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As opposed to windows, macOS will effectively refuse to run any software that is not signed and notarized by Apple themselves.

You can put Windows in strict mode but it makes the computer virtually unusable. The other thing been is it there are techniques that attackers can use to bypass these checks thus making the signatures irrelevant anyway.

The EU like any large government is filled with people of varying quality. Some of them are absolutely amazing at their jobs and some of them can barely operate at light switches.

Normally whenever some dumb tech related regulation comes in you usually find it’s being pushed by the idiots. You can usually tell by reading the text of the legislation and by the end of it you will have come up with about 300 problems.

A good example of this is reading the Tracking Cookies legislation (bad) and the GDPR legislation (good), the difference in the size of the text of the bill is visually apparent.

I don’t know how you’ve managed it but you’ve managed to invent toxic-domestication, The idea that someone’s life can’t be worth living unless they are working. I don’t know maybe you’re young but when you get to your 40s you begin to realise that actually what you really want out of life is just to be left alone, you really aren’t craving notoriety. If you can just sit in the hobby room and build airfix models or whatever then go to the pub, for the next 40 years you’d be happy.

I really don’t know why you’re arguing about this because there have been actual experiments where people have been given UBI and pretty much everyone ends up just going and doing their own stuff. I’ve never heard of anyone complaining about being given free money.

I was a kid in high school just around the time that laptops were becoming available to the general public, somehow my parents actually managed to convince the school to buy me one. The one I had you could use to beat people to death, I certainly use mine as a weapon. We need to go back to that, I’m not interested in having an ultra thin laptop, I want a huge chunk of metal and plastic that I can use for self-defense.

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With printers the thing that tends to go is the software. You wouldn’t think that was possible but it happens, somehow they just stop working for no reason at all.

But of course you could always just buy a brother printer and be done with it.

If all you’re doing is texting, browsing the web, and making phone calls obviously specs don’t matter, but to suggest that they don’t matter at all is weird. After all specs includes the battery.

Obviously anything that needs higher end hardware is going to be adversely limited by the lack of that higher end hardware. It’s a bit like asking how the lack of wheels affects a car. Obviously it affects it a lot.

Okay let’s do an experiment.

Get some annoying trust fund kid, take all their money away from them, and tell them that they now have to get a job but it’s a good thing because now their life has meaning. Let’s see how happy they are about it.

The two aren’t equivalent. One of them is an actual proven technology that definitively exists, the other one is still to prove itself.

What’s wrong with AI summaries?

It never stops there though, they never just write their summary and leave it alone they always have to have the AI do more and more until it eventually takes over the entire platform.

The internet has way too many AI bots, let’s add some more

- Digg logic

The hero no one wanted, or needed

But other than that. Cool

It would take a lot to make Mars more habitable than Earth. This isn’t about colonisation this is simply that it’s cool to build rockets.

James bond movies have always predicted the future to a certain extent. In car GPS, Self-Driving vehicles, really sharp hats, the media’s abuse of power for political gain, obnoxious tech Bros building mansions in stupid places.

You can’t bring a lawsuit for something you think might happen.

I thought they did invent a steam engine at some point. I’m sure I read that somewhere.

The thing is they were never going to invent the steam engine because they didn’t have the technology to produce steel to the quality and strength that would be needed to build rails. And for that matter they didn’t really have the metallurgy necessary to construct reliable boilers either.

I still like the fact that the guy that invented super glue was very annoyed by how sticky it was.

I mean it’s kind of bizarre that he couldn’t think of a practical application. We literally use invisible waves to communicate already, these ones move at light speed, how could that not be useful?

Unions haven’t got anything to do with it. Unions are about protecting you from unfair business practises, it’s not a social club, nor do they try to be.

I used to work for a bunch of lawyers. I would happily take a fire axe to every single one of them.

They really didn’t like remote working and tried to put a stop to it and “sense of community” was their excuse as well, but it was really about control.

It would be interesting if they did this study again in an environment like that, where people aren’t really friendly with their co-workers. I imagine they would get a vastly different result.

This study may not be BS in particular, for that one case, but it is BS in general