Well, if republican politicians and catholic priests are any guide, this means Kutcher and Moore are almost certainly prolific child abusers.
EDIT: oh FFS, their org is THORN?!? The same group of wine mommies trying to destroy the internet with that awful and mislabeled “kids online safety act”?
Fuck them AND their parent-pandering bullshit. Scientologists are nasty business.
I too have played the disappointed and befuddled architecture evangelist. The counter-argument that inevitably ended these conversations was: “This is a business. We make money by getting stuff out the door. Demonstrate how the time it would take to rework this code base would correspond to an increase in profits, then we can talk about how your time and people budget is impossible to justify.”
“Pretty behind the scenes” doesn’t make any difference when you’re focused on getting people to build you a moneymaking machine as fast and cheap as possible.
I think the headline is framing this wrong. Apple is not threatening to kill these services.
Apple is refusing to break their services just to accommodate broken, stupid laws written by a broken, stupid parliament.
Hey cool! My favorite blockchain!
Chia is seriously cool technology. It incentivizes decentralization through a clever bit of economic judo:
Farmer 1: Use their over-provisioned storage capacity on machines they already own. This provides blockchain security and rewards the farmer with some income. The productive inputs effectively cost our “hobbyist farmer” nothing, so they have the lowest cost-to-farm-one-token.
Farmer 2: Builds a giant Chia farm by purchasing equipment: yes, you get lots more tokens. But this time the cost-to-farm-one-token is greater than zero. Also, scaling storage capacity tends to get more expensive, the larger you want to go.
Hobbyists WIN in this arrangement, and “professional miners / farmers” are the ones speculating on token prices.
Technically, “right-wing asshole” is not a Protected Class. You could have been refusing them service this whole time.
But now it would appear it’s also okay to kick someone out of your place of business for no other reason than they’re wearing some piece of religious iconography. Or their skin tone offends you. Or they’re a gender you don’t want to serve.
Yes. Blockchains will only remain as decentralized as their underlying incentive structure. In the case of Bitcoin, it turns out that form of “proof-of-work” was subject to Capitalism Attack. That is, there was someone with enough capital to commission the design and manufacture of highly specialized silicon, and their resulting competitive advantage led to the network consolidation we see today: specialized machines competing for who can burn the most electricity.
Ethereum fucked up in a different way. They did learn from Bitcoin’s weakness, and switched from an “open” proof-of-work blockchain to a “closed” proof-of-stake system …
… once again facilitating Capital Attack. Because who can buy the biggest stake? Yeah.
Once again, market forces (combined with extremely dubious design choices in their smart contract API) led to the centralized garbage we see today.
But it is possible to redirect the Capital Attack, judo style, and render it impotent. Look into “proof of space and time” if you’re interested in learning more. Carefully aligned incentives and weaponized Scaling Challenges can give the little guy a chance and send the Big Capital Gang back to their dirty-tricks drawing board.
Ironically, you cannot find out if your car is affected unless you’re willing to share your VIN with the helpful folks at privacy4cars.com
So, since I don’t own a model specifically listed in the story and I value my privacy …
Edit: I was wrong, they would much rather I download their helpful app and use that software they’re implanting on my PHONE to help me re-assert my right to privacy 🤡
When the vast majority of people get “the news” from outlets that are all ultimately owned by a few specific billionaires … this is a surprise outcome to you?
Hey! They’re talking about me! (and thousands of people who were treated similarly)
I served for three years before I had any trouble. And on paper, there’s no record that I was kicked out for being queer. There’s just an opaque charge of misconduct which was drummed up after a base commander saw me (identified as male at the time) wearing a skirt.
The fact that this base was deep in rural Georgia - almost in Florida, really - feels relevant to this story, for some reason.
Being called “airman Klinger” for the next year while the JAG sat on my paperwork? It seemed pretty damn clear to me what misconduct they meant.
(Context for non-Americans and younger generations: there was once a popular TV show here, called M*A*S*H, which featured a cross dressing soldier named Klinger)
In the United States, at least: There are retail stores - brick and mortar, I know! - where various “beauty supplies” are sold. Find one where they sell hair bleach etc. They will also sell hair shears.
I got the second-cheapest set they sold, for around $25. For our amateur purposes, these student-hairdresser-grade shears are more than adequate.
I cut my own hair probably 6-9 times a year, and those shears are still the sharpest things I own, fifteen years later.
(Shears are actually really specific cutting tools. Mine have only ever cut hair, which I credit for their long life)