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Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more (www.theverge.com)

The downfall of Chevron deference could completely change the ways courts review net neutrality, according to Bloomberg Intelligence’s Matt Schettenhelm. “The FCC’s 2024 effort to reinstitute federal broadband regulation is the latest chapter in a long-running regulatory saga, yet we think the demise of deference will...

JasonDJ , (edited )

FL would've been a landslide and the courts wouldn't have even been asked if the greens voted for Gore.

JasonDJ ,

How would you feel when they're showing nude pictures of you to their classmates yeah I thought so.

Depends, does your mom have an onlyfans?

JasonDJ ,

Stop sharing any photos of people who don't give consent, whether they can or not.

In an alternate timeline where we never had the stigma around nudity, I'd be just as embarrassed of my nose in a photo than I would of my penis.

Or maybe 10 years after I cut ties with you because you became a massive douche sandwich, I don't want my picture on the same Facebook wall as your white pride rally.

Not you, personally, but any body really.

JasonDJ ,

Don't let this election, or any election, allow us to forget the time back in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcers table.

JasonDJ ,

Not like they used to, mostly. They just replaced "contract" with "equipment payment plan". Because $50/mo for 24 months is easier for a consumer to swallow than a lump payment of $1200, especially when the carrier is giving you a $10 or $20 (or more) "discount" on the phone.

But as long as the EPP is active, the phone is locked to that carrier. And I think that's fair. No different than the bank holding the title while you finance a car.

The thing is that the plans that have these equipment deals are significantly more expensive than others. Namely big name plans like TMo or Verizon, compared to MVNO plans like Mint or Visible. So you end up paying more for the plan because you get "a deal" on your phone (but still end up ultimately paying more).

JasonDJ ,

In a different hemisphere than my ancestors, my surname translates to "Go Fuck Yourself".

Found that out while working in a restaurant staffed by speakers of that language. Thought they were fucking with me but I googled it.

JasonDJ ,

If you save the cheerleader you save the world.

JasonDJ ,

If you give a mouse a cookie, he's going to ask for a glass of milk.

JasonDJ ,

I'll start integrating the webhookers with Slack.

JasonDJ ,

You mean to tell me, three days a week, they have to:

  • wake up extra hours early
  • pack a lunch or plan to pay for one
  • put on hard pants
  • drive their own vehicle in traffic, with their own gas and wear/tear
  • pay for their own parking.
  • do the exact same work in their designated space
  • drive back home in traffic 9 hours later

All for the same pay and several hours away from my family, home, or bed?

No fucking thanks.

Going remote was the best fucking raise I ever got, and it didn't cost them a dime.

JasonDJ ,

System76!

JasonDJ ,

That's a bit obtuse though. I prefer my angles to be 90°. That's just right.

JasonDJ ,

I thought that the idea was to stop crashing old satellites into earth and instead require they maintain enough propellent to move themselves off into a graveyard orbit.

JasonDJ ,

This is what happens when you hire editors based on who has the reddest hat.

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How you gonna have Wendover and not Half as Interesting (his shorter form side-channel)?

No Road Guy Rob? Or Practical Engineering?

No Extra History? (I only know him from Nebula but I think he's on YouTube too)

Also recommend 8bit-Guy for retro computing and Modern Vintage Gamer for retro gaming.

JasonDJ ,

Canonical has been in the early stages of enshittification for a dozen years.

JasonDJ ,

As a parent I don't have the time for multiplayer gaming.

Sometimes I feel like picking up an MMO. Nostalgia is calling for TBC Classic. But then I remember that I'm not going to have this combination of desire and time to play again for like a week, at least.

And I'd spend all my available time tonight just installing it and getting it working.

And then forget it's installed.

And then next time I can play, it needs to patch.

That's not way to play an MMO, especially one where I'd be paying $15/Mo for what amounts to a couple hours of playable time.

So yeah...single player ftw.

JasonDJ ,

Yeah. That's why we can rank on school nights.

Most the players better than us have to go to school in the morning.

JasonDJ ,

I mean, the market did what the market does.

They released a device with the intent of being a tinker kit for programming and interacting with the physical world. The next technological jump for hobbyists from PIC to Arduino, became an ARM SBC.

Of course, they released a cheap ARM SBC, and industry quickly learned that these are great for rapid prototyping and any case that called for a small low-power Linux system.

I wouldn't say they lost their way. There's still a great hobbyists market around it, and tons of good competition. I'd say it's more like they are a victim of their own success.

JasonDJ ,

They'll make their own fediverse. With blackjack. And hookers.

