The engineers that work there certainly aren’t going to stage a coup.

What engineers? Musk fired all of them when he first started.

Yeah, makes sense to North Korea, too. I’m not sure they’re an example to follow, though.

To be clear, nation states controlling the tools that their employees and, potentially, wider population communicate and access information is a dystopian vision, and I cannot agree with that point at all.

Wow, what a way to take the most extreme POV possible on an issue.

Shitty tech opinions were flooding Medium before, so it’s not much of a difference.

Too bad FTC rules are useless, thanks to SCOTUS striking down the Chervon ruling.

3 * 2 = 6

3 + 2 - 1 = 4

So, close enough? How “close to 1” are you talking about?

If they didn’t want to be annexed by China, they shouldn’t have signed a treaty to do so.

Oh, they paid her legal fees? How nice!

Of course, that doesn’t fucking matter when she was put in prison for five years.

So tenacious that they’ll leak their sources and put them in prison.

Naaah, that would take effort.

I have a question: Is a FAQ case law?

The OSS movement was founded on a license. You can’t separate open source from its licenses. They are intrinsically linked.

That’s not how the license works.

With infinite budget sure, worth a shot, but it would cost a lot more than the price of the phone to track it down.

Infinite budget? Bro, I know the exact location. Just go over there and knock on his door. Arrest the man and put him in jail for possession. One less thief out there taking advantage of the fact that the police doesn’t enforce the fucking laws.

The criminals could and probably do have ‘faraday bags’ to block signals from phones as they move them, only ever taken out to sell them along.

They could, but they don’t.

In a world of home surveillance, doorbell cameras, and phones with constant GPS that can tell you the exact location of where it’s at, the police are more useless than ever.

The demo was neat, but it was hilariously overhyped, even in the abstract paper. It was pretty damn obvious that the researchers were just trying to continue funding their research with a PR push.

The more interesting aspect was the potential for better AI video processing, not creating a game engine. You can’t create a game engine without a series of defined rules, and you can’t define those rules without documenting it in programming language.

US Citizen Patents A Way To Not Buy Ford Cars

Why EU leaders People should get off Musk’s X

FTFY.

The company added that it does not “listen to any conversations or have access to anything beyond a third-party aggregated, anonymized and fully encrypted data set that can be used for ad placement” and “regret[s] any confusion.”

That doesn’t sound like kooky bullshit to me. That sounds exactly like what the OP’s title suggests.

(N.S.F.W.)

And paywalled.

The GPL is not a China-backed agreement. China can do whatever the fuck it wants, because that’s how dictatorships roll.