It's bad enough that we've gone from "Papers please" to having our "papers" automatically transmit their location at all times and now all of our purchases and earnings are auto-tracked and profiled (and we're not even getting into the cameras or "smart TVs".
Never mind the fact that more and more companies are guiding customers away from webpage use to apps on a smartphone. Especially when most PCs these days have just as good of security as phones.

"You will each receive an ~~identity disk~~ SMARTPHONE. Everything you do or learn will be imprinted on this ~~disk~~ SMARTPHONE. If you lose your ~~disk~~ SMARTPHONE or fail to obey commands, you will be subject to immediate de-resolution. That will be all."

"It just has a bad name, that’s all. Everyone would love it if it had a cute name like, uh, elf grass."

That works for science. But for biographies? What makes a biography "verifiable"? The longer someone has been dead the harder it is to verify any claims. Ultimately you're relying on historians or whomever wrote the history books and more often than not they've been wildly biased in favor of the viewpoint of the historian. It's not supposed to be that way, but it is.
I can point to several "sources" for George Washington chopping down a cherry tree and not lying about it. Doesn't make it "true".
Jesus? Mohammed?
Likewise, it's going to be difficult to find legit sources for some historical claims. (and that doesn't even get into Wikipedia's arbitrary judgements on what makes a source reliable)
At the end of the day Wikipedia is just following human tradition - "When the legend becomes fact, print the legend."

So are we talking about just Servers or any PC that has UEFI... EG, every native Windows 11 install?!
I've got network boot turned off on my PCs (I think, I need to check now) so this is probably not a critical concern for Grandma and Grandpa's Windows PCs... maybe... There's not enough info to go on, here. But I can only presume all Wintel devices are potentially compromised? How about Macbooks? Phones of any flavor? You kind of HAVE to leave network boot on for them. Do any of them use some flavor of the UEFI compromised code?!

You'd think one of the stockers or managers of the store would've noticed the freezer aisle is suddenly very hot and do something like... oh I dunno... unplug them?

He had his own RSS reader app back in the day (and used to post here a lot)

Hopefully I can keep using old.reddit.com because I HATE the new interface. I want the content... not the flowery layout and noise that neo-Reddit thinks makes them money.

> No batteries to need charging at an awkward time.

Yeah?! What about the pencil sharpener!?!

With books, like music, becoming more and more of a digital thing and no physical presence, the whole culture of reading is dying off. Teens aren't seeing other teens read (no books in hands), there's few bookstores around to hang out in to discover the books and with most information online there's no need to go to a physical library.

Schools can only do so much to force reading with assignments. Without building the habit of reading books for pleasure outside of school there's no way to turn this around.

So instead of having a one person chat window on one pc talking to an agent in the cloud... you did the natural thing and put the chat window into the cloud with the agent so anybody could chat with it.

This is not revolutionary. I question if it's even that evolutionary as it's something that probably should've been that way from the start.

The REAL problem here is you're going to make the code more and more complex as more ideas get introduced. I'm the majority coder on 2 systems that I'm responsible for and I'm already starting to lose track of fine details as I've been ordered to add features at faster rates and interfacing with different APIs and subsystems that I don't have time to fully learn and rely on the AI to generate the code for and now have to go back to the AI and ask it to summarize certain code paths that I "wrote" and, at the time, that I stepped through and verified worked (along with unit tests). But because I didn't, personally, write the line, let alone structure it (even though I guided the design) it's not seared into my memory compared to if I had.

The further this goes on, the more this is not a program I'm intimately involved with... but a database of functionality that I need an AI to query... let alone update features for.

I don't think this is a good thing.

It's like all of corporate America and industry is in "Bet the farm mode". Hey, let's radically shift the entire company's structure and hierarchy in a year based on an interview I saw another CEO give on YouTube last week.

I can sort of explain this away for non-tech companies like media companies but tech companies themselves should have a basic understanding of engineering principles (or one would think). Select a team or form a team with the dev principles you want and run them for a few months and see what happens. Then use what they learned to extrapolate across the whole company. But this kind of logic is something you'd find with cargo cultists...

Sooo, you think Graham Platner is not a NAZI? Or maybe you think he is a "good" fascist?