Maybe it should just say “this means your intelligence is below average”. I genuinely think someone with <80 IQ would have a very low chance of understanding the text as presented in the screenshot.

Stupid people are people with human rights too, and they should be considered with empathy when building a society. That should be particularly obvious to a site that performs IQ tests. For every person with an IQ above 100, there’s a person below.

Robots.txt is used to prevent search engines like google from fetching and adding specific pages on your web server to their search index.

What are you asking here? Who do you want to stop from doing what with your manuscript?

They could, but will they?

“intervention”. Fucking news.

I suspect it was part of some stupid copy protection scheme

Because nothing has changed since then, except for the worse.

Buddha. I get to reach Nirvana right after this form.

Adobe has no scruples.

I used to work for a full-disk encryption vendor in the 2000s, and one customer had an issue where the machine would BSOD sometimes if both our product and Adobe Acrobat were installed. It seemed a mystery or just a red herring - what on Earth did Acrobat do that could trigger a kernel-mode crash?

Turned out that every hour or so, Acrobat would be reading and writing back the master boot record (containing the OS bootstrap code and partition table) on the primary hard drive. The bug was ours (to unlock the hard drive keys at boot we had to put different data there and redirect I/O after Windows started, and this redirection code would crash once in a blue moon), but Adobe has no business mucking about with this extremely sensitive data.

I read this from the start with the mind that it’s probably an April fool’s joke, but not once did I see any indication to exaggerate or build up to a humorous absurdness. It’s just a long article that could be true but isn’t. Stupid and a waste of time.

As if the law makes any difference.

“This is pure BS. If Russian elites wanted (Russian President Vladimir) Putin out, it would have happened in 2022,” Anton Barbashin, co-founder and editorial director at Riddle Russia, told the Kyiv Independent.

Why? Is the Russian elite incapable of changing its mind?

They’ve backed on tons of things before without admitting any wrongdoing, I don’t see how this is different

This would have been a good time to have it

Cause it is manually assembled. They have a blueprint if you want to do it yourself at a much lower price.

NIH

Oil. They want the oil. Also, it would be good if Iran could make the whole Epstein business go away.

Sure, but some people have more pride and integrity than others. My point is the US has less.

The US isn’t just leaving its allies behind, it’s actively threatening to attack them (see: Greenland / Denmark) even as it has signed a formal mutual-defense agreement. I’d say in practice the US is worse than Russia.

I wasn’t implying that, but a new instance of the same model also uses up resources to manufacture.

That would be fine if parts like the battery, charger port and microphone were replaceable. But they’re not, and so I need a new phone when there’s no capacity left in my existing one.