Some sloppy copy-paste editing in the article. It still references president Biden.

The bill never made it to a vote last time. I expect it will have a similar fate this time —especially with legislative attention focused so much on budget issues. Feels like something they did so they can put it in an election ad.

I hope i’m wrong and it makes it further, but i’m not holding my breath.

Nokia switched to Windows Phone in 2011, just before the N9 came out. They weren’t bought by MS until 2014.

And yes, I know about Symbian. Meego was their intended replacement for it.

I had a similarly high opinion on Meego’s future at Nokia and then they suddenly went all-in on Windows Phone.

I also had a somewhat high opinion of Windows Phone before MS killed it.

No one wants to maintain an OS for any less than like 25% of the market — which pretty much only leaves room for Abdroid and iOS… and KaiOS I guess, though I don’t know how much effort the put into maintaining that. webOS and Tizen (resting place of Meego) are now pretty much only in TVs.

This was what I did until it became fashion to also make phones slippery as fish.

I so wish we didn’t design phones such that we need to then also put extra material friction and padding on them. It’s intentionally bad engineering in order to cater to a feeling of luxury in fragility.

The pace at which a takeaway container degrades from the salty food may be more than slow enough for it to not matter for that use case — especially if the container uses a coating.

Colorblind person here. If we’re talking about limited visibility differentiation of front and back, the color of light is way less noticeable than whether we’re looking at headlights or not (based on intensity). There would be no issue telling whether we’re looking at a front brake light or a back brake light so long as the front brake light has headlights around it.

This was my first thought as well. Both sodium hydroxide and sodium bicarbonate seem like they could have a signficant environmental impact. We’d need some good studies on that before committing to this idea, I think.

The technology plans for these fuel cells aren’t “for now”. They’re for a future where we’ve hopefully already decarbonized most of the electric grid, as doing so is way more important than decarbonizing aviation. Converting fleets of airplanes to electric is a long process that will probably not be started for a while yet while there are more important carbon emission sources to tackle (aviation is only 2-3% of the emissions right now).

Terminator 7: Robot Pirates

Thurott’s article on this implies that “big customers like DDG will be unaffected”. Though he also says information is scarce.

I think Teams has already taken over there as well.

I expect the trusted authorities would be selected by the server where the user account resides. I.e. if a server’s admin does not recognize a certain authority, it would not show their verifications to users logged in to their server.

It’s possible that it could extend to user selections of trusted verifiers as well, but I think implementing that level of granularity would be more of pain than it’s worth to Bluesky. Still, I could be surprised.

Revolt relies on community self hosting last I looked at it, which means it would never be a “mass” solution.

Should Discord ever collapse (something I don’t see in the near future), the free alternatives that I see benefitting would be XMPP and Matrix — though there’s new contenders that could make name for themselves by then too.

I think their plan is for it to be like how website cert verification works. You have a set of trusted authorities that issue certs (or in this case verifications) and that can revoke them if needed.

Isn’t owning the domain proof enough already?

It’s open to abuse and exploitation the same way domains are in general. An enterprising faker could register a domain that looks legit, but isn’t.

The issue is a TSMC-made chip ended up inside a Huawei processor. They’re not allowed to make chips for Huawei or other US-sanctioned entities since they use US tech inside their foundries.

What happened here is that TSMC made chips for another Chinese company that gave them to Huawei (and is now on the sanctioned list as well as a result, but wasn’t when TSMC made the chips). The problem for TSMC is if the US determines they should have reasonably known there was a risk the company they made the chips for would give them to Huawei.

How is the US gonna fine a company from Taiwan?

They use US tech in their foundries, and thus are subject to export controls to make sure sanctioned entities (like Huawei) don’t benefit from it.

From the article, it sounds like TSMC’s part in this was just negligence as Huawei used a front company to make the order for them — like a 14-year-old getting an adult to make a booze purchase. If they get fined, it seems unlikely it would be for the maximum amount.

Why do I get the feeling that the hot new thing for CEOs to do is ask AI whenever they need to make a decision. Would explain a lot.