If I’m reading this right you’ve got it the wrong way around. His studies showed no link between autism and vaccines. The current administration wants to go after him because his studies prove their anti-vaccine bullshit is wrong.

Or a few big open standards and many competing implementations.

No, he has a point. Linux phones are not an alternative at this point because they aren’t even remotely close to feature parity. It’s like arguing MS Paint is a viable alternative to Photoshop. Currently there are few if any actual alternatives to either iPhones or flagship Android phones. The best you can do at the moment is one of the de-Googled flavors of Android but that only buys you so much and even then you’re losing a fair amount of functionality.

I actually bought a Linux phone a few years ago but the experience then was so terrible it wasn’t much better than a pre-smartphone like an old Nokia. It seems like things have improved a lot since then, but even now it’s not to a standard that a Linux phone is a viable alternative for anyone that needs more than just a web browser and basic calling and texting. Hopefully it will get there soon, but it’s definitely not there yet.

Libredirect, that is all.

Yeah and whoever designed that system needs to be fired. 40 years ago you could maybe call it a reasonable mistake (although it wasn’t really acceptable even back then), but these days anyone storing plaintext passwords anywhere is bordering on criminal negligence. Unless you have a damned good reason passwords should be hashed, but at a minimum at least encrypted with something reasonably secure.

It’s the perfect 3 word summary of the entire Trump presidency.

Near as I can tell from the sources I’ve seen for that he actually didn’t but some news sites misquoted him to make it seem like he did. The actual quote was that it would be “public to members [of the DNC]” not to the general public. This got shortened to “he said it would be public” in reporting leaving off the very important detail that that was meaning a very specific audience. Ultimately he never should have used the word public it’s way too easy to misconstrue. He would have been better off if he had said “it will be freely available to the DNC members”.

Huh, look at that, 4 out of 10 Americans are braindead, as that’s the only way you wouldn’t realize the gas prices are Trumps fault. Well, Trump and I guess Israel, but Trump could have tried not being a sock puppet to somebody for a change.

The US is done for, as nearly 50% of the population is apparently living in an entirely different reality from the rest of the world or else so literally out of touch with current events they don’t even understand a single thing that’s happening at a national level.

The fines should go towards paying for road repair and upkeep as well as public transit. Better and well maintained roads will cut down on accidents and better public transit would cut down on the number of cars in the road which is a win for everyone.

Technically? No. The problem is that the existing laws legally speaking all apply to the driver, and tickets likewise are all issued to the driver, which doesn’t actually exist in this case. Cops were writing tickets and the company was paying them, but legally speaking it was a grey area and waymo could have disputed the tickets and there’s a decent chance they would have won. This legislation removes the ambiguity.

Both Apple and Linux are winning big with the double wamy of Win 11 being complete garbage and Win 10 being murdered.

Grifting and religion, name a more iconic pair.

I await the inevitable Republican backed federal law that preempts state laws and makes it legal except under a very narrow case that somehow would be beneficial to consumers.

Short term? Drive wages down with the threat of firing people and replacing them with AI. Long term? They’re either delusional enough to believe AI will improve to the point where it actually is cheaper, or else they’re willing to pay more for a workforce that can’t organize and protest and that they don’t have to worry about doing things like being a whistleblower for their latest amoral plan.

Kill it from the other direction. Make it illegal to algorithmically adjust a users experience to prioritize interaction regardless of whether that’s positive or negative. Ultimately that’s the problem with places like Facebook, they weigh an angry rant the same as a positive one, higher even in a lot of cases. Things that make people angry generate a lot more interaction than positive things so it drowns people in hate and fear. If you treat any interaction as a positive signal things just devolve.

It’s not public demand, it’s a very vocal lobbying group. One that’s funded by Facebook. Ultimately though it’s all just an excuse, the goal is to collect the data and has nothing at all to do with any of the things they claim it does.

It’s the dot com bubble all over again. Going to end the same way that one did as well, most of these companies are going to go bankrupt, a few will just eat the massive loss, and an even tinier handful will actually come out ahead. I’m betting the event that’s going to finally pop the bubble is when OpenAI is forced to file for bankruptcy in another year or so despite its ridiculous stock valuation.

Thanks I hate it. So ASRock just enshitified RAM. It was already a problem that prebuilt systems used the shittiest RAM on the market, but at least there was a minimum level of quality you could expect. Now ASRock has created DDR5 RAM that’s literally half the speed that DDR5 is supposed to support as a bare minimum.

That’s exactly what I thought of when I saw it. It looks a bit undercooked though, those meat strips are a bit like bacon and tend to curl up and bubble when they’re cooked.

RFK was always a wildcard. He’s a weird mix of surprisingly reasonable ideas with complete and utter insanity and there’s no real rhyme or reason behind it. In a way it’s kind of refreshing dealing with plain old insanity compared to the usual MAGA crowd that very blatantly adjust their stances to match their prejudices and whatever is most profitable for them at the time.

It’s going to be interesting to see what happens when the grifter wing of MAGA runs face first into the nutter wing because I really have no clue which one comes out on top in that fight. My guess is that the grifters win since it will likely come down to whoever Trump decides to back and he’ll always go with a grifter over anyone else.