Every place I look and ask says all Suggestions and Thumbs Up/Down were shut down in 2023. My TiVo hasn't had it since 2023.

I guess I can believe you.

And don't call people assholes.

Whatever, you might seem to think it works, but it was shut down in 2023.

Nope, it doesn't work at all anymore.
TiVo discontinued Thumbs Up/Down and Suggestions in early 2023.

When they discontinued the "Thumbs Up/Thumbs Down" suggestion feature years ago, TiVo just became another, more expensive, DVR to me.

When TiVo unilaterally stopped supporting satellite TV is when I gave up on them. Then FiOS was deployed in my neighborhood and I kept my TiVo for several more years.

Now that CableCards are being cancelled there's no true reason to own a TiVo.

I also owned TiVos since the first models came out in 1999, including the Sony models.

They only survived this long because they won case after case against DiSH Network accusing them of stealing their software and infringing on their patents, generating billions of dollars.

Alas, DiSH Network declared bankruptcy earlier this year.

My cable TV service, FiOS, said they had shut down CableCards last year.

Existing CableCards seem to still work, though.

Sounds like a mass kidnapping, or a Dubrovka Theatre incident.

The problem with powerful surveillance technology is not with capturing criminals under current definitions of criminality. The power of ubiquitous surveillance accelerates a society's transition to authoritarianism.

The problem is that increasingly authoritarian societies have a tendency to criminalize formerly legal reasonable behavior, tightening their control over their livesto^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcitizens long after events have been recorded and saved.

In a rational world, using surveillance technology could *under strictly limited controls* be beneficial. Humans have a nearly perfect record of allowing extremely irrational psychotic freaks to take power where that power can be wielded without sufficiently tight controls.

If running cgit is too expensive, disable it (or limit it to very shallow views). Developers can clone repositories and run cgit locally. Bots can clone repositories too if their owners think it's so important.

"Hi, BYD, set the temperature to 21 degrees."
"Hi, BYD, turn off the air conditioning."
"Hi, BYD, volume down/up."
"Hi, BYD, next song."

Saw this on an Atto3, and it worked surprisingly well. Not perfect, but just about all the controls you might need to adjust while driving that are not on the wheel or stalks are covered. I also prefer physical controls that I can operate through muscle memory for everything, but voice control seems like a good move to address the obvious safety concern that moving to many controls to a touch screen brings. Fact is, this kind of UI is what Millennials and later have grown up on, so barring some safety edict from a major market, like China's ban on retracting door handles, it's not going away. That leaves those of us that prefer physical controls to either get used to it, find a car that keeps the balance sane (VAG group seems to be moving in this direction), or squabbling over the declining supply of roadworthy cars that predate the screens taking over.

I think there may be a bit of back-and-forth while marques work out which controls are adjusted while driving and probably ought to have a tactile control and how best to present the UI to minimise eyes-on time by the driver if they do try and adjust things while moving, but the battle to retain fully tactile controls is probably already lost. Either way, any controls are almost certainly all going to be linked into the same car management / data capture system, and any physical controls will be no more independent that those specialist control keyboard add-ons you can get for PCs. That data can be monetized, and there's no way any marque is going to pass up on that - ultimately, as BMW has demonstrated, they want as much control over their car (what, you thought it was yours just because you paid for it?) as Microsoft has over a Windows PC.

The ending of Covenant was exploitatively stupid and a victim of lazy writing.

There, I said it.

Joking aside, there's a much more subtle change too. Look at the quoted wording from the astronauts: "*our* nation", "inspire *this* nation". Even at the height of the US-Soviet cold war it was still "for *all* mankind".

I get Trump's order is very much aimed at the NASA and the US (and probably getting his name onto it somehow), so can give that a pass, but the astronauts had an opportunity to rise above all that partisanship and slip in a message of much needed global unity, yet failed to do so. There are precious few institutions left in the world that can at least try and claim to be at least somewhat above / outside the direct influence of politics, and it looks like we're about to lose another one. Quite possibly for good once the ISS is finally decommissioned.

Do you really think I never clicked that in 28+ years?
The heck outta here with your BS.

I've been on Slashdot for 28 years and not once was I ever offered moderation on any post.