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  • I don't get the interaction. If it's always listening, why do you need to tap it? And how did it know she was having falafel. She didn't tap anything, or did that come before?

    Also, $99? Unless there's a fat subscription attached to the other side, if it's sending anything to the cloud, at that price they're speedrunning their way into bankruptcy.

    At least the Rabbit charged $200 to buy themselves some runway before starting to lose serious money.

  • The thing that is most amazing about the immunity ruling is that it a) hands the executive a giant mallet with which to smash whatever it wants (as long as it's called 'official' aka 'national security') but for the few times that it may get challenged, reserves the right to decide whether it was official or not to the same gang that handed over the mallet.

    That gives them the right to declare anything they don't like by a president they don't favor as 'non-official' and whatever a president they like does as 'cool.' And good luck challenging something when you can't even take a look at the 'evidence.'

    It's an elaborate construct designed to divert water in exactly one direction and not another, at least for the lifetime of this Chief Justice.

  • The whole point of a triathlon is to run, bike, and swim. It won't be easy moving it elsewhere and closing the roadways, setting up security, and shuttling participants and staff on short notice.

    Hopefully they have a Plan B.

  • Vodka Martini with Dolin dry Vermouth and garlic-stuffed olives.

    Edit: also, first time trying a new roasted barley tea. 99 Ranch was out of the regular stuff. Decent price and zero caffeine. Great for daily, afternoon sipping without getting the jitters.

  • It's not just cars. Anything with electronics (appliances, smarthome devices, healthcare, transportation) that is designed to last more than three years will hit a wall.

    The host devices are designed to last 10-15 years, but the electronics will be out-of-date in 3-5 years.

    The processor manufacturer will have moved on to new tech and will stop making spare parts. The firmware will only get updated if something really bad happens. Most likely, it'll get abandoned. And some time soon, the software toolchain and libraries will not be available anymore. Let's not think of the devs who will have moved on. Anyone want to make a career fixing up 10-yo software stack? Where's the profit in that for the manufacturer?

    So as an end-user, you're stuck with devices that can not be updated and there's still at least 10-20 years of life left on them. Best of luck.

    Solution: go analog. Pay extra if you have to. They'll last longer and the ROI and privacy can't be beat.

  • I have many friends who won't get off Twitter becauee they follow journalists and subject-domain experts and are addicted to realtime, breaking news.

    If large news-gathering organizations mandate their news staff to have presence elsewhere, or provide tools to let them simultaneously post and engage in other places, that will go a long way toward breaking the bottleneck.

  • The repository included the private portion of the platform key in encrypted form. The encrypted file, however, was protected by a four-character password, a decision that made it trivial for Binarly, and anyone else with even a passing curiosity, to crack the passcode and retrieve the corresponding plain text.

    It's like installing a top-of-the-line alarm system for your house with camera, motion detector, alarm, and immobilizing gas, then leaving the unlock password on a PostIt under the welcome mat.

  • I intentionally kept historical imports out, since Reddit is blocking APIs under the guise of limiting AI scraping.

    My main point was setting up an easier way for low-tech mods to set up a parallel community, then nudge users to move over.