No surprise. Count me among "and I expect many testers are wondering what quality issues may exist." No shit, Dick Tracy!

Certainly it's hard to know whose stats to believe. But just automatically/angrily dismissing official agency statistics as MAGA-fake-news is just as dangerous as the *Rump admin's attempts at political meddling and labeling everything they disagree with as fake news. It lets them win at the more important game of destroying all confidence in institutions.and sources of truth.

Instead the better approach is to track down trustworthy sources to refute those statistics, if they indeed have been biased. Publicize the conflict widely. Investigate and rationally weigh what is true or not..

And honestly and respectfully engage with your friends who may disagree. A large fraction of America VOTED for this shit sandwich we're all having to eat.. The only way to fix this is to change people's minds.

Most people tend to think that's an impossible and naive approach. It certainly is hard and slow. But even when they're dead wrong, everyone has the right to their own beliefs and opinions. You can't change someone's mind before you recognize their inherent human dignity and accept their right to be where they are. You need to openly explore with them WHY they believe what they do. Then you can at least try to honestly discuss the issues.

To quote Ted Lasso (not in fact Walt Whitman): "Be curious, not judgmental."

And everyone needs to remember at the polls.

Exactly my point earlier.

It reads just like (and has the effect of) a promo with a troll hook. And the hook is certainly generating plenty of engagement.

Also, is no one questioning how much this reads like a promo for blind? I never heard of it before. This makes me want to go see if my company has presence there. . . . But I think I'll resist.

And from TFA:

So would states be able to opt out of both Permanent Daylight Savings and yearly temporary DST?

Thank you! I came here to point out that allowing states to exempt themselves from Daylight Savings Time is absolutely NOT what this is about. That would, as you say, put them on legitimate solar time year round.

I for one would vastly prefer that. Let businesses and agencies set the hours that work for them and their customers. But make them do that themselves, instead of asking government to change the clocks and force everyone by default.

But in our post-truth, post-reality world, this is how things are done.

And argue about them vehemently!

Pay no attention to Iran. Or gas prices. Or food or rent prices. Or thugs disappearing foreigners off the street. Or Epstein. Or . . .

Thank you, came here for exactly this!

It's immediately striking there are no independent validations of any of these self-interested claims by a commercial developer. It looks like an oversize bacckpack leaf blower. Nothing that seems like it could effectively cover a large area or a home interior. What, it's going to BLOW this through our HVAC ducts??

I'd also demand some solid safety certification of those claims of "harmless to pets and humans" . . .

And finally, yeah - the New York Post?? Sheesh! ChatGPT summarized it well:

Congratulations, you just joined the DOJ's watchlist.

Is .fucktrump taken?

Come on, I know Slashdot is far from real journalism, but this is an important news item. From a source (credited, at least by name in text) I hadn't encountered, but that appears to have valuable credentials. To find TFA I had to first search up The Conversation's site, then search there for the article. The Slashdot post doesn't even include enough of the TFA title to easily search it.

Yet even an outrage piece about a fucking Pokemon Go tournament leads with a link to TFA. Entertainment above journalism.

US government ramps up mass surveillance with help of AI tech, data brokers – and your apps and devices

You're welcome

Edited from "See the One Weird Way Apple Has Been Letting the Cops Spy On Signal Chats"

Patel is trying a weak-tea diversion from his drinking and misuse of gov resources troubles.

The myth of Mythos has done its job. How long do you think before Hegseth is DEMANDING to be give access?

Users of Open Source should aggressively test security using AI tools themselves?

This seems like a twist on "Problem of Commons" economics. If users of free commons resources don't commit to help keep the shared resource clean (defend it by helping secure the software) then everybody loses when the resource gets trashed.

Hopefully this is just a latency period because not enough open source contributors yet exist who've become skilled in AI tools.