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Both companies are awful to customers. But the Oracle cloud product is truly terrible.

How can I hide or move the ram program window? It's blocking the breadboard.

The article doesn't go into it but G B Shaw went so far as inventing an alternate orthography for English called Shavian -- publishing a book printed in it -- and then commissioned another alphabet by Kingley Read called Quikscript. Both alphabets are phonetic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavian_alphabet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quikscript

Did they force users to have an account to use a browser?

> In 2024, PHP underwent its first external security audit in years. The PHP Foundation secured funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency to organize this audit ...

Well that's your problem right there! There are trillion dollar companies profiting off the back of open source projects without supporting the projects adequately. Why should they be scraping for funding for basic table stakes like audits?

Evidently it was an ESP32 with a wifi antenna. So it could instead/also have streamed to server. Or just used wifi for C+C. Total outlay for information worth millions to someone? Under $20.

https://www.seeedstudio.com/2-4GHz-FPC-Antenna-1-16dBi-for-X...

Also: there aren't any really old iPads: Apple forces obsolescence. They could unlock the old devices and let users run whatever on there, but they prefer the ewaste route. Also because fuck you give us more money.

(ignoring the snark but valid point)

To the contrary, innovation is proceeding full speed, despite patents. The only thing patents are doing is 1. enriching the lawyers on creation, 2. restraining law abiding innovators in country (meaning all other countries will proceed to ignore it anyway), 3. give the advantage to all other countries, and 4. enrich the lawyers again if they can find one of the in-country infringements to pursue (again ignoring all the others).

None of these outcomes is beneficial. The system is broken and antiquated. Ditch it.

Oooh, good point. I bet the pharmas love this. Get that expensive, foot-dragging doctor out of the sales loop and write several prescriptions for every patient encounter! The KPI goes from minimizing MD minutes to maximizing med profits.

big /s

I disagree: anywhere in the ocean is easier logistics than crawler trains over land: ship it there and chuck it overboard. They do that to install oil rigs all the time (but that's more like float it there and sink it). Eg: https://www.wired.com/2014/07/dockwise-vanguard-shipping

Yes, the social chaos from the post-factual society is already here. And the frantic job cutting.

And also the end of the open internet, replaced by slop addiction walled gardens.

And of course accelerating climate change with full throttle fossil fuel use to power it all. https://ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/googles-exponential-path-to...

Many people from that era were well read and well spoken. He in particular sounded like he had some interesting life experiences: air force pilot, ambassador to the Soviet Union, president of the Boy Scouts, etc.

The $3000 aids are also behind a gatekeeper wall of aid technicians. After an audiologist creates a hearing profile, a technician is needed to program it with proprietary cable and software.

New aids have a highly configurable user experience that will be deeply personal to the user: what do various taps and gestures do and how sensitive are they, what are the different discrimination modes (party, music, conversation, car, etc), and how to get to them, automatic behaviors etc. There's usually a user BT app but it's usually a horrible vast subset designed to keep the gatekeeping intact.

There's some disruption to be had here somewhere between the $3000 gate-kept experience and the $130 airpod one. It should include some open hardware and protocols, let the user adjust all the user knobs, but should retain the audiologist's role regarding the actual hearing profile and safety.

Why aren't boring, old process ASICs isolated from this mess?

I wonder what would org-babel for team settings look like? Disk/interchange format seems less interesting than what gets shipped around and what the UX feels like.

Good eye. Its comment history really makes the point. Is it karma farming maybe?

> mostly analogue

Crucially, the engine inlet spikes were computer controlled. And since it's an observation platform and not a bomber, is it going to be EMP hardened? That was probably classified at the time. /shrug

https://saemobilus.sae.org/papers/sr-71-digital-automatic-fl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=px9YLM6R6MM

Anyway, don't you think the modern platforms are prepared for a little ECM action?

Makes sense to me. Peaker plants are typically expensive (even at idle) and polluting.

During peak need, renting some capacity from subscribers already on your grid means you don't need to build another peaker plant.

Clown show is my guess too. There's no utility for it other than rattling windows and other airshow shenanigans for bragging press releases.

There are faster (X-43 is mach 9.6 but unmanned) and higher and stealthier ships. But unless you're going to dip into the classified catalog, a rusty SR-71 is faster than the next fastest two ships which are both MiGs.

I'm suggesting they self-identify by resisting changes customers want.

Detroit fought against safety features until it was forced on them and Volvo led the way. They continued to fight against infotainment, offering horrible in-house trash, until Tesla shamed them with something from this century. All the Japanese makers fought against the EV wave by putting up a fake signal with H2, which they knew would never fly, which let them continue without retooling.

Now, BYD shames them all with scores of features at a reasonable price. If it weren't for protectionism, they'd be wiping up western markets. And to your point, yes Hyundai is old but they're listening to demand and responding by delighting customers.

> Toyota’s current chairman and former CEO, Akio Toyoda, warned [...] in July that the company is being forced to adapt, or “it cannot survive,”.

THIS is why I hate legacy auto companies. They don't want to delight customers. They must be dragged and forced to offer the bare minimum.

I have a Hyundai EV and it's the best vehicle I've ever driven. Japan and Detroit (et al) can suck it.

Like this? https://solidproject.org/

We've seen this before - it's called the Eliza effect. People appear emotionally driven to communicate privately with a machine even if they understand logically it's a machine with chat logs that will be read by people.

https://www.centerconsulting.com/ai-library/stories/eliza-ef...

A simple tablet holder on the fridge door would do this way better.

Aren't all the Android Snapdragon phones already mostly there?

Yes that was the 811 I referred to - a US compliance and permitting hotline. They send any utilities mapped in your digging area to come mark their buried lines.

Would it make sense to send better robotic analyzers there than to bring the samples back here? Fighting gravity and kilometers involves spending many billions on return; a lesser amount could be spent on surface activities.

Heck, even on Macos 26, I have all the Siri and intelligence toggles turned off. Yet all these processes sitting around.

    (me)      11386   0.0  0.1 435334816  22528   ??  S     3:26AM   0:03.89 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/VoiceShortcuts.framework/Versions/A/Support/siriactionsd
    (me)       1099   0.0  0.0 435344416   3360   ??  Ss   27Aug26   0:01.95 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SiriSuggestionsSupport.framework/Versions/A/XPCServices/SiriSuggestionsBookkeepingService.xpc/Contents/MacOS/SiriSuggestionsBookkeepingService
    (me)        941   0.0  0.0 435440384   3776   ??  S    27Aug26   0:04.52 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/SiriInference.framework/Versions/A/siriinferenced

There are 400,000 to 800,000 utility strikes a year in the US. Sure you could bury (!) an instance or two of sabotage in there with an "oops".

Recently, I tried calling 811 before digging in my yard. The webpage was broken and the hotline kept me on hold forever. I gave up. Small wonder.

https://blackhydrovac.com/underground-utility-strikes-learn-...

> featureless suit coats

Not a fashion expert but mandarin jackets seem like one of those prospective futures from the 60s that never came to pass. Probably that was the time culture in the West just started discovering Asian culture.

Eg: Dr No and probably lots more. https://i0.wp.com/www.retrozap.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/0...