Per the four boxes model,[1] more people haven't resorted to the ammo box because they still have something left in the jury box[2] as well as a midterm ballot box in November 2026.

[1] Four boxes of liberty
[2] Litigation tracker: Legal challenges to the Trump administration

Yet 40-year-old software keeps running on the Nintendo Entertainment System, without any barrier to resale of either hardware or copies of software. People can still experience games published by companies long out of business, which is less bad for art preservation than software having platform-mandated expiration dates.

If ReactOS were to become mature enough to run iTunes well, that'd let you use it to sync music onto an iPhone through a USB cable. The iTunes application uses the Apple Mobile Device Service driver to sync music to the library used by the iPhone's included Music app (formerly called iPod).

Linux users can use libimobiledevice to put files on an iPhone but not edit the library. Players such as VLC can play loose files but not music rented on an Apple Music subscription. The Music app can play the library and rented music but not loose files. So if you want to combine Bandcamp purchases with rented songs in a playlist, you're out of luck unless you have a recent Mac or Windows PC to update the library.

Blame the Clean Water Act. Last I checked, developers in the United States were required by law to put in stormwater detention ponds for new development, and HOAs originally were made to collectively own those ponds.

A significant price increase for semaglutide would drive more doctors to put their patients on Lilly's tirzepatide products: Mounjaro for type II diabetes or Zepbound for obesity. Eli Lilly and Company is an American company headquartered in my home state of Indiana.

The technology is there. Knock out the growth hormone receptor and people end up with Laron syndrome, which causes short stature plus resistance to cancer and type II diabetes.

The law isn't. Countries send people to prison for 3 years for trying this sort of thing on human beings.

Under current law, you are correct. However, previous discussions on Slashdot raised questions about what benefit there is in letting government continue to enforce the copyright owner's right to withdraw a work from publication. These contrasted Disney's "vault" (sales moratorium) practice with Valve head Gabe Newell's framing of mass infringement as "almost always a service problem" on publishers' behalf.

I miss old YouTube. Back when "Broadcast Yourself" was a slogan. Back when people were making 3 to 7 minute videos to match an attention span raised on the Flash animations that preceded it, as opposed to trying to hit the magic 8:01 mark that allows midroll advertisements. Back when "slop channel" meant a channel full of a pig eating slop.

Likewise.

I've used X11 over SSH to work from home during bad weather at a previous job. So I understand the concept of an X terminal, a thin client that ran little more than an X server, though I've never actually seen one in person. (In the Wayland era, these thin clients would probably be running something like RDP or VNC instead.) Nor had I seen "XStation" as its brand name.

I'm also familiar with Xbox and PlayStation, product lines that have substantial local computing power and a business model of using cryptography to block end users from adding even the lightest of locally run software. A device limited to running a thin client would be about as useful for the sort of work I currently do from home as such a game console. I thought your "XStation" was the first half of one name and the second half of the other.

I had also heard of XGameStation, a product line created by Black Art of 3D Game Programming author Andre LaMothe to help electronics hobbyists build their own game console from scratch. XGameStation was initially based on Parallax microcontrollers and later based on Microchip's AVR and PIC lines. If all a consumer can buy anymore are thin clients, hobbyist and startup game developers would have to target such a home-built console until they build enough relevant experience and financial stability to qualify as authorized developers for Xbox and PlayStation.

Books, plural, I admit. But the books that a child's parent reads to them, plus graded readers like McGuffey or Dick and Jane or Hooked on Phonics or Random House Beginner Books, plus something like Macmillan's Dictionary for Children, plus what a child reads for pleasure by graduation from elementary school, are still orders of magnitude less text than what an LLM consumes during training.

Trying to make that make sense:
Foreign students with a sufficiently rigorous associate's degree (2 years) could transfer to a US university for two more years to earn a bachelor's degree.

A broken clock shows the correct hour 8 percent of the time. Even if a politician is as actively dangerous as President Trump, I feel no shame in agreeing with up to 8 percent of their platform while expressing sheer disgust at the other 92 percent.

Generative companies require consistent power supply for inference (queries against the model). I don't see how they'd require quite as consistent power supply for things like training a model. Training can be deferred until power is cheap.

I've concluded that the reason polyester took off is that natural fibers are flammable and therefore prohibited in children's sleepwear and loungewear in Slashdot's home country (16 CFR 1615-1616). See Consumer Product Safety Commission's page about this ban

Thank you. Your post sent me down a research rabbit hole, such as medieval "towns" being defined by the right to host a flea market for surrounding villages, and historic gazebos called "market crosses" that serve as information booths, and a 10th Anniversary Stadium that doubled as a market square in post-communist Warsaw, Poland, and some open-air market promoters (such as YLNI in Fort Wayne, Indiana) seeking to distance their producers' markets from the sort of flea markets that attract non-professional vendors, and some professional vendors operating on a touring basis at a different market each weekend, and asking people from parts of Europe how much it typically costs to set up a table at a flea market.

Takeaways:
- Like the chips in Japanese stored value cards, European payment cards' chips allow small transactions to be authorized offline and batch-captured hours later.
- Flea markets largely replace garage sales in much of mainland Europe, and the promoter may be providing electronic payment service.
- Now I understand the third act of James Halliwell-Phillipps's short story "The Three Little Pigs", where the wolf meets the pig at an outdoor market, slightly better.