He's 77 years old and it's a screensaver. A retiree pulling down an extra $80k/year "maintaining" a screensaver for a single customer was a ridiculously good deal for him for a good many years.

Whether or not he has any other substantial sources of income is likely a moot point - He's chosing not to renew the license to Fox, so presumably he's not going to starve.

"Oh, did we say USB-C? Well, yeah, technically it uses that connector but it's only compatible with Sony devices."

And jokes aside, that's exactly why Apple used Lightning connectors for so long - They're basically just a draft version of USB 2, minus the (non-Apple) licensing fees, plus a proprietary form factor.

I have exactly that, but they're not "normal" headphones, they're specifically for hearing protection.

Best thing ever for mowing the lawn (aside from paying a neighborhood kid to do it).

"It's a landline".

Or just make a Google Voice account.

You realize you can just lie about all of it, right?

Even if you desperately want that free dessert on your birthday, there's no situation in which Joe Customer would ever care about missing a call from Applebees or the like.

They also don't need to know your real name, real address (aside from the very few restaurants still doing their own deliveries), or real age (why have just one birthday when you can get free stuff throughout the year at different restaurants). Email could go either way - It's nice to have receipts and coupons emailed to you, if you value that; it's also easy enough to create disposable email addresses so you still don't need to give out you "real" email to benefit. Just make a throwaway you can abandon when (not if) they sell you out to the spammers (or their own marketing becomes indistinguishable from spam).

"Had". Google had the best search in town, 15 years ago.

Sometime between then and now, Google became utterly useless at the one thing they really did well. Their main page is bloated to hell and back, exact phrases aren't, Boolean search terms provably return results that don't satisfy the query... And the one that finally drove me to DDG, searching for "how do I disable enshittification-feature-X" will invariable return nothing but pages explaining how to turn on exactly that feature, just on the off chance someone was fortunate enough to have it broken right out of the gate (which is somehow usually not possible to do in reverse).

Don't get me wrong, I'm not romanticizing DDG, which AFAIK is basically just an alternative front-end for Bing; but if everyone is just out there to fuck us, we can at least favor the ones that bring lube to the party.

Progressive and proportional fines are definitely an improvement, but it's still just a matter of shifting the "don't be evil" line to a simple calculation.

If the EU will seize 4% but a company can boost gross receipts by 5% by e.g. torturing endangered baby seals... I wouldn't bet on the seals in that situation.

1) And that differs from US companies how?
2) I "trust" Xi Jin Pooh more than Uncle Sam simply because China has no legal authority over me.
3) You go right ahead and do without; we couldn't care less about your holy war, we just want sub-$10k BYDs.

The GP merely rephrased the old idea that fines are nothing more than a cost of doing business. When the only "punishment" is financial and knowable in advance, that's neither punishment nor deterrence; it's simply an above-the-line calculation.

How many of us have intentionally chosen to risk a speeding and/or parking ticket to make it on time to an important appointment? Same idea, just at a much larger scale: Ford famously chose to literally let Pinto owners DIAF rather than pay an extra $11 to make key parts of the fuel system safer in a rear collision. Despite that, Ford is somehow still in business and not a single executive from that era was sent to prison over knowingly choosing to kill people as a cost cutting measure.

I did this too, in less than 11 days, and mine runs on bare metal on a raspberry pi. You can download the image here. It also runs it's own busybox, and sbase (suckless.org rewrite of busybox) and kubectl and quake, doom, helm, duck db, ffmpeg etc etc I did a write up about it here back in October: Bluetail OS you can download a copy of the 0.0.1 release here https://bluetailos.s3.us-west-... runs in qemu of course, on a raspberry pi 3 A+ profile on 512mb memory
 
Lots of progress since then, refactored a bunch of stuff runs a lot better on bare hardware and has better usb mouse/keyboard support. Oh and it has a usb network adapter as well.

In practice, audit trails are 99% about reporting and monitoring needs, not liability after-the-fact. By the time the insurance companies are involved, you're already tossing thousands of dollars of food and possibly have sick people lining up to sue

If there was any sort of centralized monitoring involved here, they would have caught the problem as soon as the temperatures rose above $AlarmHigh or remained above $AlarmLow for more than X minutes. They did not. The exploited interface was therefore a function of convenience, not compliance.

More or less, yeah...

You can use ArcaOS, you can use CSM mode, or you can chain-load it with any of a number of EFI loaders.

CSM mode is probably the closest to "pure" OS/2, but obviously it's not really using UEFI. ArcaOS is the closest to pure UEFI support (and probably the best choice if you plan to really use it rather than just prove you can do it then move on), but it's not pure OS/2. Take your pick.

/ I am not affiliated in any way with ArcaOS / Arca Noae.

I used to SOMETIMES visit reddit to go check things out. Now they throw up a "ABSOLUTELY NOT!!! GO SIGN UP RIGHT NOW YOUNG MAN" interstitial ad thing if you use if for more than 20 seconds. I would rather not know the thing, than click on the reddit link and see that ad again. Reddit was a fun 5-10 min a week time waster, and useful for super obscure stuff, but lately it's unusable, especially without being logged in.

I hate Zuck as much as the next geek, but preserving human rights is a governmental-scale responsibility, not an issue we leave up to every random company to do their own due diligence (or we'd have none).

It's great Wyden and Markey are taking an interest in this, but the issue is far bigger than one major brand of spy-glasses; there are dozens of brands of similar glasses that don't even pretend to try to protect privacy; and moving beyond that specific form factor, there are thousands of styles of spy cameras available to any random Joe for under $100 (many in the $20-$30 range!) right from Amazon. This isn't even trying to squeeze the toothpaste back into the tube - This is drowning in a vat of Colgate while pissing and moaning over a stray blob of Crest.

Two engineers (one of whom is a stuffed shirt being thrown a bone post-acquisition) are going to rewrite Cisco's legacy code using AI and an unlimited budget.

I'm sorry, can even the most delusional pro-AI executive out there seriously say that with a straight face? This just plain fails the sniff test - Are they establishing a scapegoat for an already-failing project? Honoring some contractual landmine EZDubs managed to sneak in? Straight-up insurance fraud?

If this is exactly what it looks like at face value, excuse me while I go short Cisco stock.