Hmm, hard to argue with that :P

Vote only for candidates who promise to fight for maximum age limits for all Congressional, executive and judicial positions. End the gerontocracy.

How does one address the paradox that, as JSON itself is evil, one cannot use it for evil?

(opinions may vary on the above; but it’s mine, so nyah nyah.)

Quick, someone tell his lawyer to help him run for office! … Somewhere.

Apparently that stops the clock entirely on these things, right??

Why all the downvotes? Haven’t visited the links yet but this doesn’t sound like a corpo ad; and I didn’t think the lemmyverse was against outside linking – after all we’re against walled gardens right? (OK OK discord… but they also are on libera)

I like the idea of code-as-craft and this interests me.

You may well be right… sigh, how time flies. Yet I have two perfectky good fw audio interface/mixers I want to keep using.

Blockchain currencies and now ‘AI’ (glorified pattern matchers)… I wonder what the next huge energy/resource sink grift will be? I want to know so I can get in early, make a zillion and dump before everyone realizes how stupid and wasteful it all was.

What pisses me off is that LLMs are such a brute-force ‘solution’ that goes against one of the major goals of Computer Science – to find algorithms that take less time and energy, instead of just throwing more compute cycles at things.

Hell, blockchain at least had a mathematical justification for why it needed such huge compute/power resources (proof of work).

I am happy that things have converged over time to a single, truly versatile multi-bus capable port (USB-C/Thunderbolt 3) … however, the vendors IMHO should be legally bound to supply down-converters for all the peripherals that used the older buses for the next 10 years, transitively for 2 generations of buses.

If USB-C supports bus ‘X’, then there should be inexpensive and easy to purchase down-converters from USB-C to ‘X’. If Bus ‘X’ replaced bus ‘Y’ in the last 10 years then there should be a down-converter available from bus ‘X’ to ‘Y’.

One problematic example is Firewire… Apple used to make Thunderbolt-2-to-Firewire800 dongles, but they stopped and now they’re rare as hens’ teeth and ungodly-expensive.

They still sell Thunderbolt-3-to-2 dongles, but how long will they keep selling those?

Oh, and while I’m wishing for ponies, the drivers/specifications for all such adapters should be open-source and royalty-free.

Shouldn’t I at least try the poop knife first?

I’ve wondered for a few years now if Garland was just an extremely deep mole – at some point the willful inaction became indistinguishable from purposeful obstruction.

Yup. And before anyone says “It’s ImPoSSiBlE the USA has ToO many PeOple to do hand counting” – then just hire more people FFS.

Camacho at least was smart enough to know he wasn’t that smart, and thus had the sense to listen to a particularly smart advisor who wasn’t stupidly insane though!

Dammit TempurPedic. I almost had a clean slate there. Oh well, won’t need a new bed for hopefully over a decade, so f’em.

Don’t be Anatoli Bugorski!

… or the guy involved in the Hanoi Incident.

Yes, I know they are update services; fair point you make, that those not technically-minded should probably leave them on.

However I personally do not appreciate OS updates, no matter their purported criticality, being installed without my express permission. I am aware of Group policies, but Win11 Home does not officially support them (though one can install gpedit.msc manually; however according to sources I researched, not all policies set will even be honoured by the Home edition).

I did consider scheduling it, just hadn’t gotten around to trying it out.

If could, I would wipe Win11 and use native Linux but this laptop is too new and support is poor on it; it’s gone as soon as practical :)

When I have to boot into Win11, I run this right after as a shortcut from my desktop (right-click and Run As Administrator):

net stop usosvc
sc config usosvc start=disabled
net stop wuauserv
sc config wuauserv start=disabled

… be sure to set your Wifi points as metered to block Update as well.

Note that anytime you go into certain Settings / Control Panel pages, Win11 silently re-enables the above services! Crazy. (Someone should really write a patch for that…)

Sad anyone has to put up with this BS but, we do what we gotta do.

Ah, good. I wonder why it isn’t used more often – this wouldn’t be such a huge problem then I would hope. (Let me guess – ‘convenience’, the archenemy of security.)

No idea! I have wondered that myself. In fact why doesn’t he do it now, he’s the ultimate lame duck prez, there’d be no consequences for him so he absolutely should a few days after the election – if he truly could (I don’t know enough about the details about how he could so do).

If your question is not just rhetorical, I totally agree, 100%.

In fact I wish he’d declare he’s dissolving SCOTUS completely, plus a few levels of courts below and appointing non-partisan judges across the board to clean house and reset the decades of theocratic-proto-fascists that appear to have infiltrated the system at all levels. He could, after all, do anything right? The SCOTUS ruled this summer that Presidents have ‘absolute immunity’, so why not? It would be the ultimate F*ck You to their corruption and would be a historically beautiful way to bow out.

EDIT: Oh look, I’m not the first to think of it

I don’t know much about NPM (having avoided JS as much as possible for my entire life), but golang seems to have a good solution: ‘vendoring’. One can choose to lock all external dependencies to local snapshots brought into a project, with no automatic updating, but with the option to manually update them when desired.

W.T.F.

The US needs to clean house, expand the SCOTUS to put these corrupt judges firmly in the minority so they’re ineffective for the rest of their miserable life-long-unelected-terms, if it can’t outright impeach them!