This is my first time reading about this. I’m very curious to hear a lawyer’s thoughts on this.

If you change the bootloader to some other software, how could the company be expected to provide support for something they may have no knowledge of? Suppose I develop some theoretical SnowsuitOS and then complain to Samsung support when it doesnt run on my smartphone? It seems very likely that some conflict in my code could be causing problems, as opposed to an issue with my hardware.

I feel like to require this, you’d have to prove that the software is functionally equivalent to their software, right? (Side note, isn’t this problem undecidable? Program equivalence?)

If you replace a wheel on a tractor you can pretty easily define what it should and should not do. Determining equivalence seems simpler with a physical situation. On the other hand, I’m pretty sure program equivalence is not a solved problem.

My point here is that I don’t think it’s reasonable to legally require a software company to offer support without limits, because they cannot be sure that there is not an issue with the (unsupported) software you are using.

No sympathy for him, but it got me wondering if it’s really fair to subject elderly people and others who have difficulty standing to the “walk the line” test.

What’s the signal issue? I use signal on my desktop. Can you not create an account without a phone number? I thought they added usernames a while back.

Edit: nevermind, it appears you do still need to provide a phone number to sign up, even with the usernames and desktop clients.

I’m confused. At a sit down restaurant you can’t just walk into the kitchen and make your meal, yet that is a standard place to tip.

They’re part of Department of Homeland Security. NSA is part of Department of Defense. So they’re actually not, unless you meant this figuratively.

Blatant discrimination

Trans flag and the pride flag

I’ve always thought it was so funny when people say tHe aLgOrItHM like it’s a bad word or something. I know they mean social media & marketing, but it’s funny to think that they’re very concerned about something like bubble sort.

Don’t these people ever want to retire? Enjoy your final years? So weird.

I’ve found on my android phone that the bitwarden prompt comes up more reliably if I tap on the password field instead of the username field.

Is generative AI going to be the calculator of the future? Seems probable, but I don’t know of course.

Hard for me to gauge “lesser known” without knowing what you’ve seen, but here are some I have enjoyed:

• Raw (2016)
• I See You (2019)
• The Autopsy (2022) - not feature length
• Hell House, LLC (2015)
• Pontypool (2008)

Most people do not know who Satoshi is.

Approval voting sounds good.

One issue I see with the star system is that people tend to have preconceptions about star ratings. E.g. some people never rate 5 stars on principle or will rate something 3 stars without realizing that is a 60% rating. My point is I think you might see some weird skew in the results based on this.

I feel like the one thing missing from this is that the term is supposed to sound like how a snot-nosed kid would say it, hence the letter r being dropped.

This is the integrated search on the home screen of my android (pixel). For a lot of mobile phone users, it’s the fastest way to search something. I can just Google search directly from the home screen instead of opening up a browser.

What a sweet lil baby 😻

Easy just have a drop-down menu for each value that can change 😎

JoJo whispering to Emma Roberts in the movie Aquamarine (2006).

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/jojo-whispering-to-surprised-emma-roberts

This is a good list. I watched it in this order and had a good time.