Zedstrian

Laptops can be rated for whichever power level the manufacturer prefers; USB-C PD is used between the power supply and device to negotiate the maximum power level allowed for by both, so a consumer that purchases a 100W or 240W cable and power supply could still use them with a lower-rated device.

A 60W USB-C laptop can therefore stay at 60W without issue, but if a 240W laptop is produced, it should also be made to use USB-C under such a regulation.

The limit should really be 240W, because that’s what the USB-C PD 3.1 spec goes up to.

Edit: Per reply, the regulation is designed with 240W accounted for, and updatable in case of further improvements to the standard.

LLMs aren’t artists capable of originality, and thus shouldn’t be eligible to win awards for their output.

The article doesn’t mention the requirement’s 100W limit.

Edit: Per reply, the regulation is designed with 240W accounted for, and updatable in case of further improvements to the standard.

I can’t imagine an AI trained primarily on the communications of failed startups will be particularly effective.

there are laws on the books that are supposed to prevent children from accessing things they we as a society have agreed they have no business accessing

The problem is that different societies have different lists of things that they deem children shouldn’t access (or in some cases, citizens in general). For instance, conservative-leaning U.S. states are increasingly labeling any and all LGBTQ content as being unsuitable for children, furthering their indoctrination against a persecuted minority group.

Parents are in the wrong for preventing their children from accessing content depicting LGBTQ perspectives, and age verification tools in such markets are likely to be designed with the express intent of blocking access to LGBTQ content for minors by default.

Surely a non-AI slop pile of money illustration could have been used instead?

Sounds like a non-tariff barrier to trade that other countries should bring up in trade negotiations.

The unthinkable of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?

simplify Reddit and improve Home feed personalization

AKA collect more data for advertisers.

Not unexpected given how inactive it’s been, but still unfortunate.

Any form of age verification is a violation of user privacy.

Every APK installation from outside of the Play Store gives an installation warning. It’s unnecessary and deliberately trying to make such installations seem less secure in comparison.

A beneficial warning would highlight the many privacy risks in installing apps from the Play Store instead of privacy-respecting alternatives from F-Droid.

The APK installation process is already more inconvenient than it should be, and now it will be getting even worse. There should be no difference in installing an APK via Google Play versus any other method.

The fact that the process will still have a ‘security’ warning each and every time after the 24 hour wait period shows that even for “advanced users” they want to make it as inconvenient as possible while claiming to still be keeping Android open.

People should be switching to Mastodon with how clear the coming enshittification is. User data is valuable, and the way ATProto siloes data from multiple platforms using the protocol encourages them to entrench the dominance of the official Bluesky PDS to maximize data collection. With $100 million in venture capital, Bluesky is in no way incentivized to meaningfully decentralize its platform.

Before subscriptions or advertising turn it into just another Twitter clone, users should be migrating to Mastodon.

Making users wait 24 hours doesn’t improve security; it’s an anti-competitive change designed to make the Google Play store seem like less of a hassle in comparison.

When you can’t trust that the votes, the comments, and the engagement you’re seeing are real, you’ve lost the foundation a community platform is built on.

Reddit and Twitter are filled to the brim with spambots and remain successful. The lack of distinction between real and fake content serves to attract marketers and propagandists to such platforms, with most users remaining due to the network effect. With its venture capitalist funding, Digg would be just as willing to benefit from spam if it held market dominance, and thus only distributed Fediverse platforms like Lemmy or Mastodon are viable solutions.

Penalties that are lower than profits encourage companies to rob consumers again in the future.

Because it’s still officially called the Department of Defense; only Congress can rename it.

More broadly, it illustrates the administration’s use of illegal boat strikes and regime change as foreign policy tools.

Windows Central shouldn’t be parroting the U.S. government in mislabeling the Department of Defense.