Sure, but you had to sideload it, which made it essentially nonexistent. And Android would still throw up the, "Beware! There be dragons here!" warning. All of that is now gone.

They didn't undo it. It was a localized feature before. Now it's global.

The AI bubble bursting can't possibly make things worse for the world. It will continue damaging the world until the bubble pops, then recovery will be swift, painless, and glorious for most of us.

That will be a HUGE improvement. Thank you, Epic!

That is an impressive feat, even if it's already been beaten by a mile. I ran a program that stripped Windows down to zero bytes to maximize Windows' usefulness. I don't remember the exact name, but I vaguely remember that it starts and an "L" and ends in "inux". It's right on the tip of my tongue.

The mechanism is copyright protection. Copyright exists because creators want to share their works under their own terms, and they don't want someone else to take away control of said works. This can be for a profit motive or for other, personal reasons.

If people or companies kept their works to themselves only, there would be little to no reason for copyright at all.

Those cables look like something that infected the spaceship in act one, and that were finally killed in act three.

We FOSS people have been warning governments around the world for decades that relying on closed-source software is a huge danger to national security, and we were blown off as paranoid. Now that closed software has inevitably bitten them hard, the obvious is now obvious.

Countries should be redirecting the millions upon millions they spend on proprietary software/spyware to employ FOSS developers instead. It would make them much safer and more secure.

There's a fix for that: a real computer.

Police are paid for by taxes, and public school is paid for by taxes. Everyone's already paid. It is pure criminal negligence that allows machine vision to automatically call police. The student's parents should sue the school, and the school administrators should be prosecuted for filing a false police report.

Do bridge builders have multiple layers of bosses and clients with conflicting agendas insisting that the bridge design get changed every few days? But those changes have to get integrated into the part of the bridge already built? And they can't start over when the design requirements become incompatible with the original build objectives around which part of the bridge has already been constructed? Are bridge builders mandated to finish building after their budget has been cut part way through construction? Are bridge builders forbidden from saying no when asked to do things that make the final product dangerous or unreliable?

All too many people compare software design to physical engineering as if they are somehow even remotely similar.

I find Java MUCH easier to debug than either Rust or C#. Java has outstanding development tools, while C# has Visual Studio, which is decidedly NOT an outstanding development tool (it's barely a development tool at all, in my opinion). But I'm also highly proficient with Java, while I'm barely literate with either C# or Rust.

That aside, most languages are far easier to debug than COBOL. But again, I'm barely literate in COBOL. I see a pattern.

I agree. We don't have to worry about the development of super computer-intelligence, as nature already prevents that. We don't have it now, and we will never have it. It's just not possible.

What we have to worry about is the same thing we've always had to worry about: advances in tools being abused for private enrichment and public harm. Considering the shitty record of global governments to prevent those things up to this point, we have good reason to worry about how any new technically will be wielded against us.

It's also efficient to stuff 6 people into a 900 sq ft apartment. Neither that nor UBI will lead to anything good.

That's the least of what is possible.

And yes, using a bunch of distributed, worldwide time servers will detect manipulation. But what if your government to too paranoid to use someone else's time servers for the national authority timer servers? Dictatorships tend to be paranoid.