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IANAL but there have been some attempts to argue that forcing operating systems to add any age attestation etc. is compelled speech. Guess the question is which Distro will foot th…

> The ability to register for Signal without a phone number is a frequently requested feature. I wonder if Signal missed the forest for the trees with a paid registration. I imagin…

For the tiniest of moment websites were made using Flash. Granted the technology was mostly games and video but on occasion a site popped up where everything was an interactive fla…

End of an era. Who do we vote as the worst company ever now?

Sony and other digital vendors have proven more than once that if it's digital, you are not in control regardless of legislation. Discs matter because they are the only even remote…

Vorlons authenticate, Shadows authorize

These single click "informed" consent is akin to a bartender mixing you a drink with 30 different ingredients and hoping you don't notice they include cyanide and rohypnol.

> Will there be any traditional user-serving browsers left a few years from now? One can hope that by then Ladybird has landed. There was some rumblings about an alpha release come…

> Maybe the next generation of MacBooks will also actually have exactly 90° non-rounded corners? Depends who owns the patent for that.

The most ludicrous case of trademark issues I've seen to date has been Apple suing Prepear because they had a pear as their logo but Monster suing someone because of the term monst…

The way this trend is going we might need "rewritten in Rust" catalog similar to Google's graveyard.

Richard they did it. You can rest now.

Take the vax or lose your job. Two weeks to flatten the curve. You are killing grandma. "Lab leak" was a dirty word. The science has settled. A bloody live death count on the news.…

Good thing Attenborough got there first so Mel can still play with lego's. I hope there is a reference in the new Space Balls for that. Such a funny little quirk.

Better call Web Dude

Nothing Phone comes probably the closest to bare bones at least what I have come across.

> I’m certain newer LLMs will likely not attempt to rewrite it from scratch Sooner or later a Rust developer will try.

Guess Donut went with "fake it till you make it" business strategy but somewhere along the way forgot the "make it" part.

How very Wernher von Braun of them.

I would imagine MS employees might (or be made to) either directly or through wsl.

This reminds me of George Carlin standup routine about PTSD. If you want to make any bad news sound less bad, just wrap the concept around complicated jargon to sterilize it.

It's all fun and shells until you start adding parameters especially when those parameters have quotemarks in them. Groovy can get pretty wild with the syntax.