If a company in the United States collected and sold

But what if Flock buys the data and generates a proprietary score that gives people an idea of your financial means without divulging any of your actual financial details? I'm not saying that Flock does that, but it doesn't seem outside the realm of possibility.

How are higher costs for raw materials in the U.S. due to these tariffs going to make more profits for U.S. chipmakers?

One of the few things in which I agree with Trump is that I'd like more chips to be fabbed in the U.S., especially for national security reasons. However, imposing tariffs is only going to make that process more expensive and therefore even less likely. This is yet another case of this guy saying he wants a particular outcome and then doing everything in his power to make that outcome less likely.

That's completely irrelevant. The law is clearly stated but once again this regime can't be bothered to pretend to give a fuck about obeying it.

Back when I was learning Linux, I was constantly told by experts to read the man page. The problem was that I never knew which command I needed to use to know which man page to view. With AI today, that is far less of a problem.

At this point, the command line is almost preferable - perhaps even for average users. It seems like half the time an LLM provides a set of instructions for a Microsoft GUI or web portal, the interface or URL has changed significantly and the LLM's instructions are virtually useless. Linux commands are generally far more stable.

Apple's P/E ratio has nearly doubled over the last ten to fifteen years. They've benefited from irrational growth during that time and now they have to suffer a potentially irrational loss. The big players get more attention, so the market has a tendency to overreact to good or bad news about them. If you're that incensed by it, put your money where your mouth is and buy the dip.

Apple is so obsessed with vertical integration that it's hard to fathom how this hasn't already happened. It's not like they don't have the money or clout to hire the talent and procure the equipment.

I'm very surprised that this person didn't complain about features of Microsoft Purview integrated with Microsoft Office. Purview is being increasingly used as a way to secure data from exfiltration using encryption and proprietary restrictions. As far as I know, there are no open-source projects that are capable of opening documents with these restrictions. Companies that use Purview for Data Loss Prevention may not realize that they're locking their data into Microsoft's systems indefinitely.

That mistake led to the development of the most successful version control system in history. I wish my mistakes were 10% as productive as that.

Are you asking if Linus was right about something outside of the kernel

Until they release systemd-kernel. You can say I'm being ridiculous but they already have their own bootloader (systemd-boot). At this point, the kernel is just about the only thing left for systemd to consume.

Capitalism is an economic system. Everything you mentioned is independent of economic systems and could happen anywhere regardless of economic system.

Yes, as well as tanophobia.

Thanks to our great leaders, we're being given freedom from choice. We no longer have to suffer from choice paralysis, just use what you're told.

Agreed. Never trust a company that claims it owns colors.