From November, it will be possible to pay Meta to stop shoveling ads in your Instagram or Facebook feeds and slurping your data for marketing purposes so long as you live in the EU, EEA, or Switzerland.
The higher price for iOS and Android is blamed on the cut Apple and Google demand for purchases.
As for why the company is doing this, it all comes down to the rulings of European regulators, who have been cranking up the pressure on how social media outlets use personal data.
The company said: “In its ruling, the CJEU [Court of Justice of the European Union] expressly recognized that a subscription model, like the one we are announcing, is a valid form of consent for an ads funded service.”
Meta is expecting a substantial amount of cash from users for not slurping their data for marketing purposes, which seems to be at odds with the spirit of rulings from regulators, if not some of the actual words.
The company said: “We’re continuing to explore how to provide teens with a useful and responsible ad experience given this evolving regulatory landscape.”
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The Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia is one of the most brutally obvious signs of America’s public health crisis. The so-called “open air drug market” in the middle of the country’s sixth most populous city is where hundreds of people use drugs, some of whom are unhoused, usually without being arrested by the...
My guesses:
Panhandling (Thanks @Breezy) on better streets without the associated stigma
Stealing
Recycling bottles found in the trash (at least where a deposit system exists)
Doing odd jobs for small change.
Skipping lunch for drugs.
Honestly, the multiple profile feature seems like a total afterthought to Google. Even before 14, I experienced endless bugs running a second (work) profile, including the inability to receive incoming phone calls and text messages, odd crashes and freezes, and the launcher hanging fairly regularly.
Per kilo, sure. But in terms of overall impact, I’ll lay odds that reducing the CO2 level down to preindustrial levels would be more effective than reducing any other pollutant.
The latency seems fine but I’m not a very good gamer. Better gamers could be annoyed, but it seems fine to me. There’s been the odd hiccup now and again with Chiaki (PS5 streaming) where things go gray but it doesn’t bother me too much.
The weird one for me is archery equipment. No licence, no checks, no storage requirement. And sure, you cant go on much of a spree, it still seems a bit odd that anyone can buy one. Crossbows are restricted though.
Doesn’t the m2 max allow 196gb of ram? Seems like an odd downgrade. The value in these for me is the unified memory for large ai models, but most consumers may not notice that. Who knows.
I kinda want to give them the benefit of the doubt because that’s just odd it seems as if someone just fat fingered the 3, because 75-95 makes a lot more sense
The ghost thing is one thing from that episode, but that there is this space colony that has patterned itself after Scotland and "POW, you're just going to have to accept that" has never set right with me. It's right up there with an entire space colon that patterned itself after native American Pueblo peoples that rather than hop on over to another planet are legit cool with being under Cardassian rule, because "SPIRITS!" Like dude, y'all got here on spaceships not flying eagle ghost.
Which all of that seems a bit a bit odd considering they're like "we know what's happened in the past, you white people are always making us move!!" Because is feels like they're forgetting that part of the past that goes something like "US Congress promised us they'd leave us alone!"
Also what are the odds that your people's mortal enemy "Picard" from 600 years ago, has his great-great-great-great........grandson shows up on your remote ass planet in the middle of nowhere?
It is completely 100% ridiculous to try to ‘diagnose’ you from this short of a description, but it could be that you’re autistic to some degree.
Us autistic folks like to take moral issues a lot more personal, like having to lie. We’re often at odds with societal standards. We may feel like we’re socially slow, even though in my experience, it’s usually just that we socialize differently. And we definitely overanalyze things.
We are the Gamblers. Lower your odds and surrender your bets. We will integrate your winning strategies and lucky numbers into our own. Your fortune will adapt to increase our jackpot.
Image description: a screenshot from the Wikipedia page for the Doctor Who TV series, with a user-added caption that reads “Preserve the media you can before it’s gone forever.” The Wikipedia article reads, “No 1960s episodes exist on their original videotapes (all surviving prints being film transfers), though some were...
In an interview for 60 Minutes, CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook posed that question to Linsey Marr, a Virginia Tech University professor specializing in aerosol science....
Assuming a mask blocks 50% of particles or droplets in either direction (preventing yours from escaping if you’re sick, preventing outside particles from getting to you), when 2 people wear masks that reduces the chances of transmission in a given retail encounter by 75%.
