Be very, VERY careful here. I've heard credible reports that MANY of these "excess" cars from China are made with inferior quality control and materials - including the batteries themselves, which is the WORST place for cost-cutting - because the manufacturers know that the cars are probably going to end up rotting in vast fields with truly gob-smacking numbers of other cars.

I'm not against Chinese cars per se; but some of the EVs that were produced to scam the Chinese government out of subsidies are such bad lemons that they may cause injury or loss of life even while just sitting in your driveway. Never mind what might happen while you're driving one down the road...

The US automotive market has long been protected by our government. It has warped not just the big three, but it makes importing light pickups impractical (chicken tax). The margins on an affordable compact car that can still pass safety tests are very thin now. The money is, as GM discovered half a century ago, in financing cars people cannot realistically afford.

And that is, at best, a move from the fire into the frying pan. You'll get cooked more slowly, but you'll still be "done" by the end of the process.

Trading Microsoft for Google is merely a lateral move. Your privacy is still being raped, your control can be taken away in a heartbeat, if your data connection goes down you're mostly dead in the water, and the "deal" can be altered at any time.

The problems with fighting an addiction by substituting what is currently a kinder-but-gentler drug are well known. The "replacement" can easily become as harmful as the original drug, and sometimes you end up addicted to both. Painful though it is, the best course is to go cold-turkey. In this case that means moving to Linux, adopting LibreOffice or something similar as an office suite, and finding FOSS alternatives to the rest of the software you use.

In the beginning it may be necessary to run Windows in a VM for some applications, but the ultimate goal needs to be a complete rejections of Microsoft, Apple, and Google. These companies are not your friends; remember, they are PUSHERS and will always try to seek more and more control over your computing power, your data, your privacy, and your bank account.

Stop feeding that ugly beast that wants to own your entire existence!

I never see anyone announcing a 10-20% executives cut. Seems like it would be simpler to let go a handful of people that receive the highest compensation and do the least work, especially after a merger where upper management is extremely redundant.

If Napster was illegal--so is AI's training.

So, with AI, now even human experimentation is all-good?

Why not a PNG or PDF in an email that I can access offline?

It's almost like Ryanair intentionally harasses their customers.

Joke's on them, I'll just put my outgoing mail in boxes. :-)

The Sonder site is still up and appears to be functional. I never got to see if there were still listings as having to unblock the 20+ scripts and who knows how much other cruft wasn't worth my time.

One would think taking down the site or at least putting up a message would be one of the first things to do when you're going out of business. But then, when your web site has that much cruftiness, maybe they couldn't figure out how to change anything.

Just to nit-pick... (a) Ryanair doesn't have any flights in the U.S. (according to Google) and (b) there are procedures available to fly within the U.S. w/o a Real ID, and other forms of ID are also acceptable (also listed on page below), like a valid passport or DOD ID.

Acceptable Identification at the TSA Checkpoint

I'd be more surprised if it was some other kind of flare from the Sun.

Immediately kicking people out of their in-progress reservations doesn't seem like winding down. No mentions of compensation for any inconvenience Sonder imposed on their now-former guests either.

That's about it. Device based identification. Your device is you. All your data are belong to us now.

What on earth are you talking about?

This dude always posts strange screeds in fixed width font with unusual punctuation. For you own sanity, I recommend not trying to understand him.

If ffmpeg allows known and published vulnerabilities to languish, the risk here is that organizations that use their code will simply stop using it and will look for other solutions.

Orgs basically have a choice:

1. Suck it up and deal with the whims of people you are not paying a penny to
2. Cough up some cash and contribute
3. Develop their own completely in house/pay for a 3rd party one

2 is almost always way cheaper than 3. Option 4 of "whine incessantly that people you aren't paying aren't working for you fast enough" really needs to stop. I suspect a lot of companies would rather do 3 than 2, because they are not rational.