No, I read the details explicitly quoted at the start of the discussion and responded to them.

Are you saying that this episode has not in fact resulted in (a) unplanned software being installed on end devices that will (b) automatically read data that is stored on those devices without the proper approvals? Either of those things alone can easily become a compliance problem if you operate in a regulated environment, whether or not things ultimately go any further on this occasion.

Simultaneous release on streaming? 2 weeks to streaming?

I think this kind of switch has to be voluntary. When people choose to change rather than having it forced upon them, they will manage much better and tolerate issues with less irritation and grumbling.

A big part of it is making things easier to sort and recycle. Packaging should be made entirely of recycled cardboard if possible, so it can all be thrown in the waste paper bin. No need for foam inside.

Similarly plastic bottles should have labels designed to be removed by machines. They have them in Japan, with the label only glued in one vertical strip in one place. I'm not sure exactly how they do it, maybe it's a solvent or maybe it's mechanical, like rubber wheels that tear it off (removal by hand is easy enough). Anyway, once the different plastics are separated the bottles can be recycled, and the bottle part will be clear PET with no dyes to make things easier. In fact I think they re-use some bottles by just relabelling them, but I'm not sure how they check them first.

Thanks for sharing this. Currently in a similar dispute with Reddit, and it's heading to court. Well, there is mandatory mediation first, but I have no idea if Reddit will engage.

They screwed up their defence already, but anything can happen on the day. Hopefully they settle. I have a feeling they would rather just pay me than complete the SAR, because they don't want to reveal how their gaslighting system works.

A lot of these bugs are security related. Even if there isn't an obvious path to exploitation right now, being in the kernel means that they might be useful as part of a chain later on.

Microsoft tried the same things with Windows, and the result was Vista and then Windows 8. For some reason UI designers seem to be some of the most inept in the industry.

Some Chinese vendors do that on an industrial scale. If you look on AliExpress you will find things like graphics cards that use recycled mobile GPUs taken from dead laptops, and small form factor motherboards with recovered mobile CPUs on them.

There is legal precedent for this. Canon makes cameras that make a cryptographic hash of the photos they take, which also includes the time, date, location via GPS, and camera/lens serial numbers. Forensics staff use it so that the defence can't claim they doctored the evidence, but some years ago it was discovered how to alter the images and re-compute the hash to match.

It was obnoxious enough when Microsoft started pushing this kind of unwanted "feature" on home users, then small businesses and professionals on Pro editions. There are real legal and regulatory concerns over this kind of change that businesses have to take seriously. If they've screwed up so badly that even their large corporate customers have been hit by the same thing and there isn't even a good way to undo the damage at the moment, this could lead to meaningful lawsuits from their customers and/or interventions by regulators.

I expect to see a lot of GPUs with recycled RAM and maybe some recycled GPUs. You can already get such things from Chinese vendors who transplant parts from dead graphics cards, or repair them, or add video output to ones intended for compute only.

Here in the UK the government would set up an independent corporation, owned by the government but not directly controlled by it, to oversee Chrome development. It doesn't even have to be government owned, like the BBC. Isn't PBS like that in the US?

We are realizing that for all the issues with such corporations, they are better than the alternative. We tried it with water and energy, with trains and busses, and it's been a total disaster. They are coming back into public ownership now.

AI uses a lot of HBM (High Bandwidth Memory) which is optimized for throughput, not latency. You are right, it's generally not something you would use for main RAM, it's for GPUs.

CXMT is already making DDR5. It's not the fastest, but it works. Hopefully output can ramp up really fast.

We have samples for 3 asteroids, not just one.

Hayabusa (2010)
Hayabusa 2
OSIRIS-REx

The CNSA has Tianwen-2 currently at 469219 KamoÊoalewa, with sample return scheduled for next year.