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If anything, that’s just an indicator of Google’s market dominance. Microsoft’s actions are ethically dubious, but more countries need to adopt legislation in the style of the EU’s Digital Services Act to promote competition to prevent consumers from assuming that Google is the sole means of searching online.

The tentatively adopted curtailment strategy also includes additional fees that could be charged to all types of customers that use more water than allowed, starting with $4 per 1,000 gallons over their allocation and subsequently rising to $8 per 1,000 gallons over their baseline. Federal and state government users, however, would be exempt from these surcharges.

A $8 per 1,000 gallon fee is an ineffective deterrent; they need effective penalties that no one is exempt from.

Bing intercepts the query

I’m by no means a supporter of Microsoft, but most search engines don’t redirect users to a company’s website just by entering their name as the search query. It’s not ‘intercepting’ anything, just adding a search widget to the results page.

Replaced the audio-based article from NPR with a more in-depth one from Houston Public Media; both were released a week after most other articles, reflecting NPR’s added reporting. Ultimately, ICE used the arrest as an excuse to kidnap him and are ultimately responsible for his death.

CBS failing to correct lies such as “No one in ICE custody is denied access to proper medical care” and reprinting propaganda such as “This is the best healthcare that [sic] many aliens have received in their entire lives” is evidence of their slanted reporting that people shouldn’t be promoting.

Alternative to CBS.

Edit: Replaced audio-based NPR article with text-based Houston Public Media alternative.

Most of GameStop’s inventory has shifted to being gaming accessories, trading cards, and merch anyhow, so game sales are less important to them than they used to be.

Reposting Reddit content in bulk to Lemmy (versus individual users reposting their own guides or informational posts) does nothing to organically build communities here, instead leaving a bunch of empty posts that make their communities look dead. It’s a chicken and egg problem, of course, but simply copying Reddit content wholesale isn’t the answer.

Edit: Just want to clarify that I’m not doing any downvotes here, and see the logic in that having the best of the best Reddit content here could help convince some people to look at otherwise dead communities. The problem is that relying on such content encourages Lemmy users to be consumers of content rather than producers in their own right, and therefore think that maximizing opportunities for Lemmy users to contribute in their own right is for the best.

The overlay could be removed with an ad blocker, or they could switch to Desktop View, or they could switch to Old Reddit.

Even better, they could switch to the Threadiverse and not need to deal with a company progressively tightening the belt on user freedom for profit maximization.

And at the very least, they shouldn’t be paying the fascists running it $2,000 a year to be there.

Laptops can be rated for whichever power level the manufacturer prefers; USB-C PD is used between the power supply and device to negotiate the maximum power level allowed for by both, so a consumer that purchases a 100W or 240W cable and power supply could still use them with a lower-rated device.

A 60W USB-C laptop can therefore stay at 60W without issue, but if a 240W laptop is produced, it should also be made to use USB-C under such a regulation.

The limit should really be 240W, because that’s what the USB-C PD 3.1 spec goes up to.

Edit: Per reply, the regulation is designed with 240W accounted for, and updatable in case of further improvements to the standard.

LLMs aren’t artists capable of originality, and thus shouldn’t be eligible to win awards for their output.

The article doesn’t mention the requirement’s 100W limit.

Edit: Per reply, the regulation is designed with 240W accounted for, and updatable in case of further improvements to the standard.

How creative of them, finding ways to enshittify an already shitty product.

I can’t imagine an AI trained primarily on the communications of failed startups will be particularly effective.

I hate that I have just a shitty quality picture of a picture of that moment.

I’d personally still rather have the authentic moment captured than an AI-polished version of it.

there are laws on the books that are supposed to prevent children from accessing things they we as a society have agreed they have no business accessing

The problem is that different societies have different lists of things that they deem children shouldn’t access (or in some cases, citizens in general). For instance, conservative-leaning U.S. states are increasingly labeling any and all LGBTQ content as being unsuitable for children, furthering their indoctrination against a persecuted minority group.

Parents are in the wrong for preventing their children from accessing content depicting LGBTQ perspectives, and age verification tools in such markets are likely to be designed with the express intent of blocking access to LGBTQ content for minors by default.

Surely a non-AI slop pile of money illustration could have been used instead?

Sounds like a non-tariff barrier to trade that other countries should bring up in trade negotiations.

The ‘unthinkable’ of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?