He would have had a lot better legal leg to stand on I think if he had just refused to give them any passcode. Now instead of a potential case of being forced to compel speech, he is facing what will be argued is an attempt to destroy evidence. His defense is probably a lot stronger with the former than the latter.

Who cares, he votes for the Republican talking points most of the time anyway. Grow a spine already and make it official.

What he wants is the party to cross the made up line he has drawn in the sand so he can switch affiliation “guilt free” and be able to say “ look they made me do it” when pressed about it.

Time to add LG to the list of computer display OEMs I will avoid like the plague on principle.

It is because the LG software is in one of the Windows Update channels.

Once Windows detects the LG display the OS pulls down the LG software and installs it like any other OS update.

Essentially they are abusing something Microsoft provides to better deploy legitimate feature and security updates for firmware to push out their data mining and malware packages.

Pre AI driven ram/nand increases: < $500 probably. Now, probably >= $1000.

“I can complain about Starlink raising their prices, but it’s the only genuine option we have,” former Nebraska state senator and Republican Julie Slama told the Washington Post last month. “Once they have rural customers on their service with no meaningful alternatives, they’re free to raise prices at will.”

Should we pull up the record and see who voted to allow that to happen in Nebraska while on the subject?

In my opinion if an elected official can’t respond to a request for physical proof of fitness for the job by those they supposedly represent then they should automatically be removed from office and elections for a fit replacement is called.

Does it even matter? Even if you remove everything about Epstein and Iran from the conversation, he is still objectively a shitty person and one of the most incompetent and self serving people to hold high office in a country that elects its leaders.

You would probably have to go back 100 years to find someone that is the head of state in a country that is a major player on the world stage to find someone that is as unfit for the job as Trump.

As the wise John Oliver said a few months back: “Fuck you, make me”.

Probably not. The article says that most of it seems to have come from orphaned stuff in the AUR that the threat actors took ownership of via the legit process, then modified to pull down malicious NPM packages when someone went to install them.

So if your Discord package is well maintained you probably have nothing to worry about.

When the subject comes up I have often said that cell phones are what we avoided in the PC space when the IBM BIOS was reverse engineered.

It has been a disappointment to me that so many smart otherwise tech literate people have seemed to not be able to see the tech industry, and others, putting the digital noose around out necks with smart phones.

We are not too far away from entire brick and mortar businesses being off limits to someone whose only smart phone is not an iPhone and does not pass Googles Play Services Safetynet checks for an app and the only method to pay they have being cash or a physical credit card. That is wild, and something that should worry nearly everyone that has a vested interest in being able to live their lives without being under the thumbs of private corporate interests if they so choose.

And that is before even getting into the even more concerning parts of modern phones which take all of the above and make it scary by replacing private corporate interests with governments.

Nothing good ever comes from getting in a position where you have to interact with, or obey, another party and they get to set all of the terms.

Good. But I would like to see it go further and have a provision that allows the doctor to pass that blame on to the place they work if using that AI is being forced on them.

Louis taking the financial hit for all of us. One of the few people that are “famous” I would buy a coffee if I were to see him on the street.

I am surprised it is actually a clone of something people have heard of. I was expecting something on the level of what you can get for $50 at Walmart.

Such a thing would need to be somewhere other than the OTA broadcast networks because those are subject to the FCC and Brendan Carr and would never see an end to the attempts to silence them.

Good on him for having a backbone. Hopefully he lands in something that ends up taking the majority of the viewership. Maybe a new show called “65 minutes” where the last 5 minutes of every show it dedicated to torching the latest conservative hypocrisy.

The great master of the deal at work. Is this 5d chess yet?

That is crazy talk. There would not be nearly enough shareholder value in such a system.

Was wondering who was going to rise up and challenge the Catholic church for the title of champions of the molesters in the next Holy Wrestle Mania PPV.