According to the MythTV website, their current version number (released in March 2020) is 31.0.

The Chromium versioning system has more to do with how long they support a version of Chrome than anything else. It's much easier to say, "We currently support versions 96, 97, and 98 of Chrome than 5.5 build 4500, 5.5 build 4667, and 5.5 build 4800." This is simply because most people will only think about the version 5.5 part of those version numbers and completely miss the build numbers. Another useful thing is remote troubleshooting. I can easily tell someone, "Click the three-dot menu in the upper-right below the 'x', hover over 'Help' and select, 'About Google Chrome'. Read me the number next to the word 'Version'." If I hear 75 I know that a re-install of Chrome is in our future (and I can tune out them trying to parse the rest of the string) If they say something within a couple of versions (95 or above right now) I'll try to make it work. By the way, while I pulled those build numbers out of thin air, they aren't too far off. My current Chrome Beta install says version 99.0.4844.35. It's quite likely that we'd see four-digit build numbers being the delimiter for the standard releases if Chrome tried to use something like semantic versioning.

He was doing a What If style column called Good Question for the NYT (in addition to the normal XKCD comic). That's where the What If energy was probably going. His last column there was in December 2020 but that's probably when he started work on this book.

The Amazon Lexical Analyzer, or Alexa for short, is where the name came from. If you use AWS, you can even use the "Lex" service to make your own queries. If you packet-sniff an Echo device you'll see that it's just making queries to an AWS Lex instance to figure out what you're saying after the wake word.

My Windows 10 machine (a Lenovo Yoga 720) that I bought new in May 2020 is on the list of devices that are technically unsupported for Windows 11 since it only has a seventh-generation Intel Core processor. It doesn't have an optical drive and never ran Windows 7, 8, or 8.1. I'll probably be able to force it to upgrade to Windows 11 since the "eighth-generation or above" limit is said to be a soft limit but, how many people who don't regularly visit Slashdot will do the same?

That's global market share, since this article is only discussing RCS rollout in the US, we should be noting iOS market share in the US. According to Statista, iOS has a 46.9% market share here as of the end of Q1 2021.

While true, a bill became law in Maryland last Friday to return control of the Baltimore City PD to the city. I don't know the details and I only heard about it because it was one of many bills that became law either without the Governor's signature or through veto overrides and that made national news.

If I remember this case correctly, they were using a shared TeamViewer account for remote access so, everyone had the same password.

The death penalty is used much more liberally in China than in the US (I can't speak for Russia, I've never read those numbers) in that you can see people being sentenced to death for crimes that didn't result in the death of anyone. That's a pretty effective way of keeping prison populations down.

My laptop's hard drive is encrypted. My phone is encrypted and before going through customs, I'll place it (a Galaxy Note 20 Ultra) into "lockdown mode" thereby requiring my pin and not just my fingerprint to unlock. I'm currently spending literal days fully encrypting my 5TB DAS so that it too is safe from any spying.

Now, I say all of this knowing that I don't plan to leave the country anytime soon. However, I do live in Michigan and, due to certain rulings, this entire state is considered the border. This means that, even though I'm a citizen, I have to be prepared to run into CBP at any time.

The lab (or, rarely nowadays, individual) that discovers the element gets to name it. For example, Berkelium is the name of element number 97 and Lawrencium is number 103 guess which lab discovered those. Eventually, a big lab will have discovered so many that they run out of important people and lab names. That's when you start running into names like Americium (95), Moscovium (115), and Tennessine (117).

Alright now, I am starting to get tired of people who still think that millennials are effectively children. I am a millennial. My 36th birthday was last week and I've been diagnosed with degenerating discs in my back and my hair is turning grey. If those aren't signs of age, nothing is. The oldest millennials are literally turning 40 this year and even the youngest will be 25 according to Pew Research.

On to the topic at hand though, the point of a union is to provide an organization with enough leverage to negotiate on equal terms with a corporation. As an individual employee, especially in an unskilled position, your leverage is effectively zero. If you want a raise to match inflation they could just let you go and find someone else willing to work at your current wage or less. However, with a union, if the union and the employer can't come to an agreement over wages or benefits then suddenly the employer has no employees, and even if they decide to call in new people to cover for the ones on strike, a factory or warehouse full of new employees won't be very efficient (not to mention the bad press).

None of this is to say that I don't understand the problems that unions can cause. They, like any organization made up of humans, can become corrupt over time. Look to police unions for examples of this. Unions that protect even horrible employees from firing or that squander their members' dues need reform but, that's best done by the members of those unions not by trying to destroy them outright.

I don't know if you'll understand this difference even after I say it but here it is. A private company deciding what they want on their website is not the same as a government deciding what can and can not be said. If I don't like what Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc. allow on their services, I can pay for my own hosting and broadcast it on my own website. If the American government were to say that I'm not allowed to say something, then I simply couldn't say it without harm. In the case from the article, Thailand is trying to export its own censorship to the world at large by way of an attack on major internet platforms. An attack of this type from any country should give us pause. Do we want every censorious regime to be able to control what anyone can say on the internet?

I use this username (or one of a few minor variations on it) in a great many places. I've been using it since 2003. If you are creative enough (it doesn't take too much creativity, this name includes my initials and birth year), it's pretty easy to come up with something that won't likely be taken.

Isn't Nokia owned by Microsoft now?