Me too. I was browsing on my old Windows 8 computer that I refuse to upgrade and it did not like my OS. I don't like it either, but I'm not going to install a newer version, out of principle.
There's zero javascript on the page and it reads perfectly in lynx. I'm not sure how your browser could possibly be a variable here, unless TFA's platform is actively blocking certain user agents (which I suppose isn't quite ironic, but would not exactly send the best message to go with the arguments)
Answering this and other similar arguments/observations, and for the benefit of those unable to read TFA:
To answer one potential criticism, it's true that in some sense, blocking and so on for social reasons is not good and is in some theoretical sense arguably harmful for the overall web ecology. On the other hand, the current unchecked situation itself is also deeply harmful for the overall web ecology and it's only going to get worse if we do nothing, with more and more things effectively driven off the open web. We only get to pick the poison here.
This is still just moving the heat around, but with metamaterials you can now passively convert the heat energy into wavelengths that do not get absorbed by the atmosphere and beam a decent chunk of it back into space.
No, that's not at all clear. Ruby Central owns the AWS account for which Arko is (pretty clearly) being accused of changing the AWS root account password after having his access revoked.
I don't think for a second Arko will be charged, but there isn't a "nuh-uh, you did this gross thing in our open source community" defense for 18 USC 1030.
I didn't say it was clear, and I never said there was a defense. I implied that the wronged party in one case might want to be careful about raising the specter of liability or criminality.
Yeah. The temperature issue would have been my first guess.
Regarding concentrating solar: are people still trying to make that work for commercial generation? I thought this had generally failed to pan out for electricity generation.
There are many variations of concentrating solar. There’s the tower, there’s the curved mirror with the tube of oil, and there’s the magnifying glass with a small, exotic solar cell that can handle 10 Suns’ worth of light.
None of them work on overcast days because they rely on parallel rays of light.
But linkedin is doing so in accordance with the legal agreement you have with them, which I am able to exit at any time and instruct them to remove my data. I can't do this for every company that illegally (in many jurisdictions) hordes information about me.
You're currently on one of the very few sites with no delete/edit button for your own content (after a short initial period.) It's the only site I can think of that hoards my data like that. Which is why I only post anonymous throwaway content here.
These are really interesting to read in order. The LLM output at the end of each shows how they've gotten better and stayed the same. Output is all formulaic just following slightly different formulas. I shall excitedly wait another year to see what is possible in 2026 and if everyone is right by 2027 the LLM will be the author of the piece including human written content for padding at the end.
(Also yes my Brother printer has worked great over the past 10 years. I even had to buy new toner and have replaced it with a third party toner twice so far.)
The jury is still out on whether Brother has also jumped the shark. Their PR made a lot of hot noise about the accusations being "false" but if you read carefully they never say that they didn't make some color calibration things work only with their own cartridges.
Can vouch. I have a Brother B/W double-sided laser printer from 2011 that just keeps on going. The maintenance manuals are detailed down to each gear and lever, which let me fix a paper feed issue (gear slid out of place) and keep it going for probably many more decades. No DRM chips in sight - third party toner works just fine, and the Ethernet connectivity is rock solid.
