Amazon's DRM has changed a couple of times. If you want to get purchased content out of the Amazon eco-system, using an older Kindle is easiest. I suspect that's the only real motivation here.
We really need legislation around the client/server issues. There is no technical reason (other than DRM) to disable these devices. Similarly, game studios that choose to stop running servers for non-profit able games. What does it mean, to "purchase" a client that can be disabled st the whim of the producer?
This. We have SSO, and yet when I open Teams, it is Gettings things ready" for fscking ages. Only to eventually tell me I need to log in. Which I click and - surprise - I am already logged in.
But the worst thing is Tem's trying to do everything. You can message there, store files there, etc, etc. I don't want yet another "Eierlegende Wollmilchsau" - sorry there's no English equivalent really, that's a very negative "Jack of all trades".
"so, just because it's a person of color, or a woman, we have to list their degrees and qualifications when they get a job?
Unfortunately, yes. That is the direct consequence of DEI. If you hire some people due to their gender, or race, or whatever? Guess what, you call the qualifications of *all* such people into question.
Trying to hide their involvement, while pumping $billions into lobbying. No surprise that OpenAI is doing much the same. Bet: So are Google, Microsoft, Apple and other tech giants - they just haven't been caught yet.
The question is why? Why do the tech giants want to force ID checks in order to use basic service, or even to log into your own computer?
There were articles about the amount of microplastics in human blood and tissue. Then they discovered that some of the lab equipment had plastic parts that contaminated the samples.
tl;dr: When you're measuring tiny particles in tiny amounts, contamination is very, very difficult to avoid.
Totally not a gimmick. Totally not incredibly easy to bypass. Totally not a bunch more e-Waste in the making.
But someone expects to earn good money with it, so...
Raise your hand if you have programming in machine language - entering binary directly into memory. Raise your hand if you have programmed in assembly. Raise your hand if you have programming low-level stuff in C.
The first question will have the fewest takers, because there is almost no reason to do that anymore. Assembly will have a few more takers, low-level C a few more. Technology has progressed, our compilers, optimizers and linkers have gotten better.
Historically, there have been numerous attempts to replace source code with some kind of language of specifications. They have all failed...until now. AI may finally achieve that.
Technology advances. Jobs shift. It is absolutely not comfortable for those affected. I knew a guy who started out as a typesetter (putting little metal letters into rows), then he made a huge effort to re-school and learn software for printing. Then printers mostly died out and he became...a gardener.
Regardless of what happens, we will still need some human programmers, just as there are still a few assembly language wizards.
buying information on Americans without obtaining a warrant was an "outrageous end-run around the Fourth Amendment"
Exactly. If law enforcement has reason to investigate you, they can and should get a warrant. If they have no reason to investigate you, WTF are they doing, buying data about you?
It's like the continual attempts at "chat control" in Europe: Law enforcement sees themselves as the caped heroes who do not need to respect individual rights or due process. It would be so much easier if they could just keep everyone under surveillance 24/7.
Thus mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true. -- Bertrand Russell
