But the dev’s reason for the account requirement will just be “the boss said so”…

I like how just summarizing the charges against Trump takes up nearly half of the article:

As of August 27, 2024, Donald Trump has been personally charged with 92 criminal offenses in four criminal cases. This total reflects charges related to Trump’s attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election, election interference in Georgia, falsifying business records in New York, and mishandling classified records after leaving the presidency. Donald Trump is the first former president in U.S. history to be criminally indicted.

In New York, Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records. Prosecutors proved that Trump was involved in an illegal conspiracy to undermine the 2016 election in connection with concealing hush money payment to adult film actress Stormy Daniels. He will be sentenced in September.

Slightly over 1 year ago, (Aug. 14, 2023) Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis officially filed a slew of RICO charges against Trump and 16 of his cohorts suspected to be involved in election tampering.

From the CNBC article that is the source for the linked post:

Trump’s suit was filed in U.S. District Court in Amarillo, Texas, effectively guaranteeing that it would be assigned to Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk, a Trump nominee with a conservative judicial record.

That gives Trump a much better chance of winning than you’d think from only reading the Political Wire post.

The payments requirement was the only win Epic got in its case against Apple. Apple now allows external purchase links, with a bunch of requirements and restrictions.

Reddit also grew to 97.2 million daily users over the past few months, marking a 47 percent increase from the same time last year.

This is for the quarter that covers July, August and September. Last year, the API fee kicked in on July 1, killing most third-party apps, and the quarter would have also included any lingering drop in users from June’s protests. So, it’s a big year-over-year increase in daily users but that’s compared to what might not have been a very good quarter last year.

The article says they’re treating this as an illegal lottery; maybe the state’s voter bribery laws don’t cover this particular scheme and the lawsuit is plan B.

Because it’s a federal crime and the feds aren’t doing anything about it.

Tim Houston has called a snap election to be held Nov. 26.

The Progressive Conservative leader is trying to win a second term, despite legislation he personally introduced three years ago that gave Nova Scotia a fixed election date of July 15, 2025.

Somehow governments keep making fixed election date laws that the government is free to ignore.

Yes. Twitter was first, then Reddit, now Twitter is another fee

Musk has already moved on from telling advertisers to fuck off to suing them for fucking off. He’s just making sure he doesn’t have to sue the PAC.

They’re tracking people using their phone’s advertising ID. How to Disable Ad ID Tracking on iOS and Android, and Why You Should Do It Now

On newer versions of iOS apps have to ask for permission to access your device’s advertising ID; Facebook was very unhappy about that. Turning off Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Tracking -> Allow Apps to Request to Track will (should?) keep apps from getting your advertising ID. I’m not sure if Android has anything like that, but Google is an advertising company so my guess is No.

Apple already supports buying individual episodes on the iTunes Store.

Hundreds of billions just to do the deportations, and then there’s the cost to the economy:

One study found that Obama’s Secure Communities program, which deported nearly half a million undocumented immigrants, not only pulled those immigrants from the workforce but had a ripple effect of decreasing the employment and hourly wages of U.S.-born people as well. Scaling their findings, the researchers estimated that for every 1 million unauthorized workers deported, 88,000 native-born jobs would be lost.

An analysis from the nonpartisan Peterson Institute for International Economics released last month reached similar conclusions. Researchers found that a mass deportation of even just 1.3 million undocumented immigrants would lower GDP and reduce employment in the U.S. by 0.8% by 2028. A larger mass deportation of over 8 million immigrants would have a larger effect, lowering employment to 5.1% below the current baseline.

Undocumented immigrants also paid $59.4 billion in federal taxes and $37.3 billion to state and local taxes, according to a study by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. More than a third of those went to Medicaid, Social Security and unemployment insurance.

Ukraine gave up its nukes years ago on a pinky swear Russia would leave it alone. They’d have to be Trump-level stupid to think if they just give up one more thing this time Russia will keep its word.

Oops, I was in Settings earlier and must have made a mistake.

On Wednesday Mullenweg posted another ultimatum in Automattic’s Slack: a new offer that would include nine months of compensation (up from the previous offer of six months).

Upping the offer may get more people to take it, but now he’s going to get people sticking around to see if he’ll go higher later.

old.reddit still has RSS feeds for subreddits, if there’s anything you still want to follow there. e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/technology.rss

The lemmy community for my city is completely dead, so I follow the subreddit this way.

He’s going to have one of Elon’s autonomous cars deliver it. Should arrive any year now.

Why wouldn’t he continue? It’s not like there’s ever any consequences for him.

First-past-the-post does need to go, but what gets me is that Trudeau started an electoral reform process involving public consultations and buy-in from the other parties, and what he regrets is not that he shut it down when it wasn’t going towards his preferred system, but that he didn’t just skip all that and use his majority to implement his preferred aystem.