In my honest opinion, American exceptionalism should be dead and buried

Should be, but it’s such a deeply ingrained part of their national self image that it’ll take a few generations of consistent effort to make it fade away.

Why does any one country need to dominate trade?

A much better outcome would be that more countries have a larger number of trading partners rather than one behemoth monopolizing all trade.

AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human code

As expected

Between that and windows 11 forcing people to choose between buying new hardware (at currently inflated RAM prices) , remain on win10 without updates oo switching to a different OS, it really could mean the fabled “year of the Linux desktop” has finally arrived.

Unknown could be anything.

Thats not a bad thing.

I’m a big fan of preventing marketers from gaining additional useful knowledge about me.

Sometimes that means anonymizing, sometimes it means actively polluting their data.

Teledildonics has been a promising technology for several years.

Because they can’t see past the profit generating potential of selling your data.

and never connect it to the internet.

How many of them force you to connect to the internet as part of of the initial setup wizard “in order to register and enable your new tv”?

AFAIK, some of the TVs with built in Roku have been forcing exactly that before they will allow you to do anything.

but there are nearly no niche non-tech communities here.

And if they do exist, there are 4 subscribers and zero posts in the last 6 months.

It’s ruining far more than reddit.

My robot vac will only operate when connected to the Internet

That would trigger me to return it to the store. “It doesn’t work”

Newfoundland and Labrador is the province involved.

Had to read far too deep into the poorly written article to find that important bit of context.

Users will receive automatic pro-rated refunds for active subscriptions, and the app code is promised to be open-sourced after shutdown.

That’s the correct way to wind down a cloud based subscription app.

Not that I’m in favor of the entire business model of cloud based subscription apps, but at least Marques is ending this one the right way.

Of course not. Most people are motivated to doing the right thing simply because it is the right thing to do.

But some people seem to need the threat of personal consequences to keep them from being selfish assholes. And it often appears that those are the same type of people who manage to get themselves into decision making positions in the business world.

Fear of punishment.

I didn’t claim I had a hundred of them going at any give time.

And, regardless, I also don’t keep them open forever. I just close the one I’m finished with, check out the next one, then repeat until I’m through with them.

The punishment (or the threat of punishment) is supposed to be part of the motivation to not drive into pedestrians.

If the decision makers behind the fully automatic vehicles don’t fear that punishment, the concern is that they’ll make choices that are motivated more by profits and efficiencies and less by safe driving and preventing harms.

And given the abuses of profit seeking executives we have seen in the past, it is a valid concern.

Why not just close them and open them back up later?

Because that’s extra steps for no actual improvement.

I close the tabs that I’m done with and add new ones when I want to not forget to look at something a bit later.

That doesn’t need the “permanence” of a bookmark. (And, obviously I know editing bookmarks is a thing, but that is also extra steps for something I’ll only want once in about 15 min from now)

If you own a DVD and rip it - that itself is a grey area

In some countries. In others it is legally protected.

I wonder how (or if) grokopedia defines “woke”?

Most of the people who complain about “the woke” arent able to define it.