Nintendo: 🙋‍♂️

Fine, Nintendo, you don't have to have the hookers.

Nintendo: 🙋‍♂️

No, you cannot dress Pikachu up as a prostitute.

Miyamoto: 🙋‍♂️

You can do whatever you want.

JasonDJ ,

Shylophone

What a great way to describe me at a party.

Apple is bringing RCS to the iPhone in iOS 18 | The new standard will replace SMS as the default communication protocol between Android and iOS devices (www.theverge.com)

The long-awaited day is here: Apple has announced that its Messages app will support RCS in iOS 18. The move comes after years of taunting, cajoling, and finally, some regulatory scrutiny from the EU....

JasonDJ ,

Disliked a message.

JasonDJ , (edited )

One of two things can happen...

Either Apple does the bare minimum to implement RCS, continuing to make interoperability a pain in the ass. Meanwhile, keep making improvements to iMessage.

Or Apple does it right, fully implements RCS, contributes back to the standard, and abandons iMessage as maintaining two separate platforms for the same function is a waste of resources.

I'll take a guess as to which it'll be.

Alternatively Americans just accept using 3rd party messengers. But that field is huge with big and small names competing, and ultimately anything that displaces FB messenger or WhatsApp will just get bought by Meta (or some other FAANG) and we're back at square-one.

Everybody just remember that Apple is the stubborn ones here, reluctantly adopting the standard that every other OEM has been using for a decade, and the reason they've been doing this was as a means to keep people in Apple's walled garden by "othering" people who don't have iMessage.

They knew exactly what they were doing. I got rid of my iPhone to go back to Android literally a week after the original announcement. Exchanging multimedia with my wife was literally the only thing holding me to iOS. The alternative, using third party messengers, is just plain cumbersome for one user (and likely means selling your soul to Meta nowadays, anyway).

I doubt I'm alone.

And RCS is a neutral standard, belonging to GSMA. Even though Google is a key player, they aren't the only ones. Any phone OS or OEM could always have implemented RCS. Apple has historically chosen not to, while also not reciprocating the openness with iMessage.

I guess there is one other possibility...Apple embraces RCS and, being keenly aware of its limitations and with Apple and Android cooperating, they collaborate to develop a new open standard that fully replaces both. That's probably the best outcome but also least likely to happen.

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It's a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

JasonDJ ,

You know what would be a nice thing to put into windows?

A fucking decent way to search for files.

Also, grep and tail, as implemented in Linux. It's 2024 and there's no native equivalent to tail -f *.log. How embarrassing.

JasonDJ ,

IME this doesn't work for multiple files. Not nearly as well as tail -f *.

Plenty of times I'm troubleshooting something without knowing which log file I should pay attention to. So watching everything happen in realtime with the error helps, a ton.

JasonDJ ,

IME Get-Content doesn't work for multiple files. Unless maybe I put it in a foreach loop or something. But that's way more keystrokes then tail -f *

JasonDJ ,

Articles and posts like this really just exist for conservatives to shout that we need to stop federal spending and cut out "unimportant" things like Dept of Education, as described in Project 2025.

The problem is that debt is good. It enables us to pay for infrastructure projects and services. It doesn't work like a household budget...not on the scale of international economies...because money "in the bank" is money that's not in circulation.

When money is not in circulation, it's not being used to pay for goods and services....it's just...sitting there being hoarded.

You all complain about Musk hoarding a few hundred billions. Imagine if the debt were in the opposite direction and the government had $34T sitting in the bank doing nothing.

And anyone can buy Treasury debt. In fact, last year it was an AMAZING return on investment for anyone that bought into it and holds into the debt for a few years. One of the safest places anybody could put money to earn a return (behind a HYSA at FDIC insured banks).

JasonDJ , (edited )

Most people who think they understand how credit scores work...don't understand how credit scores work.

The biggest things are loan-to-limit, payment history, and average age of accounts.

Loan-to-limit is easily achieved by keeping balances below 50%, and ideally below 30%. It's also helped tremendously by not carrying a revolving balance (paying the statement balance in full each month) and not closing idle cards.

Payment history is of course helped by making payments on time.

And AAoA is probably the easiest. Just don't close cards. Call and "downgrade" a card if it isn't worth the annual fee. If there's no annual fee, there's no reason to close a card.

Just make sure you use it every now and then and pay it off. I sock-drawered one of my oldest cards a long time ago and it just closed last month from being idle, and that took a hit to my score (high limit gone and it's no longer incrementing time in my AAoA).

