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You might find the techniques used in Network-Aware Firewall useful. You can use firewall configuration to handle connections differently depending on whether you are connected to your home network or not. Or you can use the same techniquest to do other things, depending on network connection, like bringing up your VPN or not; modifying DNS or hosts file or not; etc.

Yet they keep ‘MS’ in the name to trade on the reputation.

You mean, MegaSlop NOW is pushing slop on all its channels? How could this be?

MegaSlop: Making it all make slop.

Petroleum industry in Mexico:

it is the fourth largest oil producer in the Western Hemisphere

Might have something to do with it.

Yes, only if you actually use it. But the question was: How will they prove that I have any social media history? the premise being that one can deny the existence of any history while actually using social media. Age verification will make this increasingly difficult and risky. If you use social media and deny it and they can prove you lied about using it, there will be consequences.

Have you heard about ‘age verification’ to ‘protect the children’? You too will be age verified. They will know all your accounts. That’s the whole point of age verification. It is to eliminate anonymity.

It’s an interesting article but it seems to me that when it comes to opposing abuse of power, free communication is more fundamental than free software. Without sufficiently free communication, free software is practically unavailable and for many purposes (anything that involves communication with others) it is unusable. Without sufficiently free means of communication, the fediverse will cease to exist. Access to and use of the Internet is increasingly regulated.

According to Are Song Lyrics Copyrighted? How the Law Works, unless their use is ‘fair use’ or they have a license, then they are violating copyright, if I understand the article correctly. I believe that site explains laws in the United States. It probably varies somewhat by jurisdiction, so I expect it would depend on who owns the website and where they are based.

Is ChatGPT a legal entity competent to violate copyright law? I don’t think that’s likely.

I do think OpenAI violated copyright law by copying song lyrics and other media to use them as input to their LLM systems, to embed the essence of them into their LLMs for commercial benefit. Judging by the valuations of the companies that do not yet have significant income compared to the investments, on the face of it, the IP they copied, often without license, as far as I know, is fantastically valuable.

SpaceX fans quickly began calling for a rescue mission.

I don’t see evidence in the article of anyone calling on them (SpaceX and Musk) for a rescue: not even the anonymous fans. There is only the unsubstantiated claim. And I don’t see even a claim that anyone other than the alleged anonymous fans are calling on them.