The real solution would be a citation system.

Something like LexisNexus has every court case that happens in the country.

So... why not have an official version of that, tied in with the official court transcripts and when you cite a case, you need to give that citation number from the official database. If you're citing only a few lines, you link to those few lines.

You wouldn't be able to cite a non-existent case, at best the case you cite wouldn't match what you claim it does, and with individual statement citations (HTML literally does it already), you could prove in one click that that series of words actually appears in that cited case.

You want to stop this? Then open-source the law instead of hiding it behind stupendously expensive private commercial services like LexisNexus.

Sorry, but ruining your kid's future by sending them off to an unlicenced school where any nonsense could be taught as fact by entirely unqualified people, without even so much as basic child protection assurances is not a thing in any civilised society.

That's how child abuse happens, that's how religious indoctrination occurs, that's how kids get to adulthood and realise they have zero useful qualifications or skills and their best opportunity for education (and quite literally "learning how to learn") has been squandered through no fault of their own.

Yes, sure, what's wrong with a closeted billionaire running a unannounced secret school for children and not licencing, meeting child protection obligations, or even telling anyone that the school exists, let alone who's teaching it, and keeping the whole thing hush-hush and off the record books? Can't imagine THAT going wrong at all...

Try paying the authors to read the books they spent decades of their life trying to write and get paid a pittance for them.

It is absolutely incredible how people are unable to just... stop... and do nothing... and think to themselves... and just sit and enjoy the scenery nowadays.

I live in a quiet rural town precisely because it allows me to do that. But during lockdown, I heard NOTHING but people saying how they were going insane and "had to" break the law/quarantine in order to go out and do stuff and meet up with people after just a few days. They literally couldn't be in their own company for a few hours without going mad.

When the time comes to choose some Mars settlers, I hope we chose from the people based on their reaction to lockdown. Even supposed scientists went apeshit at each other in those biosphere projects.

You could send me to live on Mars on my own to terraform the place and the only time I'd get pissed about that would be if others came and tried to set up camp near me.

One jurisdiction does not form international law.

Read the Reddit T&Cs, or that of any major website.

You give them a (sometimes limited) copyright permission to use your post by using the service to post anything publicly.

That's not how copyright has ever worked, by the way.

Just wait for it.

Headline: "Meta uses AI to replace hundreds of jobs."

Reality: "Meta stupendously over-hired for the AI fad and is only now realising that it has no real profitable value to it and it's all just hype."

I mean... I know Tumblr went downhill and I abandoned it several years ago, just after it was taken over, but I wasn't really paying attention as to why.

But I never imagined for a second that the plan was to convert the entire thing to Wordpress...

It's a website run mainly by one guy....

"This website was made by Thomas Bloom, a mathematician who likes to think about the problems ErdÅ's posed."

It's not like an official website endorsed by the author or anything. It's just a website of a guy who has some interest in that particular set of problems.

"Is the database up to date (e.g. the open/solved status of each problem)?
No, but that is the eventual goal"

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.erdosproblems.com%2F...

It's like holding some trainspotter responsible for not knowing about the existence of a particular niche train somewhere in the world.

Oh no... they'll just have to... patch their firmware like every other manufacturer has had to.

For those people who bought a Framework laptop, enabled secure boot and rely exclusively on that to protect their computer from booting into an unauthorised operating system.

P.S. their firmware page currently have 11 CVE fixes listed for the lasted firmware.

This is inevitable.
This is how manufacturers should do things.
It's really not even that important.
Making an article about it is scaremongering.
I don't see an article every time Dell has something like this, or Asus, or HP, or ...

I'm more interested in how any app would know how long it took an image of that size to render, regardless of whether that differs for white/black pixels (I can see that with, say, transparency options etc. you might be able to make white pixels take longer).

Surely that's a function that you just lob at the renderer and it does it when it feels like it, it doesn't have to be performed in-line (maybe in order, but not in-line).

The fix for the API would appear to be simple... do checks on the bounds, etc. as normal, return success immediately, then blit/render/etc. in the background as necessary. The app won't then have a clue how long a pixel takes to render.

I only use their wired models.

It's a dumb idea to use a CCTV camera that can be blocked (from viewing and cloud-upload) by someone running a smartphone.

And, for decades, they didn't. And they still don't really. You have to fight like hell to find the models, you have to pay overpriced prices to get to it, you have to basically forget technical support for it (I've had them say "can you just boot Windows so we can check that's working", etc.), they don't provide proper drivers, and ongoing support is dubious.

And so if I'm going to have to drop that much on those models which do support that option, and deal with that? I'm just going to buy a product designed for that from the outset.

You're talking to someone who used to work on a single-floppy Linux router distribution, who used to boot Slackware from an UMSDOS loopback via ZIPSlack, etc. I have no fear of installing Linux on any machine.

What I want is one that's not designed according to Microsoft's arbitrary requirements, and exists outside of their entire ecosystem.

The older I get and the longer I work in IT, the more I believe that software activation is to be avoided at all costs, especially time-limited software activation.

I've got a Framework laptop on pre-order because I'm pretty certain I really don't want Windows. I have only one Windows machine at home, on Windows 10, and I'm really not convinced that it offers me anything at all that I want. Much of my early use of that device was getting AROUND shite that I don't want, and fudging things to make them work. Windows 11 needs that x 100, from my experiences with it.

And now they have the 10 ESU stuff, which is just unnecessary, especially after they promised "no more new versions of Windows".

So I think I'm done. Again. Having previously used Slackware as my primary desktop for 10 years.

I audited the software on my primary machine and I don't think there's a single thing on there's that proprietary, needs "activation" (I "activated" my software when I clicked the download button, giving it executable permissions or via the use of credit card to purchase it in the first place, thanks) or that can't work on Linux.

I'm at that point again where I need to computer do work for me, not run off and do whatever the hell it likes. Between activation, AI, mandatory cloud accounts, "search everything" rather than just organise stuff, etc. I think I'm done again.

I have 20 years until retirement. I reckon that's a viable proposition to reach there without having to have a single Windows machine at home again.

He says, typing from a Samsung DeX session on an Android phone.