Sex phone operator for robots. One of his biggest customers is a mister B Rodriguez.

Thanks glad I'm not the only one who noticed the obsession with work and the idea of that he has absolutely no self-worth let alone societal worth if he can't hold a full-time job...

It was worth a go, but it was always a long shot. You could interpret the current rules as requiring some of this stuff, but it's a hard case to make. Either way, it was probably necessary to demonstrate that the current rules are inadequate.

To pick an important nit, that may be how the EU works, but in the US and many other places, you also elect the people who enforce the rules. Thus ensuring that the civil service is never independent of the voter's control. So, elected legislators make the rules and elected executives carry them out.

But to your point, yeah, it sounds like this petition was doomed to fail because they brought it to the wrong body. If you want new laws, go to the people who write them, not the people who don't.

Well, there was a famous case, over DC I think, where fighter pilots thought a stationary balloon was performing all sorts of crazy maneuvers as they flew in circles around it. I always have that in mind.

But too many of the reports precede the drone technology needed for what you describe, which may still not be there (they'd have to be too small to have the battery life to get in place). A similar effect could be achieved with clouds of chaff, perhaps created by exploding cannisters on parachutes dropped by a cargo plane - or radios, or your drones. But the Navy would have noticed if a Chinese plane was flying overhead before the sighting. Clouds of charged particles surging along magnetic fields seems likely to me. Throwing chunks of metal through magnetic fields creates a charge, and what's a plane but a chunk of metal flying through a magnetic field?

I knew a German speaking Swiss guy who had moved to the US and opened a restaurant. One day, while distracted by a pretty girl in the parking lot, I hit it with my delivery truck.

Learn to read, troll.

Yeah, no email is a serious drawback that doesn't support the design goal. Email isn't doomscrolling. Not unless you're signed up for every gloomy newsletter out there.

For ethics in games journalism.

Moto phones bought direct have no unremovable crapware.

The European Commission is the EU's civil service. Petitioning it was always a long shot, because for them to act you have to convince them that there is a good case within existing EU rules. They aren't there to make new rules, they are there to enforce the existing ones.

They have effectively said that existing consumer protection rules don't extend far enough to force publishers to make offline patches and server code available, but in their opinion do offer some of the things being asked for already and so the petitioners should contact their state consumer rights body.

To get a change in the rules, it needs to go through the European Parliament and the elected MEPs. That's how democracy works. Elected officials make the rules, civil servants enforce them.

On Windows you can also use a package manager like Winget or Chocolatey. To disable auto updates, go to Firefox's preferences and search for "update", it's right there as a toggle.

There is also Librewolf that is a Firefox fork, or really more of a version with the default settings changed for maximum privacy, as I don't think there is much change to the code itself.

FF on Android doesn't crash for me. It used to, but it's come a long way. The main issue at the moment is the crappy UI for tab handling.

Obviously they didn't make this phone, it's rebadged. There are lots of flip phones you can buy direct from China if you want that form factor. Software wise, Android lets you uninstall or disable even built in apps, or install your own OS.

Like their FPGA based C64, you are paying for convenience and having a common platform with support. It's like how there are cheaper SBCs than the Raspberry Pi, but it's very well supported and understood by the community.

Dude hipsters don't exist anymore. The kind of young hip dude or dudette that would qualify as a hipster is so thoroughly beaten down these days they've just faded into nothing. They're busy putting 60 hours a week in at Uber for just enough gas money to do it another week.

The core market for this is neurodivergent people who are being actively harmed by.. I don't want to call it social media because it's not. We need a new word to describe the kind of nastiness that Twitter and Facebook do where they actively keep you in a state of panic and fear and misery for the purposes of engagement so they can serve up advertisements and slurp up your data.

It's like how we tend to call right-wing extremists "conservative". When somebody's going to do something really awful they make sure that they pick a word to describe it or a phrase to describe it that is the exact opposite of what they're actually doing. Otherwise they couldn't get away with it because well, it's like you wouldn't buy a bouquet of dog shit would you?