jsveiga

For now. 40 years ago, what it does now was impossible science fiction.

Well, the opressed and enslaved usually has no say about changing the law.

On one hand, great; will that extent to software development, architecture and other fields?

On the other hand, sounds like the first step to, when AI and androids reach self awareness and conscience, legally keep them enslaved.

When you can pay to win, to always have the last word… He’ll let them know.

He’s going to be able to harass everyone that had blocked him.

Basically this. I don’t assume that just because it’s E2EE (or says it’s E2EE) it’s privacy safe.

Unless maybe if it’s my own system on both sides, running Linux, connected through some FOSS VPN I’ve set up myself, chatting through nc tunneled through ssh with a 100% silent wired keyboard, no monitor, no network, and everything powered off. Inside an underground lead bunker.

That doesn’t mean I don’t use Teams, Whatsapp, Gmail, etc. I just don’t assume it’s private.

E2E just means it’s encrypted from end to end, iow, it’s not decrypted in the middle of the way.

If I was using an E2E communication application, I, for one wouldn’t automatically assume that meant it was not eavesdropping.

Technically they can collect whatever they need, before encrypting to send from E to the other E, and send, with or without encryption, to their servers. The "E"s are the devices on each end, not necessarily the users mouths and ears.

You can send your typed credit card to that site using SSL encryption, but the number can be captured by a keylogger or a screen capture before being encrypted.

Wrong community, wrong advice, and posted twice.

Wrong community, wrong assumption, wrong problem, wrong solution.

As far as I can remember, it was both, as it was an educational tool developed to teach children the basics of programming while playing it as a game.

Logo!

https://dosgames.com/game/logo/

One more interesting feature was the “write lock” switch on the 3.5" ones, a sliding button that covered one of the squared holes on their edges. The floppy drive would sense that and refuse to write on them.

On the 5.25" it was a notch cut on the side (there were punchers for that). To write on a “protected” disk, you’d cover the notch with adhesive tape.

My daughter found a 3.5" floppy in a drawer a couple of years ago (she was 20) and went “What is this? It looks just like a ‘Save’ button!” :)

It’s the guts of 3.5" floppies, like these, they usually stored 720kB, then 1.44MB, but the latest versions (double sided) were 2.88MB.

The larger one at the bottom is from a 5 1/4" (orange in this picture, the big daddy in the picture is 8", first type I used, with COBOL)

… and now you kids know where the “save” button icon came from.

They were not meant to be removed from their protective envelopes, they’re probably damaged now.

but, but, then who will filter the news they’re fed with, so that they only get exposed to opinions they “like”, thus reinforcing whatever polarized view they have? Why would they want to access ANY news??

There’s a typo in the landing page: “senetence”.

Mold, bacteria and grass?

What about stupid malice, or maliciously stupid? :-)

Does a bully think being a bully hurts their image?

As an extreme narcissist, he can’t fathom the idea that anything he does can hurt his image. Surrounded by devoted minions, everything he does boosts his ego. He’s mauling Twitter, and thinks this projects a powerful image of himself.

I never liked this guy, I think he’s an narcissistic spoiled brat, but even then I can’t believe he could possibly be so stupid to think that things like throwing away the Twitter brand for “X” make sense.

Well, super bad breath is not your ordinary bad breath. It would possibly melt your lungs faster than the fire. Bacteria that can thrive in superman’s body is not to be messed with.