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It didn't miss the earth, and came down in one piece. That's Boeing flawless.

Those are agents. Agents and people in power will be remembered (albeit badly, see the Czech president's history*). The common people who supported, helped and went along with the regime will not be remembered as such. The least remembered will be the snitches, see the current Czech premier...

You won't. Most of them will flip colors the moment it becomes dangerous for them. And a few years later (likely two elections cycles) you will find that they're getting elected again.

Congratulations, you got to the "travel bans" lite level, almost like the soviets had! Keep up the good work. In your near future is profiling kids and deciding their academic prospects (from elementary school) based on their parent's views and/or past actions. The terrifying thing that today...

And the nutritional value of those yields isn't too good.

Didn't know about those guys. I'll just leave this part of their wikipedia entry here: Why devoid of farming? Because farming requires seasonal stability (as in this growing season looks like the previous one), and there's a good chance we'll kill that at global scale. And I am not saying...

Sure, but right now we seem to be at peak materiality. Meaning that diminishing returns of further exploitation of the environment are kicking in, and we feel it. The one currently the most in the news is copper. The one everyone knows about, but doesn't mention is oil. Venezuela? US shale...

What makes you think that? Do you know what happened 12 000 years ago? The climate stabilized, what we call the holocene started, and humans started farming. There is quite a real possibility that changing the climate at the scale we do will render all farming impossible.

It takes trust and due diligence to keep society functioning. Four decades of neoliberal "law of the jungle" aka "competition" in every aspect of life, including reality, would do this to any society. Putting idiots in charge is the end game.

Just pop already... Having data centers rain down is in a similar vein to being hit by a toilet seat from a re-entering MIR.

I wonder if CLOs are the ticking time bomb this time...

Yeah, the only thing that comes to mind is that they get a custom agesa/ucode which walls off that part of the ASIC, and they bake that into the uefi. However both OSes have the capability to load that ucode at boot, rendering that walling off moot. On reddit there is talk of ACPI tables which...

Could the story please clarify whether this was done retroactively to already purchased models? All I can find is kind ambiguous, leaning towards no. With models from Sep 2025 not having HEVC enabled. Also the method used to block decoding would be interesting. Internet is full of stories...

you accidentally described the problem: patent pools. plural. Wikipedia notes 5, two of which have conditions unknown to the public.

Go raise the bounty on fixing it. Organized by Louis Rossmann. https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/samsung-familyhub-refrigerators Clippys together strong...

Wait, what? you guys bleach flour?! On the list of stuff I didn't want to know...

Capitalism always was, and always will be about exploiting labour and making things as crappy as anyone will still buy. Computer programs are different, as in identical copies were zero cost. And there is no way to make you, the end user, pay for the entire software stack, even less so at the...

The article misses the part where Discord changed its terms before this announcement to require (strongly than before) forced arbitration instead of regular courts.

Correct: All gets pushed through Apple/Google servers. Hence a privacy nightmare. And, funny thing: Apple's run on kind of XMPP... My introduction to this was setting up an XMPP server. Getting it to work with iOS was a nightmare*, with Apple assuming that the app publisher is also the owner of...

It's possible to write a chat application that has a persistent TCP connection and doesn't hog the battery, Conversations is really great at that. It's not an issue of the modem being up, in fact the modem needs to be kept up, otherwise incoming phone calls wouldn't work either. The suspend is...