That's all I came here to say.

This misinformation.... can't possibly be astroturfing, can it?

I mean, it's not like there's an existing, entrenched, highly profitable, lobbyist-laden industry that is threatened by clean energy...

As a card-carrying cranky old recovering sysadmin I get as excited as anyone about the latest systemd faceplant. Because in my day we had sys v and bsd init and we liked it. We liked it just fine.

But I digress. This isnâ(TM)t even that big a stumble. Itâ(TM)s a little egg on face at worst for the team, itâ(TM)s no big deal for shops who do security right (principle of least privilege and defense in depth notifications it at least twice over), and itâ(TM)s potentially a hassle for admins of multiuser systems with malicious or capricious users.

Now, if it were remotely triggerable that⦠(is it? I only read the summary. Or, you know. Glanced at it). Iâ(TM)d have a good chuckle over that one. Because Devuan and the various BSDs all exist and are viable choices. Or unikernels, even.

Came here to say exactly this.

IMHO, there should be a system-wide setting that enables or disables apps' ability to request ratings.

I'll add that years ago, there were such a thing as "human interface guidelines" that apps were expected to follow.

One of those guidelines was "do not steal focus from the user." In other words, no popups asking/requiring that the user change contexts.

It's unfortunate that so many developers these days are thinking about themselves (rate me!) instead of their users' experience.

I came here to say this. There are some GREAT fonts out there for coding, and this article is a brilliant example of why it matters.

My personal favorite is Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.
But there are dozens (or hundreds) of choices out there; google it, find one you like, and use it.

Had an uber ride from hell whether the diver literally drove his car into a dude who was loading luggage into another car's trunk.

Then dude failed to yield while making a left turn, putting me, on the passenger side of the car, directly in the path of two different honking busses.

I changed the destination and exited as soon as I could. Not sure if he was on drugs or just inept, but it was scary.

I wasn't really impressed with how Uber handled it. Not charging me for the ride was ok, a $3 service credit is kind of comical, and promising me that they won't match me with that driver again seems utterly half-assed. I can't fathom a company wanting the liability of matching this clown with anyone; the fact that the don't care is the scariest part by far.

will this tech stop idiots from installing devices on their diesel trucks which spew insane clouds of toxic black smoke?

I doubt it.

"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it."
â"Ashleigh Brilliant.

This has been my favorite newsreader for a long time.

It kind of languished under different ownership for a few years, but iirc they were super cool about transitioning it back to the hands of its original author. I'm excited to see where it goes.

Because they're an e-biker and have read the law?

https://peopleforbikes.org/blo...
https://bayareabicyclelaw.com/...

A feature I've really been missing in automobiles is a mechanism whereby the ignition, steering, gas, and brake can be remotely disabled. Especially when that same mechanism can ensure that I'm hopelessly trapped inside the car the whole time.

Nope, can't possibly see how that could ever go wrong.

But being aggressively anti-union and using your control over an economic behemoth to keep salaries down and workers firmly under your thumb... that's not bullying at all, right?

What's keeping you where the weather sucks?

For thirty nine years I lived in a place that gets the same (or less, depending on the source) amount of sunny days per year as Seattle.

Two years ago I realized that the only things keeping me there were in my head. So I relocated to a place that has double that number and I've found it to be an absolutely wonderful change and wish I'd done it decades ago.

I'm of two minds on this.

First, some comedian said a while back: "When I'm driving, I hate pedestrians. And when I'm walking, I hate drivers. But no matter what I'm doing, I hate cyclists."

On the other hand, I've been commuting almost entirely on an electric bike for the last year and a half. Knowing what I've hated about cyclists for decades, I scrupulously stop at stop signs and red lights and use hand signals.

On the rare occasions when I take my car, it's always 25-45 minutes depending on traffic. On my bike I can cover the same four miles in 15-24 minutes, at times zooming right by 2-3 blocks worth of stopped cars.

In general, these days I avoid taking my car anywhere. Electric bike is usually faster and always way more fun.

I'm actually happy to see this.

I was shopping for an iphone 6s a few months back and it was basically impossible to find a used one that I could be certain wasn't a half-assed refurb.

Ended up getting one from what looked like a reliable seller and it was bizarre. It weighed less than a supposedly identical model that I'd purchased new some years ago, the screen was decidedly yellow, and the touch interface was somewhere between laggy and nonresponsive.

Over th eyears I've bought a number of refurbished apple products directly from apple and have been satisfied with all of them.

But it genuinely does damage Apple's brand to have unauthorized hacks slapping knock-off replacement bits in things and calling them 'refurbished'.