When I read "Brain fry" I started wondering if zombies preferred their brains raw or cooked.

I'm with you brother, whitespace is overrated!

I also went to take a look at his history. His posts were very sporadic but not too bad until the time of the Covid lockdowns (2020):

https://slashdot.org/users2.pl...

... and progress downwards from there. Pretty scary progression.

Is your phone AI capable? I bought a new one a year ago (the old one was out of OS support) and made sure that mine was not.
My second line in the sand is to use DuckDuckDo as the search engine, although I'm preparing to experiment with Brave's. Replacing the messaging app could be more difficult, especially if I want to keep my history.

I don't have a TV at all, but I have Cable and use it for Internet access at around 350 Mbps. It is far cheaper than any of the prices I've seen mentioned here (as in around $60 a month), no reason to change.

China is taking the long-term view here, building up goodwill in Cuba and in other countries where they see themselves potentially in the same situation. I hope they realise that military action with Taiwan would do a lot of damage to that goodwill.
Why is the US still bullying Cuba in the first place? It is not as though Cuba is a threat.

Well, looking at an earlier story from today, they have good reason to look for alternatives.

That appears to be a problem with the summary - the original articles (I must admit I did not read all of the first one) seem to be written by people who have a better idea of what they are talking about.

Well, DT's the investor Milton needs. It's called "giving something back".

That raises a question: Was that post composed by an LLM or has it subsequently been used as input to something like Grok?
As to "lack of respect", respect can be earned but so can its lack.

There is a public transport app called Öffi which I consider essential when in Germany. It is free, does not gather data on its users and covers the entire country, the alternatives are regional and many really want to know all about their users.
That link is to the Google Play Store, but it has twice been removed from there.
The first time it was because the app encourages donations, but that request was hidden from users installing via the Play Store. I think Google looked at the app and noticed that request for donations but could not see that it was functionally inactive. It took them a few months to accept the truth and permit the app again.
The second time was mid July 2025, they banned it again and refused to say why. I was in Germany and travelling at the time, the app ceased working with a database error and I was screwed, it took me a day or three to download Fdroid and get it working but now I get it from there. It's back in the Play Store (I don't know when that happened) but I have to assume this idiocy is going to happen again.

I use another App where the developer(s) announced that they were going to stop updating their Play Store version because the overhead was just too much, and that the preferred migration path was to Fdroid. It is a security product, one which resolves QR codes to text and requires the user to confirm that they really want to visit that site. Works for me.

Your ideas are intriguing to me, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

I'd have thought there are other problems which are more important. A day or so ago in Wiesbaden (Germany) Google Maps decided a section of an Autobahn was closed, even though traffic was running normally there, at that point a number of misguided souls left the Autobahn and drove through the city to avoid the non-closed section. It took them a few hours to fix the error.

IF traffic-running-normally THEN ignore announcements that a road is closed.

If the road is really blocked then I'd expect barriers and signs detailing the detour. Google Maps can't read those signs but it should be able to notice that traffic has ceased to flow there.

Perhaps this a nice use case for Elon Musk's "Datacenters in spaaaaace"!

Over the years I have visited the US from Europe over 40 times for work.

The questions I get at the border really make me feel uncomfortable, both in tone and in coverage. You really feel like a second class person when you see how differently US citizens and non-citizens are treated.

None of this is new, it's just become more and more confrontational. Part of the problem is (again) the fact that the US constitution is not fit-for-purpose and bestows no rights whatsoever at the border.

If you want people to feel safe coming to the US, then fix your laws. If not, then there are plenty of countries that make foreigners feel welcome. Why would the Ig Nobels need to be held in the US anyway?