And yet gasoline-powered cars do it all the time. I guarantee you they are not doing it in 2 seconds. Many of those are SUVs even. Gasoline SUVs are not beating 7 seconds by much and 7 seconds is really fast.

I'd far rather listen to tales from Randy Bachman about the background behind artists and tunes than intrusive AI slop. Or Rick Beato. When will people stop to ask themselves, "but should we?"

For that matter why do EVs need to accelerate from 0 to 60 in 2 seconds either, shedding tires in the process? Seems to me using there are efficiencies from limiting acceleration (surely 8 to 10 seconds is more than enough). Been watching the electric trucker drive some long range trucks that are optimized for efficiency, including reducing acceleration (making it equivalent to a diesel truck) and smaller motors with an optimized gear train. But I guess EVs need to have a selling point to attract customers.

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

TechCrunch found that the app's backend services didn't properly restrict access, allowing any logged-in user to request and receive data belong to other users.

I *loooove* how common this flaw is. I remember decades back getting hired by a guy to keep working on some event marketing website he'd had another programmer build. Took me like 10 minutes at that job to figure out you could do the exact same thing.

Most I've seen have a "reject all" button thankfully. Very few require me to tick several boxes.

I've tried to switch to Antenna Pod but it just doesn't work the way I want. With Pocket Casts I can go into my not-yet listened-to feed and remove anything I want from it, either automatically after so many episodes or after listening, or manually (just to clean it up and make it not so cluttered). Not mark them simply as listened to, but remove them from the list. I can also show a list of only podcasts that are downloaded. It's ultra configurable that way compared to AntennaPod. I find the AntennaPod way, which is more like an RSS feeder, to be very distracting. But sadly I'll be forced to abandon Pocket Casts sooner or later. I paid for it years ago back when it just worked and did what I want. But like all other good things greed ruined it. A few years ago they dropped the ability to access private podcast feeds, so I had to switch to AntennaPod for that one private podcast. Are there any better podcast listeners out there that have the features of pocket casts? I don't care so much about Podcasting 2.0 just yet, but probably should in the future.

I guess I'm a weird one. I opt out of unnecessary cookies every time I see that popup. Not that I actually believe the honesty of the site, but I guess I'm just trying to send them a message. Of course I also run ublock origin and privacy badger to block those tracking cookies.

I'm sure this will make the internet a better place with less bots creating slop everywhere.

There's absolutely nothing to suggest anything illegal was going on.

Of course not. Other than doing it at all in the first place. Sure people should know their rights and firmly but politely insist on them. But DHS shouldn't have even asked in the first place without some sort of warrant or congressional oversight.

Sorry but no. The electric catapult is nothing more than a linear electric motor. Think maglev trains. Or even EV motors. Besides that, we've been using induction motors for a hundred years. They operate in inducing eddy currents in a rotor using a changing magnetic field created by electric coils. Never mind being close to and underneath of electric transmission lines!

Funny. Of course you do realize that recently-commissioned US aircraft carriers now use electromagnetic launchers too now right? They can be more finely tuned compared to steam catapults.

Certain kinds of manufacturing, yes. Absolutely. And important ones too, such as heavy equipment and autos.

But it's the small, everyday, household, things that the west is completely dependent on imports for with near zero domestic capacity. And there's honestly little appetite (only talk and wringing of hands) to bring those kinds of manufacturing back either. When and if the tariffs fully kick in, maybe we'll see a change in attitude. But few Americans are interested in working on farms, let alone factory floors making small widgets.

Wouldn't mind a real time x planet display of the earth with cloud map and Terminator. But that doesn't need to be a video and I can already to that with a cron job every hour or so which I do. Though love iss position might be cool. That said I haven't seen my background in months.

Yeah mean like windows 1.0 did it? ;)