Despite very credible allegations, Biden was never convicted of raping raping Tara Reade. And his daughter's recollections of him inappropriately showering with her outlasted any statute of limitations. But I see where you're going, there. The rest is a good fit, right down to the weaponized government, for sure. The plot twist is that the real kingpins are behind the scenes, using him as a puppet. It's good villain story line material fresh from real life.

I use Firefox pretty much exclusively, on both mobile and desktop, and it is fine.

I don't get involved with the drama surrounding the people at Mozilla.

To me Bitcoin long term is still kind of iffy, but if you want something ELSE to help you escape the traditional monetary system, there is gold and silver which are also up quite a but for the year, even the past year, and moving higher.

You can also get crypto backed by gold or silver as well if you want an electronic form. Just make sure you get a form actually backed by real metals in vaults.

From what I understand, it is not easy to toggle those switches accidentally, especially both of them at the same time. They have a metal bar on either side and to move the switch, you can't just push it into the other position... you have to lift it up and then move it; there's a spring-loaded locking mechanism that enforces this.

So it was either deliberate or a massive, massive fuckup by one or both of the pilots.

... is: Who wants to bring a kid into this f*cked-up world?

I have three adult kids. I am almost certain none of my kids will have kids and I can't say I blame them.

... mining for high purity silicon ...

Say what? Silicon comes from quartzite or sand that's found just about everywhere. Sure, you have to purify it, but that's not a super hard problem.

And she's still insisting that the recovery should be on the state's dime.

I'm so glad Texas is getting what they voted for.

It's not just market cap. nVidia's net income (profit) is higher than Intel's entire revenue. nVidia's revenue is rising year on year, while Intel's is shrinking. And Intel had massive losses last year, unsustainably large losses.

Transmission lines are not the whole story. They're an important component, but not the only one. But also, Trump has imposed steel and aluminum tariffs as well, so even transmission lines will be affected.

And the stupid thing is that aluminum requires a ton of electricity to produce. Quebec has ample electricity and can produce a lot of aluminum, but that's tariffed. For the US to produce more aluminum, it needs more electrical capacity... so... yeah...

King George: "Rumour."
America: "Rumor."
King George: "Labour."
America: "Labor."
King George: "Colour."
America: "Color."
King George: "What are you doing?"
America: "Getting rid of U."

Building new electrical infrastructure will be cheap and easy now that Trump slapped tariffs on copper.

Websites run arbitrary code on your system all the time unless you disable Javascript.

It may be hard if not impossible to exploit these vulnerabilities from Javascript, but one should not be complacent about the "arbitrary code" requirement.

I don't want to unsubscribe to this or that.

I want to give natural language filters like "I never want to see a political email again, from anyone"

Or maybe "If they make it sound urgent but it's not urgent at all, don't show it to me and remind me a week before the actual deadline if it's at all important".

As others have said, unsubscribe links often do not work and it's probably all the Gmail feature will use.

LLM crawlers are understandable these days, but who on earth is actively trying to take the FSF down?

A bunch of heathen VIM users trying to stop people from accessing EMACS? What the heck?

Let's say you actually managed to take down the FSF website. Who would even notice or care? How would that help your hacker rep in any way? You'd be a laughingstock for making the attempt.

I was going to post a very similar comment: these people are not coders but they are project managers, and they are "employing" AI as their coding employees.

The thing is - there's "nobody" to take credit for the work, so the manager gets credit for something they didn't do. So it's definitely a skill and is work, but it isn't "coding" at all.

It's an interesting world - the AI is an extremely inexpensive employee and has enough skill to displace increasingly higher-skill tiers of actual software engineering and programming.

If I was running these hackathons, I would disallow AI or I would allow people to hire "code-as-a-service" people. Those seem functionally equivalent activities, just with AI being vastly easier to manage the logistics and you don't have to pay employment taxes or benefits to the AI.

It's no wonder there is so much tension about the many uses of AI - instead of hiring people to do work, it's another instance of paying to use a machine to do work at a price point lower than paying people.