MultiView on the Amiga was a bundled program that could view any file for which there existed a "datatype".

A "datatype" was special type of a dynamically loaded shared object that could load and/or save a specific file format, providing a unified programming interface. For instance, a program only needed to support image datatypes to be able to load and store any image file format for which there existed a datatype: that is how all web browsers on the Amiga got PNG support in one swoop back in the day.

There have already been many reports of "deepfake audio" trained on social media posts used for fraud: Impersonating a relative or superior over the phone to make people send money.
People have learned to not trust text messages but they will trust a voice over the phone.

This is not a surprise to anyone for whom English is not their first language.

Just try to search information on a topic in another language and you'll find a lot of crap sites in your search results that contain badly auto-translated "content".

This has been a nuisance ever since Google Translate was introduced.

On this company's previous C64, Vic20 and A500 mini consoles, the mini keyboards were just for show, so I'd be very surprised if this one's would be a working mini-keyboard.

Those did have on-screen keyboards in software, and supported external USB keyboards also, so I would expect that this time as well though.
BTW. Some clever person did (re)build their TheC64 to have a working keyboard with microswitches, but the Atari 400 keyboard was a membrane keyboard and that is actually more difficult to DIY.

A ridiculous amount of it is not being used for either, unfortunately, and is just going to waste (pun not intended), spewing nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.
Nitrous oxide is the third most emitted greenhouse gas, largely because of animal agriculture.

There are sites that display New York Times articles for free, without NYT's permission of course.

Whenever there's a discussion on a forum about a New York Times article, you can bet that someone posts a link to one of those sites. Later, web crawlers find and follow those links.

I have been let go twice from developer positions, that I haven't resigned from myself.
Both times, it has been a matter of personal pride for me to commit my last code changes that I had been working on, for the sake of my colleagues, and then to say proper goodbyes to the people staying behind.
I think I would be more pissed off if I wasn't allowed to do that, than to be let go.

That is what they should do.

I used to have that message in my User-Agent string ... (before I switched to Chrome, and forgot about it ...)

"Drops" as in "gets rid of" or "software release"?

It is not just about energy in the power lines, but also about:

- Transportation. Almost only oil, except in some electric cars for personal transport here and there. And there are also enormous emissions during oil extraction and refinement. First start by replacing all subsidies to oil companies with taxes. Then we could very well bomb the superemitting oil sites.

- Agriculture. Not just about beef production, but also about deforestation, land management and waste management.
Dried marshlands emit stored methane.
All animals bred for meat produce waste that emit greenhouse gases.

- Cement production.

- Crypto-mining. Fuck off. No societal value there.

Indeed. They have the energy requirements of a medium-sized country.

As those are waning, we are seeing the rise in large energy use for "Deep Learning"... which may look much more benign but also has societal issues.

AI is looking to be the new cryptocurrency...
Not just in energy use, but in hype and investment. Previous cryptocurrency hardware companies are producing AI hardware now. For instance, out of Bitmain came SOPHGO.

You should print a sticker with an URL to a page that explains all the ways how QR code menus are bad for the customers, and then requires the customer to click a link to the original site.

Not only are QR codes hauling the work onto you, they codes are also a potential security risk. Malicious QR codes are a thing!
People need stop trusting any and all QR code they come across.

A few previous shells based on Python:

• pysh
• Marcel (The shell).
• Xonsh
• Tako

Apparently, Tako is a fork of Xonsh, but apart from that each has a different approach to embed Python in a shell. In pysh, commands become functions; in Marcel, Python is in parentheses, and in Xonsh, everything that is not valid python is interpreted as a command.

IMHO, I think that shells and Python have too different syntax, that it would be better to define a single syntax model and stick to it for everything instead of mixing. A shell is too powerful and crude: if you want to improve a shell, you should make it safer, not more ambiguous.
(Not that any of these don't have any good ideas, because they do.)

For an example of horror, see this Xonsh:

>>> ls = 44
>>> l = 2
>>> ls -l
42
>>> del ls
>>> ls -l
total 0

I thought "double tap" meant something sexual ...

You mean with the watch? Ewww....

The thing is that Norway is subsidising electric vehicles.

It can do so because it is rich on the incomes from its oil industry.