I got a warning saying Steam will refuse to launch on my old apple Macbook after Feb 15th. Apple stopped publishing patches for the OS version my macbook can support, and newer OSes refuse to install on this laptop, so that's the end of using Steam on this still-useful machine.

"pinpoint average age". and then "into middle childhood" and "about the age of eight" and "some three- or four-year-olds" and "until they were 15 or 16."

Did the meaning of the word "pinpoint" change recently?

Quebec has their shit together. But then cross the provincial border to Ontario, and marvel at a total clown show of government-owned electrical utilities.

"Google fansite reports Google's efforts at making obstacles caused hundreds of thousands of people to change their ways." Come on.

I use uBlock Origin, and I haven't seen any new behavior yet.

I use uBlock Origin (and ScriptSafe, and other layers of tools), and I'm getting a mixed bag. Ad audio plays, but the ad video is black, and only at the start of a video, with no interruptions while watching. I'm sure I can update/kick uBlock to fix that if I want, but it's the least annoying YouTube ad behaviour I've experienced, so I'm not in a rush to discourage it.

"You can't reason someone out of something they didn't reason themselves into."

It's not true AI unless it comes from one of the consortium that signed this letter; otherwise it's just sparkling expert systems.

"to withdraw U.S. dollar funds from their account, they may do so by converting U.S. dollar funds to stablecoin"

The only way to decrement this number is to add a positive integer? The only way to take things out of this bag is to add more things to the bag?

Why did you feel the need to add extra information?

I could've said "Stack Overflow Cuts 28% Workforce as my roommate continues to shirk her dishwashing duties."

Young layabouts prefer FREE over PAID!!

You're assuming teens are sticking to the free tiers of YT. You're also assuming teens are paying for Netflix (rather than riding their parents account). The survey didn't ask anything about the financial angle, so it's a bit of a jump to draw that conclusion.

It's just as likely that teens simply prefer a less curated experience than Netflix.

Look up "Reinheitsgebot" and "Maerzenbier" for two obvious examples.

That's where climate change will make a dent. The EU has a lot of legally-protected brands/styles (beers, cheese, wine, etc, etc) which are tied the climatology of a limited geographic range, and climate change is going to move those areas (and possibly make the style irreproducible through traditional methods).

Which sucks, but it's arguably one of the less troublesome aspects of climate change. Unless you're a producer of one of those protected products.

We use Zoom every day at work, to keep our WFH team together. It works because we don't have constant monitoring and metrics, it's just there if we need it. Adding constant monitoring and metrics means we must second-guess anything we say now, which means we communicate less. Furthermore: these new features are added to the toolbar to increase customer engagement, but that shoves off the toolbar the features WE ACTUALLY USE, which ironically decreases our engagement with the product.

I'd happily sit under their watchful eyes if it was a nice place to work, but it isn't. Any of the "it's better to mingle" is lost in the audible/ visual/ cognitive noise of open-concept office design. Last time I went into the office, my co-worker had to shout to ask me a question because of the four simultaneous conversations around us, who in turn had to raise their voices to be heard over each-other. This went on for hours, and our office had only a small fraction of the 100+ people in one room we had before covid.

I see nine paragraphs talking about how great and wonderful the ranking report is... but I don't see the actual ranking report.

Older films used a boom mic; you had to project to the mic. Stage actors also projected their voice to the audio sensors (human ears) that were outside the 'room' they were in.

"stage actors could never get away with this." I just saw "Spamalot" at the Stratford Festival and two of the stage actors had microphones visibly glued to their faces, not in their collar nor in their wigs. If they "projected" we'd hear their voice twice, or what the mic picked up would be clipped.