> collecting confidential intellectual property

Information just wants to be free.

This is great. I must be getting old since I'm actually finding buzzwords somehow useful now.

"no frills answers"

"vibe coding"

Such simple concepts and a common simple way of phrasing something to facilitate search and "communication".

> Your copying that data digitally any way you cut it.

This, very much this. This is the reason we have the DMCA. VCR and DVD vendors were paranoid they were going to get sued for making "extra copies" inside the machine blitting video to your screen. So they "compromised" by signing the DMCA into law and creating a whole different landscape of rights and criminal prosecution for research.

I expect the other foot to fall soon, especially here in the USA. There will be new legislation and it won't be helpful or rational.

> It's at first a statement of fact. "Not much of CO2 absoption by forests, soil and oceans in 2023".

The article linked by the article to the article wasn't very helpful.

Some mish-mash about "preliminary emulation of data-driven models" by someone focused more on climate policy changes than data collection. I'm not sure what standard models you are using that report on and predict how much carbon dioxide a tree "breathe's" in a given year, but I have trouble with the idea that a tree can simply cease to fix any carbon for a whole year, especially based on flimsy reporting like this.

I'd stick to more basic reporting from organizations like the Arbor Day foundation:

https://www.usda.gov/media/blo...

Trees do indeed fix carbon every year at a nearly constant rate. It doesn't simply disappear due to magic AI projected hokum. I'm not sure how much ambient temperature or other factors may affect that one tree's impact, but I don't think it will just disappear for no reason.

> I know I'm an outlier here but this sort of thing...

Sorry, apathy really isn't an outlier in this focus group.

It was an HP-48G you insensitive clod!

RPN FTW !!!

OMG !! I almost forgot about those things. Do you prefer 1200 or 9600 baud?

> NT just didn't have plug and play back then

NT just didn't have plug and *pray* back then

Fixed that for you.

For what it's worth I never had troubles with drivers till they started getting "easier". (read manual, apply settings, possibly reboot, worked every time) There was a nasty period where I had to choose IRQ numbers manually, but even then it worked as long as they didn't collide.

Better choice: Don't use any products, especially totally useless ones like "entertainment", from greedy proprietary monopolists. THAT would be adult behavior...

Oh noes! Previews of our mostly free to watch episodes went out early and will generate a ton of news! What will we do?

App signing is kind of messed up in the first place. It's not the OS job to run hard encryption and lock out computer use. People downloading and installing software off the internet should be the ones checking bits with CRC and hash functions etc not the OS as heavy weight bloated and slow jack bootery on every execution of a piece of code. Frankly, there's little reason in most cases not to just compile everything locally anyways.

Unix had it right in the beginning. Just be careful who is allowed to set the "execution" bit in the meta of the file. Why would you need encryption locally to verify that unless your whole OS is already fscked.

And don't even get me started on the idea of "just in time compiling" sand-box systems like javascript "for performance". Performance in a client side web browser is about the last thing I would ever care about. If anything, that stuff should be executing at half speed to be sure it isn't breaking my computer and violating the limited trust I want to give it in the first place.

> Their terms for iOS devices have always been shit. The enshittification started on day 0.

I think it was a bit earlier than that. Lisa, is that you?

Ever been to a little state called New York? Like many others, it is a "no fault" state. So if you're in a collision they don't even bother to try to assign blame. You're just as culpable as the guy who hit you, even if he was breaking the law. (unless of course someone was drinking...)

So yeah, they're pretty much going the other way on this one...

Doesn't the first law pretty much rule out military use? I think that was a major point...

Of course, he wrote a whole library about what happens when you muck about with shades of meaning.

That means there is a risk of a "wage-price spiral" where wages chase prices and prices chase wages. Breaking that spiral can be very ugly in economic terms and very difficult for the Fed to accomplish.

Egads! What do those employers and workers think this is? A free market economy or something!