That is not at all the case here. They are creating hoops to maintain their de facto monopoly. Don’t try to sell it as apple are being the good guys here.

That is exquisitely stupid, I love it.

I personally think that it isn’t so much people that are increasingly expressing ADHD traits, it’s the world that’s more and more unforgiving of those traits. Everything is monitored and optimized and the volume of info we’re supposed to process every day is massive. We’re not built for this world and it shows. If we fail to fit the mold that produces the most value for stock holders we are deemed defective. We’re not. We’re just human.

Haven’t seen it, but it might be the source nevertheless.

Maybe time travel requires a receiver to send to? This isn’t my idea, but I don’t remember who came up with it. I don’t believe that’s possible either, but that would explain why we haven’t seen any travelers yet and still keep time travel a theoretical possibility. You can never travel further back in time than to the invention of the first time machine.

Greed?

I see what you did there

This is 100% initiated by Elon to sell trucks to the airforce and as a bonus project an image that the cybertruck is viable for something like that. It laughably isn’t and can also easily be tracked. Off road isn’t really possible either from what I gathered.

Hard to think of a worse vehicle for that purpose actually.

I’m okay with this.

I have a relatively new car thats already had an engine swap. Nicknamed “the wreck” or “Raset” in Swedish. No, it wasn’t my driving, the shop fucked up, long story.

My other car, an old Renault box van, hasn’t got a name. It looks like it does, but inspiration hasn’t struck yet and it might not ever.

To name a car, the car needs to deserve it, have personality. Not any old car gets named.

One of my favorite movies is Black Cat, White Cat (1998) and they are talking about “prima naphta” (Serbian? Spelling?) which was translated as gasoline. Is the translation wrong and they are actually talking about diesel or is the map not correct? Or something else?

I admire that attitude, I really do. Perelman especially, taking IDGAF to a whole other level. Posting proof anonymously on 4chan or seeing proof in a blood soaked dream is pretty cool too.

I just wish my blood soaked dreams would yield a proof or two… (kidding, I don’t want to dilute the experience with maths)

Yes

Someone not having all that much of a garden or suspect that the plant will be gone before harvest if kept outside? Maybe?

Couldn’t agree more.

I’d say it is feasible, it is more about willingness to implement. My guess is also that many sites will probably request this or intentionally not working or working badly if off, so most people is gonna keep it always on because convenience, if implemented. It’s better than always on by default but not optimal. Letting randos on the internet control your HW is iffy at best.

Yeah, they’re not easy to get rid off.

I used to, but that’s not enough and that’s only for me anyway. To few people are doing it, so you can be easily identified because you do stuff like this. (See the TOR browser approach and their recommendations about changing the defaults) Many sites don’t like it so most people aren’t willing to do that or rather don’t care or know how to.

By Bowdlerizing/randomizing the data for each call (or site/session probably) instead, the data will still be ‘valid’, but not as traceable and would negate the need for such hacks that almost noone does and which also makes you stand out like a sore thumb.

It probably isn’t possible or at least not easy on Windows/Apple, so it would be a Linux only thing. Which is a problem too and opens up to Linux blocking or subtler “upgrade your browser to…” type errors.

There are certainly issues and problems with this I’ve not considered or mentioned. It is not a popular idea among the tech giants for one, and they’d do whatever they can to nip something like this in the bud.

I’m not really knowledgeable enough to say for sure, but this sounds like a privacy nightmare. It’s hard enough to keep browsers in general from giving up enough info to identify you even without cookies, but I can’t even begin to see how to stop this from leaking just about everything.

Direct HW access for browsers? Not a fan. What we need is a layer between the browser and the HW that anonymizes and generalizes the API responses instead. I get the increased latency would be directly opposed to what this is trying to achieve, but it’s a prize I’m willing to pay. It’s contrary to what every tech giant wants, which is an indication it’s actually a good idea. They aren’t our friends.