I didn’t sound like a centralized system from the article. More like they want a third party like Verisign or something.

Something will have to be done as these platforms become more popular to cut down on fraud and disinformation. You don’t want people impersonating other people or organizations, or companies. Even if Bluesky starts federating to other platforms, just knowing that they have a blue sky blue check would be an improvement if you could display that check on other clients like mastodon posts.

ICANN has already made a mess of domain names so I don’t know if relying on the domain is enough. People are using non-Roman characters to trick people into thinking a website domain is the real thing. Others are buying up all these random domains so you get things like medicare.net and medicare.org and medicare.com etc etc.

I dunno what the answer is. Just rambling out loud in frustration.

I don’t see anything controversial in the article. Did I miss something? Just looks like a way to make sure the public figures and companies you are communicating with are who they say they are.

The FTC is the organization that never should have approved these mergers in the first place.

There are plenty of other wrongly imprisoned people down there that the senator could be given an access to. They’re not all dead yet I’m hoping.

So are they insinuating that Google App Store “popularity” ranking is actually paid product placement?

Don’t some system updates require a reboot as well? Would be nice if this applied updates as part of this cycling.

Hey, remember the W.O.P.R. from WarGames? What could possibly go wrong.

Doesn’t this idiot own a company that makes solar panels and back up batteries? 🙄

So, let’s say they split up Meta. Does it become six different companies? Or do people like Elon and Bezos to get to pick over the remains? Hopefully the former and not the latter. I’m still pissed They let Meta buy Instagram and WhatsApp in the first place.

There’s nothing green, cheap, or safe about nuclear power. We’ve had three meltdowns already and two of them have ruined their surrounding environments:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_Island_accident

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl_Nuclear_Power_Plant

Mining for fuel ruins the water table:

A Uranium-Mining Boom Is Sweeping Through Texas (contaminating the water table) https://www.wired.com/story/a-uranium-mining-boom-is-sweeping-through-texas-nuclear-energy/

Waste disposal, storage, and reprocessing are prohibitively expensive:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rethinking-nuclear-fuel-recycling/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rethinking-nuclear-fuel-recycling/

If this is true, Apple will have to tread very carefully here. 23&Me was forbidden by the FDA from telling you about health risks related to your actual DNA. Now Apple is going to make your health diagnosis based on a Magic 8 Ball?

Good luck with that. I filled out the paperwork last year to have mine deleted and never got confirmation. Now that they’re bankrupt, I doubt there’s anyone on staff who could handle it.

Well if Google is forced to sell it off or spin Android off into its own company, we’ll see if it remains private.

I think many of us are just desperate for answers because it is difficult to believe the people around you really are this stupid.

Spinning them off into their own independent companies would make more sense than a sale to another party.

Whoopsie! I guess that’s why Steve Jobs had a policy of not announcing things that weren’t ready to ship.

Just put one of those “I bought it before I knew Elon was crazy” bumper stickers on it and continue to drive it.

This is true. But we pay for that someone to deal with it. Where I live it can be recycled, composted, or burned for electricity. Landfills are the last resort.

Tim Apple isn’t garbage, but he’s overstayed his welcome. I’m hoping Craig Federighi takes his place.

Bing is still a thing. Bing offered Apple a boatload of money to be the default search engine in Safari. I’m sure Mozilla could make a deal with Microsoft.

I also wonder if they could just prompt the user to select a search engine from a randomized list, and then get paid from whichever service the user picks?

Some browsers sell placement spaces on the default start page to make money as well. It would be another revenue stream for Mozilla and it’s easily updatable by the user directory don’t want any of these default sites.