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I don't know, it's a form of extrapolation IMO. The 1984 of our time. That was also not realistic back in the day but reality overtook it.

However it feels like the time of social media is already coming to an end. With the companies filling our timelines with ever more crap in a futile attempt to 'engage' us, they are only driving us ever more away.

One thing that not many people know: you don't need to have a Google account to use GCM/FCM even with official Gapps. You can simply not sign in to Google play and push will still work.

It's still running tons of spyware yes but it's an alternative on phones where MicroG is not an option. Eg Samsung phones with Knox enabled.

I don't want to be protected from myself. As the admin I should have full access to the stuff I buy.

Disabling it is ok but the problem with that is that you lose all security. There should be a way to add our own signing keys to persist changes to the SSV (Signed System Volume) and SIP protected folders. It shouldn't be trust only Apple or nothing.

Huh, I don't have Pull to Refresh under Settings > Customise > Gestures. I wish I did.

I only have "Scroll to hide toolbar" and "Swipe toolbar sideways to switch tabs"

This is in Firefox 108.1.0 which is the latest.

I know you can mess with Nightly to allow other addons but I don't really like using nightly to be honest. This feature should really be in the mainline too.

I'm from the Netherlands but I don't like IRMA. I respect what they're trying to do but they're lowering the barrier.

Right now most platforms don't do ID validation because users hate sharing their details. By making it more privacy-safe more platforms will do it because the barrier is lower. I really hate that, I think the internet should remain anonymous. So I can pick whatever nick and even have multiple.

elting it down doesn't make it less radioactive. It's still a significant health hazard to work with, making new construction with the remolded materials prohibitively expensive.

Fukushima by the way, despite repeatedly ignoring warnings of the risks of not being prepared for realistic tsunamis and earthquakes it might experience, survived relatively well all things considered.

Yes most nuclear incidents involved risks being ignored. But I don't see how this is an argument for nuclear. This will keep happening as long as we have this stuff built and operated by the lowest bidder bound to make as much profit as they can.

Yeah the book "The Circle" (now of course a major motion picture :) really captured that culture well, I thought. A lot of these companies are really like that.

Death tolls aren't the only impact of a nuclear disaster. Denial of land use for tens to hundreds of years, cleanup costs, mutations, denial of water supplies if it reaches ground water (the prevention of which was one of the things that did work out well at Chernobyl). All with cleanup costs a magnitude higher than those of industrial spills.

We're all going to die eventually of something and of those 8M many would have died soon after of other causes. Look at how many people still smoke packets full of hazardous fume sticks on a daily basis. That's how much we care about that risk.

The numbers are in and they're excellent.

Those numbers could have changed a lot this year if Russian shelling at Zaporizhzhia had worked out a bit differently.

And this was a military adversary that wasn't explicitly trying to cause nuclear damage here. The next one might go all out or try something as a false flag.

Those 70 years have been in relative peaceful times. And they don't include the 200 years of cleanup we've externalised to the future. We just learned a very painful lesson what externalisation to the future can lead to with global warming.

Wow that's pretty bad yeah. Routing cables differently and some pull release adhesive tabs would have made this easily doable and hardly cost any extra.

That was an amazing machine for its time. I remember it well. In those days a laptop was a luxury, I was a computer science student and only 1 of the fellow students I knew had a laptop! We just used our own PCs at home and the computer rooms with PCs or X Terminals.

I wish I had one of these. I guess finding one is even harder than restoring it.

Does the 1150 take into account all the oceans full of NaCl? It sounds a little low.

Maybe you mean the club mate drink popular in the hacker community? (Incidentally it displaced jolt cola in that role)

But you are running WebKit in all four on iOS :) Because right now Apple doesn't allow other engines. So whatever it is that consumes batter, it's not blink or gecko.

The rewrite was pretty bad yes but it's good again now. I never use chrome anymore on my Android devices.

Only things that still bother me on FF is not having access to all extensions and not having pull to refresh.

You can actually make adult only rooms in Horizons now. I don't think full nudity is allowed yet but they do seem to grasp that human interaction isn't all glossy and family friendly.

But with a big privacy risk if anyone ever gets their hands on the root CA (which I hope is generated fresh in every install).

Also, Android blocks user-installed CAs by default now, apps have to opt in to accept user-added ones. That makes it pretty useless. Not sure how iOS deals with this.

Not really as far as I understand? It's a deterrent?

Oh yes this is the incident I was referring to, actually. I thought it was the same. Somehow I remembered the troop buildup of Able Archer confirmed the invasion fear for the Soviets. But it sounds like that played no part in it. I must have remembered it wrong.

O'Shaughnessy advocated before the United States Senate Committee on Armed Services for a layered space capability with lethal follow-on that incorporates machine learning and artificial intelligence to gather and act upon sensor data quickly

So basically a doomsday machine.

I understand the need for quick reaction but I really really would like to see a human in the chain to push the button. We've come way too close before like the Cuban crisis and Able Archer more specifically where all the data was screaming war but cool heads prevailed.

Trust the world in the hands of an AI? Please no.

The strange thing with Sony is that they don't even seem to try in the mobile market. For years they're putting out phones that are overpriced, have very poor software support duration and focus on gimmicky features like 4K screens that are almost never actually used as such.

As a result they occupy only a tiny niche of the market but they keep going on as they are. Like they don't even care.

It's a shame because they made great stuff. My Z4 Tablet with its Bluetooth laptop dock is the most useful mini laptop I've ever had. Never saw a successor though :'(

Hmm yes but I don't believe people willingly pick nicotine to deal with that.

Most of us just grab an espresso. It's the people that were already smoking that go for the nicotine.

And if it were that harmless, why wouldn't they put it in drinks?

I agree with your points except for this: a Cray-1 is much less powerful than my desktop yes. But that doesn't mean we take advantage of that power. Most of it is wasted drawing transparency effects and YouTube videos.

I'm sure that what most people do in excel now would have been just as feasible on Lotus 1-2-3 running on a 286 in 1986. With the exception of those incorrectly using it as a database for millions of rows :P

No not really. When everyone does it, untargered ads will be the norm and will just be more valuable. Just like they were before adtech happened.

Also, 50% less doesn't have to mean not to exist.

I do wish they had mandated the existing do not track flag to be honored though without presenting any popups. This would have finally made that flag useful and would have made things much easier. I know some browsers have removed it but it's easy to bring back.

For me as a user it's not about the payment thing at all. It's about being able to do with my device what I want without the manufacturer having to approve it first.

Ah that makes sense. Yes Reddit is pretty good at not showing you NSFW unless you actually go and look for it. But when you do it takes you all the way down the rabbit hole (figuratively!! - I hope), this is why I found it a bit surprising, it's not just some lingerie pics or anything.

In a way though, that means Safari should be banned too. And the camera app, I mean point it down in the right state of undress... ;)

Agreed, there should be rules for all of them. This is not startups trying stuff out anymore, these apps have huge influence on the course of civilization.

Sounds like it'll be a bit like on Mac with that whole notarization rigmarole.. But on Mac you can bypass it by jumping through some hoops. I guess on iOS you won't be able to until the EU catches up and forbids that too.

I'd actually consider iOS again if it were more open so I think this is a really good thing.

Oh trust me it's way way lower than 5%. More like 0.05% :) I was until recently a corporate admin of (among many other types) tens of thousands of BYOD iphones.