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> You can certainly find examples of destructive or unethical behavior if you dig deep enough

Dig deep enough? Please. Merely tilt your head slightly upwards, and let your eyes feast on countless examples.

Well, let's just hope that if you get kidnapped, enslaved and forced into labour, someone will be kinder to you then you were to them.

You are missing the point, though. The complainer decides whether it's a solvable problem or not, not the listener. So "I'll listen if it's unsolvable (to me)" is a non-starter.

> It does not pass the "friend test" [...] not a valid legal issue.

What legal doctrine is that, and can you point towards precedent? Or is it one of those "I feel like the law should" situations?

They are not paying customers. From the announcement [1]:

> What This Means for Existing Deployments

> Paid Customers: No action required—your deployments are unaffected.

[1] https://forum.mattermost.com/t/mattermost-v11-changes-in-fre...

Honestly, "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to worry about" is a juvenile take in a post-Snowden world.

> Ocado can only work with packed goods - not weighed vegetables for example

Not quite. Packed yes, but for many vegetables they have both item count and weight-based packages, e.g. "4 potatoes" vs "1kg potatoes".

I think that strikes the right balance.

> In short, counter arguments to articles like this almost write themselves.

Yes, arguments that are facts-and-numbers-free are easy to write, but that applies to any topic, not just space data centers.

> a robot that operates 100% locally and is located within Bluetooth range

Which robot is that?

There are no commercially available EVs with mechanical parking brakes, so it's not a Hyundai problem.

> For me the whole point of getting it was a slightly console like experience

You say this, but talk about the difficulty of 3rd party stores and installing ISOs. A console like experience means using Steam alone, and not even considering desktop mode.

> it can be frustrating to receive bug report after bug report from people

As the article states, these are AI-generated bug reports. So it's a trillion-dollar company throwing AI slop over the wall and demanding a 90-day turn around from unpaid volunteers.

It's a $50 add-on on their website.

> Wi-Fi 7 4x4 MIMO routers

Are there any such routers? And even if there are, are there any clients? The last 4x4 MIMO Wi-Fi client I can remember was the Asus PCE-AC88, a Wi-Fi 5 NIC from 2016.

> your body set point

... is a pseudoscientific myth.

I've had it for a while actually. Maybe they are rolling it out slowly?

> This whole rhetoric of the journalist being an "adversary" that is "outing" things is extremely problematic. You should be able to retract statements.

It's quite the opposite, actually. As Katherine Graham, the former publisher of the Washington Post, used to say: News is what someone wants suppressed. Everything else is just advertising.

TechCrunch is not obligated to let NSO's mouthpiece advertise on their pages.

> There is an implied agreement

The implied agreement is that everything is on the record unless explicitly agreed otherwise beforehand.

> Users get reduced data consumption, potentially higher quality selection if the bandwidth now allows for a higher resolution to be streamed

They also get increased power usage, lesser battery life, higher energy bills, and potentially earlier device failures.

> Better codecs are an overall win for everyone involved.

Right.

What are the options legally available to them? They have their own experts, but it sounds like you have a novel idea that hasn't occurred to anyone before.

> criminal negligence

Can we stop with this kind of hyperbole, please? It's an open-source project for a dead game. It does not come pre-installed with any hardware, nor is it required by any employer or government to be installed on your device. It's something you actively have to seek and install, and not even the person reporting the bug saw anything malicious happening.

Criminal negligence is a legal term with a specific meaning, and it is far removed from... whatever you think is happening here.

It's a feature we like now that we have it, but not one we asked for.

https://archive.ph/53Eay (Warning: NSFW)

> Does have any physical benefit?

Compared to what? Sitting on the couch, snacking on chips? Of course.

> giving birth to nonhuman intelligence

Doesn't this incessant anthropomorphization get tiring?

> maybe it’s just our ego

Indeed...

> We always encourage projects to go through the process but sometimes they need help understanding that it exists in the first place.

Including ingress-nginx? Per OP, it's not marked as verified. If even the official components don't bother, it's hard to recommend it to third parties.

Remember last year when a Boeing engineer whistleblower urged the company to ground all 787 Dreamliners?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/16/boeing-whis...

> Where it is not the responsibility of the initsystem

systemd is not an init system. It's an umbrella project with many distinct tools and services, only one of which is an init provider.

> If you don't understand, or disagree

I understand, and I do agree. I simply answered the GPs question.

Historically, "safety" referred to protection from physical harm. It has now expanded into psychological, emotional, economical realms. This had the (very much intended) effect of redefining "unsafe" from imminent and persistent threat to anything that makes me uncomfortable.