, it makes sense.

The dislike button never went anywhere. Do you mean the dislike counter?

Everyone is suggesting Immich, which is the answer if you want to self-host. But you say you are not very tech savvy, so you might want a service you don’t need to self-host, and in that case take a look at Ente Photos.

You get end to end encrypted photos and don’t need to do anything. They have guides on how to move your photos from Google Photos as well.

Ente can also be self-hosted, so you can compare what you like more.

I was on mobile data, who knows where the mobile network gets their connection from

It got the country wrong for me. I didn’t use a VPN or anything. So that’s good I guess.

I used to attend an event that happened every March. They sold calendars that went from March to the next March, when you presumably attend again and buy the next one. No reason really for a calendar to start with January.

Then they should be happy with same sex marriages. A miracle might occur with them just as well.

WhatsApp is extremely popular, even among people who don’t use any other Meta services.

I am pretty sure it’s just anti-privacy actors trying to sow discord and generate infighting in privacy communities, and the person your are replying to is either one of them or ate the propaganda.

Any cursory look at the Proton guy reveals he’s a progressive who keeps donating to left-wing causes, girls education, pro-LGBT, pro-consumer. To try to paint him as MAGA for being glad about an objectively good thing the Trump admin once surprisingly did is just ridiculous, and obviously not done in good faith.

Yeah, the answer to “Is Framework ethical?” is simple, no they aren’t. The answer to “Is Framework more ethical than all the Big Tech laptop manufacturers?” is a resounding yes though. Which is a sad state of affairs

Yeah, it is very different with a team member / known long time contributor. I am taking about random people opening a PR.

I have a similar attitude to PRs on my projects even though I don’t use LLMs. Doing something myself is just simply faster that reviewing someone else’s code, it’s potential to be malicious, wasting time on the back and forth, contributors not following the project standards.

LLM’s may be a piece of the puzzle for this guy, but I have the same opinion without them.

Well, they title is just clickbait, the article quotes Trump saying that he knows what a corner store it. Which is a weird thing to say, sure, but he certainly didn’t say he doesn’t know.

I keep seeing comments like this, and I just need to say, no Palantir doesn’t have any database. It’s a completely evil company that makes and sells surveillance software to governments and companies. Then the governments and companies have these terrible databases that they manage with the Palantir software.

Palantir themselves don’t do any spying or data collecting. They sell tools so that others can do that. They absolutely take the blame, but I want people to understand what’s actually happening.

To make matters worse, this is an Operating System level requirement, which means it has more permissions than any other piece of software you run

That’s not a given, it could easily be implemented as a normal application with normal permissions, that the OS starts when needed.

Different in that it’s not an AI model, it’s just a tool you can use to run AI models like Claude.

You seem to be under an impression that the actual notification that you see in the notification shade of your phone must go through FCM. That is not true. There are no external services involved in generating notifications on Android, apps can just show notifications by themselves.

What FCM is used for is sending a wakeup call to an app. The naming is confusing, but the “notification service” is not sending a notification in the sense of what you see in the notification shade. It is notifying an app of an event. The app can then react in any way it wants, possibly by creating a notification for the notification shade. But the notification you see in the UI of your phone didn’t go through FCM.

Some apps do (or can be configured to) indeed send “empty”/blank notifications which just notify you that you’ve received a new message from an app, but not from whom, or what the message contains.

And this is a completely separate thing. Yes, you can configure apps to not show details in notifications, but that has nothing to do with FCM. It only controls what the app does locally, when generating the local notification, after FCM is no longer involved (if it was involved in the first place - many notifications don’t need it, for example a notification from a timer app).

If you get a push notification on your phone, everything you see in that notification must by definition pass through the push notification service.

This statement is easy to disprove in another way too. FCM only supports sending up to 4KB of data, and yet you can get a notification with high resolution images. Which also shows that no, things you see in the notification didn’t have to pass through the push notification service - the local app got the data and prepared the notification by itself, possibly after being woken up to do so by FCM.