If Apple were to have to grant all of these requests, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp could enable Meta to read on a user’s device all of their messages and emails, see every phone call they make or receive, track every app that they use, scan all of their photos, look at their files and calendar events, log all of their passwords, and more.

For those old enough to remember; once upon a time Facebook could essentially see everything on an iPhone. Over the years Apple introduced things such as app sandboxing that reduced FB’s ability to spy on users. Each time one of these changes were made FB cried foul that it was going to harm their business. And, technically, yes it would by increasing user privacy.

God knows they’d love to have the level of access they had a decade ago especially with the scale of the user base they have between all of Meta’s apps.

For Karl!

“Just don’t look up!”

Guilty as charged.

Will be interesting to see which way this goes. Australian banks wanted direct access to NFC to essentially lock customers into their app ecosystem and remove Apple’s cut to increase profits. Judging by how they approached it I have no faith in this leading to an improvement in customer service.

Imagine a game similar to Alien Isolation where the creature is a Thing which a small LLM AI generates, would be pretty cool. The usual hallucinations that AI suffer would just suit The Thing creature aesthetic and give a huge amount of variety to in-game monsters.

Mixed with a proper horror theme and some fleshed out “are they a Thing” game mechanics and it’d at least make a super interesting game.

Something worth mentioning, at least according to the site you linked, $/Mwh SA $99.44 & QLD $214.46 at the time I’m writing this. So SA’s power is also generated at half the cost (if I’m understanding it correctly).

I believe it was “!su evas ,su pleh ,namdam a si poolF“

Steam singlehandedly stopped piracy overnight for me.

This is similar to what Netflix did to their part of the industry for a time. Everyone I knew who pirated just got a Netflix subscription. Fast forward to now and the movie industry is manning the cannons to try and take on the pirates instead of realising it was content fracturing and profiteering that brought the pirates back.

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Grrmany

Did the PSN stuff get resolved? I haven’t kept attention to it, can people from non-PSN countries play the game now?

To shreds you say?

Loved that show! Can’t wait for season 2 to be out in full.

HAHA So True!

Drink … snag

and Mario Bros.

When asked to make a birthday wish on stage during a live performance he joked “Don’t miss trump next time”. Because of the comedic nature of the show and the political right’s famously thick skin (compared to the snowflakes on the left) the joke was taken in good stride and nothing else of note happened.

Of course that’s bullshit. Right leaning news-entertainment media lost their collective minds that someone would dare say something so heartless about a poor disenfranchised millionaire manchild. And (I’m severely paraphrasing here) that instead of making terrible remarks about the lord and saviour/second coming of Jesus you should save the hateful rhetoric for minorities and the chosen hated religious groups.

My understanding is that Kyle essentially lost his career over the remark (cancel culture’s out of control!!) and Jack Black distanced himself from Kyle and they cancelled the rest of their tour.

Server meshing is one of those things that would get me to jump into the game to test it out again. Still a shame that the game is so rough even after all of these years.

That’s bussin 💯💯