> Bruh. Apt already relies on Perl, which has no formal language specification. What nonsense is this?

You are right, which is why I don't think this is a huge deal.

Though perl5 compatibility back to c.2000 is pretty good.

Today's rust code most likely won't run in 2050 on modern compilers.

But perl4 code doesn't run well today either.

Yet nothing in trixie needs to run anything from buzz - so as long as everything works within a version or two it's hard to imagine anybody being negatively affected.

I have a UPS package shipped Overnight/Saturday Delivery on Friday and it now appears to be on a truck near Chicago. It was originally scheduled to transit from South Dakota to New England.

New delivery date is Tuesday. I hope the sender gets his money back!

(I didn't need it that quickly but the sender was making good on a delivery date guarantee, at a loss of his profits).

I have a floppy controller on order that doesn't know how to read disks; it just passes through magnetic field data to software which is supposed to be able to reconstruct the disk image.

Hopefully these tapes will be OK to read as long as somebody can build a magnetic read head of the correct type.

Maybe with ML there will be a reasonable chance of reconstructing faded regions. Old audio tape is still mostly fine, so fingers crossed.

BTW, what a great job these folks have!

> No need for all that. Either "Judgement is for the other side" or "Case dismissed." Clears the docket, and slows down these kinds of submissions until they're at least doublechecked.

Interesting. I think you've changed my mind about this.

Economic incentives are probably the way to go.

> Hopefully there are more relevant "science objectives" than this dead issue.

It's an exoteric story. Really they want funding to build rockets and this is a technology demonstrator.

But there is a theory that the asteroid belt is the former crust of Mars. More data on that would be interesting.

It's of course "widely discredited" but not with a scientific method or anything. Comparing isotope ratios would be fun someday.

If you REALLY want to you can set this in pavucontrol in about twenty seconds. Should last until the browser restarts.

Might even work with pipewire if the planets are aligned.

Yep, we're a bank - let's ensure our maximum password length is lower than the minimum length where something important is being protected like social media history.

Which will win in the race to destroy humanity:
[ ] AI-controlled-robot uprising
[ ] Side-effects of gene editing
[ ] Global warming
[ ] Investor-greed
[ ] Global war triggered by Israel

Just wondering which stock to invest in :P

The independent have taken ad-farming to new levels - were they bought by Yahoo?

We've almost reached the point where satire === reality so don't worry about it :-)

companies using neurotechnology to subliminally market to people during their dreams

Ad-blocker (PRO) for dreams in 3,2,1.

I suppose having the capacity for lucid dreaming will allow a section of society to resist buying stuff in dream ads.

Perhaps we can have an app which projects dream-sheep jumping over a fence as a sleep-aid?

What mechanism do you propose to allow them to feed on ordinary people if the market is detached?

The pop from this bubble is going to destroy the world or perhaps the efforts to stop the bubble from popping (and thus avoid the destruction of the world) will destroy the world.

It's too-big-to-fail as a core business strategy.

First-task for the newly-born AIs? Make variations of existing scams to maximize believability, virality and deniability.

Black Mirror are like "What do we do now? Everything we can think of, Trump's already doing?"