Default threat model: Some malignant demon, who is at once exceedingly potent and deceitful, has employed all his artifice to deceive me
kbal
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I hope the Greens make a comeback. They were the "can't vote for any of these other charlatans" party of my youth.
[false claims that] journalists gave the recent PS5 game Stellar Blade (pictured below) bad reviews because its female characters are too hot
That seems an inadequate way of summing up the Stellar Blade controversy which on the whole was considerably more ridiculous than that.
If they manage to do it by 2029 it will have been roughly one quarter of a century since it became obvious to anyone who cared to look into it that it needed doing.
Yeah, a general "electric vs. gas" comparison which elides the two big disadvantages of electric in familiar applications (which aren't to be found in the motor) seems slightly subpar for xkcd. It's valid from a certain narrow engineering perspective but not too helpful if what you're thinking about is motorcycles.
If fossil fuels were so easy to give up we'd have done it by now.
#!/bin/bash
head -$[$SRANDOM % `wc -l /usr/share/dict/words | cut -f1 -d' '`] /usr/share/dict/words | tail -1
If it's more than none at all that's pretty good. But adhering to open standards is also a factor in how we should judge these providers which goes beyond that.
I don't really understand GPU drivers so might be getting the wrong idea here, but it seems as if maybe what they've been exploring is overly complicated ways to avoid having fully open source drivers in the straightforward way that some of their customers are beginning to demand.
Things could at least become more convenient for nvidia users even if not much closer to the ideals of free software.
technically it doesn't break e2ee
** for some unorthodox definition of e2ee
If the "endpoints" are defined as being somewhere outside the end users' control, because for example the client software they have is designed to betray their secrets, then the system is no longer end-to-end encrypted in the way that both cryptographers and normal people would usually understand the concept.
Are some people likely to object [to being constantly watched by computers that analyze their behaviour and report any detected anomalies to the cops]?
Typically, no, but there is no accounting for some people.
A fitting epitaph for the human race?
You should really be more specific. All of them have more content than netflix hulu vudu and prime video combined.