The charge is deleting data on a device while under the government's control which I believe could be argued that if the government needed a password to access it, it was not under the governments' control.

Git creates a hash to track information. Removing the comment would result in a different hash.

Thanks, I'll look it up. Didn't realize the milky way was so young, relatively.

Almost as old as the universe? 4.5 Billion versus 13.8 Billion. Am I missing something here?

Hmmm,
        Been running Linux on the desktop for 10-15 years. Don't have a problem with it. Occasionally there are problems, but compared to having all my files uploaded to the cloud, having my machine reboot every time a butterfly flaps its wings someplace, having windows overwrite the boot configuration of the system, etc. I don't feel like I have a real problem.

For the software that doesn't run on linux natively or under wine/proton, I just don't use it. It has been so long since I had to use something that doesn't run under Linux, that I don't miss it.

As far as the games go with kernel level anti-cheat, if you never get into them, you never miss them. I'm not an artist, so I don't use any adobe platform software.

I prefer the software that allows you to fix things yourself or hire someone to do so. Proprietary software has it's place, but not as something I would rely on.

But I guess, I'm either lying, have low standards or very poor memories. Sorry about that.

While I agree that this is really no big deal, without reading the article, I can imagine there might be some concern that having everything built in would remove the exact thing you mentioned. If the lights and sounds were already there, would you have ever explored the process of adding them yourself? Strangely, I was just thinking about Lego the other day and was thinking back to when I was a kid and there were no kits. You got a box of bricks and that was it. If you wanted to build a spaceship, you had to imagine what it looked like and then went about figuring out how to get from a box of rectangular bricks to something that resembled the ship you imagined. I think the kits have probably curtailed creativity in some capacity.

I wish captchas were a thing of the past. I run across them routinely. Had one presented on X yesterday and GOG regularly makes me "solve" one. The GOG ones are terrible. They are of the "click on all photos with a crosswalk/bus/bicycle" variety. And you run into issues like, "do they consider that a bus or not?" or "I can't quite make out whether there's a crosswalk at that corner or not because it's not 100% clear." And don't get me started on the ones with a photo broken down into a grid and you have to click on all of the panels that contain a bus (what's the fascination with buses???). Does that mean that if there's a single pixel that has part of the bus' bumper on it is a panel with the bus in it? The worst.

I guess Ubuntu is moving away from the gnu license. which has served it well for many years. Remember when Bsd unix had a license where companies could copy it and not contribute back to the source. Apple took that and ran with it. I wonder how much was lost to the world when it was relicensed under Apple's license. Ubuntu is going to the MIT license, which is nice, but not as nice as gnu as it doesn't require keeping any improvements open.

Regular TV had a set of commercials every 1/2 hour or 15 minutes. Youtube has commercials every video, sometimes 4 minutes of commercials, and sometimes during videos, and the creators can only support themselves by having sponsors so there is another block of time going to a commercial. In order to watch 1 hour of youtube you must watch 2 hours of youtube.

It says my time is up, will restart in 6 hours. Work for nearly a full work day? I think not!

I don't know why but in the last year, i'm seeing old content, like old tv shows or old videos I've seen before. Between the old garbage and the shorts the home page seldom has my interests.

I've seen this kind of thing growing in popularity. It grates on my ears, but it is more and more common (A local TV ad for an automotive glass company states, "Whether your windshield needs repaired or replaced...").

While I agree with the above commenter that it doesn't create ambiguity, I see it as a lazy, bad usage that almost certainly extends to other, similar misuses that do actually create ambiguity. But I'm kind of a stickler.

Copyright is all about copying and reselling(at any price) material. I don't understand what the big deal is, as meta is not reselling the material. It is digesting it and using it. Which is the same as any person would do when reading a book. As far as I can see there is no copyright infringement as they aren't reselling it.

The Legislative branch doesn't even declare war anymore. They willingly (enthusiastically, even) dumped that authority into the Executive branch.

Meanwhile, Mazda has posted a couple of years of record sales in the US. With ICE cars.