Luckily the US is dismantling its innovation engines just in time!

Wait—what did you say is happening?

I used to work in marketing as a dev and this shit never made sense to me. I didn’t investigate like TFA but I am 0% surprised by the finding. Incentives are all misaligned.

They take pictures of you sleeping.

I can’t wait for this shit to become so pervasive that I only read paper books.

It’s messed up when some random spyware Chinese camera is safer to use than anything made in the US.

Yup. Haven’t used Word in decades.

I’ve been using it for years, too. I have it on my bookmarks bar, but this will certainly be better, I’d think.

It depends on how much separation you need. If you want different bookmarks, history, or settings per, then I believe you need profiles to make that happen.

Apparently if they get flagged as underage when they aren’t.

Yet another example of how requiring ID is a shit idea.

FFS. How are these ideas remotely patentable in the first place? Software patents are pure dogshit.

Yes but have you considered the amazing power of coal?

I couldn’t get Netflix to play at high resolution on my old Roku because of some DRM crap. And I was a legit customer! Once again, piracy would have provided a superior experience.

I have a Kobo and it does OK. Nothing special.

I will never, ever purchase a book I can’t remove the DRM from.

And there are people out there who are absolutely fanatical about book preservation. They will photograph every single page and run it through OCR and recreate an ebook just so it gets preserved. DRM is absolutely pointless and stupid.

It’s not desirable to have a foreign government in control of TikTok. But it’s far, far less desirable to have your own government in control of TikTok.

Good God… I don’t even think there’s a place in my entire town that charges that much. :(

Another potential route: your public library. Mine prints for 5¢ per page and has a web interface for uploading documents from anywhere and printing them when you go in.

Keep the donations coming. IA is worth a million times more to humanity than all of these publishers combined.

Hero. There’s only one gas station I use that has ads and I’ll try it there for sure. I deliberately avoid screened pumps.

I think one of Biden’s big missteps was to ban sales to China in the first place.