Yeah, nobody is buying this "sustain the development" nonsense.

Somebody needs to keep the servers patched. Somebody needs to keep the app targeting an API that the app stores will host. Bose can afford maybe 1.5 FTE's with redundancy on a rolling basis.

Did they ignore due diligence for a decade and just get nabbed running RHEL 5 and unlicensed Oracle Java on an old VMWare or something?

If Bose is a public corporation perhaps the FTC should have a look at their deliberations.

See Seyonic's Youtube video.

The 512-SIM racks can only addreses 64 at a time. This comports with what people noticed about the antenna count.

8x is nearly an order of magnitude difference and chaged my mind about the likely purpose.

Presumably the spammers expect the SIM's to get blacklisted and move on?

But WHO is provisioning a quarter million cards at a time without tripping flags?

> secret server-side backdoors that will store less secure copies of messages

How do you do that with end-to-end cryptosystems?

Recording video is not illegal.

Recording audio IS illegal in California without the consent of all parties.

Since Meta glasses record audio by default, he likely broke the law.

Indeed. I can think of zero reasons to go to a physical bookstore to download an e-book.

The reason they expect seems to be "because you hate Amazon", but unfortunately, I don't hate Amazon. I'm a mostly happy customer.

This is a dumb take.

Bobby has massive MAGA support and is very much in favor of healing uses of psychedelics.

You'd looking for enemies among your allies. That's a sure sign of media brainwashing.

Pharma is your enemy, not your neighbor.

> heart issues such as long QT syndrome

Wikipedia is wrong as usual.

Ibogaine is contraindicated for people with long QT-interval because it temporarily extends it.

This is fine for normal people but not if you already have long QT. It's not hard to see on EKG but some underground clinics don't do the EKG and there have been a few deaths.

There have been no deaths when medically supervised, which is why the Drug Control Act kills people.

> but that is as far as you can go in a 'free' society.

Right. That's why taxpayer-funded medical care is incompatible with a free society.

When I can't afford a healthier diet and a gym membership because I'm forced to subsidize others' rock climbing, dirtbike racing, rugby, and junk-food diets, we've totally gone over the cliff.

The whole thing becomes a positive-feedback loop until it detonates.

Spending 20% of GDP on sick-care with ever-worsening results should terrify any thinking person.

Everybody should be able to choose those things but their insurance premiums should reflect it.

Colleges used to be run by faculty, with administrators as their functionaries.

Now faculty are employees with little say in governance.

Obama's nationalization of student loans has increased the ratio of administrators by 10x by guaranteeing tuition without regard for value.

The faculty are outnumbered and outgunned.

The same thing happened to doctors and hospitals for the same reason and with the same enshittification.

It doesn't have to be this way.

The numbers weren't much better three years ago.

> That being said, I wonder if paying for no ads includes no tracking across the internet, and no selling of the user's data. After all, the "if it's free you're the product" mantra doesn't (heh...shouldn't) apply any more.

Of course. Just trust the Zuckbot.

> Should anyone really care?

Their opinion pieces are purchased by the MIC, so maybe.

They must be afraid somebody is sniffing around in "their" physics.

We've had government physicists say plainly that MIC R&D has fundamental breakthroughs in topological physics that the public is not privy to.

JWST is discarding "established" cosmological physics theories by the week. This should be celebrated by scientists!

I recently listened to a retired Lockheed guy talking about light propagation theory and in that talk he noted that academic physicists strong resist learning that their "expertise" is in fact in error.

The implication was that non-academic physicists don't have that hangup and move faster.

The trick is the Chinese academic physicists don't have that problem either. The MIC should be terrified about what they have done with their anti-progress psyop. Maybe in 1970 when Chinese were eating salamanders and crickets this was a viable strategy but they failed to adapt to the times.

> The services of a Nazi AI, owned by a Nazi broligarch, being sold to a Nazi government. Nepotism at its finest!

Tell us how you feel about assassinating Nazis.

> realized that this is the cheapest option.

It's cheaper if the financing an be achieved.

The capital costs for a retrofit are impossible for the 60% of this country who live paycheck-to-paycheck.

Then there's the matter of being responsible for your own energy system maintenance in the highly-distributed model (which is more resilient). Folks with ceiling bird aren't going to.

And of course I can design my own system but many need professional help and it's more difficult than plumbing or residential electric.

I'm slowly adding infrastructure and capacity but that also entails simultaneously paying for grid and offgrid investment which is beyond most.

The grid-scale projects really do mar the landscape and create vulnerabilities (e.g. hail) though the economies of scale are quite nice.

For $4 Aunt Gertrude can have it ask you why you don't call her anymore.