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I'm not so sure about that. If Microsoft actually removed all the cruft, then they would need around 5% of the employees currently working on it. They'd all be unemployed.

Legally speaking, what is stopping someone from just reverse-engineering the specification and publishing it online somewhere?

This last line is concerning:

>The Light Aircraft Association (LAA) said it now intends to take safety actions in response to the accident, including a "LAA Alert" regarding the use of 3D-printed parts that will be sent to inspectors.

Does this mean that anybody using any 3d printed part in an aircraft will be subjected to this scrutiny? If I use the proper materials with a suitable printer (eg, printing PEEK with a properly specced printer), how much convincing will it take to get these governing bodies off my back?

I took it for one week.

I haven't taken any antidepressants since.

When I was a teen I was put on Prozac because I threatened to commit suicide.

The drug absolutely destroyed me. Within a few days of taking it, I was in a bizarre state of delirium where I would sleep something like 18 hours a day. When I wasn't asleep I would gnash my teeth at my parents. At school I would lash out at my classmates and randomly punch the walls of my classroom. I was taken off the drug after about five days but I didn't fully recover.

To this day, my emotions are severely blunted. I still have complete anhedonia and avolition. I can go on a roller coaster and feel not a shred of an adrenaline rush. Nothing. I struggle maintaining relationships with people because I have no innate "desire" to do so.

The drug is absolutely evil and should never be given to minors.

Realistically, what can be done to stop this?

In my eyes, Google is violating my rights because I did not agree to them stopping independent installation. I view them pushing this update as criminal vandalism.

My takeaway from this announcement is that are going to ruin Arduino's current IDE and replace it with... something called Arduino App Lab? They didn't go into specifics as to what this is, other than it will integrate AI, somehow.

The other thing they announced is that they are going to sell at least one of their SBCs under the Arduino brand. That's kind of cool, I guess.

This announcement was very difficult to read. The whole thing sounds like it was written by chatGPT and it and it really shows. It took them roughly four pages to announce these two things and nothing else. I can't help but feel there is some level of malice to this, like they are taking out of Microsoft's playbook of "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish".

Qualcomm did not need to buy Arduino in order to do that.

Why do I keep seeing news stories about Bluesky here? It really feels like there some kind of campaign to shill Bluesky on this site.

Does anybody else get this vibe or am I going crazy?

Can it run the most recent version of SolidWorks? Can it run any version of SolidWorks?

If it can, I am switching to Linux immediately.

It seems I lost my faith in Raspberry Pis a lot sooner than most people. I gave up on them around the RPi3 days because it stopped working with the random chargers I had just laying around my house. I traced the issue back to my power supply having too much voltage ripple, with it still being within the spec for USB. Essentially, I needed to run it with their charger which was built to work better than industry standard.

This, coupled with the mini HDMI ports basically requiring an adapter, means that you more than total the cost of the Pi just in peripherals to get it up and running. It all seems like a waste of money anymore.

for a short time, he was monitoring the referral header and made his website display an offensive message if you clicked the link from HN.

HN's mods then edited links to his domain so they would emit the referral header, and he responded by implementing a browser exploit to detect if certain HN URLs were in your browser history.

In any case, I apologize for using the wrong wording.

I thought Asahi Linux's sole developer didn't allow discussion of his project here? I remember there being quite a lot of fallout from that, what happened?

...but that is what happened. Ford designed a car that bricked itself if that failure mode occurred. Whether it was born out of malice or incompetence does not matter.

So let me get this straight: The site is being shut down because the owner didn't want to deal with the constant spam of CSAM?

Is there a list of websites that have been shut down due to this type of attrition? I'm aware of at least one other site[0] that has met the same fate. It would be interesting to see an exhaustive list.

[0] freeimage.us

I did not call Elon a criminal and I do not think he is. I was specifically referring to Warren Buffett and a saudi prince, among other individuals on Twitter's former board of directors.

Let me ask a simple question: What can be done about this, other than violence? I do not see a legal path going forward where all these corrupt individuals get removed from their positions of power.

An eye for an eye.

He won't, but this article does [0]. It was written by an unbiased third party of KF and has a section that goes into detail about the three people that supposedly died by the hands of KF. The TL;DR is that two of them had other reasons for their death, and it's pretty reasonable (and morally correct) to assume KF had nothing to do with their demise.

The third one, Byuu, is a bit more nuanced. From all the information that is publicly available about the incident, there has been zero primary sources that confirm or deny their death. All headlines that I could find cite USAtoday their source, whose only source is a man named Hector Martin, who essentially just said "trust me bro" on twitter. The most concrete evidence to Byuu's death is a single picture of an urn that was taken and posted months after the fact, supposedly taken by their former employer who was living in a completely different country at the time.

[0] https://destinygg.substack.com/p/keffals-a-case-study-on-int...

I use an ad blocker and I haven't gotten any such notifications about this. Are they only deploying it on certain devices and not others?

I exclusively watch Youtube through the browser on desktop.

Around mid 2018 I was working on a personal project that absolutely needed a custom PCB.

KiCad 5 had just launched, and so I flipped a coin to decide if I should make it in Eagle or Kicad. I ended up choosing KiCad. Looking back five years later, I could not be happier.

Now almost on a monthly basis I hear about Fusion360 receiving some kind of update that strips features away in lieu of running them exclusively in the cloud, or they just arbitrarily change things and make it qualitatively worse for the end user by upselling them features. I don't want anything to do with that and so HP isn't getting a dime of my money.