No, I am a pragmatist, even fully embracing renewables.

However... The end goal should be reducing the amount of plastic produced in the first place but what do you do when industry, our supermarket duopoly, insists on wrapping everything in film?

Here in Australia we had a soft-plastic recycling scheme that was exactly that, a green-washing 'scheme'. It couldn't scale, so instead of recycling they stored the plastic bags in a huge warehouse - the project was shut down as a fire risk.

Lest I comment on another country's politics but Ars Technica's headline came up in my RSS feed. I mean, wow, she's not holding back.

Trump to sign stablecoin bill that may make it easier to bribe the president

C'mon man. Stadium cam is a bit of fun - see yourself on a big screen with 99,999 others cheering you on.

Having an alleged extramarital affair, well boo-hoo.

I know, right.

His wife is probably at home laughing her arse off bemused at his mistress' appalling taste in music!

Burying 'chemicals' is generally a bad idea. You contaminate your water sources over time.

There have been proposals to burn waste, i.e. turning petro-chemical plastics back into their constituent petro state as fuel. Of course, burning shit sounds like a toxic mess for anyone standing down-wind of the chimney.

For that to happen, governments regulate away production of 'bad' plastics in the first place ensuring a cleaner burn. And, over time, you switch away from petro sources to more vegan-friendly plastics to make it something approaching carbon neutral.

But I am not a chemist...

Releases 19 to 25 were so uninteresting that Apple skipped them entirely!

The good news is that we only have seven decades until iOS 95.

I never understood what happened to OMAP.

Just as the market for handheld devices was exponentially growing, TI retreated. If that's not shooting yourself in the foot...

Uh, that was in 2024.

Investigation closed in 2025 via the new administration.

Google could offer 8 years support on Chromebooks because they generally ran on a restricted subset of x86 hardware that they enforced on device makers.

Android runs on anything ARM64 but Google leaves it up to device makers to follow a set of "Project Mainline" guidelines.

Two conflicting models...

I can understand that patriotic Americans pledge allegiance to uphold the flag and constitution and all that.

It just isn't in common usage in Australian English.

If any political candidate here "pledged" anything as a mission statement, we'd be very cynical they were any different from the previous generations of dodgy corrupt bastards that represent us in parliament. Talk is cheap.

It's a Linux distro that runs a browser with sandboxes for Android apps and a Debian environment akin to a WSL2-like runtime. They ported the container stuff to Android as AVF.

So essentially they've had 2 teams maintaining two separate Linux distributions under the hood and they're now sunsetting the Chrome OS dev team.

One of my favourite moments of the Reeve films was when 'bad' Clark fixed the leaning tower of Pisa.

Difficult problems require pragmatic solutions. Too much Kryptonite could kill him, smaller doses might regulate his messiah complex.

Ah, the old Orwellian communist trope,

"two wheels good, one wheel better."

No need to 're-invent' a Superman origin story for modern audiences.

The daily Superman comic strip was in publication from 1939 to 1966. Just pick your favourite arc(s) from the back catalogue and hire some decent writers to flesh out a 90 minute script. Bonus points, set it in the timeframe the original comics were in, a noir period drama.

c.f. Batman for me was always the hammy 60s TV show - setting him in contemporary times never cut it for me, an Austin Powers style remake is in order.

Absolutely, you can pry Firefox from my cold dead hands. I have no interest in a Chromium monoculture.

The one to watch is Ladybird, if and when it reaches a 1.0 milestone.

Though I'm still hopeful a reborn Servo will be the browser of choice on Redox OS (Rust all the way down).