Which sometimes comes down to nothing more than paperwork. FISA wire tapping warrents became a rubber stamping operation under Clinton. Bush then couldn’t be bothered to do that much.

They can take out an ICBM. It can’t take out all the ICBMs.

Careless logging is the one.

At the time Facebook was invented, plaintext passwords had been a joke for years.

PHP extension might be telling. Consider that phpBB had an extention system that didn’t have any kind of hooks. All extensions were installed by modifying the code in place. They did not use any of the diff formats already out there; in a gross case of Not Invented Here, they made their own. Took them a while to make their own patch tool to automatically apply their custom diff, and it was buggy as hell.

So that shop might have just been following the lead of one of the most successful PHP apps.

Someone will be along to say “PHP is good now, actually”, but I don’t care. The community was shit back then, and I don’t see why anyone should care beyond legacy software at this point.

Miller replied, “Well, he’s made it very clear that he’s not gonna go and weigh in and try to push various states in how they want to go and set up their particular rules and restrictions. That’s gonna be up to the states.”

Just in case it wasn’t clear, they belive that any level of tyranny is fine as long as it’s state government doing it, not the federal government.

Lol

They want AGI, which would match or exceed human intelligence. Current methods seem to be hitting a wall. It takes exponentially more inputs and more power to see the same level of improvement seen in past years. They’ve already eaten all the content they can, and they’re starting to talk about using entire nuclear reactors just to power it all. Even the more modest promises, like pictures of people with the correct number of fingers, seem out of reach.

Investors are starting to notice that these promises aren’t going to happen. Nvidia’s stock price is probably going to be the bellwether.

To them, I’d point out the NIST warehouse of standardized materials:

https://shop.nist.gov/

$1,143 for 510 grams of Peanut Butter. $734 for 25 grams of Portland Cement. $1,107 for 100 grams of “Infant/Adult Nutritional Formula I (milk-based)”.

Is the US government ripping people off? No. It’s because when you get one, it is guaranteed to be the standard for whatever it says on the package, and it’s been made that way to exacting levels of detail. Unless you’re a laboratory using these materials, you don’t need to bother NIST with your grocery list.

Personally, I love this shit. It takes a whole lot of effort to make something to such standards. Doubly so when it’s not just one thing, but a combination of many smaller things that each has to be individually verified to work as part of a whole.

Yeah, it’s weird. Like yes, all these people put in a lot of effort to make sure that when people could die from equipment failure, we make sure that equipment is very, very good. Adding zeros to the price is the cost of that.

I think there’s a way to reconcile it, but it requires people to behave themselves. It can still be under a CC license, but also behind a pay link for the author. Yes, we could get it from somewhere for free, but that takes more effort and we’re not supporting the original creator.

This is basically mutual aid applied to non-physical goods. We know you still need to make a living in capitalism, and we’ll agree to exchange useful things for money under that system until we have a better one.

There’s also an argument similar to the one for streaming services (the one the services themselves have forgotten in the last few years). Yes, we can pirate it, but that takes effort, the sites involved have all sorts of shady advertisements and try to infect your computer with Windows XP viruses, and we can get all we want and more for ten bucks a month.

It isn’t, but as Thetimefarm above says, the paper trail is what matters. Medical grade liquid helium for MRI machines is a thing. That paper trail is what adds a few zeros to the cost.

As a side note, this is similar to why Fluke multimeters are so expensive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay9wFQAW19Y

tl;dw: companies have reams of documents for their certification procedures of equipment, and calibration of the equipment to certify the equipment, and they’re based around the specifics of Fluke mutimeters. They aren’t more accurate or even much fancier than a nice hobbyist meter. Those companies must buy Fluke or completely redo all their procedures with accompanying documentation and certifying by professional engineers. If you’re not such a company, don’t bother spending all that extra money on Fluke.

It is until the court system tells them it isn’t. Illinois recently did that.

Maybe it helps people not to move so much inside?

The Illinois Supreme Court recently ruled that smell isn’t enough of a connection to illegal activity. Weed is legalized there, as well. California apparently needs someone to take up a case.

After retrieval it was found that the weapon had been magnetized by the scanner and as a result the firing pin was able to spontaneously release.

Just hit it against a table a bunch while shouting “stop being a magnet”.

I’ve had it with these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday through Friday plane.

I think the best way forward would be a single board computer that can do an open source equivalent to chromecasting. Plug that in and leave your TV unconnected to the network.

You can’t do chromecast directly, because Google holds encryption keys for it. Unfortunately, this means casting apps need to be modified to support it.

There’s a few projects like this:

• https://github.com/MayaPosch/NymphCast
• https://fcast.org/

I don’t really care if he fucks couches or not, but IKEA shouldn’t be used as a brothal.

I’d call him a petite bourgeoisie if we’re talking about the actual definition of the word lol.

That’s exactly what I mean.

There’s several videos where he’s effectively saying capitalism is great, and all companies need to do is be a good employer and treat their customers well. And I’ll even say that by all accounts, he is a pretty good employer and his company does good work. There’s also reasons he’s an exception, not the rule, and expecting the rest of capitalism to fall in line is untenable.