So glad I switched from Fitbit to Garmin. Google has done everything possible to lose me as a customer.

Speaking as a motorcycle rider, ebikes are dangerous. Not because of the bike but because of the riders. They often don't wear safety gear, they don't follow traffic laws, and many bikes top out at 70-80kph. It took considerable effort to get my Class M. A bike going that fast should require licensing and safety courses and helmet laws. Most people don't realize they can squid out on the road on an ebike just like you will on a motorcycle without proper gear.

I just installed Fedora 44 on my old Win10 laptop. Because Microsoft made sure this perfectly good laptop with 16gb RAM could not run Win11. And Affinity Suite runs great on wine now. And no obnoxious telemetry tracking. Oh yeah, for games: steam and lutris too.

Yeah yeah yeah, linux linux linux

still, Microsoft is in self-destruct mode.

Is that really true? Many of the layoffs I've seen over the past year have been legitimately "removing layers", purging loads of fat in middle management.

Companies constantly go through cycles where they stretch to a very vertical structure with a manager for every three employees (exaggerating, but only slightly), and then there's the periodic flattening where they prune it out.

I think you confuse keeping secrets with censorship. The people who knew the details of D-Day or of the breaking of Enignma absolutely agreed to keep those secrets prior to learning the details. There is nothing tyrannical about criminal penalties against people who consent to keep classified secrets knowing there is such a penalty.

Your comment applies to yourself more than parent comment. It's hard to think of any systemic oppression that wasn't enabled by censorship.

You can tell leaders are lying about how much they care about CSAM by how they reacted to the Jeffery Epstein scandal. They look the other way even when named specific individuals with strong evidence show up. Stop trusting the oppressors.

A license that forbids use in a commercial use is no license at all for use cases that matter. This is disclosed source, not open source. It maybe helps some researchers, but even for them, I'd prefer they work with solely open source, since my tax dollars fund them, so I want to benefit directly from their output, which means giving me code that I can use without restriction.

Destroy senescent cells and you may have cured Alzheimer's.

Prevent cells from becoming senescent in the first place and you'll have cured human aging as we understand it.

Is that technology decades-to-centuries away? Doesn't seem like it. We've inserted hTERT into cells' genomes and permanently prevented senescence. Of course, randomly dropping genetic code into the genome tends to break shit; what's viable at the cell level is not necessarily viable on the organismal level.

So for decades we thought: what if there was a way to temporarily give cells the message to produce enough hTERT to re-lengthen their telomeres?

Maybe just a few fake instructions to make the protein that didn't come from the DNA itself. Maybe... something like... ...an mRNA vaccine? You know, the kind we just gave to 60% or so of the entire human population?

PornHub, the largest and most public streaming site, is also the site that's incredibly diligent about verifying the age of its actors and banning the most extreme and controversial kinks.

So PornHub will indeed say "Well, this makes it impossible to do legally business in Arkansas, so we'll go ahead and block all IP addresses from Arkansas."

Do we really expect www.barelylegalslutsofczechia.me to follow suit?

Do we really expect this to *protect* children?

Yeah, but think of the video games they'll have. Full VR with characters who can use AI to respond appropriately to any situation.

I mean, seriously, fuck Venice, I want *that*.

They'll melt in your mouth... not in your hand

It's a word that used to have a definition. "Chemically incompatible with the biological functions that sustain life."

Now it has no definition. It means, approximately: "You have just said something that the average suburban 28-year-old woman living just outside of Portland would likely disagree with."

>Web forums are everywhere but Reddit had community.

I would disagree with that. A "community" is, at mininimum, a group of people who know who each other are.

Reddit is a "forum" that would never fit into any physical forum. To them, everyone is just another anonymous asshole. Banning any given one of them has no meaning, because in ten minutes, another will fill their place.

When you say "Well, we're not going to pay you in money, but we *will* pay you in the power to throw your weight around, declare the supremacy of your own ideology, and ruin people's days"... ...well, what kind of person do you *think* is going to be attracted to that position?

Whatever device you posted this from, I can assure you that its manufacture was not carbon-neutral. Nor was the process of shipping it to you.