ZoneAlarm used to be the go-to for this. Kinda like the NoScript browser extension for internet connections. Everything is blocked until you explicitly allow it. It used to be pretty comprehensive, but I don't know how much of the network it can control, as I know Microsoft has been disallowing easy network control access to 3rd parties since Windows 10.

No problem, EFF hasn't been cool for a while now. Remember what they did to RMS?

Whom is pumping bitcoin? The New York Times? The journalist? Do they have significant positions in bitcoin?

What is the purpose of these articles? We think so-and-so is Satoshi. They deny it. Now what? I guess the NYT gets some clicks, but I don't see what useful information there is here.

My Kindle 3rd gen can read mobi, prc, azw, and PDFs you load in via the USB cable.

Because the US government doesn't make operating systems? They've taken Apple to court to get unfettered access to iPhones and have lost. It's far from perfect, but there is still a system of checks and balances happening.

Besides that, you can post a photo of yourself holding the bloody severed head of Trump, and the worst that happens to you is loosing a gig at CNN and a squatty potty endorsement job. If you call president Xi a silly name, you disappear.

There's an interesting story out of Detroit roughly related.

A long time ago a Detroit-based millionaire donated a big chunk of land and a bunch of money to start the Detroit Zoo, and to build an adjacent golf course. When Detroit was going bankrupt, the city tried to sell off the golf course to make some money, as it is in an expensive subdivision now, and would have raked in hundreds of millions of dollars. However, in the deed, the millionaire put in a clause saying if the city tried to do anything other than maintain a zoo or golf course on the property, the ownership of ALL the property would revert to his descendants. A couple of his great-grandchildren showed up in court, and the deal was tanked.

I don't know why I should care about limited compatibility for a subset of devices with another subset of devices. There's some of everything in my home. I found a tool called LocalSend years ago that allows me to do mildly obnoxious data transfers between arbitrary devices regardless of platform.

Novas were 16-bit machines. I know because there are 16 select toggles on the front of mine :)

Soul of a New Machine was about the development of the MV line, which was the 32-bit extension of the Eclipse line, which was an extension (virtual memory, multitasking, etc.) of the Nova line. Similar to how VAXes were based on the PDP-11 architecture.

What do you mean? The main Hobbits are usually portrayed by younger actors. Gandalf should be portrayed by an older actor. Elves should be somewhere in between. If everyone is young it looks dumb.

The headline threw me, then I saw his son, whom is a screenwriter, is attached as well. Then I looked up his son's credits on IMDB. He was a production assistant on one of Colbert's shows and.... that's it.

I hope it will be good, but it's not looking that way.

In the olden days, it cost a lot of money to shoot down an anti-ship missile. Either a CWIS firing expensive ammunition at thousands of rounds per second, or firing a pricey RAM.

It isn't the olden days any more. Now they drop missiles using a giant microwave. It costs almost nothing to fire.
https://thedefensepost.com/202...

Did the Legion Go S I bought at Best buy just cease to exist?

So it's super fancy ReShade. As long as you can turn it off, who cares?

https://reshade.me/

The new streaming economics are that, unless you are an established multi-billion dollar IP, like Star Trek, Marvel, Lord of the Rings, or Game of Thrones, you aren't going to get enough money together for live-action anything beyond a simple detective show or medical drama.

There's a rare exception now and then - bestselling novel adaptation, established director or writer, etc... Whedon has a bad name right now, so nobody is going to be throwing money at him. His last huge-budget TV show, The Nevers, got pulled from HBO before it was finished airing.