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Not really. Anything you do would also likely be something their targets (AI scrapers) could be made to do. I also think this is a lead-in for Cloudflare to charge money for the privilege of being proven human to avoid their Turnstile platform. Create the problem and then charge for the solution…

Oh, I assumed this meant checking balance on a web site. Which should absolutely be free.

They got nearly $8 billion in the CHIPS act less than a year ago, and they are still laying off? I’m guessing they lit that money on fire with stock buybacks, as is tradition.

The voters put legislators in office that crafted this repeal. The governor didn’t just unilaterally do it.

Getting charged to check the balance seems…not legal? I dunno, probably not. Some politician that also owns a payday lending company would probably ensure that’s legal.

It took Uber 15 years to finally be profitable. OpenAI has a long way to burn, before they give up.

Yeah, I agree with that personally, but realistically, “your phone was near a place” is not the same as “you were involved”. If they hijack a phone onto a Stingray, they can get way more info than just IMEI.

My favorite part of the Harry Kim joke is that at the end of Voyager, he was a captain, but Janeway rewrote that timeline to save Seven of Nine, so she ended up doing a retcon on Harry’s promotions from Ensign. Never my captain, that’s for sure.

I feel like it’d be canon for him to be Naomi Wildman’s first officer.

Challenge to Google Chrome

Uses Chromium as the base

So basically they are doing exactly what Google is, and what Microsoft is with Edge.

I don’t understand why cell phones don’t authenticate the towers they connect to. Is this really just a “standards lag behind modern security” thing, or is it on purpose to allow these Stingray devices to be used?

Elon pushes directly to main

It’s hard when they hide identifying info

Israel just doing totally normal violations of the Geneva Conventions, every day. No big deal.

Also, TIL the Red Cross is technically supposed to be the enforcer of these conventions.

The crappy design here is that this is called Core. Core implies it’s a central or fundamental feature. I wouldn’t consider that as part of a paid upgrade path.

Half a million Spotify users are being pushed AI slop by Spotify in order to pad Spotify’s profit margin