Ah memories. I was a student admin on an HP-2000 access at my local community collect around 1976 on. We also shared time with the local high school district. On the access one of the cool features was multi-write files. So that individual locked records could be used for communication, so what did we do write multi-user games :-). If you'd like to live those "good old days" go to http://simh.trailing-edge.com.... There is an HP2000 package that will use the simulated HP 21xx processeors! Time share works and everything.

So Folkies had a cow when Bob Dylan used electric in the 60's . Lots of complaints in the 80's over synthesizers, digital sequencers, electronic drum kits and even the mellotron (sampled instruments). I'm sure Piano people complained about organs and electric pianos, bet even harpischord enthusiasts complained about pianos.The overuse of Autotune brought derision and complaints. Film people complained about television/video (but a lot of that was $$$). Graphic arts have been on Wacom tablets for years. Heck even word processing got grief over typewriters, A lot of the complaints being its too easy, not "real" who knows. But every change in something incurs scorn by the "old guard". Everything is a tool it's how you use it that matters!

Very Good points. I would also like to add, that it's very difficult often to find good maintainers even for commercial software. Everyone wants to work on the newest shiny code and after some point its viewed as "legacy" and hard go get support. I lobbied my company to create a legacy/maint code team (we'll see if it goes anywhere). But I 100% agree that people should get paid they certainly won't get street cred for this critical but often thankless task. I too would like to work more In Open Source (I'm really good at Documentation / Training as well) but being able to pay my bills is kind of important.

Yeah and even worse service as Supermarkets in the US move more towards self-checkout so they should tip us ! Since they've foisted off their cost on the consumer under the guise of "convenience". But yet another example of "enshitification" used a lot by Cory Doctorow (see pluralistic.net) about how. companies like door dash use it.

I know its not a company but my spouse was a Teacher she got paid out for unused vacation and sick days which amounted to about $19k when she retired (they all rolled up over the years). But it was a school district not a corporation

Next they'll sell a portable wifi device they'll call the G-Spot

So this was a big thing years ago about hidden items in print pictures (ads alot) Two books on this (that seem to be still in print on Amazon at least). The Hidden Persuaders by Vance Packard (originally written in 1957 or so) Subliminal Seduction by Wilson Bryan Key (original written in 1974)

I was wondering about the hack for this originally. There was a court case many years ago (late 70's) where IBM had a small desktop computer (Pre "PC" era) where multiple programming languages were installed in ROM inside the computer but the languages were not available until an IBM tech jumped the access to them. Well people figured this out and did it on their own. The court case said that they were sold with this feature on the hardware so they were entitled to enable it on their own. Now the software enable/drm might make it harder but I wonder if BMW really changed their mind on this since there was likely a law suit about to happen they want to hush up.

Looking more and more like the Apple TV show "Severence".

Sounds like the computer "Deep Thought" from Douglas Adams' "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"

. The Telly TVs feature a voice assistant for control and navigation, as well as built-in Zoom video calling and a webcam. The TVs also have a built-in sensor that can detect the number of people who are watching at any particular time. Pozin emphasized that all of Telly’s features comply with privacy regulations. So we'll see about the last one. Certainly someone can hack it, of course another small piece of black tape is in order :-)

So why not have some fun and start a conspiracy theory that Idaho potatoes have been grown in uranium contaminated soil and cause cancer. Now they have something else to worry about than mRNA vaccines.

So guessing now there will be a bunch of sites spreading these all around as the guy said they could have just emailed and not screwed him over. But legal teams just probably tried to justify their existence, I mean how much of old WWDC has anytthing but historical interest now. I wonder if they even looked at the content.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthepointsguy.com%2Fnews%2F... Also saw that the original German translated wrong, it supposedly read that that they weren't expressly peermitted but neither were they expressley probibited. Some how the second became a became banned.

Oh it will I can see the delivery service whining "There needs to be a law" when residents extract justice by interfering with the drones :-)