At least Google is adhering to its own policies this time.

I was pleasantly surprised to see Google Messages automatically blocks most political spam now. I’ve only gotten a few that slipped through in the past few months.

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It’d be cool if Mozilla could just stick with one thing for more than a couple months. Even if that thing is terrible. Right now it’s like some physical embodiment of ADHD is running the company.

Turning yourself into a science fair volcano

Not to defend the mega corporation, but companies file patents for ridiculous things all the time that never end up actually being made or used.

Honestly this is pretty funny. As long as they didn’t remove the dog version of crack from these, 25% off sounds good too.

A lot of these scam operations are effectively staffed by slaves.

https://www.npr.org/2023/12/10/1218401565/online-scamming-human-trafficking-interpol

The last time I looked into HarmonyOS, it was an intentionally vague umbrella name for a family of operating systems and kernels. On phones and tablets, HarmonyOS was a fork of Android 10 (this was when 13 was new). On embedded devices, it was a Linux kernel fork. There were supposedly some unifying features and APIs between them, but the documentation felt very much like Huawei didn’t actually want you to know what HarmonyOS is.

Threads is owned by Facebook, a company notorious for interacting with the web in bad faith.

This is exactly as detailed as it is when it’s properly localized

The EU giveth and the EU taketh away

I hate Admiral so much. Just be glad this site didn’t disable the bypass link.

I don’t think Microsoft can reasonably block opening the command prompt and bypassing the OOBE without breaking a lot of other things, but them removing the simpler workarounds is a pretty obvious attempt to get more people to sign in with a Microsoft account.

Microsoft does sync activation keys to your account but the license is also embedded in the firmware in recent prebuilt laptops and desktops, so you don’t need a Microsoft account to activate.

The article is talking about the initial setup experience, where you could put in a fake email to bypass the requirement to sign in with a Microsoft account.

Ad blockers aren’t going to help with this.

The good old “make a tech startup with a gimmicky product idea, get millions in VC for some reason, create an underwhelming product that was never meant to be any good, then get bought up by a big company that will sit on the IP and never do anything with it” strategy of making money.

That might explain why the title says “nearly”

I don’t really care about my TV being 4K, but I like the extra desktop space on my PC.