Rent seeking behavior. They want subscription revenue instead of wanting to deliver what consumers want.

And AI generation vendors get a free pass for generating child porn

Two decades. We're old

tl;dr A network operator can perform a MitM attack on the built-in updater's call-out checking for updates by faking the Notepad++ update website, telling it a new version is available at and then downloading and running the malware

It requires a malicious network operator, or preexisting malware on the host.

So Russia gets 2 seats at the table?

Literally every single large AI provider admits to committing large scale piracy. No congressional response.

Some members of the public are watching HBO shows because they're poor? FULL FORCE OF THE LAW

Nobody asked for this

I keep a small Win11 partition on my 2022 gaming laptop in case I need to take a cert exam or use a gov website, and I booted it for updating for the first time in 6 months. It took over 6 hours and 6 reboots to update! At one point, it was going bu-ding every minute from random notifications so I had to mute it.

Meanwhile, my 2012 Thinkpad T420 needed a full Fedora version upgrade, and that finished in 15 minutes.

No wonder MS is losing users

For example, the developer of asus-linux.org who made the kernel contributions for Asus ROG laptops and the accompanying ROG Control Center recently walked away, due to exhaustion.

Less funding for crumbling highways, bridges, and roads. But keep driving! We won't rethink public transit or automotive dependency. We won't spend the money more wisely or make transportation more efficient. Nope, keep feeding the gas dependence to justify more oil wars!

This is open extortion using the power of the executive branch. Literally providing free services in order to not be targeted by an elected leader? Yikes.

• enable developer options
• confirm that you are not tricked
• restart phone and re-authenticate
• wait one day
• confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
• decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
• confirm that you accept the risks
• enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

I was recently ordering food delivery, and a local restaurant replaced most of their image-free menu items with AI generated photos. (Some of their items always had real photos, but most didn't until the AI photos were added)

I ordered from somewhere else and sent the first restaurant an email that I didn't order from them due to the AI images of the food.

Also, fuck Thuisbezorgd for adding AI photo generation. I would have not ordered anything but it was already late and the family was hungry.

So Russia gets 2 seats?

Two things are always true about Rand Paul:

• He clutches his pearls about the unethical behavior of his party and how it has morally lost its way

• He will only actually take measures or vote to oppose its actions when his protest is symbolic and won't interfere with the party's agenda

He's basically the male Susan Collins.

• enable developer options
• confirm that you are not tricked
• restart phone and re-authenticate
• wait one day
• confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing
• decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or forever
• confirm that you accept the risks
• enjoy the few apps that still have developers motivated to develop for a user-base willing to put up with this

Ban private jets and charter flights. Only people-efficient commercial liners and medical flights.

Increase in detection due to more awareness and testing?

Counterpoint: I think it's reasonable to inform people of what a dev team allows into their project, or how they're directing the development of the product.

For some people, it will be a hard no. Others maybe don't mind AI interoperability if it's not in the codebase itself. Others won't mind if the app is critical to their workflow, but may reject apps that are less critical. Others don't care at all.

I look at it like the Denuvo labeling curator on Steam. Nothing wrong in informing people.

Dumb ploy in favor of the meat lobby. Consumers aren't confused, they clearly know it's a different product than meat. Stores put it in a separate section. We have hundreds of products with non-literal names to help consumers understand what they are trying to be.

The reality is that meat agriculture is bad for the environment, bad for public health (both individual health and for how it spreads disease), and is less shelf stable. It isn't going anywhere, though, so stop trying to put barriers in front of better choices.