Speaking as a motorcycle rider, ebikes are dangerous. Not because of the bike but because of the riders. They often don't wear safety gear, they don't follow traffic laws, and many bikes top out at 70-80kph. It took considerable effort to get my Class M. A bike going that fast should require licensing and safety courses and helmet laws. Most people don't realize they can squid out on the road on an ebike just like you will on a motorcycle without proper gear.

I just installed Fedora 44 on my old Win10 laptop. Because Microsoft made sure this perfectly good laptop with 16gb RAM could not run Win11. And Affinity Suite runs great on wine now. And no obnoxious telemetry tracking. Oh yeah, for games: steam and lutris too.

Yeah yeah yeah, linux linux linux

still, Microsoft is in self-destruct mode.

I get sick after 10 minutes last time I tried it (a few years ago). It's not anywhere near solved. Of course I have no desire to try the new versions, because even if it was solved it doesn't actually make anything useful better.

Back in the day lots of people did. Because there was no built in browser to use before IE came out. And pirating it would require getting a cd from someone else, and cd burners weren't a thing yet. Your options were use AOL with whatever they had built in on their cds, or use Netscape which you'd need to buy.

If tickets were an auction, the problem would instantly solve itself. You could even still have a secondary market for last minute buyers. And the extra revenue would go to the venue/artists, rather than a random scalper.... if those even exist anymore. I expect it's more likely Ticketmaster themselves selling them as resell at a 3x markup.

Unanalyzed raw video. Internet noise. Those would qualify as, "a whole lot of garbage that someone could possibly, maybe analyze to make some statistical inferences about conceivably sensitive data."

There's not 10 petabytes of sensitive data in all the world. 10 petabytes is enough to store a copy of every movie and television show ever released to DVD plus every book ever written in any language on Earth.

What they captured was some sensitive data and a whole lot of garbage that someone could possibly, maybe analyze to make some statistical inferences about conceivably sensitive data.

They sabotage themselves just fine with user-hostile security implementations and bloat bloat bloat.

I'll bet. His case has less than no chance in court.

It's good. Until it isn't.

I'm a computer scientist with three decades of expertise in computer networking. There's this one AI-based job board that keeps trying to match me with delivery driver jobs.

Something like this needs density. If there's not enough people using it, then the per use cost will be far too much to make it economically viable. That makes cities much more attractive to startups like this. Of course there you have airspace issues with large buildings, so the true sweet spot may be relatively dense but very high income suburbs. But it sure as heck won't be rural.

Designing a structure with withstand a major act of war basically means digging it far enough underground that nothing can reach it. It was a stupid rule.

You have to check when they're available anyway. Even where people actually work "customary business hours," they take time off for things like doctors' appointments and childrens' special events.

I vote for option E: Everybody switches to UTC.

Local noon on the U.S. pacific coast will be 20:00 instead of 12:00 and the office day will start at 17:00 instead of 9:00 am. But in trade, I never have to do any mental gymnastics converting for someone else's time again.

You can do that with github and many of the others as well. My employer has a private github.