Think of it as evolution in action.

Oh comeon, how are employers supposed to make a honest profit if they can't screw the help?

It’s so sad that refrigerators cannot be airgapped...

BRING BACK USENET!

I've always felt whichever clock we stick with is irrelevant since our bodies are attuned to the sun's position, not the clock time. I've seen plenty of older folks on Facebook claiming that we can't do one time zone because the kids will walk to school in the dark while others claim it won't work for their region because they'll be driving home in the dark, and I'm sitting here wondering why you can't just adjust school hours or work hours once we lock into a time system...?

Around here its crime. Three attempts to break into our house until the perimeter was surrounded by lights, nothing in the years since. Now that LED is so cost-effective and reliable, the electrical cost is negligible. If that means we sacrifice the night sky I'm okay with it.

We can always hope that the pigs who fucked-up with the user names will be skinned alive, but of course, we all know this will never happen because pigs enjoy an inordinate amount of immunity totally unwarranted by their well-below average intelligence.

Yes, they become an economic superpower and they slowly take the place of the USA on the world stage.

A very nice country, with very nice, hard-working but still fun-loving (take that, calvinists!) people, thank to them not having religious hangups and neuroses.

He sent me the first e-mail I ever received, some 40 years ago...

It was so early that it actually was printed by some service and (snail-)mailed to me...

More than 35 years ago, well before the Internet, BBSes ruled.

One I was a pillar of was nothing but a wall where you would post anonymously (or not).
The software was written to verify the typing rate to make sure that no text was uploaded

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

I wrote a special terminal program that would randomize the time between characters to foil that BBS's rejection of uploads...

(Oh, it worked, and the dude running the show never found out).

I posted a "conspiracy theory" a while back in other online venues that the UK, Canada, and Australia will first try to lock down social media with the honor system and when that fails, Canada and the UK will cite Australia as an example of why the honour system fails and we need to protect the children with Digital IDs. I feel like we are right in the middle of that "conspiracy" and we're 6 months away from completing it.

Right, but in the meantime this will gain immediate attention. If people keep smashing them down, the government will get the message. That happened in my jurisdiction with speed trap cameras and now they're gone. Citizen vigilante works.

I don't know why you feel that's a big deal, Muslims don't consume alcohol.

Didn't Discord back away from that because everyone freaked out? I expect UK, Australia, and Canada to go the way Bitcoin went a few years back after world leaders at WEF schemed to track crypto currency in that you have to take a picture of your government ID, your face, and your face with your government ID. Then of course the government will offer you an easier way to do this, sign in with your global digital ID. It's coming people, they concocted this idea at Davos. "Think of the children!" The sad thing is there are people who are stupid enough to believe this is really about children.

I remember back in the old days you'd have techie type characters on TV shows using Yahoo to search for things and everyone would surround them like they were hackers. Chloe from first season Smallville comes to mind. At the same time boomers were mystified at how to accurately search for results as it did require some Google-fu to get optimal results back in those early days of search engines (Hotbot, Yahoo, Google, etc.). I feel like we're in that situation with AI right now, where some people are getting the hang of prompt engineering while a lot of people aren't even aware of it being a thing.