Doesn't this place the business at the mercy of the shareholder's whims?

Lol hell no. Most shares are owned by ETF indexes. The way the ETF managers vote determines the outcome, and that outcome can be arranged with a bit of bribery.

Now you know wh most public companies are run by incompetant tumors in suits who don't give a damn about the shareholder. They've been tokenized away from any sort of relevance.

Each state that gets money in a judgement or settlement, should use that money to make sure their public education system teaches kids how to block ads.

By 2030, I don't think anyone should be able to graduate high school in America, unless they've learned how to be ad-free (on screens under their control; obviously they won't gain superpowers to blank out billboards or the sides of buses).

That was equally true for previous generations, and all those generations had exceptions -- kids that were excited about it, despite the other kids not being interested. (I figure the majority of Slashdot may have been such exceptions.)

Do we have reason to suspect the current generation is a unique special case, the one generation where somehow all of them make an effort to never learn about computers?

I bet some of them are like some of us, a 2026 minority that we would have recognized 40 years ago.

Yeah. I wad laid off in February. Last time I went job hunting (2013) I put out 3 resumes, got 2 interviews, and 1 decent offer that I accepted. The whole process took a week from start to offer acceptance. The other company indicated interest months later and that probably would have turned into an offer if they weren't so painfully slow. I've put in the same quality I did then (tailored resumes, great fit for the position, etc). I'm about 60 in and not a single interview (other than the BS AI phone screens). Thanks to my severance package, I can't collect unemployment right now, so I'm not counted. This is like the worst of the depths of the .com bust

And if that works, then I think the days of pi being irrational will soon be over.

They must have reintroduced it then, because I remember searching for the phrase after hearing they made the change and not finding it

What importance does new memory technology have these days? I remember when an upgrade of memory technology used to make a difference. The upgrade from PC-100 to PC-133 was fantastic and noticable. But, these days? It's difficult to notice a significant difference between DDR4 vs DDR6, let alone the nanoscopic changes that happen when you increase memory frequency within the same technology. I mean, flex your e-peen as you please, but whatever technology upgrade we'd be putting off to expand capacity has exactly a 0% chance of being worthwhile

We had a vote on that. Your proposal lost. Deal with it.

"Jailbreak" definitely implied something illicit in 1974 when AC/DC performed the song, but in 2026?! No. Jailbreaking is totally legit 99 times out of a hundred.

Jails were once respected because they were a product of society's consensus. When DRM appeared, jails became anyone's restrictions, with no societal inputs and no claims to legitimacy.

If you break out of the county jail or federal prison, that's a whole other thing than breaking out of your neighbor's sex dungeon. And almost all the time we talk about "jailbreaking" now, it's analogous to the neighbor's sex dungeon. Nearly everyone would agree it's legit to leave, and any illicitness is on the part of the captor!

[I]t's important to note that jailbreaking a Kindle might violate Amazon's terms of service.

Isn't the context here, that there is no service? I suspect that whatever terms the two parties came to agree upon, Amazon is the one who has initiated the violation of those terms, by ceasing to provide service!

Slashdot is a website for the elderly.

Do you really mean that if your git repo were corrupted, restoring a snapshot of the repo from backups wouldn't work? If that's true, then it sounds like your backup system is broken. The hashes after restoring ought to be identical to what they were before the backup.

If git used the files' iNode numbers for its hashes, then I could understand how a filesystem-based backup/restore might not really work; you'd have to backup at the block level instead. But git doesn't use the iNode numbers.

git isn't magical. It only knows files. It doesn't know if you moved the repo, copied the the repo, or restored the repo from a ten year old backup. I have moved git repos around plenty of times, `cp -a`ed directories with repos, tared and un-tared directories that contain repos, and the copies have always Just Worked without any hash mismatches.

mkdir ~/test. cd ~/test. git init, touch test.txt, git add test.txt and git commit. cp -a ~/test ~/test2. cd ~/test2 and check out the backup repo. The backup is valid. Then simulate a disaster with rm -rf ~/test. Then recover from the disaster with cp -a ~/test2 ~/test and you've just restored a repo from filesystem-level backup. The resulting repo works perfectly and its hashes aren't off. git has no idea you deleted and restored under its nose. Try it yourself.

What am I missing? I'm not surprised to be called idiotic, and the shoe often fits. But I'm surprised to be called that over this.

My router's hardware's parts were made in China. Its software was made as a worldwide effort but the team seems to be officially based in the Netherlands. And I'm not asking my government's permission for updating either one. Trumptards and their micromanaging far-left centralized-economic-planners can go fuck themselves. Keep your damn dirty ape hands off my computers, comrade.

If you're sitting at the table and you don't know who the mark is, it's you. It really is that simple.

Is there room for consciousness to manifest in a brain?