they have a 180 day period to define the regulation and a year for it to be contacted and implemented.

This has a familiar smell. The 3d printer “gun printing prevention” bill(s) that are floating around have the same “we’ll figure out the actual law after the bill is approved.” And here I thought that punting congressional authority to executive agencies was bad. Now they’re not writing laws, but instead, blank checks for vague things within even more vague legal outlines.

In a more general sense, it also resembles the work being done to level this requirement at online services as well.

Ultimately, the only way to really enforce any sort of age verification system is to force all content providers to have an age verification step.

My biggest fear here is that this will have teeth, and will be crafted so that the only feasible way to make it work is to be 100% cloud connected behind federally approved vendors (e.g. Apple and Microsoft).

If it doesn’t work it’s harmless. If it does work, you’re out a little water, a few minutes for a ceremony, and might just save untold weekend and evening hours for everyone.

Exactly. We’re already there with which side has more human resources. Meanwhile asymmetric warfare is an escalation of technology and the resources to produce them. Sure, you can tip the balance of power on the battlefield with very clever use of resources, but it’s ultimately a contest of who is willing to dump the most into the conflict.

It could also be argued that technological warfare in a global economy makes resource blockades even more important. Nobody is 100% reliant on their homeland resources anymore. To effectively siege your opponent, you have to cut off everything that can fuel their ability to make war. That can be a huge perimeter in some cases.

I trust that they’ll be complete push-overs when it comes to law enforcement and agency data requests without a warrant.

Outside of moving data overseas, away from 5/9-eyes, I’m having a bad time figuring out how to obtain cryptographic control over my data within existing services. This leaves me to just upload crypto blobs everywhere with no real services to support it, or buying my own hardware and co-locating it myself.

After watching a few episodes of Dropping Names, I’m convinced that Frakes would tell this joke if the opportunity presented itself.

Meta. But perhaps an additional and entirely petty reason: It’s a terrible pun.

it was classified as a deadly nightshade

It’s worth mentioning that while this seems insane to us now, it probably made a ton of sense at the time. The key is that tomatoes are in the same botanical family, so the plants have a lot in common. For example, here’s what black nightshade fruit looks like:

You might see something that and think it resembles a dark tomato. Hundreds of years ago, people looked at a tomato and saw a red nightshade.

“Might makes right” authoritarianism has no use for it. Why bother with getting people to like you when you have all the guns? Besides, these troglodytes are a pretty unlikable bunch in the first place - it’s simply not how they navigate the world.

That man is a menace.

I had a dusty laptop running a homelab for you, and figured I should show something nice on the screen. Then, I typed in my password like an idiot. Not gonna put that online. :(

https://youtu.be/6ztxYDaxyd8?t=52

The Crow could make for an awesome RPG experience.

It really deserves the Disco Elysium treatment. Yeah, the eponymous anti-hero gets his kill on throughout the whole story, and that’s tempting to build a game out of; standard revenge plot stuff. That said, there’s way more on offer here. How about a detective story that follows a murderer that’s already dead? Or, maybe you start off not knowing you’re dead and puzzle that together as you go. Or perhaps you’re constantly crossing paths with said detective, solving your own mystery, always a step behind the shadow of your dead friend?

Yup. When cheap PC clones came around, everyone had that one Com, LPT, or VGA port with the missing screw terminal. Fortunately you need zero of those for the port to actually work.

What’s kind of amusing is that all those old ports with the screw-in fasteners were moving around anywhere from 3v to 12v at about 45mA on the high-side. Meanwhile, USB-C can move 240W and has nothing to prevent disconnecting while sending enough power to run a power tool.

And to monetize the display of video. Licensing of that port’s supporting technology is holding everyone back.

Though Entrop is right that it’s mostly just a power-user worry.

Not entirely. I’ve had a few snaps become useless when it comes down to providing configuration data. How an individual snap integrates into the filesystem depends on the author/packaging, and quality varies. Ultimately, it’s a PITA since the mapped filesystem paths are not in the stock/standard locations the product docs say they are. I chalk this up to packaging software that existed pre-Snap, or the original authors did not do the Snap packaging. It’ll probably get better as the ecosystem matures, but right now, it’s not a great experience unless the Snap-ed package can run as-is.

Seconded. Everyone shits on Ubuntu, but it’s solid, well-supported, and is low-friction both for install and daily use.

It also has decent Nvidia support and Steam runs well on it, so (most) mainstream gaming is a real possibility here.

Corporate+Niche quadrant could be populated with dead systems that only hobbyists use. Amusingly, there’s too many to fit onto this chart.

Hah! No back issues, thankfully. Knees and neck on the other hand… Advil for joint and sinus inflammation, Aleve for muscle aches and cramps.

A few examples off the top of my head:

• Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
• Velvet Acid Christ - Twisted Thought Generator
• Depeche Mode - Violator
• Stabbing Westward - Whither Blister Burn and Peel

(why yes I’m of a certain age, why do you ask?)