Right to repair is gaining momentum, but it keeps getting watered down to the point of almost being useless.

Case in point - Colorado. They passed one of the better right to repair laws not terribly long ago. Just recently Cisco and IBM dumped $600k into lobbying in that state, and all of a sudden that law now has an exemption carved out for "critical infrastructure." Which sounds nice on the surface, but it allows the manufacturer to define which devices are critical infrastructure. They can point to any of their devices and cry "Critical infrastructure!" and now that device is exempt from that right to repair law. That exemption hasn't been fully signed into law yet, to my knowledge. It passed committee (unanimously), and is up for a full vote..... I'm not sure when.

But this is the kind of crap that keeps happening everywhere that right to repair laws exist, or are trying to be passed. Until either we get money out of politics (one can dream, right?), and/or politicians grow some stones and tell these lobbyists to pound sand, it's not going to amount to much. I think we all know the likelihood of either of those things happening though.

Don Jr. and Eric are heavily invested in drone companies. They need their grift money too.

Make parents responsible for their kids. Stop with this nanny state bullshit. I know it's how the governments are framing their argument ("think of the children!") in order to try to sprinkle some seasoning on the shit salad they're trying to ram down our throats so they can track our every movement online to make it more palatable for the public to swallow, but come on!

Parents having to be responsible for what their kids are looking at online? Gasp! I'm so sick and tired of all this age verification crap. Society is not responsible for raising kids. There are more tools available to parents now than there ever was to help keep poor little Timmy's virgin eyes from seeing the horrors of naked people on the internet. Let them use them. Or not, that's their choice.

Translation: We took a nice, big gulp of the AI kool-aid, and our CEO wants a seventh yacht.

Hey, I've got this super duper 486 computer here - I'm going to run AI on it. Invest $28 billion into me!

This bubble needs to burst already and end this insanity.

While I completely agree with what you've mentioned, in this case, it seems that buying a whole replacement would be the more economically viable option. But what I think may be getting glossed over is that, in this instance, you at least have the option to repair it if you wanted. That's the difference.

Well, I guess they won't be able to use Project Maven anymore, since it has Anthropic Claude on it. Sure does suck when your petty retaliation costs you your ability to use a tool you consider so valuable. Bullet, meet foot.

I wonder if it has anything to do with Anthropic's recent unwillingness to bend the knee to the DoD, and OpenAI filling the void that Anthropic left, but later insisting that one of the two AI guardrails DoD wanted removed stay in place (only after massive backlash), coupled with Jensen's coziness with the administration. He doesn't want to look overly friendly with those companies that dared stand up to Dear Leader and his cronies.

I'm sure he's already called the president saying "I'm not investing in those evil companies anymore, can I please sell my AI crap to China now?"

The only way I'll buy a movie is a bluray/4K bluray. It's been proven time and time again that digital "purchases" are nothing more than long term rentals that can be pulled at the drop of a hat. Digital movies can also be altered at any time as well, which is also well documented to have happened.

If something isn't available to buy as a bluray/4K bluray, then it's off to the high seas we go!

I'm not sure of that either, but it seems to run contrary to the first amendment. Feels like compelled speech to me.

Anthropic should just cancel the contract then. Draw the line in the sand, tell them "this is how our model works, take it or leave it." If their model is so good, and the pentagon just has to use it because it works so well for them, Anthropic is the one with the power here. Cancel the contract, cut the pentagon's access immediately, and let them come crawling back.

But, they won't, because they'd never voluntarily give up that sweet, sweet military contract worth many billions of dollars. They'll bend over and take it just like every other spineless company has, does, and will do.

The screed that's about to land on his social media account will be one for the ages, to be sure.

However, you know damn well they're just going to find some other way to implement the asinine tariffs so he can keep toddle stomping every time his feefees get hurt. Then it'll take another year for the courts to invalidate that loophole, rinse and repeat ad nauseum until he's finally gone. Basically, we're stuck with this BS because the courts move at a glacial pace, with apologies to the glaciers.

Look at who's giving the directive to do the testing, that's all you need to know to figure out if it's for dick waving (no matter how small), or fundamental engineering testing.

I never use DoorDash, or any other food delivery service. By the time you add on the tip and all of the fees, you're adding at least 50% to the total cost of the food. I can't justify that much added cost. Not to mention that it often arrives cold, because the drivers will pick up multiple orders and then drop them all off. So much easier, faster, better, and cheaper for me to drive the couple of miles to get it myself or eat in restaurant

The one exception I'll make to that is for pizza places with their own delivery drivers. I'll order delivery from them once in a while

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