Actually you still absolutely do, since Microsoft has in the past, and probably still, actively sabotaged the ability to run other operating systems on gener computation devices.

Beyond corporate greed, there is none. SMS' are even sent as part of routine packets on the cellular network so they don't even take extra data. Carriers might pay extra for inter carrier routing, but again the cost associated with that is mostly corporate greed.

You compare to the internet but you have to remember, back when SMS' were the only player in terms of cellular messaging, cellular data cost an arm and a leg.

Fuck Chuck Norris, all my homies hate Chuck Norris.

Just the other day I was on this stupid website getting attacked because I dared to say that NYT was not a particularly reliable outlet, and that they should be taken with extreme skepticism if they use anonymous sources.

You underestimate the fuckery that ISPs will go through to offer the least amount of services for the most possible money.

I get that the paper is trying to thread carefully. But Iran doesn't just "view" the attack as equivalent to an attack on its own territory. Internat law does.

Yes, green technology, bUt At WhAt CoSt? (US losing hegemony is the cost)

You absolutely can opt out of facial recognition at the TSA! But you have to be on your guards and make sure you request it! They might fake not knowing so you should insist!

Unfortunately, XMPP never delivered on this promise

Huh that entirely false though.

The fact that iMessage, GTalk, Messenger, WhatsApp, Zoom, and others closed off federation is no fault of XMPP, and a new protocol isn't going to change that.

We know for a fact that they have done it in the past and managed to hide it until it was too late, what makes you think they can't do it again?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

All this talk of foreign investors. But the reality is they represent a small proportion of single family homes[1] and residential units. It's easy to blame foreigners, but the real problem is domestic. It's corporations. Corporations are being all the housing[2]. And they don't mind sitting on their invest, even vacant, for years. So yeah, y'all keep the bigotery going and blame foreing investors, you're playing right into capitalism's hand.

1. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/6/why-is-canada-banning-foreign-homebuyers

Foreign owners only account for a small share of the Canadian real estate market. According to Statistics Canada, a government website, non-residents owned 2.2 percent of residential properties in Ontario and 3.1 percent in British Columbia in 2020. The percentages were 2.7 and 4.2 in the Toronto and Vancouver metropolitan areas, respectively.

2. https://todayshomeowner.com/blog/guides/are-big-companies-buying-up-single-family-homes/

According to data reported by the PEW Trust and originally gathered by CoreLogic, as of 2022, investment companies take up about a quarter [25%] of the single-family home market.

That's highly disengenous, they didn't seize the tld, they own it. They just didn't renew the operator's contract.