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He has been going at it for over three decades already (Gates foundation was started in 1994) and he founded and signed the Giving Pledge in 2010, so it isn’t really that late-life.

Gates foundation has donated over 100 billion already, 60 billion directly from him
That’s a bit more than “tossing a few million a year”.

Better will happen. Cheaper than Meta selling the Quest 2/3s at a loss for $300 because they bank on the walled garden of the Oculus app store for profit? Rather unlikely.

Especially now that every VR headset seems to be a standalone and the simple “HDMI cable to a PC” doesn’t really seem to exist any more, so you have to pay for the mandatory integrated gaming tablet as well.

Discord -> Matrix or Revolt.

Though Discord is trying to be an everything-app these days so “alternatives” to it include old school forums, wikis, screen sharing programs, IRC, Mumble/TeamSpeak, file sharing site etc if you just keep spliting individual parts of it off.

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Big part of it is entirely automated - setting your username to instead of the generic “@bsky.social” to use your own domain registrar will get you a check, as that proves that e.g. the Wendys account would actually be run by Wendys.com.

The other is bluesky manually giving certain (auto-verified?) accounts the ability to verify others. The example given is New York Times being able to verify all their own journalists.

But in both cases it’s different from the way Twitter used to do it (managing a manual database of all verified accounts) or does it now (lol pay $8 for a useless checkmark)

“A bigot is someone intolerant of others’ differing ideas, races, genders, religions, politics, etc.”

I am very intolerant of the differing ideas of nazis, the far right, the westboro baptist church etc, so from their point of view, I’m a bigot.

They are simply pointing out that “racist” and “bigoted” are just as ambiguous in the exact same way as the “evil”, “harmful”, “good”, “negligent”, “bad”, “unethical” etc he mentions for the other licenses.

“bigot noun a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic towards a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.”

If being a bigot is good/bad/evil/harmful/unethical or not depends entirely on who is calling you one, and what you or society thinks of them. If you think that just because someone is a MAGA/Nazi/Tesla owner that they are bad, congratulations, you are a bigot.

Ye. I have all Ikea smart stuff, by default everything is running a local mesh network with physical remotes and that light switch backup.

You don’t even need to connect any of it to the net, buying a hub to get app & google home/alexa/etc control is entirely optional with the exception of a few sensors, like the moisture/water leak one. And even then, the app & hub work on local wifi with no internet anyway.

It’s getting a remaster, but also maybe a remake at some point.

Though it doesn’t need a remake nearly as badly as SS did, the remaster could get it pretty close already.

Hope they keep those maps updated, the assist on our BMW constantly gets the speed limits wrong. There’s a section that was changed from 50km/h to 70km/h years ago and it still gets confused because the signs don’t match the map it’s using, flip flopping between the two multiple times.
But at least it’s just an option, it doesn’t restrict or automatically do anything so it’s not a huge issue.

Honey being one of them, it did start as a simple addon that gathered and automatically tried coupon codes for you. It did exactly what people expected it to do.

But obviously once you start getting hundreds of millions in venture capital funds, and eventually sell yourself to Paypal for 4 billion, it’s clear that isn’t all you are doing any more.

I did assume in the end that it stole all my shopping data, and probably bunch of browsing history in general, which is why I had it installed in a separate browser, but I didn’t expect it to be doing affiliate hacking and blackmailing partner deals for the coupons.

Anywhere from 35C to 75C depending on what you are making. 50C is just about right for most vegetables and mushrooms.

From experience printing a bunch of different planters with varying settings and printers, without post-processing/sealing the answer is “not reliably”. You can increase your chances by using many perimeters and surface layers, high heat, and thicc extrusions, but you are still just stacking swiss cheese slices on top of each other hoping the holes don’t line up.

With days submerged, even the tiniest of defects means water can and will seep in.

BT 5 has max bandwidth of 2Mbps, which would in theory be enough for “CD quality”, i.e 44.1khz/16 bit raw uncompressed audio, as that’s around 1.4Mbps. In real life conditions it isn’t. AFAIK aptX lossless gets close by doing some compression.

But if you go full audiophile levels and start demanding lossless 192khz 24 bit audio, that’s 10Mbps and not even remotely possible over BT no matter what you’d try.

"People are 3d printing guns, should we require background checks on the required barrels/trigger mechanisms/ammo/magazines/rails etc?

No! We should require checks on the universal machine that can among a billion other things manufacture the plastic parts!"

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You can check what the value actually would read as if you unplug the thermistor (as that’s what it’s a protection against), and as long as you aren’t near that reducing MINTEMP should be perfectly fine. For example, mine reports something like -50C.

If the car has internet connectivity and an app, then the answer to that question is yes, because that’s how the apps work.
And I very much doubt you can find a manufacturer that promises that they definitely don’t ever access that functionality or data for any reason whatsoever, especially if the cops or a court orders them to.

Bioware is (was) actually many studios in a trenchcoat - Bioware Edmonton (“old” Bioware, ME trilogy, Anthem), Bioware Austin (Sw:TOR, DA: I) and formerly Bioware Montreal (ME: Andromeda) and a bunch of other smaller teams.

Though almost all of the veterans have left, so it’s now kinda a Ship of Thesius type situation, Bioware only in name.