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"established standards" - now who has the incentive to run shitty services? those big enough to control the "established standards".

It's somewhat ironic... if a University's CS department was charged with developing and maintaining the system, what an awesome learning tool it would be. CS students would maybe e…

Study history. Tractor businesses have operated successfully from the 1930's through the 1990's using this model. Those tractors are still running and still serviceable. (I've run …

Good. Simplicity should win out over enshittification in the end.

This is (yet another reason) why we can't have nice things on the Internet anymore. Sigh.

The F-35 was specified when the Joint Strike Fighter program began in 1995, with the development contract awarded in 2001, and the first flight in 2006 or thereabouts. Of course it…

Right. But the copyright was violated when you used 'a' to begin with.

The Mars Polar Lander and Mars Climate Orbiter missions would beg to differ. (And "absolute" or other adjectives don't qualify "correctness"... it simply is or isn't.)

In my engineering job of over 30 years, I've noticed that the heroes that get rewarded for fixing the problems are usually the same ones who created the problems in the first place…

I don't know who is dumber now... the AI, or the humans who keep interacting with them thinking that they actually possess some form of intelligence and are not just stochastically…

If the premise contributing to the conclusion to run their own chat service is: > But Signal is still one company running one service. If they shut down tomorrow or change directio…

?? I don't understand the conclusion to block incoming SYNs with TTL > 70... you're blocking all (even valid) connection attempts from users running other OS's that don't choose th…

> "We totally lost all of our critical thinking skills " This nugget was buried in the article, and seems appropriate. I don't get where the author is coming from. If one doesn't t…

> To be honest, though, this seems like ideal content for an LLM to produce. It's basically fact regurgitation. You're trolling us, right? "Basically fact regurgitation" is all tha…

> I want less code. I want to limit the amount of 3rd party code I pull in. This is mostly due to supply chain disasters over on NPM scaring me and the amount of code dependencies …

> I know it’s thermal throttling because I can see in iStat Menus that my CPU usage is 100% while the power usage in watts goes down. When I read this I wondered "Why isn't core te…

Amen

Makes me wonder why there isn't a UI feature within easy reach to let the user drag a pin on a map and tap "I know I'm here right now"... and if that agrees with where GPS also ind…

All the people who weren't raised on a phone or tablet shoved in front of them since they were a toddler...

At least we still have the right to not buy a TV... (for now?)

But there's so much UB in C++ that can be exploited that I doubt attackers lament the lack of a module system to target. ;)

My question regrettably left out an unstated extrapolation I was inferring... what happens when we all "just google-ai it" when we're bored? Of course I don't think the energy usag…

> I had never heard of Jon Postel before. Reading this makes me a bit sad and reminds me that I'm older now and lucky to have grown up during the golden age of the Internet.

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The lie is that hyper thread "cores" are equal to real "cores". Maybe this is what happens when an over 20-year old technology (hack) becomes ubiquitous and gets forgotten about? (…