I believe it's the opposite. I used to use Wikipedia much more as it had article on some very niche topics. Now I have to hunt for the information elsewhere. In my view, an encyclopedia should have "anything of interest to at least some people", not "anything of interest to wikipedia editors"...

While I would not dispute that the a touch screen laptop or a foldable phone is not real innovation, the author seems to some how indicate that these examples somehow were??? Apple has a history of "you are holding it wrong", "nobody needs a screen larger than 3.5", "mice should not have more than one button" stuck notions, but also some real innovation (Apple Silicon is the greatest recent one), but the article does not touch on these...

That might be it. I had not been to the US for about a decade when I went last year for a wedding, and I was aghast at how many drivers (mainly on what you'd call "trucks") had full beams on... It seemed surreal to me, use to western European drivers... Not sure if it's like that everywhere, this was Baltimore.

I am sure that Gen Z is well aware that in zombie apocalypse you have to find an AM radio to broadcast in order to find other survivors.

But wouldn't for-profit resellers who upgrade the ram be the least affected by this change? They are both capable of downgrading the bootloader and the ones who would care the least about having an old bootloader. Plus, the required bootloader is 2 years old now, bit it will be VERY old down the line...

Reading both sides, as well as OpenAI's announcement, it looks like, perhaps unexpectedly, OpenAI is morally right here IMHO. They heard rumours so they put their new model at work on all problems, then focused on two, one is different than those two researchers and the other is a different solution. I think the NYU researcher started too suspicious/paranoid which started the hostility, and the other side, which seemed to have been very accommodating at first lost patience. The Anthropic researcher did not even want to talk to them, I don't see how them saying that it would have been easier if he was not working at Anthropic, like he was proving it himself. In any case this is all silly academic bickering to me. Almost as silly as OpenAI's take that this is the start of AGI somehow...

PS. I have no horse in the race, I use various AI tools to help my work, Claude usually performs better than ChatGPT at the things I do, but I don't root for any company.

Have you tried turning it off and on again?

I think we have more recently determined their skin was actually covered with colourful feathers.

I don't understand what the problem is with having winter vs summer schedules. Many industries (shops etc) already do it. It NEVER makes sense to change the time itself, rather than having winter/summer schedules. Rush hour follows schedules not nominal time...

It really does not make sense to have a cap only for out-of-network, when in-network arguably are less cost for the institutions. But of course banks are spending a lot of money on both parties so...

I'm Not Sure.

The Slashdot Tenor API integration seems sadly broken, otherwise I would post an animated gif here to demonstrate how sad I am. Maybe a tiny violin playing a sad song...

Ugh why the ObjC hate. As someone who has had to use about a dozen languages for work and always thought C++ is a demented way to expand C to to OO (although I am fine with a subset if C++), I found ObjC a delight to use. Yes, the syntax may seem a bit silly/verbose and compiler people tend to dislike it, but many developers love it and I don't remember anyone in my ObjC teams being "stressed" about it. I am old school of course, so I am very comfortable with C and find it being a clean C superset an advantage, not a complication.

The software continues to "work", it's not an OS thing at all. There is internal logic built in that checks and if the certificate is out of date switches your software functions to a read-only mode. It's nothing to do with MacOS not allowing to run, the same executable will continue running, just behaving differently due to what it was programmed to do. It was an early decision for it to work that way, when they shipped the "final" update they knew when it was programmed to stop working, they could have instead left allowed it to continue working in full mode, but they thought they could get away with disabling it.

You seem to be talking about something different? I never said we should nationalize anything private...