Yes, they could, if they are as incompetent as Clownstroke is, and they do not validate input to make sure it is even vaguely close to valid. That is a real problem whose likelihood we cannot evaluate because we are discussing closed source software, but one at least hopes that they learned something from the debacle.

Moving the goalposts. We were talking about getting ride of Clownstroke.

No. The DSM is guided by politics as stated, and that is not a side effect of our not understanding minds. Both things affect the DSM, but you're willfully pretending the situation isn't what it is to suit your argument.

Reality is not neutral. Stop it.

They get plenty of sun. Solar panels are cheap and there are tons of places they haven't put them yet.

That's a gross exaggeration of the price decrease, and you also wouldn't expect wind to get cheaper as much as solar because we've been doing wind power for quite some centuries, but solar power for less than one.

When you buy closed source software, you should be expecting it to be abandoned and yourself to be left up shit creek. That's how the world actually works.

You're spending the money whether they "give" you the cable or not, because that cost is priced into the product.

It seems it can (although whether it's economical to do it at scale is another question).

Arduino boards are a lot more powerful than the microcontrollers used in many commercial products. Hell, a lot of those super-ubiquitous 8-pin micros with no markings are like 2KB program ROM and 128 BYTES of RAM.

If you're complaining about only 32KB or RAM, you're either a shitty developer who's chosen the wrong tool for the job, or a shitty developer who can't optimize their code.
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I find plenty A to C and C to C cables at the supermarkets these days. They also have started showing up with things which take rechargeable batteries and just assume you have someplace to plug in a type C, which these days is fairly reasonable. For most phones it's perfectly safe to use a $4 cable, they are only drawing a few tens of watts anyway.

I'm gonna go ahead and answer you seriously, because why not? The answer is sustainability. Believing everyone should be entitled to the requirements for survival (e.g. food, clothes, shelter, medical care) as well as education (most people disagree only about how much) is different from believing that everyone should get everything they want. For example, you could believe that without working, you shouldn't be able to own much. Instead of handing people a bunch of money, you'd provide them with housing and food, etc.

But it's actually not sensible to do it that way, because if you give people money, they spend it and you tax it, and then they spend it again and you tax it again, and you get it all back eventually but in the process it induces a lot of work. And isn't work what you want done? So yes, of course you hand people money. And then instead of handing them food and necessities, people just go buy those things from this fearsomely efficient crap production machine we call capitalism, and the wheels keep on turning until we deplete our natural resources and/or destroy our biosphere with industry... at least, if the road we're on now continued. But that's not inevitable, it's literally only because we're continuing to allow big oil and friends to decide where we get our energy, how we're going to transport people and goods and so on.

Nonetheless, there were organizations which did drop them after their big no input validation fuckup.

Clownstroke is not required for compliance, there are other tools which do what it does.

The timing of an attack ad is good, but people have short memories, so the timing of THIS ad is crap. They should have released an ad like this within a couple of weeks of when clownstroke failed.

The failures on Linux could be repaired remotely, unlike the infamous failure that took down all of those windows machines. Not surprised you're trying to equate the failures, though.

Apple sells the devices to humans who then own them.

We do not need more houses. We need to seize them from those keeping them empty and put people in them.