Agreed. I get that the mission of Wikipedia is to make information available to everyone and purposely cutting off a whole nation from their information goes against their mission. But sometimes Wikipedia should play hardball, and if the UK elected a government that wants to block Wikipedia then the people of the UK shouldn’t get Wikipedia. The people of the UK will need to elect a new government. Or get a VPN. Or both.

Wow yikes. I couldn’t even get through a few minutes of one of them. I assume the prompt was “generate the most annoying video possible using random clips of humanoid cats and a soundtrack that induces aneurysms”

This is actually a problem for people in rural areas where broadband has not reached (and won’t because it’s not profitable). Cellular will be the best option they have left.

As long as the previous collections of archives are still intact. We probably don’t need all of their new spam posts in the wayback machine anyway

The “outsourced labor” is the most concerning part here. People who won’t have a voice and can’t protest the poor conditions

Lack of a cute animal mascot and catchy name

I would be the most concerned about the music. The MPAA exists solely to sue consumers and seems to have no other real purpose. Probably best to scrub the soundtracks.

WTF is a “crime city” in your mind? It’s a low income city (avg $51k compared to US avg $79k). Does poor = criminal now?

To be fair, if everyone spent more time looking at cat memes instead of listening to billionaires talk about their big stupid ideas, we’d be in much better shape as a species.

Is Google solely responsible for earthquake notifications? For a system they describe as a safety net it’s pretty concerning it’s being relied on so much.

May it wither and die. I would post my ID on the bathroom wall at Heathrow before I would submit it to what remains of Twitter.

Very low and yes. They work great for IoT, as long as it’s not mission critical stuff as messages can get dropped or arrive out of order sometimes. But for something like monitoring a remote sensor station that’s within the Lora range, without needing a cellular plan, yes.

Thorium.

Yeah it only felt like it wasn’t a big deal because it became a big deal early enough for there to be plans made. And because good people doing hard work to prevent a problem wasn’t newsworthy after the fact.

I like the logo. That cat looks appropriately suspicious.

Because it will only fix it for AI and not for the inefficient meat puppets.

It would be a terrible shame if someone used their own AI to spam this form with applicants.

Agreed it definitely depends on what you buy. I inherited a stereo amp from my uncle who always buys really nice gear. I have had it repaired or been able to repair it anytime a component failed and it is now 30 years old. But it was built to last that long not to be disposed of in five.

Right to repair is not just for nerds and tinkerers. We all deserve repairable products.

Anytime I get one as an Uber I try to play stupid like I can’t figure out the door handles. Slam the doors, pull the emergency door release (if there is one), push against the motorized door close mechanism. Ask if there’s a shade for the glass roof. Anything to remind the driver that it’s not a good car, especially as a taxi.

I would at least wait several years before you sell it. Make sure you have thoroughly unhooked yourself from that domain. Keep an email box open there to collect any legit messages