We just came back from Pax East and it was amazing. That place was filled to the brim with people. As for the mask mandates, considering that before covid, everybody was getting "Pax Pox" I'll continue to wear a mask anyway.

Things continue to get rougher. They're "mudding" it in in the spring, the summers are brutal hot and then there's barely a fall before the winter hammer falls.

It's well known that the KH telescopes and the hubble have a lot of similar parts... The optics are the special sauce at this point, it's the image processing, etc.

To simply go to the school playground and just toss them randomly... that's where they're going to end up anyway.

Airpods are the worst and people shouldn't buy them.

This was exactly my thought... now they'll just start chumming the water with Albatross guts... If only we had some type of imaging system that could, I don't know, sit in space and watch a region really really accurately and take pictures...

YouTube is a privately company that doesn't have to explain shit. It can do any arbitrary thing it wants, it's their platform. I understand it sucks, but you've hitched your wagon to a horse you don't control and are now bitching the horse has pitched you over a cliff.

Yeah, it would be nice if they explained their actions, but they're under zero obligation to do that.

I'm glad I picked one of these up cheap for $40 six months ago... my kids have had a great time... I'm getting the sense this thing is now going to be a brick.

I hope Anki enhances their SDK or does something so we can continue to enjoy the Cosmo robot.

We've carefully considered your needs as a customer and after consulting with our lawyers, our response is "FUCK OFF WANKERS."

I get it's a security issue, but

1. Let the users know you're going to be disabling the interface.
2. Have it be disabled by default and force the user to go through a bunch of loopholes to turn it back on.

The fact they pulled the rug out from under the users feet is hella shitty.

Just imagine you've got a vacation house in another state and you're using this solution to control thermostats and lights, etc.

So Google embraced some new piece of technology, extended it and then used that to extinguish the competition.

Where have I heard of a company doing that?!?

I love it when Microsoft gets to eat the same shit sandwich they've feed to so many others.

With a spinning disk, you'll usually get an indication of a problem with a plethora of S.M.A.R.T errors.

It's been my experience that when an SSD dies... you just suddenly appear to have an empty drive cage. It's a really ugly binary failure.

I've taken to building my boxes with mirrored SSD's combined with taking and validating my backups.

What happens when someone writes an app that simply encrypts the contents of the message using a pre shared key?

Exactly...

Knowing Amazon, they got fired for leaving work early...

Then let's take the ~$21 billion worth of subsidies away from the coal, oil and gas industry as well and see how they fair against renewables.

I know this sounds fucking horrible, but in someways I'm glad this dystopian future is coming to fruition somewhere so we can all collectively go "Fuck no!"
Yes, I know credit scores are some weird form of the social score. I'm as of yet not been denied the purchase of a plane ticket and/or bus pass because my credit score is too low...

I can only hope this is a good demonstration of tech gone awry that the world recoils from. Otherwise, I will seriously have to hollow out a hill and become a hermit... Or become a camera smashing vigiante... either way I'm sure it'll seriously impact my social score.

Add this to your kernel boot line:

pti=off spectre_v2=off l1tf=off nospec_store_bypass_disable no_stf_barrier