I’m listening ;)

when there are well designed and vetted ones available?

I’m not convinced of this, tbh. IIRC the RFC can’t be described in a regex at all.

IDK, I think this take is more “It went from bad to worse” rather than “TSR was a bastion of consumer values”.

All of them?

ejects gracefully and hands it over to the driver

This is exactly the problem. If I’m driving, I need to be alert to the driving tasks and what’s happening on the road.

If I’m not driving because I’m using autopilot, … I still need to be alert to the driving tasks and what’s happening on the road. It’s all of the work with none of the fun of driving.

Fuck that. What I want is a robot chauffer, not a robot version of everyone’s granddad who really shouldn’t be driving anymore.

Throwing a tantrum is one way to express a preference, I suppose, but most people grow out of that in early childhood.

What if I told you that you could copy and paste text instead of taking a photo?

Why haven’t they banned all cars

Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater!

$0.003 cents per stream.

So… #verizonmath means I have to ask: Is this supposed to be 3/1000ths of a penny per stream? Or 3/10ths of a penny per stream? You labeled the amount with both dollars and cents :(

And given that the appliance needs to communicate with the app on your phone while you’re not home in the first place, there probably isn’t even a separate tracking API vs. data just being harvested as part of normal operations. So “back door” doesn’t really fit. “Broken by design” or “spyware” would be more apt, I think.

Still, I’m really not a fan of calling any spying/data harvesting a “front door” – IIRC, the term was coined by an FBI head pushing for back doors in our phones so the FBI could scan our messages. But he called it a “front door” as a way to dodge the reasons why building back doors in our security software is a terrible idea.

It’s just another step in the terrible trend of “let’s pretend that this horrible idea is ok if we just rename it” :(

What would the “front door” even be in this case? What comes to my mind is the corresponding app on your phone, but that doesn’t really make sense in this context.

I read the situation as: Expectations are so low that you can work the job for merely 3 hours a day and still get your work done. It’s an indictment on the companies: Workers doing this should be making triple their current salaries in one job and doing so much more there – but that capacity is wasted.

Oh no, not again

Have you ever heard the phrase “golden child”? It’s sadly relatively common for a certain sort of dysfunctional family. Screws up entire lifetimes for people.

Always safe with a caserol at a dinner party.

Imposter! A true Minnesotan would know you bring hotdish. Casserole is a Southern dish.

Edit: Also, WTF is up with “caserol” instead of casserole?

I’m morbidly curious what region Minnesota is in if it’s not the Midwest. Surely he doesn’t call it part of the Old West? That would just be bonkers.

Could partly be that they don’t want to support the development effort. Fewer phone sizes to support means they can get away with fewer staff working new versions of ios.

So… you could say that the US exerted sufficient water pressure to open the faucets in Gaza?

Huh, TIL that humans showed up in Australia 60,000 years ago. I thought for sure it would be less than 20,000 years until I looked it up.

As for the slippery slope, nah, it’s a natural thing to ask. That being said, I think you have a good answer to it.

I’ll add that most ethnic groups don’t/shouldn’t need a Voice (ombudsman?) type function in a functioning democracy. However, we frequently see that the rules as written don’t actually apply equally. We see this a lot in the U.S. (where I’m from). It sounds like you have a similar effect in Australia.

That’s interesting, not what I’d expect – but hey, everyone has their off days.

In an online space with more of a community feel, it would probably be worth extending a little more grace and patience. Lemmy doesn’t have that feel to me, though. It feels like having random conversations with strangers with no continuity.

I’ll admit, part of this is a pattern I started on reddit. I tried to curate my community list, but I made the – decision? mistake? – of including my city and state-specific subreddits. They were basically cesspits of racism and trolling compared to the good communities that I liked. There was also the increase in political propaganda bots over the years (not bad when I joined, terrible by time I left). I tried to avoid the worst offenders, but sometimes I’d get bored with my feed and click on the “all” feed. Bad idea.