I see you haven't been a victim of a shitty third party repair shop. Yet. I have stories to tell.
I don't mind us demanding Apple to be more flexible in authorizing and training third-party technicians, providing them with parts.
But I don't need every idiot to have a repair shop. I don't need this to be a "right". You still need to meet some minimum bar of competence in my book.
I treat Copilot as literally a programmer in pair programming. Which means that if it's trained, i.e. it has "seen" GPL code, then it's tainted, and we should treat resulting code as GPL code.
Replace "GPL" with the most restrictive license that's on GitHub, but you get the point.
They're kinda shooting themselves in the foot, because this reduces the commercial potential of the tool to almost nothing.
We know what Wozniak would say, as he's a tinkerer from a time when computers were "human-sized" and able to be tinkered with.
I think realistically the only thing we can demand is user-replaceable battery. Everything else is doomed to end up on a single chip integrated. And that chip either works, or doesn't. It's not about profit, it's about integration and miniaturization.
> I'm struggling a bit to understand how a belief in the importance of scientific knowledge and techniques equates to a religious mindset.
The scientific method doesn't include the word "belief" at all. If you reduce it to belief, it's not science anymore, it's religion.
> In an ideal world, I would absolutely prefer my government to make decisions based on facts and methods of finding out more facts.
Science is a process, not a collection of hard facts. The only hard facts (or the claim of them more accurately) come from religion.
Science concerns itself with building speculative models that have predictive power, and trying to match observation with prediction of the models. Redundancy (peer review) is used to REDUCE (not ELIMINATE) errors. Social and cultural factors can result in false positives and false negatives in peer review.
That's it in a nutshell. The models don't reflect reality, they only reflect an approximation of aspects of reality in given contexts.
Anyway, the problem is that people do have a religious instinct. And when they're incapable of perceiving science with all its subtleties, they simply reduce it to a religion, which requires the belief that it's basically flawless, it provides hard facts, the best solutions, and that it's uniform (and any contradictions are just examples of "interests" corrupting it).
While politics are very corrupted and often result in incompetence rising to the top, even it weren't the case, those competent politicians have no single place to turn to to understand what "science" thinks on any given problem of society. Science isn't a guy, so it has no opinion.
Everyone is doing it. At the pub after work. They take turns being right about politics, being right about sports, being right about their boss, being right about the state of society and Susan the receptionist. They're spot-on right about her.
And if they skip the pub, they take out their phones and go being right online on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and Hacker News.
9AM to 9PM 6 days a week matches what the US went through during the Industrial revolution. The one child policy has been replaced with three children.
Also the article doesn't speak about any of it being censored. The fact a commenter in state media said "this is shameful" is not censorship. The fact it's hard to find T-shirts with the meme also isn't censorship, unless we have evidence of someone trying to sell such T-shirts and being censored.
What you say is a great example of how you can take some half-truths and spin them into a propaganda narrative. You just want to make sure China looks bad, for some reason. No shades of gray in this country with over a billion people. All fits into a simple narrative, doesn't it?
In the western world, young people often need two jobs just to survive. No they don't have houses either. Laying down and memeing online is often not even an option, censorship or not. Why do we need to villify China about a problem that's literally world-wide? Does it simply feel better to know someone is worse out there?
Which means there's no such thing as "how much time it takes light to travel from the Sun to Earth". It takes no time at all. Yet we do say "8 minutes 20 seconds". Everyone would claim that's the correct answer. In which case at the point of detecting this light on Earth, if someone asks us "when did the event of it leaving the Sun occur" you'd obviously say "8 minutes 20 seconds ago".
So while there's no true universal "when it happened", we're all here on Earth and we've developed a certain way of expressing ourselves about time and light, and broadly speaking we're all sharing a relative point of view in spacetime, relative to something 31 million light years away.
So to say "we detected it 3 hours after it happened" when it happened 31 million lights away would be poorly written, simply put.
Imagine other industries did what the software industry does, so we had articles like "how big should transport vehicles be". So we decided a sedan car is basically the right size, and proceeded to call trucks, trains, airplanes, ships, tankers, motorcycles, bikes and scooters as being the wrong size.
That's how stupid this entire way of thinking is.
It's attempting to take a problem that requires a ton of domain-specific considerations, and dumb it down to something that everyone can read and understand with toddler-level experience and feel smart.
The article speaks about using this as a way to escape addiction to painkillers. Not so fast.
Addiction is a phenomenon that predominantly happens in the brain, due to it constantly adapting to find homeostasis. And being unable to perceive pain when you should be is not homeostasis.
> The wild thing is that the ransomware operations are making so much money that they can afford to buy multi-million dollar zero day vulns that at one point were only available to nation states or fortune 500 companies.
Is it a wild thing that if you permit a safe mechanism of extortion a sprawling economy quickly develops around it, dunno.
I don't mind us demanding Apple to be more flexible in authorizing and training third-party technicians, providing them with parts.
But I don't need every idiot to have a repair shop. I don't need this to be a "right". You still need to meet some minimum bar of competence in my book.