With our new Multi-State Insights feature, law enforcement is alerted when suspect vehicles have been detected in multiple states, helping investigators uncover networks and trends linked to major crime organizations.

It always helps, when reading this kind of blurb, to mentally replace “major crime organizations” with things like “women or trans people seeking medical care” or “environmentalists” or “people attending protests” or “police officers’ battered exes” or just “brown people going anywhere.” It gives you a better idea of how the police will actually use the tool.

On the Amiga’s 40th birthday I brought the old Amiga 500 out of storage to the dinner table and we had cake. Just realized I should do the same with the Atari ST, for more cake. I think my family tolerates me because of the cake.

My age in fond memories:

I don’t have long for this world…

We’re fully aware in Canada that the fascism next door affects us. Trump came in on day one threatening to annex our country, and he hasn’t stopped with the threats and hostility.

Are the USA’s militarized police not annoyed that their violent dominance of the streets is being usurped by actual soldiers with guns? Maybe they could fight it out among themselves?

Or a transgender person using the appropriate toilet.

Mostly the weather is too hot now, but there are also stronger storms and more floods. So still not great, but in a different way from before.

I sometimes get a popup warning from YouTube that my account will be blocked from viewing videos if I keep running an ad blocker. But the warning goes away after a while and YouTube still works. I don’t see ads except on mobile.

Oddly, they also keep begging me to “return” to YouTube Premium, though I have never paid for YouTube Premium.

Off topic but food in the UK, at least in some parts, is pretty good these days. Whenever I return to Canada from the UK it feels like a step down in quality of food. Their supermarkets have some really nice stuff, there is lots of good international food, and the fast food is way better. The bad food stereotype is a hangover from past times I think.

You’re literally nitpicking.

Pixel phones with their mainline kernel support letting alternative OSes flourish,

Google seems to be doing its best to put a stop to that at the moment, in line with its old tradition of killing whichever products the users like.

The licensing concern is serious. And it’s a serious concern if corporations are using Rust migration as a Trojan horse for undermining the GPL. These are political problems and it would be a shame to see these undermine the popularity of a pretty useful programming language.

The lack of Rust compiler support for older machines is a real concern, especially if we start losing access to the C/C++ versions of core libraries as distros stop including them or as developers stop supporting them. But older machines already need to run some pretty specialized versions of Linux rather than the mainstream distros, because this isn’t the only place where new distros are moving away from long-term backwards compatibility, and everything is more resource hungry these days.

All the whining about “Rust people” though is a bit insufferable and off-putting. It seems like an issue of corporations setting the direction rather than a reason to resent Rust developers as such.

To be fair, it’s not a small butt.

Microsoft does support Windows for a good length of time. The problem is when they don’t provide a migration route for people using and older OS on hardware that is still perfectly powerful enough to remain in use. If they had Windows 11 fail over gracefully when the recommended TPM etc. is not present, then these users could migrate to Windows 11 without issue. The thing blocking these computers from going over to Windows 11 is an entirely artificial set of requirements concocted by a company that makes money from each new machine sold, and which doesn’t care that its customers now have to choose between environmental irresponsibility or running an insecure OS.

That said, Linux is there, it’s free, and it’s so much nicer.

Capitalism says no.

That’s just for the AI capitalism hell. After that we’re just distracted from it by all the climate hell.

With Sam Altman the “OMG I’m so scared that we’re building something terrifyingly powerful” pose is basically marketing and hype. Probably the same with all these other AI execs.

Our techbro leaders are so wise they can’t tell the difference between God and a statistical plagiarism machine.

Trump’s 100% tariffs on chips made outside the USA is puzzling. It it an attempt to force Intel, who do make chips in the USA, to become more competitive just through bullying everyone? Or does he know it will just cause more trouble and is he trying to drive Intel into the ground for revenge because they took Biden’s money? Why is he also demanding that Intel’s CEO resign? Does none of it make sense because Trump is a crazy old narcissist who has lost touch with reality and is now losing his mind?

they even build and maintain the one in Gaza, so the people there have enough fresh-water!

I’m skeptical about whether they’re still doing that bit.