You can actually get a Linux laptop from Lenovo for $553.70. That is the cheapest I've ever seen (with not totally horrible specs):
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/c...

https://airlied.blogspot.com/2...

"With the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Standards requiring that EV chargers conform to Open Charge Point Protocol (OCPP) 2.0.1 no later than February 28, 2024, it is urgent that charger manufacturers consider a standardized reference implementation that is OCPP 2.0.1 compatible such as EVerest. "

It's a shared implementation so everyone doesn't need to write their own.

Standards do help solve problems, but I've certainly had plenty of compatibility issues between different implementations of the same standard.

Due to the end of support, they are heading to the scrap heap 3 years earlier, in 2025.

https://bryanquigley.com/posts...

tldr. Neither can take over the ecosystem in their current iterations.

I don't think this is necessarily about stopping progress. There are situations (such as school classwork, academic research papers etc) where you need to know whether something is coming from an AI program rather than a human, and this can detect those without getting in the way of real useful use of the technology.

One would assume that it worked when the answer was written for the exact question that was being answered. Whether it still works and for the question you are answering is a different matter.

People who expect AI to completely replace human decision making are going to be disappointed. People who dismiss or ignore AI are probably going to lose jobs to it. AI is a tool, and in the hands of someone who can properly evaluate the usefulness of its suggestions will be a big productivity boost.

The outcome will be a loss of anonymity and any ability to erase posted tweets whether by moderators or the original author. The set of people who see both those things as a positive is probably quite small.

Is having preinstalled keys at all. (I'm explicitly not basing MSFT for being the keysigner... that makes sense given the current design)

The assumption is captured in "It is further assumed that key material used for signing code by the OS vendor can reasonably be kept secure (via use of HSM, and similar, where secret key information never leaves the signing hardware) and does not require frequent roll-over."

I'd actually prefer the default be:
1. No Keys included in hardware by default
2. User or OEM manually does something to put device in Setup mode which allows them to install an OS. (It can just be going into BIOS and clicking a setup new OS boot option..).
3. That OS installs the keys it plans to use forever. (these could be from OS vendor or locally generated)
4. Setup mode is automatically disabled at next reboot/shutdown.

The idea that you can set one key in hardware and it shouldn't need to be updated just doesn't make sense to me.

There are a few more privacy options these days (but alas neither open source..) including:
  * https://you.com/
  * https://search.brave.com/

Systemd made Linux system administration much easier and nicer. Is it perfect? No. Is it 1000 times better than sysv scripts. Yes.

Avahi is awesome too!

PulseAudio I was never thrilled about, has some cool bits, but I'm not sad to see it slowly replaced by PipeWire.

That isn't really what the case is about though - if it were that simple the chain would just pay them.

Tabelog changed their algorithm some time back in response to complaints from independent restaurant owners that their algorithm was favoring chain restaurants. The chain owner says that 55% of their restaurants' ratings dropped, none went up, as a result of this change, and argue that it disadvantages them compared to independent restaurants. As a remedy they want to see how the algorithm works so they can invest effort that independent restaurants cannot afford into gaming the ratings system, like they used to.

Reading these comments make me wonder what third world country you all are living in. Around here, if you are in an urban, or even some rural areas, you get fibre installed for free to your property boundary, and just pay for the wiring inside. Internet is a public utility and you shouldn't be dealing with DSL and cable in this decade.

The courts in NZ have ordered him to be extradited. I think he is on his last appeal now, having dragged it out for around a decade.

If you don't mind law enforcement going through it, I guess some random criminal's piracy distribution network is a feasible alternative.