Indeed. I had to rebuy the Superman HD DVD back in the day, and after that I ripped my entire collection. I think I have around 60 discs in total and I shudder to think how many of them would refuse to play now.

So we're discussing an article from a year ago... why?

So apparently Worldle's choice of name is an attempt to capitalise on one of NYT's brands, despite its name being chosen before NYT even owned that brand. I wonder whether Josh Wardle would have been OK with it.

I have a 2021 Toyota and have had collision warnings for both stupid reasons (no, I am not about to crash into that parked car on the side of the road) and mysterious reasons. Although there is an option to disable them, it turns itself back on next time you start the car.

I stopped reading at "Systemd Announces". It's not an "AI", and it can't announce anything.

Yep, we had an Amstrad PC-20 when I was growing up. 8086, 512k of RAM, CGA, and a 720k floppy drive. It also came bundled with a version of DRI's GEM :)

I think xack probably meant "DRM" in the context of "depends on someone else's server". The AACS protection on Blu-ray does not rely on an Internet connection, and in theory (i.e. ignoring discs and players breaking down) a disc bought today can still be played in a hundred years.

Even the simple stuff doesn't work properly. While not quite "AI", I had fun with Visual Studio's code analyser the other day.

object.Property = new List<string> { value };

The code analyser cheerily suggested that I replace this with:

object.Property = [value];

This immediately produced red squiggles and refused to compile.

It's basically just another way of saying "all 10 million customers".

On that topic, this is the first Pi that can't run RISC OS. Hang onto your Pi 4 if you use it!

OpenSignal is British, so the term is "network operator", often shortened to just "operator".

This post is correct. Apple's documentation now lists betas as one of the features of the free tier.

Indeed. "Barely noticeable"? I clicked a link to it (not knowing that the design had changed) and came to the same conclusion. I went up to the URL bar to remove the ".m" only to find it wasn't there.

Considering that Apple usually ignores bug reports, the mere existence of an acknowledgement is something to see!

I bought a Fitbit years ago. Once you open the box, the setup instructions say "download and install this app onto your phone". Nowhere on the packaging does it say you need a phone.

As it happens, I do own a phone, and I'm not sure how else I expected it to work, but it's really common these days for companies to just blindly assume you have a phone. Bonus points to my country's Covid reporting system which asks for a phone number, with a message to "call [number] if you don't have a phone".