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  • Still think it's a baited headline given their stated intention to go to court to fight the "unconstitutional ruling". I'm not so sure the constitution gives foreign companies many legal rights so in that regard they'd perhaps be more protected if they were an American company. Whoops.

    TikTok's 80% of investors who aren't ByteDance won't pass up billions of dollars in cash either if the alternative is that they forever get zero from the American market.

    They've been investing heavily in the US market for the last couple years too, so I doubt they are in the black.

    They've just all around played politics the American way very poorly. I can't really comment on whether that's good or bad but I'm blown away this Shou Chew CEO dude still has a job after this came down.

  • TikTok hasn't shown themselves to be particularly politically savvy so far.

    As popular and as well loved as their platform is, they are getting kicked in the ass by the powers that be.

    I think their survival now is predicated on them finding more powerful allies.

  • Terms of Sale:

    Buyer agrees to sell user data to TT DataVacuum, LLC

    Buyer agrees to install For You page algorithm updates per the requirements of TT DataVacuum, LLC on a quarterly basis.

    Btw our lawyers are still setting up our new LLC with nominee directors. Dont worry, totally American.

  • Has anyone recently checked the Reddit ToS?

    It's possible that by clicking that submit button, a perpetual worldwide license was granted that included any purpose Reddit deemed worthy.

    That could actually include every single version of every comment. Your first post, your ninja edit to correct your spellings, your edit update, and finally your plugin's update that wipes out your comment. All of this could be data Reddit can provide to LLM researchers.

  • It's Zelenskyy's job to say that. But if he doesn't get it he'll be in a tough situation with his troops assuming he tries to backpedal that and encourage them to keep fighting.

    I don't understand why Europe isn't more involved in shutting this situation down. It's your goddamn borders at risk if this smoldering fire isn't put out.

  • The article surmises:

    What will happen when voters can’t separate truth from lies? And what are the stakes?

    Regrettably this has been true since the beginning of time about many issues and is not something that legislation can ever hope to change.

    I think we've all seen that the abuse of deepfakes is coming at society like a tidal wave. But I don't think legislating away the technology that makes it possible is even remotely going the right direction. That cat is already out of the bag, so to speak.

    What needs to be be legislated, however, is personal responsibility for creating (with some limitations) or distributing sexual content that is designed to harm. As a society we already believe this when it comes to revenge porn. But I don't think it's as simple.

    Creation is not necessarily a crime, but the intent or positioning during distribution may make something that's innocent become a crime. Perhaps we cover that with libel laws already. If a picture is true and serves the public interest, it probably doesn't qualify as libel even if it could harm the target. Obviously, an appropriate venue is necessary, because seeing graphic adult content can also be harmful in its own right, which is why we put porn on porn dedicated websites.

    I guess to sum up my ideas... There's not much we can do to prevent somebody from generating AI pictures depicting AOC - or your high school crush - in some sort of abusive sexualized graphic state. But we can, and should, impose a high penalty for distributing that material as truth. And there should also be a social penalty for distributing that material even if it's labeled as fake or imaginary from the beginning.

  • Geez. Imagine New York state has to sue Knight to get them to pay up on behalf of Trump after he looses this boneheaded appeal and owes the now 1 billion (plus or minus, whatever) that will have accumulated on top of his judgement.

    That's another 5m in legal expenses for NY and probably 3 years out the door.

    That's enough time for Trump to age out of this planet and for his family to have somehow moved most or all of the income producing assets to a new business.

  • Yeah, I was reaching for really extreme cases. Maybe an IOT wash machine with a smooth app is easier to program than a machine with a control panel itself.

    Who knows, the tech could hypothetically be useful.

    Any why don't we have reservoirs with measured doses of detergent anyways? That would be kinda rad.

  • Solution in search of a problem.

    I guess a mobile alert that lets you know the cycle is finished could be handy? Ability to schedule a load to start later? Maybe a maintenance or problem alert? Depleted detergent and fabric softener reservoir?

    Possibly an energy usage chart for the nerds out there who like that kind of thing?

    But damn, all of that shouldn't need more than a few kb a day max.

  • Really impressive progress. It seems like developed countries got the message in the 90s and implemented proper building codes that have potentially saved thousands of lives. Just in time as well, because there has been a massive migration to denser living in cities in these decades.

    Unfortunately there are many places left where the building codes are nonexistent or easily bypassed by cheap developers who don't value human life.

  • TLDR: browser developer consoles let you see the code that runs a website. Also some sellers redirect to other sites for payments.

    Bit of a warning though: Stripe JS loads when the plugin is installed whether the site is configured to use it for checkout or not. Also redirecting to other sites for checkout is not in itself nefarious just that it does happen to be a technique to hide the sellers product from the payment gateway.