Such a shame that CVE quality is generally crap, as it's flooded with dubious 'findings' from people trying to build a resume as a security researcher. I'm not sure why you assert this is largely still done manually, reconciling with SBOM tools in my neck of the woods is pretty much automated for detecting and flagging issues because *no one* has time to deal with the gigantic volume of CVEs. Of course another problem in those SBOM tools is they have a terrible false positive rate. Trying to follow their guidance 100% may be impossible (complete misidentification) or requires significant work (SBOM tools don't do great with 'backported' fixes, and many software components don't bother with maintaining backward compatibility, so rebasing to a new version is big).

Updating software that is vulnerable is a key component, but I wager a greater general risk is how folks configure and operate credibly secure software stacks in insecure ways.

Whilst I agree with the first, second and third sentences wholeheartedly, fascism is as American as selling glass beads to natives and stealing their land.

Up until the Pearl Harbour there was a sizable fascist movement in the US, organisations like the German-American Bund had tens of thousands of members right up until December of 1941 when the US declared war on Nazi Germany and pretty much banned them. Not that we were entirely innocent over this side of the pond with the BUF (British Union of Fascists) but we did see the writing on the wall sooner rather than later with membership falling off a cliff in the late 30s (notably with the BUF becoming openly racist, which is poisonous to the British character, so there was no need for an outright ban until after the war). I'm hoping that Europe can follow that example again before one of our nations falls into Fascism.

Make no mistake, there will be a significant number of Americans openly supporting Fascism, in particularly they will be vocal in saying things like "don't call it fascism" and calling people they don't like "left".

Sadly it's infecting the rest of the world.

A lot of things that you get quoted will change price depending on location, time, browser/OS (user agent), IP, et al. I'm thinking specifically of flights, accommodation, insurance, and other things without a strictly advertised price which would mean they become subject to advertising laws and consumer rights.

Because SCOTUS had sealed the files and blocked the release until just a few weeks ago.

So yes, they really were prevented from releasing the Epstein files.

For me, mentions of TheAppFormerlyKnownAsTwitter have pretty much disappeared. News sites no longer quote tweets, friends no longer mention them. The only time I hear about them is when they get another fine for breaking the law or Musk does something else incredibly stupid.

Social Media itself is dying, but TheAppFormerlyKnownAsTwitter is exemplifying why. Social media has now become beholden to rich people who are using it to try and drown out voices they don't like. Hence people are switching off. It's for that reason that new social media networks don't really have a chance. The things we used to use Social Media for, aren't really being served by social media (mainly it was used to communicate with friends, families or like-minded people, now it's being used to push someone elses agenda)

You literally have a police force operating with impunity and immunity grabbing people off the street.

You have a president that is openly ignoring the law... I mean trying to ignore or handwave that away must have become very difficult last night as he literally became guilty of piracy.

The only one being misleading here is you... and the only one you're misleading is yourself. You can lie to yourself, just don't expect it to fool anyone else.

My point is, why does the HDMI licencing mob care if the implementation is open or closed given that they will.get there royalty (or penalties from a court for companies that don't pay) for every port anyway?

Maybe someone could start an IETF RFC for communications protocol for digital video over local wire and fiber that is open.

If it goes under then of course the consumer is worse off, The streaming service still dies, You sitll don't have an independent party and content creation will be heavily impacted while people pick over the bones. If anything them going under would be the worst case for consumers, but probably the best case for competitors (short of buying them)

Their goal is to realign CNN to be more like fox with a heavy right wing pro trump agenda.

My understanding is that if you want to make a HDMI device you need to pay a license fee (covering patents and etc) and that the HDMI people can and will use you if you use HDMI without paying.

And if they control IP rights that allow them to force everyone to pay up, why would this stuff (which isn't even the full spec, just the bits bring done in the driver rather than the firmware or hardware) bring open cause a problem?

Except they are. I think SiFive accomplished a lot of their speed by implementing their own extensions to get around issues with the RISC-V ISA w.r.t. addressing mode. They are sufficiently popular that compilers do support those extensions as the code runs faster.

Qualcomm has also made RISC-V moves, as has nVidia and Western Digital.

But given Qualcomm bought Arduino, it woiuld not surprise me if they were going to release a bunch of RISC-V variants that require a compiler that can handle the Qualcomm extensions.

Funny thing - you don't need to license HDMI. You need it if you want to use the logo and advertise it as a HDMI port. But the port connector and such are freely available.

There are tons of devices with "HDMI" ports that aren't certified devices. Maybe you have a few of them plugged in right now without you knowing.

All certification gets you is a few extra things. But it isn't needed to ship a product. You could call it "Digital Video Output Port" or even "HDMI compatible digital port".

Of course, without certification you run the risk of incompatibiliti8es and people blaming your thing for not being compatible, but it's nothing new.

There is no requirement that the port must be certified to sell it.

Really? You're saying that we "lost it" by eating mostly vegetarian (WE'RE NOT VEGAN) a quarter of the month?

You're definition of "lose it" seems rather insufficient.

Think tomorrow night's bean burritos.

Times New Roman is not a Microsoft invention. It was commissioned by The Times in 1931 as an update to their former font Times Roman, also known as Times.

The update from Times Roman to Times New Roman was intended to address more modern printing techniques and aesthetics.

But neither Times Roman or Times New Roman has anything to do with Microsoft; it was all done decades before Bill Gates was born.