He was even more surprised when they bricked it after he disabled the telemetry. Maybe it was part of the terms of service but the article says the telemetry is without user consent.

There was an article a bit ago hinting that Larry Ellison wants to buy CNN. Paramount Skydance would like to buy as much as possible, add to the Ellison media empire.

imsosexy

The first century bce is the last century before the common era began.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Stupid

Behind every great corporation there are rotten people. The greatest of the sadists and the fascochists too.

That’s how I turn mine off too.

I bet CK didn’t see THAT coming!

aka bollards, like on this website

https://www.idealshield.com/the-6-most-popular-types-of-bollards/

The Vile Offspring from the book Accelerando.

Vile Offspring: Derogatory term for the posthuman “weakly godlike intelligences” that inhabit the inner Solar System by the novel’s end.

Also Aineko

Aineko, is not a talking cat: it’s a vastly superintelligent AI, coolly calculating, that has worked out that human beings are more easily manipulated if they think they’re dealing with a furry toy. The cat body is a sock puppet wielded by an abusive monster.

That’s the plot from the Logan’s Run TV show

In a change from the book and film, the television series had the city secretly run by a cabal of older citizens who promised Francis a life beyond the age of 30 as a city elder if he can capture the fugitives.

Sure does. I’ve been using it for years.

RedReader app still works. No ads. Its on Google Play and FDroid.

Damn people, enshitifying the internet for the advertisers.

I switched to GrapheneOS which uses Vanadium browser by default, which doesn’t support any content blocking yet. I use ProtonVPN which seems to block everything.

And they should be secured with thumb screws, like an old parallel cable.