General_Effort

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[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

The scope of this opinion is indeed limited to the implementation by large online platforms (which are defined for the purposes of this opinion)

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The law doesn't distinguish between cookies and other means of local storage.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

It's not banned. Meta isn't allowed to use that option, because it has monopoly power. IE in the view of the court, you can't avoid using Meta. For any ordinary site, there is always the option to refuse either and leave.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

For example. Bear in mind that each animal needs to figure that out on its own as it grows up. Have you heard about humans who are unable to feel pain? Very rare congenital condition. Doctors remove their baby teeth or else they will chew up their tongue and mouth. That's the sort of thing you need to think about.

A number of animals, birds especially, swallow rocks to help them grind up food in their intestine.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

Swim bladders evolved from lungs. You wouldn't think that something that makes the fishies better ocean divers originally evolved to let them breathe air.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

It's important to not destroy your teeth. For wild animals, that means starvation. Given that you can't have nerves right in the enamel, it makes sense to have nerves lower down and make them very sensitive. I have the pet theory that we evolved to hate that teeth grinding sound for exactly the same reason.

If those nerves were vestigial, they really should have disappeared by now.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Hmm. Something about it feels just wrong to me. I'm fairly sure, though, that it's a gut feeling and nothing logical. Because teeth on the outside? Because sensory organs in teeth? IDK.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Ehh. It took me a while, too, and I wrote it. Seriously though. What kind of sick evolutionary history is that? This is worse than the whole swim bladder thing. At least that doesn't make me uncomfortable.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (7 children)
[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I think it's a reply to my incredulous "what?!"

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Big fail. That has grenadine in it, which is non-alcoholic.

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So, how do you make a TS? I'm guessing it starts with breaking an egg.

 

Wikipedia about the site (seems credible)

The analysis was produced by a Finnish think tank.

 

Have you done your X-mas shopping yet?

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21559272

Anticircumvention laws are the reason no one can sell you a “jailbreaking” tool so your printer is able to recognise and use cheaper, generic ink cartridges. It’s why farmers couldn’t repair their own John Deere tractors until recently and why people who use powered wheelchairs can’t fix their vehicles, even down to minor adjustments like customising the steering handling.

These laws were made in the US but they are among America’s most successful exports. The US trade representative has lobbied — overtly in treaty negotiations; covertly as foreign legislatures debated their IP laws — for America’s trading partners to enact their own versions.

The quid pro quo: countries that passed such laws got tariff-free access to American markets.

With the tariffs being imposed at Trump's whim, it's worthwhile for the rest of the world to revisit their laws which limit peoples' ability to control the software on devices they own.

This post uses a gift link which may have a view count limit. If it runs out, there's an archived copy of the article

 

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/21559272

Anticircumvention laws are the reason no one can sell you a “jailbreaking” tool so your printer is able to recognise and use cheaper, generic ink cartridges. It’s why farmers couldn’t repair their own John Deere tractors until recently and why people who use powered wheelchairs can’t fix their vehicles, even down to minor adjustments like customising the steering handling.

These laws were made in the US but they are among America’s most successful exports. The US trade representative has lobbied — overtly in treaty negotiations; covertly as foreign legislatures debated their IP laws — for America’s trading partners to enact their own versions.

The quid pro quo: countries that passed such laws got tariff-free access to American markets.

With the tariffs being imposed at Trump's whim, it's worthwhile for the rest of the world to revisit their laws which limit peoples' ability to control the software on devices they own.

This post uses a gift link which may have a view count limit. If it runs out, there's an archived copy of the article

 
  1. Lawyer gave free legal advice to an immigrant family.
  2. Goons claiming to investigate "obstruction of justice" visit him at home while taking down the wifi.
  3. The story is made public.
  4. Now he's out of a job.

That story was discussed previously here: https://lemmy.world/post/28688525

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