“And regulating an industry which is on the cusp of working with our government and the states to bring internet everywhere finally could really jeopardize that critical and bipartisan goal by creating regulatory overhang, disincentivizing investment.” said Jonathan Spalter, president and CEO of broadband industry group USTelecom.

WTF bullshit is he spouting? Hate to break it to ya bud, the internet was conceived and executed…by the government. Or did you forget DARPA? On the cusp,ppphht.

And the rest of that word salad? Regulatory overhang? Disincentivizing? It’s all doublespeak for “padding shareholders pockets”.

They are obviously of the “If-It-Ain’t-Broke-Don’t-Fix-It” people. A once dominant group, they also age slowly, have the longest memories and loquaciously share them.

Oh, def. The fun has just begun.

^This. End stage capitalism at its finest.

End stage capitalism. The snake is eating its tail.

Shit. Here come the commercials on AppleTV+.

In his blog post, Tan defended the subscription-only licensing model, calling it “the industry standard.”

“Industry standard” my ass.

If Adobe hadn’t started the trend by lusting after Blizzard’s subscription model and ultimately emulating it, we’d all be a lot better off.

Not to mention our wallets being eternally thankful.

TL;DR? > The problem is strictly speaking not even in curl code. It comes with the version of LibreSSL that Apple ships and builds curl to use on their platforms.

But because they’re Apple (right next to the Pope, for infallibility), they know best; same old story, rinse’n’repeat.

Really liked their stuff back in the day. Now? It’s another walled garden they scrabble to maintain.

…researchers from NTU were working on Masterkey, an automated method of using the power of one LLM to jailbreak another.

Or: welcome to where AI becomes an arms race.

Nobody wants to play together anymore.

Free speech my ass.

Yeah…also coincides with said corps throwing ads on everything. Think they’d learn.

When they say, “It’s for the children”, you can rest assured, it’s not.

dck 🤣

Assistive technology has been focused on this for a while.

My brother had severe cerebral palsy and for years (80s-90s) communicated via analog technology, a literal alpha/iconography communication board, which he could tap on with a head wand. By 2000 he had a digital voice, but still had to use a wand.

Stephen Hawking demonstrated eye sensing technology almost as soon as it was invented and that’s been over a decade ago.

In most cases, there is a definite aspect of “bespokeness” to implementing assistive consumer communication technology, but the barriers implementing the same for an able audience would appear much lower.

TIL: About RMI, or, the Rocky Mountain Institute. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMI_(energy_organization) So the kinda “Huh?” headline makes sense.

One of their focuses is changing energy usage patterns by changing demand.

In several sections, with minimal numbers and many helpful charts, the article takes us thru how evolving battery technology will lead to lessened fossil fuel demand.

Parasites and control freaks endorse “child safety “ bill, what could possibly go wrong?

The power of lobbyists, on full display. K Street is a plague on the people of the US.

Fucking billionaires should be taxed out of existence.

That’s not good.