Comment Hey! That name is already taken. (Score 2) 13
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.gnome.org%2FApps%2FDi...
It's a general-purpose diagramming program, not a web browser.
Comment Re:Just update the system (Score 1) 65
They literally released the update yesterday you smug pinhead.
If you aren't running updates every hour, you probably don't have it. Hell, if you don't have a distribution with the latest version yet, you don't have it.
Comment Re:Zoe Kleinman ?! WTAF ?!?! (Score 1) 65
> Second, it is absolutely insulting to judge someone solely by their degree after 25 years of professional experience in the field of tech reporting for the general populace
Oh, it's not just the degree he's judging the journalist on, it's also that she's a woman. Because everyone knows in "We use DEI as a pejorative despite not knowing what it means" lala conservative land women don't know things like us smart men do.
What a fucking tool the GP is. Not as bad, I suppose, as the guy who posted an anti-Semitic slur in the AirBNB article, but still pretty bad.
Comment Re:It's the fees (Score 1) 118
Is the selling point of AirBNB that it's cheaper than a hotel, or that it's more friendly to, say, families (which Hotels are usually hostile to - literally the only hotels I've ever been to that were almost close to family friendly were at Legoland.)
I've never seen an AirBNB ad boast AirBNBs are cheaper. It's always focused on convenience and availability of more than "1 king/2 queens + bathroom" type cookie cutter hotel rooms.
And, honestly, landlords have needed to be reined in for a long time in terms of adding absurd conditions, often not visible until after you've agreed to rent the place. Absentee landlords are common, and a place that's reliant upon guests to do the cleaning is going to be a shithole on a regular basis when one guest follows another with lower standards. It literally cannot work if you rely upon guests to do the cleaning.
Comment Re:Lazy owners. (Score 1) 118
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Welp. Slashdot is... Slashdot I guess. Sometimes I hate this site.
Comment Re:VRBO (Score 2) 118
> You can only choose to not stay at a place with "overly strict rules" if those rules are listed in advance.
Yeah, and TBH if AirBNB wants to ban these rules completely, that's entirely reasonable too. The landlords can choose not to use AirBNB just as easily as renters can choose listings that don't have these rules if there's been a race to the bottom and everyone has them (or has them hidden, as you mention.)
Comment Re:AirBNB decides to commit retnal market suicide (Score 2) 118
Comment Re: For more details.... (Score 1) 58
Only if it happened a decade or two ago.
Comment For more details.... (Score 2, Informative) 58
Read the prior story that was posted to the front page just prior to this one.
Good jorb, editors. In a crazy world like we're living in now, it's reassuring to know that some things like slashdot editors not reading the site will never change.
Comment Re:Synergy (Score 2) 132
if you look at his track record with DOGE, then you can see his diktats can easily go awry. He walked away from the Fed. Gov. after he screwed it up, he won't be able to walk away from GonzoWhopper Elmo, Inc.
Screwing up the federal government, which was conducting multiple investigations into his companies and himself personally, was exactly his goal. He destroyed the agencies that were trying to regulate him, and investigate him. Being able to steal everyone's data was just a nice side effect to him. Being able to kill funding that was helping to keep hundreds of thousands of African children alive was his way of giving a giant FU to them.
Comment Re: Why not legally? (Score 1) 220
Because the software / firmware could be different from the production environment? If you're an auditor, and you believe an entity may be up to something nefarious, would you TRUST the same entity to supply you a device that wasn't altered to cover their tracks?
Comment Re:I had this thought (Score 1) 78
No. A court has decided that the stuff emitted by an AI isn't copyright.
Comment Re:You cannot destroy data, harmless or not ... (Score 3, Insightful) 299
He didn't destroy the data though, the officer did when he blindly put in the code that was given to him. If they are serious about wanting to get into the phone, they should have cloned it first, and then worked off of the copy, and none of this would have been an issue.
This is sloppy work by customs.
Comment Re:Where my 2nd amendment boys at (Score 2) 299
If I need a gun to protect my liberty (as the gun folks claim they do) then what would you expect them to do with their guns?
Shooting the oppressors is the only purpose I can think of. Do they have another function that I'm not aware of?