I do love it when malware advert javascripts can upload random new firmware updates into my mouse and keyboard turning them into stealth keyloggers. This is great.

This feels like when Flash sandbox breaks became a thing, but worse. At least in those days we got smooth fullscreen vector animations and games to enjoy. I'd rather Flash had just been bloody fixed instead of browsers themselves becoming Shit Flash But Holy Cow It Runs Worse And Gets Worse.

You'd have to really be terrible to let it happen. First, you have to authorize the device to be accessed - and almost always web serial devices are using libusb. They have to as no OS allows direct access to USB devices - you must always go through a driver. Libusb is the only thing that really pipes a USB device through to userspace. And if you're using libusb, the OS driver is not running.

And to accomplish this, you almost always have to override the OS settings to prevent loading the OS driver over libusb, especially for things like keyboards and mice. It's possible, but it's complex, and it's why in the early days, you had many peripherals saying "do not plug in without installing driver".

Honestly, it's far easier to develop just a malware program in general than to try to break out via web serial. And if you already have the user to run the malware, why bother with web serial at all?

Also, it's a permission you need to give a website, and almost none request it because it's only for web=based IDEs to program embedded things.

You want a larger surface area, you attack things like WebGL, which you'd want to do as there are performance critical paths in getting from the browser to the GPU, and many of those paths are not protected very well

That you included the word at all is what makes you a racist.

If you want to have a discussion about if First Nations people should have special treatment, that's a path to constructive discourse. But just throwing out sarcastic hyperbole when nobody else in the thread has is revelatory. And you know it. It's why you did it.

Good job dodging the entirety of my reply with a red herring.

The point is that they spend it. When money is spent, it doesn't evaporate. It induces work. That work produces value. Then the money is spent again, and again, until it winds up in the pockets of the rich. The rich are sitting on historically unprecedented cash reserves, and interest rates are high so people aren't borrowing it from the banks where the funds are held. Therefore the money is just sitting around doing nothing, and not inducing any work. The proposal is to pry this money out of the coffers of the rich and put it back into the economy where it induces more work to be done. Isn't that what you love? Why would you be against more work being done? The money will only get spent about five times before the rich get it back again, which is the other thing you seem to love, so you get everything you want.

What we observe will always be somewhere in the middle, because if it gets to the worst case, we won't be here to observe it.

If the numbers get too small, the species becomes genetically nonviable due to insufficient genetic base. And TPTB won't want to "spend enough" (allocate a large enough percentage of total resources) to prevent that from happening because it might interfere with the overwhelming economic superiority upon which their internal self-worth is based.

Or, they stripped out disregard to get their AI to not accept instructions to disregard prior instructions, but did it in the wrong place so it removed it from the search terms.

The government's job is to address the needs of the nation, which includes those of the citizens. If it insists that people should have to work if they want to live, then they should be preserving jobs for their citizenry first.

It's just completely incorrect for cars without controls to even exist. Cars with controls are easier to manage in breakdowns. Not even being able to steer without the computer means it will be difficult to get disabled vehicles onto rollbacks in some circumstances. The correct infrastructure for vehicles without steering wheels is rail.

Obama broke his brain. Funny how it wasn't some other president doing the same shit. It's almost like there's something different about that guy to which he objects.

Then again, how many projects use Xilinx parts?

Most FPGA projects are using Intel/Altera parts - MiSTer, etc.

We used to have EDDs (etc) which companies could inform of their job openings, and people could go to them and find out about opportunities that matched their backgrounds. These evolved into places to get help with resumes and searches for jobs, but not with job listings themselves. While those are clearly needed functions, having a trusted source of job listings with a legal obligation not to needlessly disclose information about you to third parties was also valuable.

At least with a government program there is a reasonable possibility of useful oversight under some administrations. With private operators it always seems to go wrong for lack of transparency, as opposed to only most of the time.

As a proud leftist I must ask what the fuck you're talking about.

You're taking about orthogonal things.

UBI usher much different from what could claim in unemployment, housing benefits etc is Tue not working already. It doesn't preclude investment of the dirty your taking about. Most people aren't content not working, and aren't content with the minimum.

This isn't true. All you need is a lot more people than there is work for them to do for it to make sense. We're well past that, and very far into make work for the sake of employment. That's waste, i.e. inefficiency, and therefore worse than UBI because it requires resource consumption to maintain.

This is quite possibly true. If we don't learn to work together and control our government rather than having it controlling us, then UBI won't really make things better. It will only change how we are oppressed.

The whole notion of a universal income is the stupidest idea in the entire history of stupid ideas.

It is not. The main arguments "against" it are ones based on misunderstanding of what it is. Viz:

when your income is dictated by Government.

My man, what do you think UBI actually IS?

The only way the government dictates your income under UBI is if you have none, which is exactly how it is now.

With UBI you get a fixed income from the government regardless of any other income you may or may not make. The idea is generally you replace a lot of the existing benefits (income support, pensions, the whole lot) which have to be applied for, administered, policed for fraud and etc with UBI, and you then bump the taxes a bit so people earning some target income basically see no net change, thereby ensuring that you don't just print money, and the overall change to tax receipts vs money spent is basically zero.

An interesting follow on is that you could shift from the somewhat complex tax system to a flat tax system effectively without leaving behind progressive taxation.

Another interesting follow on is you may be able to entirely scrap minimum wage and its enforcement.

Will it actually work in practice? Who knows, but currently governments are jumping through a lot of expensive hoops to achieve outcomes which mathematically drop out naturally from UBI and flat tax.

So... a couple things that might be useful to re-align your head with reality.

Most on-topic, this isn't about indigenous content, and it's a bit of a red-flag that you think it is and that you'd think it problematic if it were. The sarcastic "holy" also strongly outs you as a racist. Just in case you weren't intending to broadcast that, you are. This is about Canadian content. That varies from things like Letterkenny to This Hour Has Tweny-Two Minutes. Yes, Canadian productions can and should include indigenous performers, crew, and topics as part of our culture just as it includes French-Canadian content and Newfies. But CanCon does not mean IndigiCon.

Second, I'm not aware of anyone claiming mass graves of indigenous people in the usual sense. While I'm not super-fluent on the topic because it's grim as fuck, it's about graves, period. These kids were taken from their parents to be raised in religious indoctrination schools and some of them died there. Not necessarily because of abuse or intent to kill, but their bodies were never returned to their families is - as I understand it - a big sticking point. Nobody is claiming this is like the Holocaust with outright mass murder and disposal. It's individual neglect and abuse because of racial hatred. When a grave with "X bodies" is found, the horror isn't that X kids were offed and chucked in a hole at the same time, as I understand it. It's "oh, look, we found another graveyard with X kids that were stolen from their families and died away from home. Again."