That’s good in theory, but a site behind Cloudflare won’t necessarily notice that a legitimate user got blocked. If you want them to care, you’ll have to find a way to contact them. For more impact, tell them which competitor you spent money with instead.

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I’ve been with Porkbun since Gandi got acquired. No complaints.

That phone isn’t actually small. It has a small screen, but it’s 25mm thick and weighs 300g.

Great, but a web browser still does not need terms of service. There’s no ongoing relationship between the user and the creator of the browser, at least, there shouldn’t be unless the user signs up for additional optional services.

It’s great if Mozilla wants to offer some optional services users can opt in to, and those services probably need terms. I use Firefox Sync, though I’ve started to reconsider that given the recent fuss. The browser itself? I’ll move to a fork first, and stop recommending Firefox to others.

It already does, though not in the individualized manner he’s describing.

I don’t think that’s entirely a bad thing. Its current form, where priority one is keeping advertisers happy is a bad thing, but I’m going to guess everyone reading this has a machine learning algorithm of some sort keeping most of the spam out of their email.

BlueSky’s labelers are a step toward the individualized approach. I like them; one of the first things I did there is filter out what one labeler flags as AI-generated images.

Speaking with people is not a search. Looking in their bags is a search, however inviting them to show off their contraband is not.

Depending on how the requirement to accept the ToS is implemented, a config file might be able to disable it and any features that depend on it.

If the officers didn’t identity themselves it might be different

Why? Bragging about committing crimes to random strangers is a very stupid thing to do.

The product is a vaginal dilator, which has evidence supporting its use in treatment of several medical conditions. The distinction from a dildo has more to do with intended use than form.

The magnets are just woo.

Laws should be written for the general case, not to target a specific person or entity. Franchise laws force customers to deal with a middleman that the market does not require and should be eliminated.

I don’t think the current proposal in France sanctions individuals for using E2EE; it sanctions service providers for providing it.

But then what’s stopping someone in France from sideloading the app and using a VPN?

The need for a phone number and SMS verification to create an account. Signal should do something about that.

There are ways around that, but the goal isn’t to stop everyone from using E2EE; it’s to make E2EE non-mainstream.

The multitouch-only UI was the big thing that made the iPhone stand out from Blackberry and Windows Mobile. Palm was already on the decline. Android was intended to lean heavily on physical controls at the time, but was well on the way to release.

Several companies were already working on multitouch UIs, including Microsoft, Samsung, Mitsubishi, and startups like JazzMutant and Fingerworks; Apple bought Fingerworks. If Apple hadn’t, Microsoft probably would have been the first to add it to a phone OS, perhaps with Samsung as a hardware partner.

Other factors that contributed to the smartphone as we know it today include good enough cameras, 3G (enough bandwidth for the web), 4G (enough bandwidth for video), and falling prices on all of it.

A multitouch phone with native third-party apps, a decent browser, good camera, and fast networking was absolutely on the horizon by 2007. The iPhone certainly accelerated things, but there’s a reason Apple rushed to demo barely functional prototypes and released it without 3G.

Windows Mobile was already commercially available in phones when the iPhone came out. Android was well on its way.

Both changed in response to the iPhone, but I think evolution would have led to a similar place without it. Trends like the loss of physical keyboards were driven by improvements to capacitive touchscreens.

Facebook was a mostly-harmless multimedia blog site before smartphones. Both its addiction algorithm and being in everyone’s pocket contribute to its current harms, but both would have happened even if Apple hadn’t made a phone.

Smartphones resembling what we have now would have come out of a likely Windows/Android rivalry. They might even still have headphone jacks.

Any time I’m required to use an app for something that could be a website, I leave the app a one star review.

Contributing to that Kinderficker changes my opinion of Publix.

It doesn’t exist, and some people get really mad whenever someone tries to make one.

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The individual will (be) banned for life from all NFL stadiums and events

Fine. That’s a normal response from a business to a hired performer making an off-script political display.

law enforcement is working to determine applicable charges in this incident

WTF?