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Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy
  • "Competitors choosing" is usually considered to be price fixing, which is anti-competitive and/or monopolistic. Amazon et al aren't the only US companies guilty of this or other anti-competitive behaviors, even if they're a notable example.

  • Ventoy source code contains some unknown BLOBs, still no word on the issue from the dev after months
  • As someone with few USBs available, Ventoy takes me 2 minutes to flash, several minutes to copy a set of ISOs, and then any time I need it, it takes 0 minutes to have a working USB with some arbitrary ISO. Sure, it's not up to date, but I don't need it to be if I need to recover an install or use some random tool.

  • Fuck Hilton: Black Hat USA 2024, DEF CON 32 attendees treated like children – or criminals – with invasive hotel room checks
  • Defcon is a useful resource for networking and learning. It being run by and for good guys doesn't mean bad guys don't find the event useful. The vague risk of "getting caught" is probably worth taking, regardless of whether that risk is tangible, especially if they follow proper security practices.

  • ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • I don't think you fully understand right to repair.

    Companies (most egregiously Apple, but Samsung, Microsoft, and other tech, farming, and medical companies as well) have been actively introducing barriers to self or third-party repairs for decades. Apple serializes their displays on iPhones, so if you were to swap the screen on an iPhone without Apple's authorization or without specific hardware, your iPhone disables specific features on your new screen, even if it's a genuine Apple part. Apple also has incredibly unfair and invasive contracts with their authorized service providers such that they have to provide a slower return window than Apple's own service centers. Furthermore, Apple et al. don't sell every part needed to fix phones, and even when they do sell parts, they are often sold as packages or bundles that make the parts unnecessarily expensive.

    To be clear, it's rare for companies to ban third-party repairs outright. However, the vast majority of device makers artificially limit who can buy spare parts and who can fix their devices via software, by tight supply chain control, lawsuits, or getting governments to seize the few parts that could be obtained. This means that most third-party stores can't compete with manufacturers because they can't get genuine parts without becoming "authorized", and by becoming authorized, they can't provide a quality service.

  • ‘Right to Repair for Your Body’: The Rise of DIY, Pirated Medicine
  • You're ignoring the fact that it's nearly impossible to implement this right now. Big pharma and numerous politicians want to keep the status quo for as long as possible. By the time we have more affordable medicine, numerous people would have suffered greatly or died because they couldn't access the medicine they need. Having solutions that don't require an entire rework of the healthcare industry is necessary so that we can save as many lives as possible.

  • Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"
  • You can adapt, but how you adapt matters.

    AI in tech companies is like a hammer or drill. You can either get rid of your entire construction staff and replace them with a few hammers, or you can keep your staff and give each worker a hammer. In the first scenario, nothing gets done, yet jobs are replaced. In the second scenario, people keep their jobs, their jobs are easier, and the house gets built.

  • www.nbcnews.com Over 2,300 pounds of meth found hidden in celery at Georgia farmers market

    “It was hiding in the celery," said DEA Special Agent in Charge Robert Murphy. "Obviously, we threw away the celery. That didn’t make it to the store.”

    Over 2,300 pounds of meth found hidden in celery at Georgia farmers market

    >“It was hiding in the celery," said DEA Special Agent in Charge Robert Murphy. "Obviously, we threw away the celery. That didn’t make it to the store.”

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    Consumer Reports asks USDA to remove Lunchables from schools' lunch menus

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    www.pcgamer.com Tekken director asks why Americans want Waffle House to be a stage in Tekken 8

    Obviously it is so that the combatants can sit down for a nice waffle and a cup of coffee.

    Tekken director asks why Americans want Waffle House to be a stage in Tekken 8
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    www.usatoday.com Texas Dairy Queen workers were selling meth with soft serves, police say

    A group of workers at a Texas Dairy Queen were accused of using the store to peddle methamphetamine and police said 'Operation Blizzard' shut it down.

    Texas Dairy Queen workers were selling meth with soft serves, police say
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    Woman who threw bowl of food at Chipotle worker sentenced to work 2 months in fast food job

    www.cnn.com Woman who threw bowl of food at Chipotle worker sentenced to work 2 months in fast food job | CNN Business

    A woman who threw a bowl of hot food in the face of a Chipotle worker has been sentenced to a month in jail — and two months working a fast food job.

    Woman who threw bowl of food at Chipotle worker sentenced to work 2 months in fast food job | CNN Business
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