The interesting aspects of Superman are to do with his wanting to be a force for good in a complex world. He can face challenges when the world makes it hard to do the right thing, and he explore what the moral good actually is.

I hate relying to AI slop, but there is a more interesting argument that it doesn't address here.

Imagine Superman appeared in the real world, today. There would be immense pressure on him to resolve current on-going conflicts. The situation in Ukraine is perhaps one of the easier ones, with Putin being the clear bad guy. What about in Palestine though? One side is committing genocide, while accusing the other of terrorism. Superman would be accused of anti-semitism the moment he got involved. Would be implement US foreign policy, even Trump's policy which seems to involve the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and turning it into prime real-estate, or would he become an enemy of America? Or would he just refuse to get involved, or only involved on a humanitarian level?

The point is that Superman couldn't be both a force for morality and good in the world, and not an enemy of half of it, including the country he lives in.

I'm surprised they even sell physical games for Switch 2. I'm expecting the next generation of consoles to be digital only, no second hand sales at all.

Then you only wish you were dead.

Correct.

Kennedy and Noem are disruptive. You say you want nothing different. Your description of a response to this disruption as a "hissy fit" runs counter to your narrative. Pick one or the other going forwards if you want to be taken seriously, thanks.

That does a lot, and you should do it. But it doesn't do it all.

You can do an ad filtering web proxy with SQUID that can do the rest of it. In the past when I had a separate Linux-based firewall/server running nonstop, I set up such a proxy and used packet mangling to send the connections to the proxy without proxy configuration. If you wanted unfiltered internet, you connected to a proxy on another port. That way it got all the devices.

AFAIK to do this today meaningfully, since everything is encrypted, you have to install a certificate for the proxy on the browser? Haven't looked into it since I don't care any more, I use noscript and ublock origin together on Firefox, and the only "server" I have running nonstop is just an AP with the transmission daemon and a 512GB SATA SSD in a USB3 adapter I got for about tree-fiddy on aliexpress.

That's boogey man, or sometimes boogy. Chrome isn't open source though, Chromium is. There are parts missing from "Chrome" if you build it yourself which are relevant to some mainstream uses.

I shudder to think of what happens when you need to charge your phone from a power bank. Do you drop everything you're holding and shudder uncontrollably at the agonizing effort of installing a plug into a receptacle?

A 2.5 ton couple-gear truck from the 1930s slightly famously did that. Not sure if it was ore or not. They also used hub motors and large models like a 2.5 ton had four wheel steering, and they offered optional onboard range extender generators.

What I'm getting at is that using "high" to describe income which is barely enough to live on in those countries is offensive at best. It's not accurate at all.

I thought you said the goal was to force everyone to move into cities. But you're saying everyone is moving near cities.

The switches have protective guard rails on either side of then, and a safety cover that must be pulled upwards before they can be moved. They are designed to be hard to accidentally flip, because the consequences could be fatal.

The report says that they were moved to the off position, and back to on again in the space of 1 second. That's barely enough time to pull the cover up, move them, and move them back again, if you are doing it deliberately. The CVR has one pilot asking the other why he flipped those switches, to which the other replies that he didn't.

The protective covers could be faulty or missing. There was an FAA notice back in 2018 about some being installed without the covers. They might have been replaced with the wrong type during maintenance too. Even so, it seems like it would be hard to accidentally move them back and then forward again, given their position.

Two faulty switches seems unlikely too. An electrical fault is another possibility.

I recently tried AI out for a personal project. I'm an experienced embedded developer and wanted to make a simple web app, with a backend database and Google Maps to display some data. Simple editing controls, that sort of thing.

It got a basic outline done which helped me get started, but soon ran into problems that it couldn't debug by itself. It also recommended deprecated technology.

It was enough for me to google the solutions though, and build up enough of an understanding to finish the app myself. So as a kind of junior web dev, it was helpful... But I am experienced with development and CS in general, so I'm not sure how well it would work for someone near the start of their career.

If you look at a graph of wind output you will see that it mirrors solar, i.e. when solar is low wind is high.

We don't need nuclear, we need more renewables and a few gas plants to cover short periods for a few days a year.

Unfortunately a hosts file isn't nearly enough to properly block malware and adware on the web. It doesn't do much about cookie banners I don't care about either.