Rookie mistake, one needs to be a billionaire with multiple politicians on the bribe ‘friends list’ to ignore the law.

Edit: 40 days for contempt? Slap on the wrist. Seizing assets would be more effective.

Nah, a cheque or large buy of trump/melania coin or a tacky ‘gold’ trophy would do it too.

People need to start working on hacks to freeze or patch Google Play Services ASAP. (Is that even possible, or is it protected at such a low level that it can’t be replaced/modified without rooting? If so, GrapheneOS or other AOSP-based alternate ROMs without Play services would be our only hope.)

The cat-and-mouse game that will start once this is rolled out is only a temporary solution; legislation and making google roll back this decision is the only long-term solution. That, and real Linux phones running something other than Android.

“… used to transfer resource heavy HTML pages.” Uhm, Gemini does not use HTML – that’s the freaking point.

I can’t be arsed to try to edit the Wiki page but this is just entirely wrong.

Fuck Kevin O’Leary.

Ah, OK. I get that angle.

Big corps always wave away debt if they can pay it off via revenue, or future promises of revenue, or … reasons. Why is it different here? Honest question. They have more cash on hand, it seems, than their current debt, so could pay that at any time. Why is it a true liability?

Nice ad hominim BTW. I’m neither stoned nor a teenager, and make no pretense to be some financial guru.

But that same link says they have $9B in Working Capital and Invested Capital. What’s the true net value then?

From article:

The proposal does not sound like a “terribly good offer” as it would saddle eBay with GameStop’s debt, said retail industry analyst Sucharita Kodali from market research firm Forrester.

Uh… Gamestop has , depending on who one asks, no debt, or some sort of convertible thing to do with their warrant issuing last year. This article seems mis-informed. It’s an ambitious gambit, but would certainly not saddle E-Bay with any significant new debt.

https://i.imgflip.com/aqc612.jpg

a paradox from 40 years ago

In 1987

Oh god I’m old

Didn’t the Klingons kill their gods due to them being too annoying? Seems like a good decision.

Maybe we could get some open-source routers and kernel patches going to implement this instead: https://bill.herrin.us/network/ipxl.html

It’s what should’ve been done instead of IPv6 – well, maybe it’s a bit of a non-sequitur for the current problem, but it would create a different internet that maybe could be routed around the age-verified one if that comes to pass.

I posted an idea over here about a week ago, I think it might actually meet the legal requirements without any OS changes for Linux/BSD/POSIX UNIX type OSes.

https://old.lemmy.ca/post/63108248

I’m going to start looking into Meshtastic and Reticulum … they look pretty cool.

…because it’s not him doing it. He’s mainly a figurehead, a useful idiot. It’s the smart fascists around him and behind him. Peter Thiel, Roger Stone, Russ Vought, Stephen Miller, Mitch McConnell, etc. etc. and basically all the Christian Nationalists and White Supremacists who’ve been working for over 30-40 years to chip away at and infiltrate every US institution. It took a long time, but they worked patiently to reach the point where this was possible.

I have not tried any of the others, but I expect the enshittification / monetization trend would be the same, yeah. :(

Welcome to everyone’s world who has a Google Home device… yanked functionality, stupider responses than when it first shipped. Sigh.

Neat, thanks. I have thought someone must have invented something like this; I might try them.

That makes total sense! Duh. Had not considered that.