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If it’s added as already opted in, I assume they pop something up to make it clear what’s been added and enabled, and how it affects the user’s privacy, with a link to the settings to change it if desired?

If so, that’s not too bad, no.

If they added it and didn’t make it clear, or worse yet didn’t call attention to it at all, that would piss me off.

How is this invading someone’s privacy? All it’s doing is detecting if children are smoking in a room or space at school and then putting an alert up about the detection on a screen.

They have zero right to privately smoke at school, or anywhere for that matter, smoking is illegal for children and not something to be taken lightly.

Similarly, adults have no right to privately smoke whilst in the workplace in the bathroom or other non-smoking designated areas. This is also illegal and not to be taken lightly.

Where would max even come from? That’s not in their username o.O

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There’s very few products which everyone can objectively say are designed for killing.

Agreed, it’s very rare, guns are absolutely one of those things though. They’re the perfect evolution of the personal handheld killing tool. You just point it at the thing you want dead, push the button, and you’ve got a good chance of deadding it immediately with your first try.

Guns don’t have a secondary use, like how a knife can whittle a tree branch into a nice spoon, or cut some thread, or skin an animal. Guns cause massive damage to whatever they are pointed at, and sometimes to the things around that thing too, if you’re particularly unlucky.

They’re the solution to a problem when you need the solution to be “escalate this situation to 1000% and start killing stuff”.

Gun manufacturers who say they’re made for defence and not killing must be delusional or confused about what their products do, or just lying to their potential customers for… who even knows what reason.

They are made to defend yourself by killing the person you need to be defended from. Pure and simple. They are truly as cut and dry a tool for killing things as there is.

Nobody is out there shooting people defensively with some non-lethal mode built in to their high speed projectile metal lumps that tear through the human body, causing parts of it to explode and massive trauma to the surrounding tissues and organs.

Do guns exist that fire beanbags, or tranquilliser darts, or such? Absolutely, but none of us here are talking about those types of more specialist guns. We’re talking about your standard gun, the kind they sell to lots of civilians in countries like the USA.

What’s the deal with this support person being unaware of how to use basic capitalisation and punctuation in sentences?

We learned that when we were 6.

Deeply, deeply unprofessional. If I had an employee that was this bad at presenting themselves to those outside of the organisation, I’d either insist they learn how to write properly in their own time and apply it at work, or possibly let them go.

It may seem harsh, but they write like a child, and that would reflect very badly on us as a team and organisation in every interaction they had, every day.

If you’ve got nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.

Calling a stranger an ass because they’re not living their life exactly how you would, in such a minor unimportant way, is not nice.

Oh, they ditched it? I was about to switch from Windscribe but I need port forwarding for all sorts of stuff every day. Oh well :-(

Ah, yes, I’m not giving an instant messenger application my phone number, it doesn’t need it, especially if I’m not even using it on a phone.

That’s private information that I only give out to close friends and family members.

We believe that the key encapsulation mechanism we have selected, CRYSTALS-Kyber, is built on solid foundations, but to be safe we do not want to simply replace our existing elliptic curve cryptography foundations with a post-quantum public key cryptosystem.

Does this sound like VX Junkies to anybody else? I feel the need to check on my turbo encabulator 😅

What is FOSS?

Oooh, I’ve never even heard of searx or anything like this, sounds right up my alley though!! :-D Thank you

Well, yes. An ISP has one job, to deliver unfettered bandwidth to the end user. Full net neutrality (unlike what they have over in the USA sadly), zero throttling, etc.

That’s their one job. Just as water companies don’t get to decide what flavour our water should be, nor our electric company deciding what devices we’re allowed to plug in.

Internet is a basic and essential utility in 2023, it should be treated as such.

Instagram has group chat? I thought it was an image posting and commenting website.

I’ve been looking for a tool to do this for YEARS, my god! Years!!! ❤️❤️

You make a good point! It’s too early in the morning for me to think about solutions to the issue, they mainly affect platforms used globally but hosted in a specific country like the USA (Facebook for example).

Though, it’s not like we have no say entirely, so there is hope :-)

For example, a major platform like Facebook banning/restricting gay/trans content would be seen as a pretty major case of discrimination and would certainly land Facebook in court over here, with their access to our market eventually closed should they not comply with our equality laws.

So sure, they could keep running in the USA, but their access to global markets would be reduced and fractured depending on how evil and draconian the USA continues to get, and how much freedom other countries have internally in their societies, to better protect from discrimination.

Which I’d say in a way is a good thing, allowing for local rivals to jump up to fill the gap and bring back some of the innovation and joy of the internet of 20 years ago! :-D

But there’s down sides too, it distances us from others, making it harder for us to connect with and understand other nations and cultures. I think having a platform that everyone can use, run by a monopoly or not, is a very beneficial thing for us all.

Anyway, just a few extra thoughts there. It’s a very complex and difficult topic, and I’m not even “armchair expert” level 😅

Thank you for noting the US focus in the title <3

So often I see sweeping headlines like this that are actually only about a single country, and the country is always named (as it’s a key piece of information about the story) unless it’s the USA, at which point they just assume you must be in the USA too and so being up front about what country they’re talking about isn’t a priority xD

Good thing I don’t use Chinese state spying software on my devices then.

What country are you in the midwest of? That really sucks, I emphasise :-(

I know they have a lot of data aps like that in developing nations still, like those in Africa, but generally in the western world we moved past those around 15 years ago at least, thank the gods. I’ve not even had a date limit on my phone since 2014, so handy for tethering the laptop when I’m on the move!

I’m in the UK, for reference :-)

So, they’re recording and stealing our corporate secrets, etc? That’s going to go down well.

So, I suppose this means the end for Zoom use in business, no company is going to allow their intellectual property and secrets to be used by another company, especially what is essentially just their telephone call provider.