Ad blocking is a security imperative.

Ad delivery is not a core operating system concept.

"criminal ad evasion"

it only took 30 years for "living in a van, down by the river" to go from worst-case scenario to aspirational lifestyle

I'm getting pretty sick of how little control we have over all these devices in our lives.

Computers, phones, fucking cars.

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

- Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam, Dune

The Butlerian Jihad can't come fast enough

The memory supply/pricing problem is an opportunity for retrocomputing and for actually making *efficient* use of resources.

Criminal underground: would it kill you to use tabs as a delimiter?

This is the dystopia I was promised.

I'm angry about a lot of things that aren't really what I'm angry about today, and here's one of them:

huge touchscreens are not good interfaces in automobiles.

They're not.

Buttons and knobs you can use without even looking at them? Good interface.

The point of solar panels is not to ensure "solar profitability," but to make for a greener, better world. Its profitability is only justified insofar as it moves us towards that goal. If we want to switch to renewables, then sometimes we're going to have surplus, because of how renewables work. This is well known and discussed ad nauseam. If that makes power markets unstable, then the problem is with markets, not with there being too many solar panels.

Finally.

#nocontext

Lobotomize your smart TV.

The Butlerian Jihad, but because "AI" (LLM) has ruined search engine results.