Your statement and your sig seem very much at odds with each other

Indeed. And it is not only Windows. Office is slowly getting worse and wastes more and more user time. Azure got hacked several times and has crass vulnerabilities only explainable by extreme incompetence.

Same hardware, same software on three systems that ran win10 before. No problems with Win10. Now I observe system, driver, gui and application crashes that never happened before. I get notification tones that I cannot identify or turn off. Things are harder to find. Log-in screen pictures vanish. Some things got slower. And other crap.

Win11 is a pretty seriously worse product than Win10. Fortunately, all my critical systems are Linux, but Microsoft is obviously going downhill.

Can you let Tim Cook know that?

I'm an Apple fan, but the money they charge for internal storage is ridiculous, especially given that I can buy an external SSD with 2 TB for like $150 if I shop around a bit.

The cynic in me wants to say that they see "intelligence" and go "great, it has something I don't, let's just 100% trust it".

The social critic in me wants to say that it's due to the gigantic hype about AI and how it'll revolutionize everything, replace everyone and solve all problems.

And the tech/security guy in me wants to say "doh, people do dumb shit. What else is new?"

I don't think slashdot has had any actual developers working on its since the early 2000s. It's a mature legacy codebase, destined to run as-is until it can't anymore, then go away.

Perhaps you should just grow up.

You wish. Try harder. Well, you probably cannot.

AI isn't a junior dev. It's an intern. Someone who doesn't much care beyond the current session, and whose skills can surprise you - in both directions, and whose primary focus is that you like him at least in the moment.

And like an intern, if you include the code in anything even close to production without review, it's your fault, not theirs.

My observation is the opposite. In my 20s tattoos were just common enough to be accepted as normal, but the majority of people didn't have them and most people who did had one or two fairly small ones.

Today, it seems everyone and their dog has them.

It's good that there is scientific proof, but seriously, "stuff you put into your body doesn't just sit there" is the expected outcome, isn't it?

Apple has not sold directly in Russia since 2022. There are parallel imports but no direct sales.

You’ve only described one half of the coin (and not very accurately in my view). The other side is the flip side, under which there are huge quantities of CSAM, suicide being promoted, scams and hustles of every kind tricking or coercing the vulnerable into giving up their savings, and of course endless torrents of the vilest abuse directed towards lots and lots of people of various types. The problems of the internet absolutely do include people saying things that would not be legal if said in any other medium, whether on TV or in a pub.

Your first post sure made it sound like you had clear insight into what these folks were and were not predicting. This second post makes it sound like you don’t know. Until you know, how can you tell whether or not what they’re providing is useful or not?

“Predict flooding” is a uselessly vague term for you to use. Like saying that when my mother-in-law got her terminal cancer diagnosis, the oncologist didn’t predict her death because you have in mind some level of precision for a prediction that she would die that meant that the terminal diagnosis wasn’t a good prediction of her death. Sowhat, specifically, is the detail that you think First First Street are claiming to be able to provide insight on, for which you don’t think they should?