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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh no way, that’s awesome!!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Russia and Belarus make sense, but not inviting Iran? There are far worse governments out there than Iran…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A few massive differences:

  • You opt-in to targeted tracking with Apple. It’s impossible to opt-out with Google. Apple also enforces per-app opt-in for tracking.

  • Apple use your data, but they don’t sell it on

  • Apple features protect you from 3rd party tracking at a software level (Private Relay) and hardware level (MAC randomisation)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

You gotta watch out for those Lifeguards with Lugers.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You can safely swim in the pool of an operational reactor, the ocean near Fukushima is perfectly safe.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/29/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Can we please stop calling things SaaS? “Software as a Service”, “Storage as a Service”, “Security as a Service”…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it’s not a mistake.

Details are withheld in the news articles to avoid promoting suicide, but this link gives some useful context: https://beta.ctvnews.ca/local/toronto/2023/5/4/1_6384721.html

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I mean, the product is being sold as a way to commit suicide, so it’s hardly surprising that many of the people who bought it are now dead.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The proposed legislation:

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB244/id/2832427

(ii) A product or component of an “alarm system” as defined in subdivision (c) of Section 7590.1 of the Business and Professions Code. Code, including a fire protection system, as defined in the California Fire Code.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

For the same reason you need a licence in most places to install fire and security systems. If you make a mistake, people can die.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (7 children)

American pharmaceutical ads are weird. I guess I’m just not free enough to understand them?

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