Email just needs to die.

That's all there is too it.

It was designed for a different era, and makes many, many terrible assumptions, and throws most of them out of the window in the worst possible way at the worst possible time.

Plus, it's built on "honesty", and everything security, or authentication, or even just claiming who you actually are as an email sender are all bolt-ons that don't work to their full extent.

Even with DNSSEC+SPF+TLS+DKIM+greylisting+limiting.... there's still no way to reliably know who can see your email, and that it's secured end-to-end and that people are who they APPEAR to be, and no way to reliably discard email that you don't want to receive or people have no place sending in the first place.

We need to just bin the whole thing. POP3, IMAP, SMTP, the lot.

Owning several old phones, this does not seem to be an issue with any of them.

Nor is it widely reported in Android circles.

Random restarts sounds like a hardware design problem, not a battery problem. Or just an excuse to deliberately hobble old phones because you haven't ponied up £1,000 for a new one in more than a year.

This is pretty much the only way to stop this... Make the companies financially liable. Full refunds for every copy sold.

This is why Stop Killing Games is so important, it starts with games as it's easy to dismiss that as "they're just video games" but if this kind of behaviour is accepted there, it'll slowly move to consumer and business software until the frog is well and truly boiled.

I have nothing Microsoft at home.

Yeah, sure, I'm an IT geek, but it's probably the first time that's happened since I first used a DOS disk back in the day (as before that all my computers weren't PCs at all but small home computers).

Windows 11 literally forced me off Windows at home, I haven't run Office at home in decades, and I now need to be paid to manage Microsoft systems of any kind.

Microsoft told me that Windows 10 would be the last version of Windows. And you know what? In my case, they were right.

"Bomb" is so 1991, these days we use Improvised Explosive Device (not to be confused with an IUD) or if you're really advanced, Contraterrene Device (CTD).

Blaming AI, especially as it's not Elon's AI is easy.

If American politicians really wanted to do something about shootings and suicides they'd look at introducing meaningful firearm controls, most notably penalties for misuse, stop glorifying guns and violence (fix the culture behind the shootings) and do something to help the mental health of Americans (starting with the bullying that has become endemic to American culture)... But that's all way too sensible where you can just blame the right AI for all the ills because shootings and suicides weren't a problem before AI or Altman skeezed onto the scene?

Right, guys. right?

Hey ho... just more thoughts and prayers then because that's been working fantastically so far.

Yes, but the "AI good, worker bad" narrative must be maintained. If they can blame remote work for something remotely bad they will.

The problem is American exceptionalism. The idea that America must be better than everywhere and anywhere else in the universe (including all of the black holes) is drilled into them from childhood. The problem with this is that things have become so bad in the US they now have to engage in huge, collective fantasies to make other places seem even worse than the US.

As mentioned, no-one in the UK is in jail for hate speech. That isn't a criminal offence, they're in jail for actual offences such as threats or harassment (yes doing it "with a computer" does not magically make it not a crime). Committing a crime with a hateful motivation is a modifier in court, known as a "aggravating factor" and often leads to a harsher sentence (especially if they don't even fake remorse, which is a "mitigating factor").

He could buy a pardon and still have $39 million left in gold bars. The Grifter in Cheat likes gold too.

The thing is, most managers come from sales, HR, et al. rather than engineering or technical careers so they know that their jobs can be easily automated... this makes them think that all jobs can be replaced by AI.

Case in point: Boeing, look what happened when they replaced their engineers with MBAs. Airbus still has an engineer in charge and is going gangbusters.

Being Jewish does not preclude one from having Fascist tenancies... Or philosophies based on racial superiority. Ticks both the boxes on Nazism.

That being said, I don't think Meta or Zuck are fascists or racist, they're crony capitalists who don't care who or what they destroy in the pursuit of wealth and power. Arguably that's not much of an improvement.

This kind of thing comes from American Puritanism on the internet.

Most countries can handle the word "death" or "dead" being used but the US for some reason cant so American companies move to automatically censor these words. Just look at BBC programming, Top Gear presenters regularly swore (oh cock) and this was screened at 8 PM on a Sunday (one of the most popular time slots on UK TV). I expect this to get better as the US loses relevance.

One of the best things of running Linux instead of Windows is that even if I choose to install a binary driver, it doesn't come with a bunch of "companion" apps and background services and a 4GB LLM, a game launcher, an update program, and whatever other nonsense people want to shovel onto me.

Because if it did, distros would revolt and/or ship a version that was just the driver.

You're a graphics card. Act like it. All you need is a driver, nothing more, nothing less.

And that's a huge part of the problem.

Here in the UK we see little Canadian content despite being quite culturally similar and very close allies, I expect Canadians see little Australian content (as we also don't see much here in the UK). UK is a bit different as the UK has the second most powerful culture outside of it's own borders, it's not unusual to find Union Jacks on things in Europe or Asia where as a maple leaf (or southern cross) would be quire rare. Australia is better known for its animals (Kangaroos and Koalas) as a symbol than our flag.

This is largely due to the overwhelming and oppressive amount of US content. Even though the likes of China, France or India would kill to have the cultural dominance of the UK it's still a distant second to the US. It's so bad that a lot of British and Australian actors have effectively started playing "professional Americans", in the words of Idris Elba.

Hardly anyone really knows about this ruling. Any reputational damage to Airbus or Air France was done and over with years and years ago. With Airbus filling their order books almost as fast as they can open them they're not really that concerned and I suspect Air France isn't doing too badly either with 1.7B Euros profit last year. It was all so long ago that the events of AF447 have long since fled our collective memory and are only of interest to those of us with an interest in aviation.

To me this seems more like "someone had to be blamed" in order to completely close the case as most actionable items have long since been done (like modification to the pitot tubes (I believe this happened before 447 as the icing was a known issue and it was an older A330), pilot training updated, et al.) hence the fines are essentially slaps on the wrist, it was really just dotting the lower case j's.