They're not hurting anyone.
Leave them alone.

Why does every business need a copy of my Social Security Number?

I'm really not sure "not actively promoting people who might make slightly more profit for this apocalyptically profitable megacorp that happens to have started out as an online bookstore" is "fucking the authors". It's certainly not actively *helping* you but "doing nothing to help you" is a long way from "fucking you over".

I'm not saying Amazon's innocent here, I'm quite sure there are *many* things they are doing that actively siphon money away from authors and publishers and towards Bezos' pockets. But "they haven't decided, unprompted, to start a regular e-mail blast advertising random books to their customers based on their preferences, and included me as the first example" is way under the threshold of things I'd say qualified as "fucking you".

We all know what the difference between a game console and a general-purpose computer is but I feel like the fact that there's multiple c64 emulators available on iOS suggests that Apple doesn't have an official ruling on where the line between one and the other is. I don't think anyone would boot up Speedscript or GeoWrite in their virtual c64 to get some writing done but maybe a few people like George RR Martin might be all over Wordstar in their virtual MS-DOS machines, and that could be enough to put it over the line.

Realistically I suspect Apple's line is more like "is part of this old system owned by someone with enough lawyers to make us give a fuck that we're making money off of it" but obviously they're never gonna come out and say that publicly.

None of these jobs are going to be endangered at all by "AI". Image generators are massively automating "creating by leeching off of actual artists".

And why is a lawyer the one finalizing the divorce order?
Shouldn't that power solely lie with the judge (or the judge's staff)?

The original Tesla Model S had a two speed gearbox, but Tesla couldn't figure out how to keep them from breaking, so they went with a one speed instead.

98% of Federal Court cases are settled https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22...
TFA also mentions that the same situation exists at the State level as well.

All it takes for your apocalypse to materialize is for X% of defendants to say "I want a trial"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"the closure was for political, not technical or safety reasons."

There's a lack of charger repairmen

There Aren't Enough Electricians To Fix America's Broken EV Chargers
https://jalopnik.com/not-enough-electricians-to-fix-broken-ev-chargers-1850915631

tl;dr: estimates are that the demand for electricians will grow over the next decade while the supply of electricians will shrink

Iâ(TM)d guess that the car checks against a set of signing CAs it has. If the cert chain is valid but the cert has a custom OID thatâ(TM)s got something like a key in it, the scenario where you have a valid cert, with INVALID data attached would be possible.

The usage you desire is perfectly served by getting a suite, or by getting two adjacent hotel rooms and opening the door between them. I have attended so many room parties at furry conventions that were held in two adjacent rooms or in a suite.

You can also do things like go out to a park and chill together.

I have been running a Mastodon instance since late 2017.

There are several design choices that Gargron (Mastodon's main developer) has made that are pretty explicitly because he wants it to be Twitter, But I Made It. Feature requests to change these choices keep appearing and keep getting denied - if you want to up the character limit past 500, or have markdown/other rich text, you will have to fork them and add it yourself, or perhaps switch to the "Glitch" fork, which is maintained by one of the leading contributors to the main project who is not Garg.

Personally I would be delighted if the Fediverse ate not just Twitter's market share, but Facebook's, and Instagram's, and Youtube's, and TikTok's, and every other site that has strip-mined public conversation for profit.

I was wondering why they were pinging people like me, supply chain infra specialists. I passed because i couldn't figure out what they'd want with my skill set. Now it makes more sense but I'm wondering just what the hell they'll sale... unless they're going to gobble up Wish, Banggood, and all the other cheap Chinese online stores and get their stuff here faster than six weeks.