I can understand that having your own copy is nice, especially if the service is closed for some reason.
I just don’t bother doing that anymore, I prefer browsing my library on GOG instead of a file-manager.

Details details. 😋

The good guy was Hitler and the Nazis, they were always friendly and waving to everybody.
/s

Still Trump claim Russia is totally without blame for invading another peaceful country. And Putin is really a nice guy who is just misunderstood.
So this is perfectly in line with MAGA crazy mental gymnastics.

No I absolutely expected it to be sarcasm.
I read the part, and that’s quite funny and fitting.

I don’t get it? I searched defense on that page and got nothing.
Is it about being absurd?

Logically it favors the rich, just like every other aspect of society.
So I guess it’s no more insane than so many other aspects of society, like how Enron Musk can get paid more by Tesla than every single worker working there.

Some companies are just scumbags, and the bigger they are the worse it gets.

Cool, digital photography is an area that has had insane development IMO.
I’m absolutely flabbergasted by the digital photography capabilities of modern phones. high res, image stabilization, and of course color mapping/filtering.
The processing power needed is insane. 4K movies are 8 megapixel at 3 colors 30 fps, and it’s 750 million sub pixels, that need to be processed per second, and we do that on a cheap tiny handheld device! The better ones can handle 8K and that’s 3 Billion sub pixels per second!

It’s impressive that you have been part of it. 👍 😎

I have a friend who works for the city and invented a brilliant system to remove weed from pebble driveways, without using weed killers. They wrote an article in the local paper, and he was even awarded by the mayor.

Several people recommended to him to patent his system, and he contacted a patent lawyer to do just that.
The lawyer praised his idea, and stated he could make the paperwork to get the patent, for the small fee of some insane amount.
Luckily he pulled out, and did not go forward.

It turns out that his idea was already in production in Germany. The money to the patent lawyer would have been a complete waste.

The moral of the story is, that the only sure winners on patents, are the lawyers.

Edit PS:
Another story, a guy had some patents he found out were being used by a really big company.
He contacted the company to make an agreement on the use of his patents, and the response he got back was basically: “Sue us”.
Those big companies have lawyers on their pay role, patent cases are insanely expensive, in part because patent lawyers are among the most expensive, and it’s near impossible to predict the outcome of a case. His chances of even affording the case were slim, and the chance of winning even if he was obviously right were even slimmer. Because the big company will just hire “experts” to claim non violation. And the little guy can’t afford to match it.

So again the patents didn’t help the little guy.

The original idea with patents is to help protect small inventors from being run over by bigger corporations.
But the result is more often the opposite, where small inventors that have a genuinely profitable novel product, is quickly forced to bankruptcy by frivolous patent suits, even when the new product is patented, and when bankrupt bought for peanuts by the bigger corp.

The other main basis for patents is that the technology should not be lost, in case of the inventors death.
But the way tech works today, that is no-longer relevant.

5 year patent would absolutely be better than what we have IMO.

This is absolutely awesome: 👍😎

Project Jengo is Cloudflare’s effort to fight back against patent trolls by flipping the incentive structure that has encouraged the growth of patent trolls who extract settlements out of companies using frivolous lawsuits. We do this by asking the public to help identify prior art that can invalidate any of the patents that a troll holds, not just the ones that are asserted against Cloudflare.

Emphasis by me.

I’m more shocked how little I need extra space!
I’m rocking an ancient 1TB for backups. And my main is a measly 512GB SSD.
But I don’t store movies anymore, because we always find what we want to see online, and I don’t store games I don’t actively use, because they are in my GOG or Steam libraries.
With 1 gigabit per second internet, it only takes a few minutes to download anyways.

Come to think of it, my phone has almost as much space for use, with the 512GB internal storage. 😋
Maybe I’m a fringe case IDK. But it’s a long time since storage ceased to be a problem.

The organisation ( X ) argued Twitter stopped being a company when it merged with X Corp and any penalty process would need to be restarted.

Elon Musk is sick! There is no low he won’t stoop to, to avoid consequences of his actions.
Even if Musk didn’t handle this directly, I bet he set the guidelines for it.
Hopefully X will be banned soon in Australia and EU. Because it’s a toxic platform that only gets worse.

Mark Zuckerberg: (probably)
Objection you honor, when people are stupid enough to give us all their information, we should also be allowed to exploit it.
I’ve done this since it was just a school project, so I should be allowed to continue to do it by the precedence set.
This has been known since 2010:

When Zuckerberg was 19, right after inventing his new social network, he had an instant messenger conversation with a friend where he bragged about having “over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS.” When Zuckerberg’s friend asked why in the world people would give him their private information, Zuckerberg responded, “People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me.’ Dumb f–ks.”

The only thing that interest Zuckerberg, is the power the information from social networks gives him.

maybe the number of files it scans looking for misconfigurations

So how did it get into the system to be able to scan configuration files?

Wouldn’t that simply be a user mistake?
It’s kind of like saying if you remove the password completely, it’s vulnerable.

I’ve been using Linux since 2005, and I’ve heard all sorts of stories about Linux having “security problems”, and almost every time it turns out to be a problem that can’t be exploited on it’s own. but requires the use of other vulnerabilities.
The only exception I can recall is the zx util compression tool, which was detected before it was rolled out.

Zero day vulnerabilities have been non existent for 20 years to my knowledge.

The tax vary according to the brand and their level of cooperation with the Commission’s investigation:

• Tesla: 7.8%
• BYD: 17%
• Geely: 18.8%
• SAIC: 35.3%

Other EV producers in China that cooperated in the investigation but have not been individually sampled: 20.7%-

This tax will come on top of the existing 10% rate.

Apples and oranges very much?
A private jet is a USE of energy.
Coal is a SOURCE of energy.