Clearly this is a great step forward for humanity.

and how, exactly, do you plan to accomplish that

It's not what you Do by plan. It is what happens automatically.

People's time spent on Youtube will be less In the absence of your actions causing them to go looking on Youtube's website for something.

Well, I'm living it. Perhaps I'm lucky, or perhaps it's because I'm late in my career and I have enough experience to have that luxury, but I definitely choose who I work for.

In fact, I have for a long time:

Back around 2000, I had an opportunity to work at Citrix. I didn't really know who Citrix was back then. but they were already big and definitely an attractive employer to land a job at.

They came to the offices of the company I was working for back then to hunt for potential recruits, because my company was closing and they were nice enough to organize job interviews in their facilities before throwing everybody out.

So I got interviewed by the Citrix head hunters. When they explained what Citrix did, how they had a tight partnership with Microsoft, and would I like to join the team, I told them "Thanks but no. If you're in cahoots with Microsoft, I'll decline if you don't mind." Then I walked out of the room. Them guys couldn't believe that this 30-something junior programmer just blew them off, because they expected everybody to want a job at Citrix really bad :)

So yeah, if you don't feel like working for certain companies, unless you're desperate for the money, just don't.

If I see you for defamation because you claimed I was a thief, that is indeed retaliation.

My suggestion would be that the government Impose Restrictions on how these are advertised.

If Two different units for Sale have a different amount of RAM, then it should be Prohibited from Selling the two units under the same name from the same link or product page, except if the RAM is a modular addition that can be changed.

What I'm saying is that the unit with different "Options" which are actually integral changes to a model Should not be allowed to share the same marketing - the product should be Required to have a different title and not orderable from the same Buy button.

For example: "Macbook Pro 2024 Model B with 16GB of RAM and 4 TB Storage"

Right now they have a generic Buy button for "Macbook Pro", and then when you go through the check-out process they High pressure you by making you pick options that can't be changed after the unit is delivered. That part is what I suggest should be illegal. Giving an option to buy additional "ADDONS" which are not actually separable addons, But a change to the core product itself that you already clicked Buy on.

It's only a problem if you seek employment with companies that have no ethics.

Getting fired for protesting unethical things your employer engages in is something to be proud of, especially when you're willing to endanger a cushy or prestigious position at Google. If I ran a company, I'd hire someone like that in a heartbeat.

that also comes with the caveat that swapping on SSDs is a stone cold cycle killer.

A lot of SSDs have 4GB RAM cache. I wonder if a SSD Volume type couldn't be created for "Non-persistent/Ramdisk/swap-optimized partition".. then start expanding how much RAM SSDs have to support the Ramdisk function.

Hardware support for this would entail that changes are not guaranteed persistent across power-off, But no cycles occur as long as the SSD has enough spare RAM.

You could imagine then having a SSD that plugs into a USB port that has 32 GB of RAM cache, and thus no cycles are spent as long as you aren't swapping more than 32 GB out to disk.

We told you that forcing people to return to the office was a bad idea! But did you listen? No. :0

Since it cannot be trademarked, we can now all be Escobar!

Well it means they cannot formally register the trademark with the EU.

Some countries, even some EU countries grant common law protection for unregistered trademarks.

In those places you can sue over infringement of an Unregistered trademark; they might not currently meet the criteria to do so.. but the situation doesn't put it automatically Public Domain worldwide.

They may also be able to register their trademark locally within some countries even in the EU.

Any original (or otherwise eligible) work..

This is false, Because there are Non-copyrightable works.

You cannot even copyright a "good morning"
"hi there, everybody", the same for short phrases and titles, etc.

Originality is required but is not enough. There is a threshold of both creativity and originality that have to be reached, and most one-line text messages are likely to fail.

Also, even if it's automatically copyrighted: it must be registered promptly with the copyright office within a short time of publication to effectively assert the right. Failing to register the copyright in a timely manner is a quick way of losing the ability to sue and win damages -- If people register it late, then the most one can sue for generally is an Injunction ordering infringement of that work to stop.

nobody else has the rights to distribute copies of your text

In theory.. Only if the bit of text you are trying to control is copyrightable and the distribution is not fair use.

Much of the chatter that happens on Discord servers would never qualify for copyright protection.

Even if it does: enforcement is an issue. Generally you will Not have registered a copyright on your chat messages before distributing them freely - that means if you try to sue them The money damages are limited to actual damages - you don't get statutory damages, no attorneys' fees or court costs, etc. It's unlikely their indexing system costs the author money, So all that time and energy just to file for a Judgement ordering them to Stop distributing that 1 Offending chat message of yours.

The next day when you send more chat messages and they start including them.... you would have to start that same process all over again.

Ok, all you climate sleuths, here's your assignment:

1. Find out which scenario this study is based upon.
2. Find out how likely that scenario is

Without looking, I'm guessing it's RCP 8.5.

Maybe Republicans really like dick picks

Thanks Yuri. How's the weather in St. Petersburg?