Yeah, we fired the cyber security people.

The corruption is clear, obvious, and blatant. Everyone knows about it, but there’s not a whole lot they can do. A good chunk of our citizens picked it on purpose.

Of course not. Why would they? I don’t want that either. But we are considering the actions of an authoritarian system.

Individual privacy isn’t relevant in such a country. However, it’s an interesting choice that they implement it this way.

Hm, that’s true there’s no way to distinguish between editing software and photos that have been completely generated. It only helps if you want to preserve and modified photos. And of course, I’m making assumptions here that China doesn’t care very much about privacy.

Would it be more effective to have something where cameras digitally sign the photos? Then, it also makes photos more attributable, which sounds like China’s thing.

It’s part of a larger trend where technology isn’t serving the interests of the people who use it.

I get that this is the point of the article, but wow seeing an ad in your car makes it look cheap as fuck.

There’s a chance I might tolerate it on a rental, but not on something I own. Absolutely not.

Definitely do not buy Shark products. They used to be good, but maintaining any of their stuff now feels like it was intentionally designed to rip you off.

I have their old vacuum cleaner that I’ve repaired five times and I’m never getting rid of it.

Less guesswork. Of course it’s not going to be complete. But it’s nice.

💯 the only correct response. It’s a hostile entity undermining your country.

We have gone completely mad. Save yourselves.

I’m not sure there would be an advantage. The signals are very different. That might be approximately equal to building a new one.

Not just old people. I had a heart monitor a couple years ago that’s only made for 2G.

Alright maybe I’m getting old but that’s not the point.

When I was visiting the Caribbean they also had a lot of 2G infrastructure still operating.

Go for it. We need to feel the pain to have a chance to pull our heads out of our asses.

It is out of compassion for others that I can only recommend the rest of the world seeks to protect itself from the madness that has spawned here.

It’s very sad. We have a mad king, and he’s hurting not just ourselves but others too. It makes me so sad to know that so many Americans voted for him. It says that something about us is deeply sick.

Do it! Show some backbone. Make us feel the consequences of stupid policies and maybe our leader might just shut the hell up.

Reducing UK security is probably not a good idea at the best of times, let alone these days with global tensions increasing.

I use it in a browser tab because I refuse to have them snoop around on my running processes.

It looks like it’s only a matter of time before there will be 0 browsers capable of blocking ads[.]

I don’t know if I’d take it that far. Firefox and the Chrome engine are open source projects. Anyone can modify the browser to enable ad-blocking in some form if a user is sufficiently determined. Now, will it be possible to write and distribute a popular an effective adblocker under these conditions? It appears to be getting harder.