The truly great thing about standards is that there's always another one just around the corner. </sarc>

I tried the Wayland version of Raspberry Pi OS about six months ago and it sucked. Even just moving the mouse around consumed 40% of CPU resources.

Went back to the old version (Bookworm?) and things went back to normal.

HotHardware.com: "These are the best free Intel processors we've received in the mail all week and we can find no fault because we like free stuff"

On the other hand, Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed have found many of the faults and aren't afraid to report them.

With Google being forced (by governments) to pay for using headlines and links to news sites in some countries, it's only a matter of time before it applies AI to the task of reading, summarizing and personalizing all the news for its users.

Since nobody knows more about YOU than Google, it will use AI to create a news page that is highly relevant to your interests and needs. It will do so without copying verbatim from the online news sources it crawls and thus it will not infringe copyright.

Once this happens it can stop paying the fees forced upon them in some countries and it will also stop linking to those stories directly.

The greed of the news publishers will have come back to bite them on the backside.

The article reads more like an advertisement then it does an actual news article. Six 245 watt panels is 1.47 kW, a tiny fraction of what a normal house gets, I use to sell nothing less than 5.4 kW when I sold solar because any less and I would get complaints that the panels weren't doing enough and their electricity bill was still way too high. So this might be enough to keep a few phones charged or power a wifi router and hotspot, and that 24v battery might keep everything running overnight, but you're not going to run a microwave or AC with that, you're still better off with a 8kW $1,000 gas generator when you need to microwave something or run a A/C even if it does use about a gallon of fuel a hour.

I still believe that Musk will put men on Mars by 2020. If anyone can do it, Elon can!!!

I'll stick to my JohnnyCab thanks. I mean, Musk got us to Mars years ago so he must have JohnnyCab technology in these new FSD cabs... right?

I thought he also had fleets of Model 3 FSD cabs on the streets already. I recall him promising that if you bought a Tesla for $30K you could use it as a FSD cab and make a fortune -- that was years ago so the numbers must be huge already.

It's not like this guy would promise the earth and deliver a hand full of dirt -- is it?

Yep, Elon is a man of principle and he won't let money or self-interest get in the way of his crusade to protect free speech

He'd never become a hypocrite, would he?

This works because calorie restriction "dial's down metabolic rates — a short-term effect thought to signal longer-term benefits for lifespan".

If your body's metabolism slows, everything (including the aging process) slows with it.

But surely it's more fun to "live fast, die young"?

Well that was my plan... but here I am in the second year of my eight decade on the planet and still going. Clearly I need to revise what I'm doing.

"Boom. Big bada boom"

"Multipass" (to the afterlife)

Yeah, if Google was republishing the content of news sites without permission they could apply for relief under copyright laws which exist to prevent such exploitation. The reality is that they're not infringing copyright -- the tiny amount of information used is simply "fair use" that allows them to create an index that then serves to drive traffic to those sites.

It's really not much different to how it was in the 1990s... however...

Once Google starts using AI to create its own news stories by scraping the contents of other news sites then effectively rewriting those stories then it's a whole different ball-game. Even then, I believe that Google does honor the robots.txt file so it is within the power of these orgnanizations to prevent Google from using their content even in that situation.

So true. When I started 7am News back in the 1990s, I built a pretty big online business out of aggregating news headlines and links that were then made available to any other site via a Java news-ticker applet. With over 200,000 websites running the news ticker this service directed a lot of traffic to the news sites that were linked. Virtually every news publisher appreciated the extra traffic and it was only Nando News that objected and demanded to be paid for the links to its content.

Eventually they gave up and also recognized that this was a symbiotic relationship with a value-exchange.

Sadly, modern news publishers don't understand the value-exchange concept and want to be paid by Google for using their headlines and linking to their content.

The best thing Google could do is say "if you don't want traffic from our site then that's fine, we won't send it".

What ever happened to the good old days of the Net eh?

Doesn't anyone else remember those gold Kodak CDR disks that were supposed to store your data safely for 100 years?

I think I still have some. I wonder if I can find a CD drive to read them on :-O

Everyone seems to have missed the *real* reason for this initiative on the part of the Australian government...

Recently a Digital ID was introduced to Australia and to suppress public outrage the public were told that the scheme was "voluntary". You didn't have to get a digital ID if you didn't want one.

Now Aussies are being told that in order to "protect the children" some kind of lower age-limit is being imposed for social media access. The Prime Minister has also said that existing age verification techniques are too easy to bypass and place privacy at risk -- so what better way to verify age than to use this new Digital ID?

That's right... the Digital ID will always be "voluntary"... unless you want to use the internet that is because unless you use your Digital ID to log in, how are social media sites going to be able to comply with this new law and block under-16's?

Also, the Australian government is working hard to get all its services online and some will only be accessible via the internet.

When that happens there'll be the situation where people are required by law to file their tax returns online but won't be able to get online without the "voluntary" Digital ID.

It seems that the Australian government has already figured out how to redefine the word "voluntary" to suit its own purposes.

Never trust a politician!