Buddy, in this economy, most people’s only feasible financial-emergency strategy is to jump off a bridge.

And that’s why the world is rapidly going to hell. Everyone is under attack and almost no one is willing to so much as lift a finger in resistance.

You could have said the same for factories in the 18th century.

Everyone who died as a result of their introduction probably would say the same, yes. If corpses could speak, anyway.

I’m talking about when the government wants an excuse for shutting down public discourse. Obviously it isn’t going to prosecute itself.

Fascist shutdown of public discourse, step by step:

1. Find out where public discourse is.
2. Post child porn on an obscure corner of it.
3. Take screenshots of the posted porn.
4. Send law enforcement to seize all the things.

How the heck did these guys manage to outbid Big Oil to put up that billboard?

There’s no way to bypass it, if there is, that would be a serious security flaw

Those do happen, but it is probably also possible to unlock the boot loader and then replace the boot loader itself with one that merely pretends to be locked. How would you know the difference?

the kind that would get patched very quickly.

Obviously criminals aren’t going to install security patches for vulnerabilities that they are exploiting.

This right here is why electronic locks could be way more secure than mechanical ones, if only their manufacturers would hire well-trained programmers and not boot camp graduates to write the firmware.

No idea what that guy’s talking about. I bought a bunch of furniture from Ikea 15 years ago and all of it is still standing. Even the flimsy-looking chairs.

Linux: “We’re dropping support for this device because we’re fairly sure we had the last one in existence and it just died.”

Environmentalists do not have a snowball’s chance in hell of outbreeding the “drill, baby, drill” crowd.

I agree, love the intervonnectivity with iOS, especially AirDrop.

To me, that sort of “feature” is nothing more than a security vulnerability waiting to be exploited.

Maybe I just think that because of past trauma from Microsoft products and IoT devices being blatantly insecure, but…

And their response to LGBT+ issues, and their response to Trump’s crimes, and…

Yeah, no. Republicans have had more than enough opportunities to redeem themselves. There is no remaining doubt to give them the benefit of.

Taxation isn’t theft, but misuse of tax revenue is.

If I were to choose to have kids despite climate change, doesn’t that prove that I don’t care about climate change?

Cryptocurrency is a scam. Not just certain coins, but the whole concept. It’s nothing more than digital tulips.

JavaScript is a bad language, but what’s really bad about it is not the language itself but the ecosystem of libraries and tools. Getting just about anything to work is a huge struggle. Rust is much easier to use.

Having children is a horrible idea.

Sounds to me like it’s the police who are homophobic, taking “lesbian” as an insult.

This is artificial pseudointelligence, not a person. It doesn’t learn about or transform anything.

The only time I ever had memory problems with Firefox was when I tried to run it on a potato. That complaint has always been bullshit.

Edit to add: The aforementioned incident was in 2010, on a machine with only 512MB of RAM. Like I said, potato. Chrome back then was somewhat more memory-efficient than Firefox, and could support three open tabs on that machine before it started thrashing, whereas Firefox would thrash with just one. Both browsers performed abysmally under such a severe RAM shortage, but Chrome was slightly less abysmal. Slightly. I seriously doubt the current version of either browser would be usable on that machine, although I don’t have it (I gave it away soon after this incident) so I can’t check.

Are the history books capitalist propaganda too, then? Because I’m not aware of any instance in history when a stable society emerged with no governing authority and no one taking advantage of anyone else. To my knowledge, at least one of those things always ended up happening, and quickly.

Most humans are selfish and jealous by nature. Not all, but most, and it only takes one jerk to ruin it for everyone. Any system that ignores this fact, and does not have some strategy for dealing with it, is doomed to failure.

The only way I foresee your vision ever becoming reality is if a technological revolution enables a post-scarcity economy, as seen in some science fiction like Star Trek. This could remove the main driver for humanity’s selfishness. Maybe. But we aren’t even close to having the technology needed to accomplish that.