What Linus is complaining about is a git patch that has a link to the same patch in LKML. But, presumably, in the future that will be useful to people looking back and seeing that link who will be able to see not only that patch but the entire following discussion on it. Linus is looking at it with a "what does this buy me today", which is admittedly nothing. But this buys other people information tomorrow, which is how foresighted people are looking at it as they include the link.

I do it every day. So do you. Chances are wherever you live a biofuel or some sort of ethanol blended conventional fuel is being used to generate electricity. It's an almost certainty your car is running on an ethanol blend, so every time you plug your device in your car that's what you're doing. Already 10% of the entirety of North America's gasoline supply is ethanol.

Who cares how much CO2 is being emitted if 100% of it was captured CO2 to begin with.

So stop fucking around with techy techy that might work 20 years from now and move forward seriously with what we already have. We already have solar collection and concentration techniques that can be deployed to use non plantable areas to concentrate solar energy. We already have vertical farming techniques with mirrors that can deploy that concentrated solar over multiple levels. Plant corn, make ethanol and methane from the parts we can, burn the rest in CHP where some of the siphoned heat dries the biomass.

We have this tech TODAY.

We already have such solar panels. They are called "plants". Amazing things that will self replicate under the right conditions and make all the fuel we want. What's even cooler about them is that they can make it in the form that people can consume directly, or where we can use other amazing little bio-factories to turn it into fuel for machines! And no matter how we use that fuel, by using it so created we make it into a closed cycle where no new CO2 is emitted.

Amazing, huh? Fuel we can use in existing infrastructure without adverse effects, making use of the most efficient solar photic energy capture ever discovered. All using today's technology.

Can you imagine the horrible security breach of not just every Google/Amazon speaker but literally every computer sending every word it hears to "cloud" servers? Jesus.

Nobody understands either Windoes SE OR ChromeOS. A whole OS dedicated around the old idea of the "falling away of the App" and making everything online is just dumb on its face.

Thirty years ago they told us that OLE would remove the difference between one application and another - that the line of where one ended and another began was a thing of the past, one big super-application that could do anything. That never materialized.

Twenty-five years ago OLE lead to OCX, which was going to change the way applications were delivered. Which lead to DDE, COM, ActiveX. I remember when the company I worked for decided to specialize in ActiveX and I tried to tell them what a dumb idea that was.

Then came others: CGI, XML, PHP... it's inevitable now... everything will become a web app. Smartphones came and we all had browsers in our hands. NOW! Now will be the day of the Falling-Away-of-the-Compiled-Application.

But then something strange happened. People found that they liked interacting with real apps better than interacting with web pages designed for mobile. All those mobile web apps tanked. Web stores that had dedicated mobile apps flourished, those that didn't never got traffic.

The Day of the Falling Away of the App is like the Year of the Linux Desktop. Always "real soon now", but never actually here, and if you look, getting further away with every failed attempt.

artificially add restrictions to Windows to make the environment less functional

You're absolutely right here. Spending money to develop an operating system, then spending more money to develop one that is inherently worse, is just stupidity on an unbounded scale. No "lite" app has ever been a money maker.

But then Chromebooks themselves are still dumb and will never amount to anything outside the school setting because that's the only place they are useful. They had a niche for a while in the restaurant scene for remote order taking, but even that died in favour of real apps.

Which is all a good thing, because the whole idea of the both Windows SE AND the Chromebook, the whole fucking point of them, is to take away capabilities. Step 1, give the user a platform that only works with web apps. Step 2, control what web apps they can use. Step 3, make them pay for every minute they spend on every one of them.

What we take no pleasure in is having to educate ignorant Americans on what "World Wide Web" means. So, news flash, as soon as you go online it's a world site. Welcome to the internet. I know you're sitting in your living room in hicksville USA (MERCA!), but it's actually visible all over the world. Wow, huh? A truly world forum.

This interaction reminds me of way back when AOL was given access to usenet news groups. Millions of dim users who had no idea that what they were posting on news groups were reaching around the globe. Suddenly news groups like sci.space.tech where the likes of actual rocket scientists around the world collaborated were inundated with Arkansas Bobs posting about igniting their own moonshine farts.

That's pronounced "planet".

You have a line judge, you have the AI. They each make a call. If they match, the game goes on. If there is a discrepancy, or if asked by a player to review, then the footage is reviewed and an umpire makes a final call. If and when conditions are not suitable for the AI system (low light), then the game proceeds as normal.

This whole either or is just dumb. Wimbledon wants to save $$$, and is positing it as a stark either-or in order to justify their decision. All it demonstrates is a lack of professionalism.

a program altered data without explicit permission

You completely miss the real core of the problem. The issue has nothing to do with AI. The issue has to do with the fact that police evidence handlers decided to try and use AI for a task that is so mind-blowingly easy to do on its own. It seriously brings to mind a line from The Martrix: "I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became our civilization".

