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- on Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification | European Citizens' Initiative in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 29 Aug 2026
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on Uber hit with a nearly $1 billion fine for automatically deactivating drivers in Europe in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
As long as it’s profit, not revenue, even 50% is little.
Once it’s revenue and they’re in the red will the fine be more than a regular business expense.
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on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
The alarm is fucking stupid on some models.
I will not put on my seatbelt when I take the car out of the garage for a wash 2 feet in front of it.
I would also like the car to be “smart” enough not to beep that it’s in reverse before I had the chance to change it out of reverse myself. And of course, the tone is a 120hz sine wave and way too loud. Great to calm the nerves right before work or a long road trip.
And you know what’s the bonus point? The headlight on alarm is quiet like a fucking lullaby. Of course my battery died once.
I can guarantee the tones being as loud and obnoxious as they are is the reason people turn them off or buy those clamps to fake wearing a seatbelt.
Even when people use them, they do, they annoy and distract. Which causes accidents.
I’m not going to claim that they cause more accidents than they prevent, but I will claim that these are the most preventable accidents as they are actively caused by literal safety features!
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on One In Five Drivers Switches Off The Safety Tech Meant To Save Their Lives in c/technology@lemmy.world · 23 Aug 2026
I have quite a few issues with modern cars. Most I’ve had the opportunity to be in are asinine.
Important, rare warnings get lullaby tones, while the most common ones sound like someone’s actively dying on life support.
One had the genius behavior of showing a large ice detected message that took up the entire dashboard and hid away all the dials.
Most also show a tutorial for how to start the damn thing, as if it in any way differs from any other car. And as if you don’t need to pass a practical exam before driving it.
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on After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi symbolism in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Yeah. What this lawsuit in effect did is say “Games can fall under art and education. Publishers shouldn’t think just including a swastika in a game is illegal, because it isn’t. Just as a movie can include it, a game can as well.”
Of course, it still needs to not glorify nacism deliberately or inadvertantly. But it’s sad that it took this long for this non-question “legal question” to have been finally asked in court, and answered with the most expected answer - and dare I say it - one more expected of past decades than this one.
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on After 24 years, Return to Castle Wolfenstein is finally distributed uncut in Germany — game was censored due to strict laws regarding Nazi symbolism in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Their interpretation did. Games now classify as art and fall under the art-related exception from censorship.
And how do you verify the source of the “yes/no” signal is a valid ID card? How do you know it’s used by the person linked to it?
Either the yes/no is trivially faked (so you might as well skip the formality), or the user secretly does get ID’d.