The best part of the early internet was that if you had something interesting to say, you had to make the effort to learn HTML and self-host. That generally acted as a very good threshold for high quality content.

This isn't moral. Ubuntu owes the GNU project far too much to replace GNU tools like this, and it's going to come back to bite them later, when they start losing the protection that the GPL gives. (For example, just imagine how much better Android would have been if its core were GPL, and how much worse Chrome could be getting if it wasn't).

For now:

apt install busybox-static #In case you mess up.
apt remove coreutils-from-uutils --allow-remove-essential
apt install coreutils-from-gnu #should have happened automatically.

I think we could solve the issue in a single line.
"All Cryptocurrency is hereby defined to be a counterfeit of real currency".
Then we can get rid of the scams, the lies, the dodgy donations, the pump-n-dump, the fraud, the emissions... let's just kill it.

Honestly, what we need is a social media ban for adults who lack critical thinking! Most kids are smarter than this.

That's partly why I only buy Thinkpads - for the mouse with the 3 buttons (and I disable the trackpad).
But what you want is easily achievable by either xinput or xmodmap.

the real point is that you should never be accepting the notice. The consent button means "we are doing something evil with your data, which you wouldn't agree to if you knew what it was. So we have to ask your permission". Good websites simply don't need the cookie consent, because they don't do 3rd party tracking.

I had one, and it was horrible to use: it kept learning my behaviour - and assuming (very wrongly) that what I did last week applied to this week.
I replaced it with an old fashioned thermostat (a single knob and a bimetallic strip) and it's so much better.

Btw, some people may have "old" 240V manual thermostats running on a modern (12V/24V) boiler and hate the excessive hysteresis. That's because these older ones have a small heater resistor behind the bimetallic strip, designed to provide just enough extra warmth to reduce the 3-degree mechanical hysteresis to 1-degree or so. If you have a really old thermostat, it actually needs 240V, even though it's just a switch!

Agree - the only way to protect companies from being targets is to make sure that they can't pay.
The way to do it would be to fine companies who pay ransomware an amount equal to 10x the loss they would have experienced from not paying it.

We need a way to extend the robots.txt format to say "Yes, please index my site; No you may not train your AI on it".

Hydrogen won't ever work for flights, because the volumetric energy density is too low to be usable.

E.g. Boeing 787-8 jet weighs 227 tonnes (including up to 101 tonnes of fuel, with a volume of 126 m3), to give a maximum range of 13, 530 km.
If fuelled by cryogenic liquid hydrogen rather than kerosene, it would need 2.8× less mass of fuel, which saves 65 tonnes. However, it would need 4.1× more volume for the same energy. Currently, that would consume all the existing fuel-tank space, all the existing baggage/cargo capacity (136 m3) and 84% of the cabin capacity (302 m3).

See: https://www.telos.digital/insi...

Often the problem is that the tech isn't quite as set-and-forget as you'd like, especially for seniors.

In particular, we need:
* a way to prevent uninstalling and modifying the homescreen.
* a way to prevent the volume being turned down (sooo often, people can't hear because of how they picked up the device)
* absolutely no adverts
* absolutely no prompts. (the device must never ask permission to upgrade, or give notifications of new versions, ...)
* guarantee of no spam - only specific people can call.

In some cases, a way to force the remote end to answer, without it needing any user-interaction (yes this is a privacy issue, it may still be necessary for the elderly).

Surely the answer is simply to legislate that "all cryptocurrency is deemed to be counterfeit money" and therefore every cryptocurrency is now banned.

There was a better option: nothing.
This kind of "all eggs in one basket (that someone else is carrying)" security model is worse than the risk it claims to mitigate.

We need a legal policy that states that AI tools that were trained on "the sum of human knowledge" are themselves common property, and must be released as open-source.

I completely agree - if only for the environmental advantages. Snap is so prodigiously wasteful of storage and bandwidth - not everyone has it, and for those that do, it's still a waste of money and CO2. We already solved the shared-libraries problem.