Reducing those odds by that much, when (from an epidemiological POV) the biggest math factor is to drive the r number down below 1, it’s a huge deal. If you do that consistently, the virus becomes rarer and rarer and has fewer opportunities to mutate and more importantly, you’re feeding fewer and fewer human beings to it.
Changing gravity could certainly be explained by super dense mineral clusters. Once you get below the mantel the Earth is essentially a liquid… it isn’t so beyond belief to imagine a world where mantel temperatures are higher and everything below the thin outer crust is fluid… if we then imagine pockets of super dense material with weird magnetic properties it’d be possible for large clumps of that to float through the mantel and cause interesting variations in gravity. Gravity follows the inverse square law so a super density fluid traveling through the upper mantel would potentially cause some really odd effects.
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Sarah Katz, 21, had a heart condition and died hours after she drank Panera’s Charged Lemonade, a large cup of which contains more caffeine than Red Bull and Monster energy drinks combined....
You take their words at face value? It’s from their actions and game theory of the situation.
They’ve stated their objectives pretty clearly. Why would I take words of some random youtube troll over the official position?
It’s a game theory and international relations teacher talking about their area of expertise. I’m guessing anything that disagrees with Russia though is propaganda for you.
The narrative this game theory and international relations teacher is feeding you is at odds with the reality we observe. The fact is that plenty of western experts such as Mearsheimer clearly explain what’s happening, and their claims have actually been supported by what’s observed …substack.com/…/the-darkness-ahead-where-the-ukra…
“You’re still talking about culture while referring yourself to heritage, how thick can you be?” My poor projecting dude, I’m not the thick one. The concepts of culture and heritage have a lot of overlap. If heritage can’t change then there is nothing that conservatives need to fight for because heritage can’t change. Let the progressives change culture and society all they like heritage can’t change and so for each subsequent generation heritage will forever be the same. This is part of the logical failure of your definition.
“That heritage will not change, it will disappear little by little while culture change around it.” Removing incremental parts is change. Adding incremental parts is change. You are almost back to reality here.
" I notice that you didn’t reply to my comment about the southern American heritage" ok cool.
“do you think it has changed from the '800 or is it still the same racist construct it was 200 years ago?” I think it’s changed. I’ll preempt your dishonest next question/insinuation. Yes of course its still racist its just an evolved form that has similarities and differences from what it was back in…i’m guessing you’re trying to say the 1800s?
“Keep telling you that, you might start believing it” pretty easy to believe in reality.
“You haven’t considered that the culture around you has slightly changed from the past I see. That’s because you don’t understand the difference between heritage and culture and this is also the reason why we are having this conversation, but you are too prideful to accept my definitions and challenging them while also refusing to give your own. Scared of being proven wrong?” Sure I’ve considered culture changing around me. Culture and heritage both being capable of change are not a contradiction. Culture changing and being added to the existing heritage for future generations is how it works. I’ve clearly explained how your definition is at odds with the rest of humanity and with reality, that is sufficient basis to dismiss it.
“Please prove this point, don’t just put it there without evidence to corroborate it” No other definition has heritage being immutable. If you claim that another shares that criteria then provide it. Please prove that no one else’s definition of weather includes the stipulation that weather is only when its raining.
“My definition is like differentiating between weather and climate. They seem similar but if I state that “the weather hasn’t changed because yesterday was raining and today it’s raining too” is a correct statement. If, on the other hand, I’d say that “the climate hasn’t changed because yesterday was raining and today it’s raining too” I’d be wrong since climate is not related to a single couple of days but to a much larger time scale” Again you are almost back to reality. Let’s go with your misunderstanding of the weather example, we can make something useful of it. Weather/culture is much more volatile and changes quickly. Climate/heritage are charted over the course of much longer periods of time and are based on the long term trend of weather/culture. AND HOLY SHIT! Climate/heritage can change! Unless you are one of those troglodytes that claims climate change isn’t real. I’ll assume against all prior evidence that you are smart enough to understand that climate can and is changing. Weather being able to change, and change much more readily, doesn’t in any way stop climate from changing. In fact it is an inherent part of climate changing. Culture changing doesn’t in any way stop heritage from changing and in fact is an inherent part of heritage changing.
“So we can assume that people talking about the same points over and over again without giving any merits to their beliefs are the cultured ones? I start to understand how you ended up being so lackluster in your debating skills” You are strutting about the chessboard stepping in your own shit.
