The Privacy Act of 1974 technically restricts what personally identifable information (PII) a federal agency can collect and retain. I would be OK extending this to state and local agencies. That would potentially give us a way to go after state laws that require age verfication in devices and operating systems. But it seems that there is no political will to pump the brakes on the surveillance state.

SS Officer #2: Er, Hans?
        SS Officer #1: Have courage, my friend.
        SS Officer #2: Yeah. Er, Hans, I've just noticed something...
        SS Officer #1: [Looking through binoculars] These communists are all cowards.
        SS Officer #2: Have you looked at our caps recently?
        SS Officer #1: Our caps?
        SS Officer #2: The badges on our caps, have you looked at them?
        SS Officer #1: What? No. A bit.
        SS Officer #2: They've got skulls on them. Have you noticed that our caps have actually got little pictures of skulls on them?
        SS Officer #1: Uh, I don't...
        SS Officer #2: Hans... are we the baddies?

Well I only do busy work now, so Outlook Web is good enough for scheduling meetings.

President Jimmy Carter under estimated the support the Ayatollah could muster, burned his own political capital in supporting the Shah, miscalculated the importance of the clerics to Iranian culture (especially in rural and the lower class), and ultimately unprepared for the Iranian Revolution, Absolutely bungled it, and the result was he lost backing of his own party, and haunted the remainder of his presidency.

It's like 2026 is 1978 all over again. And we have people in charge that are incapable of learning from their own mistakes, let alone the mistakes of their predecessors. The end results that I believe are likely is that we're going to botch this one, either through President Trump's direct orders or m ore likely one of the crony appointees is going to make a bad call that is going to cost us dearly. At the extreme end of what is possible is well-funded supporters of Iran could back Yemeni Houthis to carry out attacks on American civilians in order to create discord in the US and weaken political support for Trump and the GOP. And it's not like it would even take much, as support has long been waning Trump and the GOP controlled Congress.

Tariffs, high gas prices, and substantial threat to public safety. This is what voting with a cult costs you. Economic recovery is going to take a decade or more starting in 2029. The 30's are going to be the DIRTY THIRTIES. Zoomers are going to be pissed at all of us when they figured out just how badly we let the Boomers and GenX fuck them over.

I'm too old for the draft. But I'm scared what it might do to the younger generation. It certainly had a negative impact on the generation that raised me. I had many public school teachers and coaches in the 80's and 90's that were unhinged Vietnam vets.

Tariffs and fuel surcharges. So nice that big corporations aren't the ones burdened by what is obviously another tax on the consumer.

I used to get real work done from mutt and alpine. Back when emails were mostly text and a small attachment or hypderlinks.

We'll have at least one billionare-built base on the Moon in our lifetime.

It would be a civil case. If they has some plausible scenario, then theoretically a jury can accept it as fact for the case.

Same but elixir was a huge step up. Not really sure if either is the right answer for implementing a Claude CLI

The loophole is they write up listing for positions that require skills that the citizens they are letting go don't have. It's obvious companies abuse the visa system, but guess who really pulls the strings in government.

tl;dr - research before you buy.

For people reading this thread. I'd recommend searching online about how well the suspend-resume works on Linux for the laptop model(s) you are interested in purchasing. Also worth looking into issues with very short battery life while in Linux. Because a lot of the power management ends up buried in some OEM options for the chipset windows drivers rather than properly expressed in the BIOS/UEFI.

Nevermind, we'll let the machines do it.

Tried and tested slippery slope argument? On slashdot?

It is psychologically engineered to engage a human's attention. Modern web marketing is shady as hell and there really is no reason to try and defend the practices.

So how about we prohibit shady business practices. There is limited time and space in this world, so let's shutdown the garbage businesses that do us no good and leave more time and space and capital for those offering a legitimate goods and services.