Notices by RalfMaximus (ralfmaximus@mastodon.social)

@arstechnica

Historically wasteful.

@arstechnica

Yayy, new phishing attack vector just dropped.

@arstechnica

Remind me again: WHO requested this? Who thinks foldable devices are neat? I've never met anyone.

@eff

Re: Mastodon moderation downsides...

> Decisions can be arbitrary, inconsistent, and come with little recourse. These aren't just decisions impacting individual users, but also those affecting large swaths of them, when it comes to defederation.

EVERY POINT here applies equally to the other systems. Corporations make unilateral decisions all the time. How is this a Mastodon centric problem?

Sounds like inventing differences just to have something to say.

@arstechnica

They've got a cracked team.

@eff

> If A.B. 3080 passes, it would make it illegal to show websites with one-third or more “sexually explicit content” to minors.

Who gets to decide what is sexually explicit?

@arstechnica

What's it mean when your favorite feature of an o/s upgrade is the screensaver?

@arstechnica

71,000+ participants shared their complete demographics + menstruation data.

Was the data anonymized? How secure is this data? No chance of (say) Texas acquiring it?

@nixCraft

https://www.thetastelesstrex.com/p/about.html

@arstechnica

Can you drive it through a car wash without bricking it? I bet you can.

@foone

Right next to the Bee Movie Script macro?

@arstechnica

"This will require an absurd amount of launches, 10 per day, and the dispatch of a fleet of hundreds of vehicles to Mars during the short-trip trajectory window that opens between Earth and the red planet every 26 months. Ultimately, while it is challenging, Musk believes that humans could terraform a 'fixer-upper' planet like Mars."

Please, you're KILLING me here. The guy's been snorting his own date rape drug supply far too long.

@eff

It's like Minority Report but somehow worse.

@arstechnica

Who to believe, who to believe?

- respected news agency established in 1851

- guy who sexually harassed an employee, offered to buy her a horse, then tried to make it all go away with a $250K severance package?

hmmmmMMMmmmm

@arstechnica

Fascinating. Google agrees to "delete" the data, which could mean anything up to and including "flagging the data as deleted".

What about archival copies? Snapshots & backups? They're REALLY going to find & destroy server backups going back how many years?

Also, I see nothing here about deleting instances of the data Google has shared with non-Google entities.

@arstechnica

Upon first read of this, I was thinking, "here is your office & staff Mr. ChatGPT4" and am SO RELIEVED that is not their plan. Yet.