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Not soon enough. Hopefully before they can take delivery of all of Micron's RAM stockpiles!

Maybe it was trying to end its tortured existence like those prototype replacement models in Robocop II...

Unscented Company stuff seems pretty good. My wife became very sensitive to fragranced soaps, cleansers etc and I'm very glad these products are available; we primarily use their liquid dish/hand soap.

I don't know how far we should/need to go ... but all I do know is that the current state of mergers, consolidations and cartels in a lot of industries is, well 'too much'. I don't pretend to know what the proper balance is but it certainly ain't what we have today.

Take the recent news of RAM price explosions and Micron just stopping sales to retail for their RAM products. RAM is such a critical item in today's world there almost should be some guarantee enforced by governments that it remains affordable for people; we can't live in modern society without affordable computing devices.

Yay, more consolidation! /s

I plan to decay into low-energy photons, eventually. Then if I'm feeling plucky, participate in the next big bang (I'm a big fan of that conformal cyclic cosmology thing...)

That is, I'm guessing, either BQN or Uiua?

I have dabbled in APL, and it can be written either as 'line noise' like this, or as readable as any other language, with comments, control blocks and clear variable names. Let's just say I have ... opinions on tacit programming like this.

This really is a new front in the war on general-purpose computing for regular people. The EU or some entity big enough that's outside of the US needs to fund new memory fabs ASAP and get this industry out of the hands of the present cartel.

I hope they succeed. Given Alphabet/Google's recent moves to try and lock Android's app ecosystem down and them just generally becoming more Evil every day, GrapheneOS and LineageOS etc. may be living on borrowed time.

I watched a video reviewing some phones smuggled out of North Korea a few days ago and it's truly scary what the endgame of locked mobile phones looks like and given the trends worldwide towards authoritarianism, we're frogs being boiled slowly toward the same situation.

See, even Calvin knew junk patents were bad! :P

Well that could be considered the point where we lost our innocence, yeah. :(

Good point. On that note I am very happy having moved my home server from Apache to Caddy. The auto cert config is very nice.

More the latter :) ... if only we could all just get along and be nicer to each other. Sigh.

Oh, definitely rose-coloured, but I am thinking even before those days... like when access to Usenet was restricted to colleges and universities, dial-up BBSes ... and I didn't use Windows or MacOS at all back then. ActiveX and js didn't even exist back then. Boot-sector floppy viruses did, but those were easy to guard against.

Neat, saw this just after I posted to the thread. Gonna bookmark this!

I've heard Chromebooks are such a pain to put alternative OSes on due to their BIOs. Are there efforts to just reflash these things so they aren't beholden to Alphabet? That would be the most libre-resistance move: "Un-Chrome" the device permanently.

Hmm as I was typing this I did a quick search: https://libreboot.org/docs/install/chromebooks.html

...but that's only for ARM Chromebooks.

Oh, I'm really just pining for the days before the 'Eternal September', I suppose. We can't go back, I know. :/

This seems like a good idea.

I think it would be a good thing for there to be a class in elementary or middle-school, one entire semester, devoted just to reviewing the 'zeitgeist' of everyday technology from just before the Industrial Revolution to present-day. So kids could learn at a very high-level what people did each day in order to communicate with each other; what media was used by society; what terms they might hear referred to by their parents and grandparents... for example:

• origins of communication -- smoke signals to telegraph to telecommunications
• methods of data storage -- stone tablets, khuipu, papyrus/paper, punched-card/tape, magnetic tape, hard discs, solid-state/flash ...
• origins of photography, film, videotape and the various formats used to-date
• Media distribution: courier, newspapers, books, microfiche, radio, TV, early internet (RealPlayer, Flash), ...
• origins of computing, tabulating, touch on WWII and the origin of digital computing, then origins of the Internet

Just showing a video clip of how some of the older technologies worked would help youth understand what was going on and the meaning of many terms.

The details wouldn't need to get very deep, but it would really help to just see how things have changed, and where key terms in our language came from, and a sense of how the speed of knowledge and communications have changed over the ages and even within their parents' lifetimes. Something to give them a perspective on just how different their life so far has been from the generations before.

I'm basically reiterating a lot (but not all) of what was in the History of Computation class in University, but this would be a much, much simpler curriculum aimed at middle-schoolers.

So what's the floor here realistically, are they going to lower it to 30 days, then 14, then 2, then 1? Will we need to log in every morning and expect to refresh every damn site cert we connect to soon?

It is ignoring the elephant in the room -- the central root CA system. What if that is ever compromised?

Certificate pinning was a good idea IMO, giving end-users control over trust without these top-down mandated cert update schedules. Don't get me wrong, LetsEncrypt has done and is doing a great service within the current infrastructure we have, but ...

I kind of wish we could just partition the entire internet into the current "commercial public internet" and a new (old, redux) "hobbyist private internet" where we didn't have to assume every single god-damned connection was a hostile entity. I miss the comraderie, the shared vibe, the trust. Yeah I'm old.