For all they keep doing, the one thing they can't seem to do is make a checkbox to stop being harassed about updates. Apparently there is no way to do to this. It's much too complicated for them to figure out.

Perhaps they should put out a notice asking if anyone has the skills to create the checkbox and make it work.

I'm glad to see that Slashdot isn't above printing the occasional feel-good story. :)

You're not wrong!

Rolling blackouts used to be far more common and the government would issue a Flex Alert to indicate that rolling blackouts would be used. California has CAISO which manage electric related stuff and they have a PDF of grid emergencies since 1998 which include flex alerts. Spoiler, there hasn't been any since 2022 which is shown in this bar graph of flex alerts by year.

So now that we have established that rolling blackout haven't happened since at least 2022, the question is why.
Here is a bit more info but the TL;DR version is that in 2022 CA passed law to create the Strategic Reliability Reserve which has multiple programs aimed at preventing power outages, including that distributed energy grid system that was featured on here a while back.

However, is it really batteries that preventing outages? Well, it's already been shown that battery systems react much faster than normal energy production methods which prevents your power from "blinking" when a source goes offline. Also, here's a graph from 2024 that shows when battery power is being used and how much (noticed it's very negative when charging from solar). The point here being that the energy stores are substantial and can be discharged ad hoc. It's not definitive evidence but I'm sure if you dig into some of the stats on https://www.caiso.com/ that you could find you seek.

correct.

Can't do it. I'm refactoring on a large code base. I eventually had to tell it to work on just one task and ignore other concerns it had to prevent it from investigating until it got stuck in a cycle of investigation.

LOL! Forget super intelligent, right now, I would settle for somewhat intelligent. I've been trying to get an AI bot to adapt some code but it keeps doing so much researching and checking that it keeps compacting and losing information. I narrowed it's task as much as possible and it still keeps deliberating and forgetting! If super intelligent AI is anything like AI then all we need to feed it a mobius strip of a conversation to paralyze it. *sigh*

What is he talking about? They have no ability to understand OR control these systems.

Here's a better idea, how about the go government does it job and start prosecuting corporations that hack into other companies? Think a slow down is a good idea? I guarantee that a $100B dollar fine will cool your heels really fast.

I mean they didnt do it to an actual living creature, but yeah its still pretty fucked up if you think about it, we emulated a brain and then dropped it in literally a virtual recreation of 'hell'...

Do not create the Torment Nexus.

The headline makes it sound like they are complaining about Apple encryption when in fact they support encryption.

I was a little confused at first because when I searched for xepub, I found an Electron application that stalled out 6 years ago that happens to have the identical name and purpose. Considering the repo was suddenly spawned with a fully functional application, it seems there is a fair chance these are AI ports of existing Electron applications to Python that use their new library. I haven't looked close enough to determine if it's true but it seems worth investigating.

Also, if true, I can't figure out why they would bother to make a port and NOT make it a native application.

Reminds me of the scene in War Games where Joshua is playing the various games over and over and over:

Jennifer: What is it doing?

David Lightman: It's learning.

Get back to talking about how we're whooping Iran's ass at no cost to oursel-- SHUT UP, I SAID NO COST!!!!1

You won't see this on the Fox tabloid, but the acting Navy Secretary admitted at a Congressional hearing that Iran "blew the hell" out of a naval base in Bahrain such that the USS Abraham Lincoln (sound familiar?) couldn't dock for resupply.

So yeah. Whooping Iran's ass at no cost.

Kids are expected to sit in class for six hours a day then go home and potentially do homework for an hour or two.

The difference is, there are breaks in those six hours. You're in class for 55 minutes, then you get up and walk to your next class, rinse and repeat. Depending on your schedule, breaks could even be longer. You get up and move about. You're not stuck in the same chair for six hours.

Don't forget Paxton gave a lenient sentence to Adam Hoffman who raped a friend's kid for over three years.

Next they need to start replacing executives in publicly traded corporations. They would be equally evil but at least we could turn them off.