what you find online through search engines is only the standard case which just so happens to not work for you for some odd reason

Usually because the highest-rated solution is half-assed bullshit proposed by an overconfident newbie (or an LLM regurgitating it). I mainly use Stack Overflow as a way to become pissed off enough that I’ll go solve the problem myself, like I should have done in the first place. Indignation As A Service.

It’s even worse than that. Porsches are locked by default, and can only be enabled remotely.

That’s not how the stock market works, you buy stock from other investors, not the company.

The company can issue more stock, not just use debt for its financing. And the value of the new stock is strongly influenced by the market price of the stock that has already been issued.

That’s why transactions are defined as the exchange of something of value. In most legal systems, if you’re caught swapping phony transactions like that, you can be prosecuted for fraud.

but it was the main one putting future united humanity, progress, science, equality, humanism and secularism into the center of its cosmology

Just llike with many people, what they say and what they do can be two very different things.

In the USSR’s case, they talked socialism while being totalitarian state capitalists. This was even noted at the time of the Russian revolution by people such as Rosa Luxemburg. And in terms of its foreign policy, they talked internationalism and cooperation while carrying on the legacy of Russian imperialism.

When it failed, all those things listed also got a hit.

All those things also took a hit at the end of WW1, in the Great Depression, and during WW2. Nobody who was paying attention believed the Russian bullshit, before or after the collapse of the Communist Party’s rule. The double-dealing in the Spanish Civil War, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the crushing of the Prague Spring, and many other events put paid to that naivety.

I totally forgot about this app because, well, it seemed pretty forgettable.

It’s too trivial to remember.

And yet people keep buying

For low values of “people.”

Wait for knock-off Trump-branded goods on Temu and Alibaba. They’ll probably be of better quality than the originals. And that’s not saying they’ll be anything more than worthless straight-to-landfill crap.

What’s to stop states from saying “fuck you” to this lame-ass attempt to rule by decree?

‘A bad config file nearly kills the Internet’ club

There’s no such thing as bad data, only shitty code to create it or ingest it, and bad testing that failed to detect the shitty code. The overflow of the magic config-file size threw an exception, and there was no handler for that? Jeez Louise.

And as for unhandled exceptions, you’d think static analysis would have detected that.

The right to first sale should mean that the owner owns and controls all services installed in the product. And any DRM in the way of that, or that obstructs the right of repair, should be illegal, and the manufacturer held liable for including it in a product.

You don’t own the stadium, and you don’t own the satellite. So they’re really not the same as a car, which you do (nominally) own.

Cruise missiles too.

That’s not really true. The first fuel injection systems were mechanical. The first one of those used in a gasoline-powered 4-stroke car engine was in 1955. Bosch mechanical FI systems were common in higher-end European cars from then on. Digital electronic fuel injection controllers weren’t common until the 1980s, though there were some EFI systems controlled by what were essentially crude analog computers as far back as the late 1950s. I know that Volvo had such a system in the late 60s since I owned one. It was extremely reliable.

And the appropriate use of some tools is to not use them at all.

My team have been trying it. So far, at best, it costs money but makes no difference in outcomes. Any productivity gains are wiped out by the time needed to diagnose and correct the errors it introduces.

I’d use Clippy before I use any of that time-wasting, unreliable, energy-guzzling crap.

“Small” meaning “author of article seldom thought of it before.”

CloudFlare has pioneered Crap Usability As a Service (CUAAS).

In my experience, occasionally a good one will still slip though the net.

Yeah, now we have a bigger pool to recruit our sociopaths from. Big win, huh?