From game controllers to spray-in truck bed liner to hide the voids in the carbon fibre hull, it would be funny if it weren't so tragic.

It's fun to use the infrared camera in online meetings. It flashes a couple times a second.

Doesn't matter, Threads doesn't work on Firefox. It just sits on the loading screen forever.

I'm not following your logic there. AFAICT from TFS, the patent in Canada has *lapsed* and no longer exists so anyone can manufacture this stuff (presumably subject to suitable medical grade quality controls) and sell it in Canada at whatever price they choose, including the government or their appointed sub-contractor if they wanted to. That means *every* version of semaglutide in Canada is going to be at generic prices real soon now anyway, because the market will be saturated with them.

If the government bought out the patent sure, they could then license it for a fee, but what would be the point if the aim is to make the drug available cheaply to Canadians and, I guess, USians that cross the border to fill their prescriptions rather than pay US prices that are still under patent cover? That would just add license costs on top of manufacturing and distribution costs and drive the overall prices up, unless you mean by adding a price cap as part of the license terms? The logical thing to do would be to let the market set the prices and if that's at a realistic level, then great, but if not - because Martin Shkreli isn't the only greedy fsck without a conscience in pharma - then Plan B would be to contract someone to manufacture them at a given price for the use of the Canadian health service.

We mustn't stop with AI. We need to be very concerned that some humans might memorize 42% of a copyrighted work well enough to reproduce 50-token excerpts at least half the time, and we may need to take measures to prevent this from happening, or at least make sure those humans aren't allowed to interact with other people online. We don't need another Fahrenheit 451 situation on our hands.

TFS doesn't quite add up to what the headline implies. AFAICT, the actual sequence of events is that Ms. Horan bought and paid for some toilet rolls on May 8th, after which *human error* at the store resulted in her being added to the Facewatch programme. Because she had been added to the Facewatch DB, the programme then did exactly as it was supposed to and flagged her entry into the stores on May 24th & June 4th, prompting the store staff to react pretty much as you'd expect under the circumstances and ask her to leave, albeit perhaps without sufficient discretion.

There's really only one screw up here, and that was by the staff at the May 8th store who added her to the Facewatch DB, everyone and everything else seems to have done as they/it should have done under the circumstances. Still, on the "lessons learnt" front, users of systems like this *really* need to allow for the possibility of human error in the submission or a mistaken ID by the system (not that this seems to have happened here) when challenging someone like this, and have a clear cut audit trail and process of appeal. If Home Bargains had been able to say, right off the bat, that it was down to a presumed theft of toilet rolls on May 8th and undertake an on-the spot review on May 24th, this could easily have been avoided.

Just as if there's a joke in here, how is this better than QCOW2?

I worked in a college computer lab in the late 1980s to the early 1990s.

WordPerfect was, indeed, the most powerful word processing software ever made, even to this day. The problem was the absurdly steep learning curve. Even to just type a document and print it required users to ask us consultants to help them.

Shift-F7? Who in any kind of world could have guessed that's how to print?! It's so stupid. That's why WordPerfect died. Creating the pre-Windows graphical version, the Macintosh version, and the Windows version couldn't recover from its laughably complicated user interface.

Without Microsoft 365-like online collaboration, LibreOffice is a non-starter.

What's the replacement for Teams? I RTFA but they don't mention what software they are using to replace Microsoft Teams.

Why not Amazon Corretto?

It's free and will always be.

Oracle are actually quite good as stewards for OpenJDK: the platform has been improving steadily. The problem is Oracle Java.

Because it's good PR, for once, as opposed to the expected "Oh, sorry, but you're out of warranty and therefore SoL"? It's basically admitting that yes, they (or one of their component suppliers) screwed up, but that they are going to make good and give you either a credit voucher to buy something else from them or an upgraded model of the product. That some of the these are 10 years old and likely long since lost or discarded means that this is going to cost a lot less than the total ~$30m value of the banks being recalled, which could be a hell of a lot less if they were to get sued, especially in the US, gives them an out on any future issues ("they were recalled, why were you still using it?"), and is probably covered by insurance anyway.

What about remote desktop?

Last I checked, that was on the Wayland wishlist.

Exactly, this is coming across as more of a sweeter to placate people's concerns (by essentially buying enough off that the remainder are very much a vocal minority) in order to get things done. No one likes things like HT pylons in the rural landscape, and rightly so, but the UK's nimbys have an awful lot of power to ties things up in legal knots and prevent progress that really must happen one way or another.

The devil's in the details, but my gut feeling is that much of the distribution infrastructure for this need not be HT, other than for the short haul near the generation facility to include a grid interconnect. If the generated power is only going locally, and never needs to really touch the national HT grid, then you may be able to get away with mostly 33kV and below "last mile" style pylons and cabling, which is much less visually intrusive and can indeed be more readily buried. This is also presumably the model for the containerised reactors; small, mostly self-contained, networks of both power generation and consumption.