It's also worth mentioning that credit scores don't matter until you are looking for credit. Credit cards are probably the easiest way to build credit, as long as they are used properly. But they'll give a basic card to any schmuck. Where it really matters is getting mortgages and larger loans like cars. That's where having a good score matters. And also better cards that earn more points/miles/cashback and have other fringe benefits.

JasonDJ ,

It's Microsoft Windows' computer. Must've missed that little apostrophe.

JasonDJ ,

Well if they wanted to tell their side of the story, they should've won.

Not our fault they didn't invent guns or a bunch of diseases by domesticating livestock in population centers!

JasonDJ ,

You never wondered about that person at the flea market selling Tide and baby formula?

There absolutely is a "black market".

JasonDJ ,

Happy pride month everyone (but especially my super-sexy NSA overseer)!

JasonDJ ,

Yeah but on a phone we can just pinch, and on a computer we have that little icon of a penis with a + on the balls.

JasonDJ ,

So basically a first trimester abortion. Will these be available in Texas?

JasonDJ , (edited )

I disagree, a bit.

Base load is still hard to get with renewables, unless you can get a somewhat consistent level of power from them. That's basically just hydro/tidal and geothermal at this point, and all of those have very limited areas where they can be used.

Nuclear, on the other hand, can be built anywhere except my backyard.

We have four choices:

  • Discover/build another form of consistent renewable energy (what's left? Dyson sphere?)
  • Up our storage game, big time (hydrostatic batteries, flywheel farms, lithium, hydrogen, whatever, just somewhere to put all this extra green energy)
  • Embrace nuclear
  • Clutch on to fossil fuels until we all boil/choke.

We can do all of them concurrently, provided there's money for it, but we only give money to the last one.

JasonDJ ,

Nuclear is mostly expensive because of regulations and red tape that are mostly built upon FUD.

That needs to be re-addressed from the ground up. There needs to be a big PSA push on the safety of nuclear and on the true costs and hidden dangers of coal and oil plants to build massive public support, and then we got to fix the outdated regulations.

Also, coal plants aren't cheap. And coal has costs that are heavily subsidized by society. If you could calculate all of the external costs and level out subsidies, nuclear is cheaper and, more importantly, far far safer, than any GHG plant.

JasonDJ ,

I didn't say get rid of the regulations, I said review them. They need to be rebuilt from scratch based on modern technology and science, not of the FUD that anti-nuclear lobbyists pushed throughout the 80s and 90s.

JasonDJ ,

There are ways to get demand shift working with residential, but I doubt enough residences would participate.

A lot comes down to smart grid, and integrating high draw appliances that don't always need electricity right now. Like fridges and water heaters. Some may come down to residential storage systems charging during off-peak and being used during peak. And using EVs as an extension of residential storage.

We could also get not so used to expecting a specific level of comfort. Honestly how uncomfortable will we be if the AC or heater doesn't kick in for 10 extra minutes or so, when the clouds part over the huge solar array 500 miles away and there's going to be excess.

JasonDJ ,

And I just canceled my YouTube premium family in favor of SmartTube and Spotify.

Somehow I'm yet to encounter a single ad in Spotify Free and I have no idea how or why.

But the downside is that I want to subscribe to CuriosityStream/Nebula and I can't find a referer link for the channels I like because they are all being skipped.

JasonDJ ,

Yeah but you probably always knew your uncle as having those qualities.

What's most amazing is watching your high school best friends, who you haven't seen since Thanksgiving weekend your freshman year of college, slowly become racist conservative bigots.

JasonDJ ,

I got an old iPhone I can't remember the pin on. Was my wife's phone and the screen started getting flakey around the area where some of the digits in her usual pin. She changed it a couple days before we replaced it and now we can't remember the pin to reset it.

Would really like to know how to reset it at this point so I could sell it to Best buy or something.

JasonDJ ,

It's so easy, a toddler could do it.

JasonDJ ,

Yes, Kindle Fire TV and Ecobee thermostat (with Alexa).

And for the record, I hate Alexa, or at least the version in my thermostat. Alexa makes Google nests look like a Nobel laureate.

These were also reactivations, so they already had all our account info, and entirely inside Amazons walled garden.

JasonDJ ,

Ahh corporate lobbyists. The original AI.

JasonDJ ,

The problem isn't the bikes, the problem is the lithium.

China controls a lot of the worlds lithium, and most of its refining.

JasonDJ ,

And most of the largest mines are operated by Chengdu or Ganfeng. It's modern colonialism.

May not be Chinese soil, but the deed is to China none the less.

JasonDJ ,

Blood only has magical power if it belongs to a virgin.

So you're probably right.

JasonDJ ,

I just use wax.

Ear wax.

From sacrificed virgins.

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