Then implement an annual cognitive function test for all captains. Soon as someone doesn’t hit the required metric on a retest medically retire them.

This is a job where mental flexibility and quick decision making could literally be life and death, if the person in charge of the boat isn’t able to cut it then get them out.

Idk, guy I used to work with said he was late to work once because the cops picked him up at a bus stop saying he matched the description of someone who robbed a bank that morning.

He lived 4 blocks from site, not large blocks, start time is 7 and he got in at 7:45…tell me what bank is open at 7am to be robbed in the first place.

Still Captain Dingledorf over here has some pretty piss-poor excuses.

Isn’t it age attestation as opposed to verification? Meaning that the age old tradition of 13yr olds registering for stuff are logged as in their early centenarian years?

Possibly not Linux, but likely is:

Someone in a music gear discord server I’m on found a bit of Tracker gear for their baby. Get em started young!

If I’m understanding the description on the git page correctly, it scans you media library, logs the resolution/format/etc, then searches wherever it’s pointed(torrent trackers?) for better quality versions.

Depends on how much you enjoy fresh installs of your OS

Marathon released on Steam [Very Positive review] [kernel anticheat] [SteamDeck unsupported]

Don’t need that last bit, kernel anticheat makes it defacto unplayable on the Deck… unless you happen to be one of those heathens who installed windows on their Deck…then you can play it…

Ok, then just start region blocking places with these laws. If the OS connects to the internet and sees it’s in a banned region it locks itself down irreparably or deletes the network drivers and permanently blocks reinstallation. Region block all said regions from even downloading the install files. Put a legally valid entry in the EULA saying that use in those regions is absolutely prohibited without exception and any use by anyone is without the company’s permission and all responsibility for that is on the user.

See…that’s the kind of logic that gets people places!

… unfortunately in the US the place it might get you is the gulag…

No worries bud! The wording is still ridiculous…and also fuck Nvidia 😒🖕

25% lower clock speed isnt “far below”

AHEM! AKTCHEWALEE… it’s 20% which is even less qualified to be “far below” the other two.

I mean…yeah…I guess I could live with homebrew tech on a scale of 64gb of ram being the size of a full fridge…but where the fuck do I put it?! Between the my wife and I there’s barely enough space for us and just our stuff in the house we own…😒🖕 Fucking Big Corpo Tech is in bed with Big Housing to conspire against the space required for Big HomebrewTech to be a contender…

I mean… personally? I don’t feel like this is actually that much of a hot take. More of a verifiably good idea.

The big tech doesn’t deserve to fail. a bail out, but will definitely be getting one.

That kinda dodges the conflict by not engaging with ethical concerns at all.

I guess I…kinda lost the plot a bit when I wrote the second part, eh?

There’s ethics…and then there’s what the government in the country a scientist operates in views as “morally and ethically acceptable”.
Stem cell research was banned in most places for a long time. The US is banning CRISPR, if I remember right, the OG Nazis, Soviets and Empire of Japan (and honestly basically everyone else too, just those are the three that were highlighted when I was in school) rubber-stamped and funded research that should warrant execution by vivisection…die by your own methods and all that.

You’re right it’s not really a solution. However the realities of modern society means that there’s room within what is morally and ethically acceptable in any country to operate in both a humane and inhumane fashion. And if it doesn’t then money and connections to those in power allow further leeway to be an example of humanity at it’s best…or a monster in a human suit…

I know you are probably joking.

From the wiki on palantir:

Its flagship products—Gotham (for intelligence and defense) and Foundry (for commercial and civil use)—connect previously siloed databases to support intelligence operations, counterterrorism analysis, law enforcement, and enterprise analytics.

Science and Ethics — the age old enmity between “I wanna know” and “I’m not allowed to find out” “Am I able to find out without doing something monstrously inhumane”

FTFY

I guess my point is that sometimes even if it’s illegal you can get away with it if done correctly, with ruling party aligned stated goals…or you have access to a shit tonne of money and powerful friends.

Honestly? Sounds preferable to being stuck in the universe of I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream… I’ll take a challenging power fantasy with some massively overpowered weapons over millennia of endless physical and psychological torture by an insane AI… might just be me though…

So, some of rakabis’ advice is pretty good. I’ll just say that if you’re wanting to get away from being locked into a computational ecosystem with an even worse support lifetime than windows devices, avoid buying a Mac. A 2018 MacBook stopped receiving 90% of updates in 2024.
Caveat that by saying that older MacBooks, i.e. pre Mac made chips, are usually pretty reasonably priced on the used market. If you’re willing to switch to Linux then there’s even really good support for the hardware, with basically every distro working on MacBooks with Intel chips out of the box. The only part of deploying Linux on my wife’s 2017 MB Air that was REALLY a headache was the webcam. There’s info on every step to get the drivers installed and everything working, it’s just not all in one place, and a little outdated.