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I haven’t touched anything that used Adobe DRM in over a decade….

No, it really isn’t. It’s one method of exercising critical thinking, but someone can go through life never having written an essay and still develop and demonstrate their critical thinking skills.

It’s when we get the vehicle confused with or fused to the concept that we run into trouble in cases like handling LLM use in education.

Should students learn how to craft an essay? Definitely. It teaches all sorts of additional skills that are required to write in that format, assuming you have to generate the entire written work yourself.

Similarly, long division is a useful skill to learn, as are Riemann sums. But so is using a graphing calculator to do your dividing and differentiation for you. LLMs are a tool, not much different from a graphing calculator.

Am I the only one who has app store accounts for multiple regions?

But actually, if this happens (and it won’t, at least this time), the next bill to go through would have to be for the right to sideload. Because all of the politicians use Signal and would need a way to install it.

That’s fine; in my mind, a VPN is a fully encrypted link between two private points, often routed over the Internet. These exit proxies being discussed in this thread are no more VPNs than TOR (which at least has the option to stay within its network). But since in this context, everyone is calling exit proxies VPNs, I met them where they were.

The statement you found confusing… was a quote from WindScribe VPN.

They’re saying that since they’re a Canadian company, they can’t just avoid cooperation by denying service to Canadians — this affects their global operations.

The provenance and concept look fine; the claim to be the first decentralized VPN rings a bit hollow when TOR predates it by decades. That in itself makes me question the other claims more than I would if they just stuck to “properly decentralized” or similar. Celebrity sponsorship also rings warning bells for me.

But then, using a VPN for privacy purposes seems odd to me too — unless you own both ends of the tunnel.

Is breadth of learning always the goal though? Sounds like students are learning to work smarter, not harder.

Now, if they aren’t learning the core competencies in their field of study, that’s a problem. If they just aren’t learning how to write an essay or remember some shortcuts they’ll never need once they graduate, I fail to see a problem.

This method wouldn’t combat device fingerprinting, so it would be trivial for everyone but the aggregate data brokers to filter out as noise.

For a strategy like this to work, your legitimate traffic needs to be indistinguishable from the random traffic.

I find this rather odd considering there’s other companies concentrating solar energy to beam from satellites to earth… and there’s other companies trying to solve the excess heat issues.

That’s odd; I didn’t know that walks in the park had got so expensive.

Nope; done by the UI you’re using to view the post.

That’s an added autosummary; the content isn’t in the post itself.

I wonder how far behind it NYC is….

There have been good writeups on why Apple doesn’t provide gyro data — it can be used to physically track people. This is mostly an issue in apps that embed Safari, such as a store loyalty app that can track your movement while you’re in their store — or in a competitor’s store. Since Firefox isn’t embedded in apps, it’s not an issue there.

Yes, but Teslas are spying in everyone they are in the vicinity of, too. Most cars don’t send video from their onboard cameras back to the manufacturer for analysis.

Have there been actual studies done against the various facial recognition technologies out there right now to see what the minimal adjustments are to break it, and following that, to successfully and reliably be recognized as a specific other person?

Mice to neet you.

Meanwhile, Trump is suing the IRS for $80bil, because he can.

A lot of personal indie web uses CF because it’s free and manages usage spikes and your home server going offline for whatever reason.

It’s a regional issue that’s been going on for thousands of years, with many sub-events.

Essentially, Israel has been stealing land from Palestine since it was first created as a nation. Separate from that, relations between Israel and Gaza, which is a Palestinian territory inside Israel, have been tense, and blew up when Hamas, which effectively governed Gaza, broke through the barricade keeping them hemmed in and killed/kidnapped a bunch of people in Israel proper.

Israel responded by flattening most of Gaza, and attacking people in many other parts of Palestine and taking more land.

Hamas is mostly backed/funded by the Iranian government.

Israel also attacked Syria and sent some settlers over the Syrian border, and attacked Lebanon, targeting Hezbolah-controlled border states; Hezbolah is also Iranian government-backed.

Israel then attacked Iran, and convinced the US to join them.

It’s worth noting that the current Israeli government is hard-right expansionist nationalist, and has been waiting for an excuse to do these things for a while now.