I’m not from the US. And I think the way they’re trying to tackle it is stupid, roughly for the reasons you say. But on a surface level it’s good that there is some action taken on this matter.

The country does matter. It allows oversight and regulation to a greater extent. And if it turns out that there’s a backdoor in a router, if it’s made locally there will be someone to criminally charge, whereas if it’s made in China or wherever, that would be impossible.

Then again, it’s the US, so they’d probably charge some random worker instead of the CEO who demanded the back door be implemented.

To be honest, this is probably justified. My knee-jerk reaction was “oh look, USA in antagonizing everyone else again”, but consumer routers are a really significant security junction which historically has always been somewhat neglected. I only read a few sentences before the paywall stopped me, but sounds like they’ll whitelist any foreign manufacturers that are legitimate.

Yes, it’s gonna have corruption and bribes all over it… But on paper, it’s justified.

But even so, “it just works” = “this is boring!”

I think(?) the the screencaps are from the Matrix franchise, but the text feels very Tron.

… Seriously though what scene is this, I can’t place it

That’s literally Bazzite in this chart

Envy versioning is how a lot of smartphones are named. But most of them settled on current year (YY).

They don’t need to. But they know what an engine is, don’t they? Even if they know nothing else about it? It’s the part of the car that goes vroom and makes everything else possible.

Your sacrifice is greatly appreciated! Also, what the hell, since when can tweets be novels?

I want to see the rest of that quoted tweet. There aren’t a lot of ways to finish that sentence that would make sense.

To be even more pedantic, I don’t think “up for debate” applies here when the only possible point of disagreement is the very definition of “wet”. Any specific definition would either mean water is wet or water isn’t wet, so there isn’t any debate.

Oh, of course!

Where does that put Judaism? Just a bare Linux kernel without the rest of the OS?

This is fantastic. Thanks for posting the reddit link, which has now been edited further:

EDIT 2: Apparently I also owe an apology to the small (but vocal) contingent who really wanted this to be minotaur smut. I’m doing my part. Now get typing.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

And the linked thread is basically a writing competition that the author is hosting with a $100 prize. The title is “Announcing the 2026 Beefhammer Prize For Excellence in Minotaur Erotica”. Lovely!

Maybe the necessary codecs just aren’t installed in Debian by default? Mint and Ubuntu are targeted at laptops for general use, so it makes sense they’d bundle all Bluetooth codecs in a default installation to be ready for most users. But Debian makes fewer assumptions like that, and is often used for servers, so perhaps they didn’t want to bloat it with codecs that many installations will never need.

I’m just guessing here, but that makes sense to me.

I never actually had to deal with Bluetooth issues on Linux so take this with a grain of salt.

BT audio devices generally support multiple different encodings, for example aptX, but they can always fall back to the most basic and most horrible codec that is universally supported on any BT host device. Sounds like that’s what’s happening. So you might want to look into why your PC isn’t using the better options.

Out of curiosity, what do you recommend instead?

That’s great. That’s not the world we live in.

That’s nonsense.

That’s why patents are relatively short. A patent grants exclusivity for the inventors, which incentives people and companies to invent in the first place. But it’s limited in time so that the whole world benefits eventually. Everything that was invented over 20 years ago is now public domain. This includes a ton of safety mechanisms, some in cars, that never would have been invented if there wasn’t a financial incentive for it.

I don’t like this all that much from a moral standpoint, but this is a good compromise for the world we live in. To say it would have been better if it didn’t exist it all is just plain wrong.

Same video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/practical-engineering-the-hidden-engineering-of-runways/ (16m36s, presumably because it skips a sponsored segment)

I’m actually surprised he doesn’t look to Nebula from the blog post version of the video.

If you’re talking about the illegal settlements in the west bank, you’re damn right they should stop. It’s been a point of contention within Israel since it began, and I think it should be stopped, and should never have started to begin with.

If you’re talking about the entire country of Israel, kindly fuck off. This is an old nuanced and complex issue, your reductionism of is only making it impossible to talk about it realistically. No, the entire Jewish population of Israel is not going to just leave the only country they’ve ever lived in.

I do believe it is possible, in the far future, for us to coexist peacefully here. Sadly everything seems to be going in the opposite direction.