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A jughandle is a type of ramp or slip road that changes the way traffic turns left at an at-grade intersection (in a country where traffic drives on the right). Instead of a standard left turn being made from the left lane, left-turning traffic uses a ramp on the right side of the road. In a standard forward jughandle or near-side jughandle, the ramp leaves before the intersection, and left-turning traffic turns left off of it rather than the through road; right turns are also made using the jughandle. In a reverse jughandle or far-side jughandle, the ramp leaves after the intersection, and left-turning traffic loops around to the right and merges with the crossroad before the intersection.

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

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    • Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now in c/technology@lemmy.world
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    And, how many people switch to something other than the default? Most W11 users are just going to go with whatever the computer says it's doing without changing anything. They're either ignorant of the options available, or scared of breaking something if they make a change.

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    • The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News in c/hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
    Sen. Warnock's ban on private equity firms buying single-family homes becomes federal law in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
    Sen. Warnock's ban on private equity firms buying single-family homes becomes federal law in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
    Sen. Warnock's ban on private equity firms buying single-family homes becomes federal law in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
    Sen. Warnock's ban on private equity firms buying single-family homes becomes federal law in c/upliftingnews@lemmy.world
    They don't cover nuclear war? Pass. in c/lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
    The Stellar Swedish VPN Service Had to Be Corrupted... in c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk
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    37,000 Fake AI Comments Mysteriously Oppose Washington State’s Effort To Tax The Rich (www.techdirt.com)
     

    cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/25192458

    Ideally, the U.S. public is supposed to be able to comment on government policy proceedings, and the government is supposed to listen to that input.

    Of course, it doesn’t really work that way: For years we’ve noted how U.S. regulatory comment proceedings are full of bots and fake comments from industries trying to game regulators, and make shitty policy (giant mergers, mindless deregulation, the elimination of consumer protection) seem like it has broad public support (remember when dead people opposed net neutrality?).

    Unsurprisingly the U.S. hasn’t done anything to seriously rein in this problem. And when officials do act, it tends to be largely toothless, resulting in the problem getting steadily worse.

    And that was before AI made it significantly easier for bad actors to quickly automate this sort of gamesmanship. Washington State has been exploring the RADICAL SOCIALIST ANTIFA EXTREMIST idea of having the state’s rich actually pay their taxes. That’s not been received particularly well by the extraction class, which has been making empty promises about leaving the state.

    We later get this tidbit:

    “More than 60,000 people signed in against SB 6346 when it received a rushed hearing in the Senate,” Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia, said in a Feb. 16 statement. “That is so impressive that Democrats have tried to say bots are responsible, even though the Legislature blocks bots.”

    Centralia? That's the equivalent of flyover country along I-5. (I have driven through Centralia numerous times but never found any reason to stop ... it's basically Chehalis.)

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    Disney will pay $10 million to settle children's data privacy lawsuit (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
     

    According to a complaint filed by the U.S. Justice Department, following a referral from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Disney allegedly failed to tag kid-directed videos on YouTube as "Made for Kids" (MFK), a label that instructs YouTube to block personal data collection and stop displaying personalized ads on correctly designated content to protect children's privacy.

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    Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox (www.theverge.com)
     

    cross-posted from: https://news.idlestate.org/post/2337003

    Mozilla is in a tricky position. It contains both a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the internet a better place for everyone, and a for-profit arm dedicated to, you know, making money. In the best of times, these things feed each other: The company makes great products that advance its goals for the web, and the nonprofit gets to both advocate for a better web and show people what it looks like. But these are not the best of times. Mozilla has spent the last couple of years implementing layoffs and restructuring, attempting to explain how it can fight for privacy and openness when Google pays most of its bills, while trying to find its place in an increasingly frothy AI landscape.

    Fun times to be the new Mozilla CEO, right? But when I put all that to Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, the company’s just-announced chief executive, he swears he sees opportunity in all the upheaval. “I think what’s actually needed now is a technology company that people can trust,” Enzor-DeMeo says. “What I’ve seen with AI is an erosion of trust.”

    Mozilla is not going to train its own giant LLM anytime soon. But there’s still an AI Mode coming to Firefox next year, which Enzor-DeMeo says will offer users their choice of model and product, all in a browser they can understand and from a company they can trust. “We’re not incentivized to push one model or the other,” he says. “So we’re going to try to go to market with multiple models.”

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    Trump shock spurs Japan to think about the unthinkable: nuclear arms (www.reuters.com)
     

    In Japan and South Korea there is deepening concern over the reliability of long-time American security guarantees – whether the U.S. will come to their aid in the event of a war. This has been turbo-charged by Donald Trump’s tough treatment of traditional U.S. allies, which has some in Tokyo and Seoul calling for a reassessment of their non-nuclear policies.

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