You can check (as pages on this say):

grep -qE '^algif_aead ' /proc/modules && echo "Affected module is loaded" || echo "Affected module is NOT loaded"

And none of my machines has that module loaded, happily.

Over here you can be sued if someone trips on your cable and injures themself.

Because countries are going to force everyone to use it.

You can get from London to France in 6 hours. Truck drivers there don't *need* to drive long distances.

You can only unplug it and drive if you have enough charge to go where you want to go. And that's the thing, the fact that you do it doesn't mean that I can.

The most likely outcome will be personal AI summary podcasts generated from other AI podcasts.

Your early computers had substantial ROMs though. For 8 bit machines, the ROM typically had BASIC and some utility functions to load stuff from tape. For 16 bit machines, the ROM was anything from the BIOS to most of the graphical operating system (Amiga).

Always available, instant access as fast as having the code in RAM. And that's why phones need more RAM - they keep core parts of the OS, and some key apps, in RAM. Pixel's started keeping the camera app in RAM many years ago, so if you double tap the power button it opens instantly and you can get that fleeting snapshot. They could have used ROM, but then you wouldn't be able to update the app.

I'm on an 8 Pro, but my next phone will probably not be a Pixel. Google has fallen behind with camera tech. The sensors and optics haven't been upgraded enough, and the software is at its limits.

Honor seem to be the leaders at the moment, although Xiaomi are very competitive too. Bigger sensors, better optics, and software that is well tuned.

AI. They want the agent in memory all the time so that it can respond faster. The same as the camera app is in memory all the time, so it opens instantly.

But not as quickly as they used to be. They are coming towards a peak rather than accelerating.

eBay started offering to ship stuff for sellers recently. You buy the shipping from them, and drop the package off at some local collection point.

If it gets damaged during shipping, it's eBay's problem. They refund the buyer, and you keep the money from the sale too. I guess they claim from the courier (Evri in the UK), but obviously are reliant on the buyer to send photos showing a damaged package. I imagine very few take photos before ripping it open.

I'm pretty sure some people just sell broken stuff and blame the courier when the buyer complains. Now it's eBay's loss. Doesn't seem like a sustainable business model.

An interesting aside to that though. Even your description was better than shortly before that when computer was a job title and the whole company depended on rooms full of people clacking away on mechanical adding machines. All of that got replaced at a tiny fraction of the cost.

Yet businesses that ran profitably for decades like that have now cut customer service to the bone, never reduced prices, and employee pay hasn't kept up with inflation for decades but still they cry poor.

It might be a tolerance issue. If you use mortar to join everything then one block being slightly larger than another doesn't matter, you just slightly vary the thickness of the material between blocks so it all evens out. If the blocks themselves lock together then they have to be quite precisely dimensioned, or you end up with gaps.

In any case, there are better ways to build homes. Make all the parts in a factory and assemble them on-site. They can be a mix of standard parts and bespoke ones, since a custom size is just a quick adjustment of some CNC parameters.

When truck drivers can't drive 8 hours then I won't. Also while we are at it, I am a sound sleeper and I get 8 hours a night. What about people who don't sleep properly or don't get enough sleep or take meds that make them drowsy. Let's ban them from driving too. If driving for more than 4 hours makes you too drowsy to drive then they are the much bigger danger and should be regulated first.

You are the one who isn't trying. Demand the technology works for everyone and then everyone will have one. Let it be a toy for wealthy people and it's buyers will be limited.