It starts here. And nothing stupid like an AI uprising. I'm more concerned with the fact that someone honestly went online and submitted evidence photos that way because they didn't know how to add a logo using Gimp. This is more an indictment of that department, and people in general than anything the AI did.

Feels like job hiring has gone the way as travel bookings with Sabre where you have a couple big database systems with the actual information and then dozens of sites that just provide front ends for the same group of listings.

There are lots of places for reputable job listings. Government sites at various levels. Business associations and better business bureaus often share postings. NEWSPAPERS. They still exist, and still post actual job listings.

Or, you know, you could do the old fashioned thing and pound the fucking pavement. Getting up off your chunk and doing the old fashioned rounds is still one of the best methods there is. Make phone calls. You know, where you activate the dialer on your phone and punch in numbers and then hold it to your ear and speak. Tauten your vocal cords and force air through them while shaping the sounds with your mouth.

Call a company or organization and ask to speak to someone in the department where you want to work. Get that person's name. Ask if there are any openings in that area, then ask if they know of anyone else in the field looking. Talk to the people in the field before you approach HR.

I know, actually talking to someone is daunting, but I believe in you. And, hey, with some clever fiddle-faddling you can probably still use AI to prompt you on what to say.

If you can't demonstrate a work ethic LOOKING for a job, then how are you going to demonstrate one having a job.

If the snapshot data changes the system has to store additional data to maintain access to multiple versions.

This makes retention a function of storage space, and the number of changes made. This doesn't explain why it should be a hard-limit function of time. There is already, and has been since System Restore was implemented, a way to limit restore points to a percentage of disk space. If you don't make many changes and/or want to dedicate more space to System Restore, how is a 60 day hard limit of any use to anyone?

Adding in a hard time limit makes no sense.

No. 45th and 47th profiles.

Texas Instruments did invent the integrated circuit. But yes, a lot of what they do now is neither innovative nor high tech. They can afford to make their shit here because it's low techy techy and easily automated cruft. In short, it's the pig iron of the tech world, and even Texas and Utah hicks can manage it. Great way to appeal to the MAGA base, because to them it still IS high tech.

TI was good at 1970's-style innovation, meaning they were good at finding cool initial new uses for silicon. They pioneered speech synthesis, but didn't take it past the speak-and-spell stage. They invented the integrated circuit but they themselves never really pushed the envelope after that, they just drafted off other companies. They did some work in military - fire control and INS, but couldn't make that profitable so they sold it off to Raytheon. They had almost the very first 16-bit CPU and put it into a computer then hobbled that computer with such awful design that it was worse than the 8-bit computers of the time. Horribly slow memory on an 8 bit bus and then on top of that TI BASIC was written in an interpreted "Graphics Programming Language" that lived on GROM, so any BASIC program was doubly interpreted and could only use video memory which had to go through multiple stages before a CPU ever saw it.

It's a wonder they still exist. Texas Instruments is a company that has shot itself in the foot so many times it's a wonder they can stand, let alone operate.

In short, they sold off or abandoned anything that actually competed with anyone because they can't actually compete, and found niches making the stuff anyone can make but couldn't be bothered. Them making stuff here looks great for Trump's crowd but in the end meaningless.

The right equipment already can extend that range further... in some cases up to 30cm with a high Q antenna. This is what malicious actors use to get people's cards in sketchy airports and markets the world over. I'm not sure the extra range from .5 to 2cm in nominal use is worth giving thieves more range to work with.

How about vendors who are having problems just start using better equipment. I use square in my little restaurant and have never had an issue with it. This seems to be solving a non-problem at the expense of introducing more.

I don't understand what you want to say here. I read "no meaningful improvement" as "consistent user experience". Users who loved KDE 3.5 are still able to work the same way with recent Plasma

Yes, but along with that "consistent user experience" slash "no meaningful improvement" they give on the front end, they just told any LTS user to fuck off. So for those who want to enjoy that "consistent user experience" over the long term can't because KDE won't support something for longer than their attention span.

Rapid releases of consistent user experiences = pissing off literally everyone. They are telling the distros to fuck themselves and that no, KDE will not support a long release. And they are telling the users to fuck themselves with the dual whammy of no improvements over rapid unsupported releases.

KDE already has a far lower uptake, and is declining. There's a reason that Mint dropped it back in version 19. Maybe all this is just KDE's way of ceding the user-space market they are losing anyway, and to focus only on the bleeding-edge crowd. I just feel bad for normal users who get sucked into KDE not knowing it's a mine field.