> Why? Absolutely no idea

This isn't surprising to anybody who's studied the psychology of political science.

Those who identify as 'conservative' value maintenance much higher than those who identify as 'progressive'. You're more likely to see them in their driveway changing their oil and measuring their tire tread depth. It's just different kinds of people with different time-preference mindsets.

Note that with a limited budget maintenance spending is money that cannot be spent on immediate benefits.

You need to allocate some of the benefits money to upgrading the IT systems so there's less to hand out. "How could you possibly cut their benefits?" is the kind of misplaced empathy that undercuts the system that they feel is valuable.

Of course there's usually a Federal bailout in the wings for people who don't plan ahead so the incentive systems are all completely misaligned for good governance. Since the Lockdowns we've seen the weaponization of the Dollar through sanctions and tariffs that have pushed world oil markets to the Yuan and cross-border settlements in sovereign currency exchanges, so the Dollar is in freefall compared to commodities which means those bailouts are going to end very soon.

As this reckoning becomes too real to ignore the populations will move strongly to vote for candidates who seem to understand the value of maintenance.

Yeah, and Healthcare is 20% of GDP.

According to Keynesian economists, if we were all much healthier the economy would be worse off.

I'm not sure how much more evidence you need that the entire economic school is a bunch of self-styled money-priests making excuses for government spending.

Keynes did some really good early work but then he got caught diddling kids and after that the King's spending was all the best thing anybody could do.

An early version of "trust the experts".

So the code was written by people who aren't familiar with the idea of "fail-safe"?

I might have gone to school for software engineering but I never equated it with building a bridge at 4000' over a canyon. Those are different things.

But none of my classmates would have thought about building a stack that fails into random or dangerous conditions. We always built from the ground up and verified states as new functionality was added with test evaluation of the possible error states.

And those classes were in C++89 without the advantages of proper exception handling like Java or Python provide.

I think if I were in the market for a $5000 IoT mattress I'd want to see something like a UL label on it. I guess the hardware guys put in a thermal switch so the heating elements shut off at 110*F? Thank goodness a runaway fire wasn't a failure mode.

I wouldn't personally ever spend that kind of money on something like that but if I were rich and disabled maybe there would be use cases.

Doesn't the Nissan Leaf get about 60 miles?

I was looking at a cheap used one that was down to 45 miles, I think.

30 miles gets me to town and back so it would only last a few years at that rate.

They're talking about LineageOS. Think Graphene but it doesn't just run on Google hardware. Over a hundred devices and they just added mainline kernel and qemu support so it potentially runs on thousands of devices.

Sadly with less hardening. I wish Lineage would take some Graphene patches. The crazy thing is Lineage descended from Cyanogenmod which had many of these patches!

If I want an app to draw over other apps (e.g. accessibility apps) I need to grant that permission (AOSP distro). How do they bypass that?

> I'd like to know how much blame each of these companies deserves

For paying a ransom?

How much for the Epstein Files?

Yeah, nobody is buying this "sustain the development" nonsense.

Somebody needs to keep the servers patched. Somebody needs to keep the app targeting an API that the app stores will host. Bose can afford maybe 1.5 FTE's with redundancy on a rolling basis.

Did they ignore due diligence for a decade and just get nabbed running RHEL 5 and unlicensed Oracle Java on an old VMWare or something?

If Bose is a public corporation perhaps the FTC should have a look at their deliberations.

See Seyonic's Youtube video.

The 512-SIM racks can only addreses 64 at a time. This comports with what people noticed about the antenna count.

8x is nearly an order of magnitude difference and chaged my mind about the likely purpose.

Presumably the spammers expect the SIM's to get blacklisted and move on?

But WHO is provisioning a quarter million cards at a time without tripping flags?

> secret server-side backdoors that will store less secure copies of messages

How do you do that with end-to-end cryptosystems?

every bit of land that is occupied by islam has been stolen from some other culture. by the sword, 100% of the time.

you want some justice? have the arabs give back all the land they stole from the native peoples of the time. every land they have was stolen. why is that never talked about?

there were religions long before islam, but all the countries that are islamic were forced under threat of death to convert.

genocide is what the arabs did to everyone who did not convert.

funny how you guys want to flip the narrative.

actually, its not funny.

the real culture war is islam vs the west.

islamic countries with big pockets are paying to have 'good PR' in universities. they are playing the long game. they are not stupid.

they have a clear goal in mind. you either know this or you dont. go search if you dont know what I'm talking about.

but they have funded the universities in order to have their message forced on all the students.

is there any natural reason why women would protest against their own rights? and yet, that's the side they picked.

its about funding and buying mind share.

they are winning. and its sad to see.

but this is what's going on.

This is a dumb take.

Bobby has massive MAGA support and is very much in favor of healing uses of psychedelics.

You'd looking for enemies among your allies. That's a sure sign of media brainwashing.

Pharma is your enemy, not your neighbor.

> heart issues such as long QT syndrome

Wikipedia is wrong as usual.

Ibogaine is contraindicated for people with long QT-interval because it temporarily extends it.

This is fine for normal people but not if you already have long QT. It's not hard to see on EKG but some underground clinics don't do the EKG and there have been a few deaths.

There have been no deaths when medically supervised, which is why the Drug Control Act kills people.