There is no pattern of facts where “Apple gets to collect a tax on any transaction you make on your iPhone” is a good thing

Whether or not the cops arrest you depends entirely on how they are approached. Unfortunately, they vary from town to town and maybe even shift to shift.

Thankfully, the police probably aren’t the only option available.

If your domestic partner is violently abusing you, you are a victim of domestic violence. There are social services in virtually any country where it’s not legal to just slap your spouse, to help stop the slapping to stop. Places to start looking:

1. A domestic violence advocacy group.
2. A social-good organization, like a local church or food bank.
3. Your employer’s HR department.
4. Your doctor.
5. Your lawyer.

All of the above should either have someone they can refer you to, or be able to help you themselves. If you have a lawyer on retainer you definitely should call them first, and if you have decent health care your GP doctor or an urgent care should be able to check how badly you’re hurt and document the violence.

If all else fails, go to your local police department and tell them you want to report a crime. Or just leave and crash with family or a friend.

If your partner hits you and tells you that you’d be arrested if you call the cops on them, they are telling you that they will do it again and lie about it.

Scaling small things up is always a logistics and repeatability issue. Always.

We had.technology to put a capsule of three men on the moon for a week before most humans alive today were born, and yet we haven’t gone back because while both “number of humans” and “length of stay” are fairly simple ideas to scale up, we never had the logistics to create and fuel the one.saturn V launch every other day that a permanent moon base would need.

Heck, the Internet is full of ground breaking improvements that were “buried” by the challenge of scaling up out of a lab.

IBM has never stopped selling mainframes. One of the big reasons why finance transactions are still COBOL is IBM consultants insisting that a centralized mainframe is better than a private cloud.

Ceremony can be a PITA,.no argument here.

But I would be shocked if Nintendo made a digital “eject” erase anything on the local console.

As I understand it, switch 1 digital games are console-bound, but you can migrate your whole console to a new device (such as if your switch breaks.). This was terrible and unfriendly, and why almost all of my family’s switch games are physical.

I doubt “share once and let everyone play but the owner” was an intentional promise from Nintendo, but I’d have no trouble believing a tale about their DRM checks leaving open a hole like that.

If we still need to buy one copy of a gamer per simultaneous player,.then the rest of the differences are just ceremony.

Nothing indicates that moving a Nintendo digital card requires uninstalling the game locally. It just, like steam, does a DRM check to see if it’s being played elsewhere.

Steam sells non-transferable lifetime licenses to each game you “buy”, that let you play it on one PC at a time but never transfer it to anyone else, even as part of an inheritance after your death.

If you have a family there is a “sharing” plan which allows you to let family members also play some of the games in your library, but not at the same time.

Nintendo is imposing a bit more ceremony if you want to share digital games each time you share them, but the essential “one device at a time” nature is the same that steam imposes.

Nintendo made a huge deal about virtual game cards, saving us from exactly what you’re afraid of.

Not as good as what Sony and Microsoft do, where we can essentially install our whole library on every console we have, but it’s about as good as what Steam does.

Plus they’re bringing back a “game share” like feature, so some multiplayer games should be playable in a local family with only one purchase.

Things like the MS-PL strike me as Open Source but not Free Software, but I can’t think of a contrary example which is Free Software but not Open Source.

There is a mythical “Sony fan” customer who pays extra for their video game consoles, and justified that by believing it comes with a right to be special and awesome and play games no one else is allowed to.

It’s a pantomine of a Nintendo fan, who pays for an underpowered console for first-party games that use unique controllers. None of whom would ever complain if their games were sold on PC so long as they could bring the controller over.

AFAIK, the only real people who want exclusives on PlayStation are Sony employees and shareholders.

Spoiler alert : it was just a survey of the reported confidence of folk who admitted to using AI.

So, AI users exhibit a reduction in literally the one skill that the AI expects them to actually have?

I should probably go read that link and see if it’s actual degradation or just selection.

I see you understood the point made by the example.

For nuclear weapons specifically, the activation code was supposed to be a command and control measure to prevent unauthorized use. Having it both be an easily remembered code and one widely known made that whole system meaningless theatre.

Are there any real-world examples where encryption backdoors have been successfully used without compromising cybersecurity?

No. Adding a backdoor to cybersecurity is fundamentally introducing a vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker.

A backdoor in your IT security is like a hidden button to bypass the lock on the impenetrable front door of your impenetrable house. Sure, it makes the police serving a warrant easier, but now there’s a button that anyone can push to bypass your door.

What you will find are instances with no apparent violations. Just like setting all the nuclear weapons to have the exact same easily remembered activation code didn’t actually lead to a nuclear exchange.

Do tbey still mindlessly phone home so MS can censor what you do on your own PC?

Thats not really what happens, unless you’re so toxic that old-twitter would actually ban you.

Bsky has a “nuclear block”, that essentially removes you and the target from even existing on the version of the site each other see. If you’re ok with just talking to folk who are on your side of a “no, shutup” line, like “trans women are women” or “trans is a mental disorder” you’ll be fine.

The issue is that a bunch of folk who abscribe to the second apparently just want to troll the first, so they get blocked by their targets, have no fun, and then complain to reporters still on twitter.

The elecrelically semi-literate side, obviously.

I mean, isn’t it a usb_c cable that the manufavtuer claims can handle 10 amps of current at once? (which i think may be on the low side)