"Hey, what's the big deal? We used to append 'P.S. I love you. Get your free email at Hotmail' to every outgoing email way back in the day, and no one ever had a problem with that..."

It would be a nice idea, but with the deluge of AI content being released across...well...everything...how do you keep up and who decides what is, and what isn't, AI-generated?

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It still amazes me that, as late as the 1990's, and well after 56kbit modems were prolific, ISDN was being offered up by the ILECs as "broadband," at metered rates that made Ma Bell's long distance charges look like spare change.

Happily, it wasn't too long before ISDN was put out of everyone's misery when DSL showed up. And now, finally, after fifty years of pissing about, fiber is finally being pulled to the premises.

If you really need ongoing ISDN support, you can pull the source code from an old Git commit and update it. But I feel quite comfortable in opining: ISDN support will not be missed.

>>...and their societies haven't fallen prey to dictators

Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, France (in times past), Germany, Italy might disagree with you on that.

are words that do not go together. I await the news that Google has the keys to this and use it for...whatever nefarious purposes...very soon now.

The original APK guy finally got banned (and his IP range blacklisted) many years ago, which is kind of sad because he had the right idea(s) just went about advertising it the wrong way

...My installation of minidlna still works fine, is Free Software, and doesn't phone home or exfiltrate my metadata.

To steal a line from someone else (I think on this very site)-

"The magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask it about Exchange next."

Yes, first they put in a feature few want, then offer a kill-switch. Seems like a lot of extra steps instead of making it an optional add-on.

In any event, it can be turned off....for now.

AI...whether we want it or not. Thanks Mozilla, you could be spending your money on fixing your browser rather than....this.

Given that the Roberts Court is one of the most corporate-friendly in history, this decision comes as something of a surprise.

Nonetheless, it appears to be largely concordant with the so-called "Betamax case" from the early 1980's which established the principle of significant non-infringing uses as a defense and, despite passage of the DMCA, still largely informs the contours of contributory infringement.

Hey! I have an M1 Garand, you insensitive clod! (Also a Mosin Nagant and Italian Carcano, both of which use clips, but that's neither here nor there...)

It is a mathematical certainty there is life on other planets. If it can happen here, even at a 1 in 1 billion chance....there are, as far as we know, an infinite number of planets, therefore, it'll happen again, elsewhere. Now whether we will recognize or even meet that life, remains unknown.

But that's not sexy.... (and yeah, I'd switch out of FF as well, if I could find anything that wasn't Chrom* based that didn't suck and was actively maintained....)