I’m feeling like we’re the last generation to have had the privilege to live in a world where knowledge was valued, rather than the appearance of knowledge.

The masses don’t seem to care if something is right, but don’t take them for no damn fools!

Although I think the quote should be:

Yousa thinking USA people gonna die?

You know that over-the-air update facility you all loved?

Errr … there’s a downside.

But I haven’t seen anyone expressing that Superman should not represent kindness.

Isn’t the take more like “You think it’s super-human to be kind?!?”

I tried it a couple of times and stopped both times because it puts it own password dialogue box up for my password. I assume it wants to sudo for some reason.

No! I will not give you my plaintext password.

1. No other piece of screen sharing software needs this.
2. You’ve not told me what you need it for.
3. Even if valid, no user level software should have my plaintext password. Make a request to the system, it will prompt me.
4. You now expect me to trust the software developers that make such brain-dead security choices with sharing my desktop? Not going to happen.

Uninstalled as fast as I possibly could.

Russian tourists in North Korea?!

I don’t think I’ve ever felt so bad for the North Koreans.

If the heat plate is damaged or any of those heat pipes are pinched / cracked, then you’re SOL. What a lot of people don’t realise is there’s liquid in those pipes that evaporates on the heat plate, condenses in the cooler, and then runs back to evaporate again.

So “as a compliment to web search” is a great example. We had really good we search based off deterministic algorithms. Now we have enshittified web search, so you boost it with AI that was significantly more expensive to train, significantly more expensive to run inference on, and can confidently return false “facts”.

We’re not using it because it’s better. We’re using it because the alternative got worse.

They’re novelties for sure, but I see nothing but toy uses or things that be achieved by other, less wasteful, techniques.

I assume by crypto you mean cryptocurrencies rather than any cryptography, because there’s lots of valid uses for private communication.

Amazingly, they’re huge now and still consumer friendly. Just watch out for when the current CEO leaves.

They say of The Acropolis where The Parthenon is… that it’s too fucking hot!

Heroes

Ludicrous amounts of money being pumped into a technology that has no practical purpose.

Lawsuits seem like the wrong way to decide medical efficacy of treatments.

How did this manifest before? You only need to look at the advertising of the time. Take the 1950s America - McCarthyism and the red scare in full force. Most US marketing relied heavily on how buying American made you a good patriotic citizen, living the American dream… even if the product wasn’t 100% American.

I think people who dislike flatpaks or similar aren’t having “problems”. They work, but they’re using using a sledgehammer to drive a nail.

…and it’s turned them into the state with the highest standard of living in the US…right?

Many see the point of education to be the certificate you’re awarded at the end. In their mind the certificate enables the next thing they want to do (e.g. the next job grade). They don’t care about learning or self improvement. It’s just a video game where items unlock progress.

Octopus was set up because they felt they could use technology to out-compete other energy companies by under-cutting them. Their model of operating is to find ways they can drop prices.

It’s a model that has served them very well, going from zero to a multi-national energy supplier in about 10 years with more customers than nearly anyone else.