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It was already made illegal (as of mid 2010) without affirmative opt-in by the consumer.

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/rules-policy/regulations/1005/17/

Anyone who paid overdraft fees beyond August 15, 2010 affirmatively chose to do so.

They’re probably butthurt about this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-remove-russian-maintainers-of-linux-kernel-heres-what-torvalds-says/

Men do what too, come across as “plastic and fake”?

And that sinks their elections? Not coming across as genuine?

We’re talking about Harris vs Trump, right?

Can you say with a straight face that you have ever believed anything you have ever heard out of Trump’s mouth came across as genuine? Not just opportunistic? Not just tailored to his audience?

The man who literally slathers himself in excessive amounts of bronzer doesn’t come across as plastic?

The arguments about successful female politicians coming across as insincere are tiring. Respectfully, I think you might have missed the point of me linking to that specific video. It is all about the unfair expectations projected onto women, to be one way, but to not too much that way, but also be the opposite way too. It is all about being forced to conform to societal expectations while also being expected to come across with sincerity. It is literally impossible.

Watching both women, I told my wife (a big Clinton and Harris supporter), that they both come across as plastic and fake. Their smiles don’t quite reach their eyes. They’re trying to ACT authentic, not genuinely BE authentic.

Clinton almost comes across as psychopathic in this regard and while Harris isn’t quite so bad, the reaction in her camp to her fakeness didn’t help, especially when it came to things like her fake laugh and the coconut tree comment.

When I hear comments like these, only one thing comes to mind:

America Ferrera’s lconic Barbie Speech

Yes, It ‘Looks Like a Duck,’ but Carriers Like the New Mail Truck

I predict all but one of the quantum fissures were the result of bearded Boimler trying to get his PADD back.

Sorry

I live in a corporate-managed apartment complex in Louisiana. Corporate recently made an abrupt switch to ActiveBuilding (from RealPage) for property management, and the market rate went up 25% at every property they own in the area.

The ownership and management didn’t change at all; they simply switched their software. When I heard it was coming, I took screenshots of the property websites for comparison. The 25% increase was literally overnight and market-wide.

I am hopeful but not optimistic about the DOJ case.

It’s Viacom all the way down

Lumen = CenturyLink / Level3 / Qwest

I’d love to know what he said

Basically, this, or this, with respect to a certain leadership position within a certain type of company. Given the major news event regarding an executive with the same title at a competitor’s company today, it wasn’t great.

And without the context that the Ars article provides, that information means very little to the casual visitor. There is absolutely nothing on that website to provide any of that context. It certainly doesn’t say that by uploading your photo, you are agreeing to allow Google an irrevocable licence to use it to train AI.

The only thing there is an image that says “Take control” which just links to the author’s cloud storage company. This whole thing is thinly-veiled viral marketing.

Sure, but that still feels very “You agreed!”. The only place on that website that tells you “beforehand” is hidden in the terms of service. That’s literally no different.

The site (TheySeeYourPhotos) returns what Google Vision is able to decern from photos. You can test with any image you want or there are some sample images available.

…by submitting them to Google, who then keeps a copy of them and uses them for the exact same purpose which purportedly compelled the author to leave Google.

The album World Music Radio, by Jon Batiste

This kinda shit always pisses me off because if you actually look up the statistics for the use of tobacco products over the years, we’ve been seeing a steady decline since the 90’s. So I’d like to counter your counter and say where is the actual data showing the increase in tobacco products among the youth?

Five seconds of Googling will find those results for you.

The TL;DR is that the 2024 numbers are down significantly from 2023, and that much of that decline is attributed to bans on certain vaping products. But in many years prior, usage was on the rise. For example, in high school students, use of any tobacco product rose 38% from 2017 to 2018 alone.

Better than using tabs as bookmarks

Let’s be realistic. How many devices support a mainline version of OpenWRT and have more than one 2.5 Gbe port?

This thing is primarily a wifi router and access point. The available Ethernet ports, which are limited to what the chipset supports, are going to be more than sufficient for the majority of users.

If your main concern is wired throughput to the Internet, you are not the target audience for OpenWrt. The literal point of the OpenWrt project was to be an open source firmware for the WRT54G wireless router. The project has of course grown since then, but that is still its primary intended use case.

You are much more likely to find what you need in pfSense/OPNsense/etc, and on more powerful hardware. I would be way more concerned with the fact that it only has 1 GB RAM.

But if you still want to take that stance, there is nothing stopping you from reconfiguring the 2.5 Gbe port as a VLAN trunk and hanging it off a managed switch. Put your uplink in one VLAN and your LAN in another. That is going to be more than sufficient to saturate the 1 Gbps fiber connection that most people have (or at least asymmetrically saturate the 2 Gbps connection that some people have).

Or if you don’t like that, just do the routing on the switch. If your primary concern is wired throughput, you’ll probably already be doing that anyway. Then just use this thing as an AP, in which case the one port is sufficient.

The included MT7976C wifi can theoretically saturate the 2.5 Gbps uplink on its own. The use case is overall throughput for a mixture of wired and wireless devices.