When I was a kid they taught penmanship too. I was awful at it but then when I was an adult I had a job where I actually had to use those skills and I was glad to have them - same with everything I learned in Home Ec, most the stuff I learned in wood/metal/auto shop, etc. I think all of those classes are extinct now, based on how people talk about school never teaching them anything useful.

the world record

Nobody needed to be a world class athlete in order to sustain themselves through hunting, that’s what the spears were for. Human sexual dimorphism is a lot more minor than what most people assume.

Yes, but as a specific exercise, the US government wants to spy on US citizens because if gives them the power to arrest you. You could be committing crimes right now and not realize it, but if you ever become a person of interest they will use them against you.

Of what use is specific data from specific nationals to a foreign government? They don’t have anywhere near the same level of power over your life as your home government does, unless you’re a defense contractor or a government official or something, all of that information is just fluff to them.

And not for nothing, but the original conversation was about Discord, which is partially owned by Tencent but partial ownership by a private Chinese firm does not give the Chinese government any kind of special control over the platform.

Power to do what, exactly? It’s not like China is going to get non-citizens extradited from their home country to punish them for saying bad things about the CPC. Believing in vague generalities doesn’t help anyone, you’ve got to be specific.

Why exactly do you believe the Chinese government wants the messages of non-Chinese citizens? Because Discord is blocked in China proper.

The whole IP paradigm needs to change. I can accept the logic that IP needs to exist in the first place so that people who invent something can get paid (at least in our current system) - but the term should be shortened to something like five years, or if it’s going to be longer there needs to be a list of events that immediately invalidate it, including the product no longer being legally available. IP shouldn’t be able to be traded between companies like a commodity, and it shouldn’t be able to be locked up to prevent it from going into the public domain.

The days of modular components in cars is nearing an end.

It’s a shame, because with EVs especially modular everything should be a whole lot easier than ever before. I guess it took a decade and a half for governments to force smartphones to be able to be jailbroken or use the same messaging protocol, hopefully we see a similar evolution on EVs where these locked down features get forced onto common standards.

Same. I started learning Linux on a rolling release distro and it was so frustrating having things Just Work one day and then be broken the next.

The best copilot can do is autofill lines that everyone’s written a million times. That’s not nothing, but it aint replacing a human brain any time soon.

amazon cloud CEO reveals that they have terminal CEO brain and have no idea what reality is like for the people they’re in charge of

checks out

Actually all of the TOS films are great.

Ten years before they pulled this. Hopefully the cookers can be used without the app.

electric trains are an over one hundred year old technology.

lol. lmao, even.

sudo rm -rf /french/

I think with most Dems (including Bernie) it’s a case of terminal being old and not understanding what they’re doing. Basically every single internet bill is written by corporate lobbyists and handed off to be rubber stamped.

Also how the everliving hell do you add AI to input devices?

They won’t, but they figure there are probably still some investors floating around who will buy that stupid line.

Some users joked that they would rather see a black screen than an ad.

Yeah. The time lost is a shame but the ad is far worse.

I’m still rocking my second generation Chevy Volt! 50ish miles on a full charge (if you live someplace flat) then 30-40 MPG after that, and it’s a reasonably sized hatchback and not an annoyingly large crossover or SUV. I would upgrade to a Bolt but god that car is ugly.

With Debian I think I was able to load the appropriate keys after installing the OS and then re-enable secureboot in the bios. Might be worth checking into.

Google Summer of Code 2015

Ah, the irony.