Nope. They've kept making them for years. They're no longer waterproof though. I've owned ... way too many of them:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

I still have a Pioneer head unit in my 2007 WRX. Why the fuck would anyone buy a modern car? You gotta rip out the dash and add a wiring harness to disable the damn permanent modem. Older cars are really where it's at. Get something old and restore it. It'll be better and last longer, and you can install a modern head unit and get a backup camera too.

I still use Sony cellphones too. Great cameras, and you can still use their nice camera apps after you de-Google the phone:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech...

There's not a lot of DRAM or NVRAM in a Chromebook, or even that new super cheap $500 Macbook. Be prepared for having near zero power on home compute and be required to send everything to Microsoft/Google/Amazon for the most basic shit. Need to edit video? Congratulations, we have video editing as a service! Enjoy scrubbing through 4k video with our shitty web interface, laggy UI and layers of Electron cancer. Upload straight to Youtube, and literally nowhere else. It's not like you have the storage to preserve your own copy anyway. Oh it got censored and deleted? Well too you shouldn't have been wrong-thinking or wrong-speaking. This will help you forget.

You people have gone insane.

Stop trying to control every atom of existence and every move people make.

You're sick in the head, not visionaries, not thought leaders.

Go plant a garden and get back in touch with the real world.

No, NOT FARMVILLE!

I think it was better than the book. Same with the author's last book; the screenwriters really tone down his campy dialog and cut out the slow parts perfectly.

I saw it in eyeMax opening weekend. I rarely go to the theaters these days and this one was certainly wroth it. I've been listening to the sound track all week too. Really well done. Good coding music.

> genuine question - why was this code pushed now

Zuckerberg has aggressively been bribing politicians to enact this at the State level.

Several news stories about it though you have to search for terms like 'lobbying' and 'Meta' as fig leaves.

Stallman has never taken issues with people charging for open source software, or making money off it in other ways, so long as the code maintained the four software freedoms.

>arguing it unfairly advantages startups

Way to say your dealers suck.

I don't like people legislating to big daddy government to put companies in check. Facebook was funded by Peter Thiel and launched the day after DARPA shut down Digital LifeLog (pure coincidence. no connection. promise. move on.) They are meant to be tracking and manipulation platforms for the State.

If you don't like it, stop using it! I haven't shopped at Amazon since 2016. The trouble is the mass of people cannot turn away. I don't blame them I guess. I only deleted all my big social media accounts (FB, Insta, Xitter) ~4 years ago.

I agree with the lawyer who argued this will hurt smaller websites. The UK has effectively destroyed any and all small independent forums. They're trying to go after websites not even hosted or affiliated with the UK! It's insane.

Stuff like this could destroy the future of the fediverse.

Six years ago I wrote a proposal for Section 230 reform that I think is relevant:

https://battlepenguin.com/poli...

I foresee a new black market for ID cards or cloned debit cards that are used against an account with no money for the sole purpose of fake age verification.

Meanwhile scammers will now have a new path to hack into for their scams to drain your bank accounts.

You have an actual argument? How can you possibly watch a video of WTC7 today and NOT thing it was a planned demolition?

Simplify. The best part is no part. The parts omitted never fail. They don't require maintenance, supply chains, continuous improvement.

I see that AI can find bugs that are tedious to find and only exists in corner cases that normal humans usually don't test. For every successful positive test case there can be a large number of negative cases with subvariants. That's where AI might be helpful - create all those test runs.
But to write code that's maintainable, with high performance and stable - that's a different thing.

Test code that doesn't work - just generate a new batch, it won't damage the product you deliver but it might have some flaws.

Hackers often utilizes corner cases when they breach into systems.

You're a fool if you think the Republicans want this more than the Democrats. They both want that control. There is no left. There is no right. Every single senator and congressman up there is an actor. There were rare exceptions like Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul, Mike Gravel. The only one left is Thomas Massy.

But make no mistake, you are participating in the left-right illusions. It's fake. You are angry at the wrong people. The technocrats are everyone in power, and they want to surveil everything. Both the democrats and republicans vote for more war, less speech and a worse American.

The most radical political stance to take in America today is to reject both parties.

I think you fail to realize this has NOTHING at all to do with age-gating. Nothing at all. This has everything to do with permanently tying your identity via every app and web request to your person. It's for surveillance. It starts with the smallest simplest things like this. This IS the slippery slope, the very first step.