“You are confusing weather and climate like you confuse heritage and culture. A not very bright example from a not very bright mind, what else is there to say?” What is there to say? Well I could say that you were not bright enough to pick up on the fact that that was not about a relationship between weather and climate but rather giving an example of an internally consistent but fundamentally flawed definition that is detached from reality…like your definition of heritage.
I’m sorry, I know I said I would assume to give you the benefit of a doubt but I gotta ask. Are you one of those idiots that thinks climate isn’t changing?
I’ll say that fewer console exclusives is for the better.
Maybe my issue is just how console gaming has changed, and how all 3 companies have screwed consumers.
If I buy Stray on PS5, will I still be able to play it 10 years from now? 20 years from now? Will the PS6 and 7 be able to play PS5 games? Does it matter if I have the physical or digital version? Am I going to be able to rip and emulate PS5 games on a PC at any point? Once my PS3 dies, I lose my digital games and at the mercy of the emulation community to play my physical games. Once my 3DS dies… It’s all gone, and piracy will be the only way to play the games I paid for.
I already bought Stray on Steam. It’s not a guarantee, but I like my odds better there.
I bought my PS5 expecting that there would be some great exclusives there eventually, and that even the ones with PC versions would be better on PS5 (at least at launch and while I’m still rocking an RX580). But all Naughty Dog has done is remakes so far. I love Insomniac, but I’m not a Marvel fan and I miss their more creative work.
The biggest use I’ve gotten from the PS5 has been using the DualSense in PS4 games because I don’t like the DS4.
What type of piracy do you use the most? (strawpoll.com)
Personally I use public trackers the most and only recently private trackers for stuff in my native language....
Meta's ad-free scheme dares you to buy your privacy back, one euro at a time (www.theregister.com)
YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market (www.404media.co)
The Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia is one of the most brutally obvious signs of America’s public health crisis. The so-called “open air drug market” in the middle of the country’s sixth most populous city is where hundreds of people use drugs, some of whom are unhoused, usually without being arrested by the...
A weird storage bug in Android 14 is locking users out of their phones (www.techspot.com)
The magic genie has appeared to grant you your wish. What small thing do you wish for that would have the biggest positive impact on the world?
Israeli forces attack Gaza's main city from two directions (www.reuters.com)
Steam Deck officially hits over 12,000 games Playable and Verified (www.gamingonlinux.com)
We have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So what changed?
Apple officially unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max: 3 nanometer, Dynamic Caching GPU, more (9to5mac.com)
Companies lower salaries in job postings as pay transparency laws take effect (www.cnbc.com)
Guinan has seen it before (pixelfed.social)
Have you ever had an illness that most people don't understand?
FDA warns consumers against using 26 eye drop products because of infection risk (www.cbsnews.com)
The Borg cube (startrek.website)
(not mine)
Piracy is Preservation (feddit.de)
Image description: a screenshot from the Wikipedia page for the Doctor Who TV series, with a user-added caption that reads “Preserve the media you can before it’s gone forever.” The Wikipedia article reads, “No 1960s episodes exist on their original videotapes (all surviving prints being film transfers), though some were...
Face mask effectiveness: What science knows now (www.cbsnews.com)
In an interview for 60 Minutes, CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook posed that question to Linsey Marr, a Virginia Tech University professor specializing in aerosol science....
What would a world where gravity is a weather condition look like?
Apologies if this doesn’t fit here, not sure where else to post something like this on lemmy...
Petition demands that Microsoft extends Windows 10 support (ghacks.net)
Judge reinstates Trump gag order in Jan. 6 case (abcnews.go.com)
The judge overseeing former President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 case has reinstated the gag order she imposed following a stay.
‘It’s quite soul-destroying’: how we fell out of love with dating apps (www.theguardian.com)
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Apple says BMW wireless chargers really are messing with iPhone 15s (www.theverge.com)
Apple says BMW wireless chargers really are messing with iPhone 15s::An Apple memo to authorized repair providers reportedly says BMW and Toyota Supra wireless chargers can disable iPhone 15 NFC chips.
Panera now displaying warning about its caffeinated lemonade in all stores after lawsuit over customer's death (www.nbcnews.com)
Sarah Katz, 21, had a heart condition and died hours after she drank Panera’s Charged Lemonade, a large cup of which contains more caffeine than Red Bull and Monster energy drinks combined....
Joe Biden wants more people to start living in empty offices (www.businessinsider.com)
The Not-So-Great Replacement Theory (kevinmkruse.substack.com)
Ex-PlayStation Boss Has A Warning For The Game Industry (kotaku.com)