There are plenty of search engines, but they are all uses the same few indexes through API, so they are directly affected by what Google/Bing/others do. Brave Search moved to using their own index/crawler not long ago, so there is at least some change in that area.

I was really against .zip and .mov domains when Google announced making them new top-level domains, because it’s a fucking wet dream for malicious actors. But either people gotten smarter or browsers/sites are better at distinguishing files from links these days. There was an initial uptick in phishing, but it quickly died down.

This is probably the biggest change the game had in a long time. Chris was categorically against it for so long that I lost hope it will ever get implemented. But now that Chris stepped down from PoE decision-making (he’s focused on PoE 2 now) and Mark has final authority, we are seeing a lot more experimentation and quality of life that was rejected for years.

You can read Chris trade manifesto for contrast.

I still think that full auction house is a bad idea, but this will save hours upon hours of time and frustration. It also increases the pool by a large margin, both from people that never traded before and from including all offline players.

There were campaigns by privacy and other advocates since early 2010 when deepfakes were just starting to become popular but before “AI” trend. But it was only affecting regular people then and not harming big tech “AI” companies reputation or targeting people like Taylor Swift, so nobody gave a shit. But now that their campaigns gets flooded with money from lobbyist, they are willing to act.

I suspect we get another post after several months when they say they have underestimated the affected parties and the real numbers are much higher, but at that point the news cycle will have moved on.

It’s fucked up that it only got passed since people started targeting poor “celebrities”, when it was regular people it was fine…

It’s total income. Profit is income minus expenses.

Was it payments that caused it, or was it greed? Because inflation and shrinkflation happened at the same time as record profits for companies. It’s a popular talking point to blame cash payments for inflation, but reality doesn’t reflect that if you take even a cursory look behind the mainstream narrative.

Meta could be fined up to 4 percent of its annual turnover if consumer protection authorities are unsatisfied with Meta’s proposed solutions.

So from 134 billion, 4% would be 5.36 billion.

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We had plenty of real life tests. Look at COVID-19 as the latest large scale example. Countries were giving out people unconditional cash and research showed that it was overwhelming success.

There are also plenty of different scale examples in the world. See https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/19/21112570/universal-basic-income-ubi-map

I’m all for privacy, and encryption should be mandatory, but the issue in the article is twofold.

<…> but also allegedly failing to report all the CSAM that is flagged.

The Court added that it found no evidence that any data on the breach systems was compromised and that it’s currently working with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (CALOES) and local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies to investigate the incident and assess its impact.

It levels the power balance between employers and employees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_bargaining

There is data and it’s not hidden. See https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj.p491.

The participants’ experience with long covid was compared with 455 unvaccinated people who matched the vaccinated group for age, sex, coexisting health conditions, and long covid severity, among other metrics.

It estimated that over the past 70 years, around 330,000 people had been abused within the Church when they were minors.

Added the link to the post body. Thanks.

If only they weren’t full of sexists and transphobes. https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/112717908594495947

Path of Exile is an okay example, but even the most basic tabs being pay only shifts it to pay2win. These days, if you want to do anything more than try the game through the campaign, you need at least a few paid tabs.

Congress does create laws, but like I said previously they are ambiguous, because you can’t note down every single possible case. Until now, that ambiguity has been interpreted by subject experts, now it will be handled by judges. So if the law that gives authority to agencies to ban substances doesn’t spell out each item, but just says those that cause “x harm” or contains “x component”, agencies were able to add new items based on scientific data and if sued, used that data to prove the harm. Now courts must ignore scientific data and judges have to interpret the law exactly as written. So if the item is not specifically named, it’s not part of the law and can’t be added. So the executive branch can’t carry out the job it’s supposed to do. And you can’t create a law that bans a named product that doesn’t exist yet, hence ambiguity and delegation to experts under Chevron. Now, all that is a job of the courts and their slow process that can take up to 10 years, including appeals. Combine that with their another decision that removed the 6-year statute of limitations for challenging regulations, and the courts will be backed up for years upon years now. So good luck getting anything done.

I would really recommend you to read the case, they explain the background quite well. Case file: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf/22-451_7m58.pdf