I read it. Seems to target franchises only. So if you’re a privately owned taco truck serving high calorie fried food, or a sugar-laden ice cream parlor you’re a-ok. But if you’re a franchise salad place you’re screwed.

My point being that it’s a slippery slope to target businesses based on “feelings” instead of facts. Taxing high calorie foods, or added sugars, or fried foods, or any number of health-related measurable things would probably be more productive than aiming at “fast food” or “franchises”.

Define “garbage restaurant”. Is a Starbucks a garbage restaurant? What about a shaved ice cart with sugar-laden syrups? Tacos? Are tacos garbage? How about a salad place that serves ranch dressing?

Reminds me of ThunderScan. A device that turned your dot matrix printer into a scanner by pretending it was an ink ribbon cartridge.

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/12/thunderscan-the-wild-1980s-product-that-turned-a-printer-into-a-scanner/

“a state employee mistakenly downloaded a malware-laced tool from a spoofed website”

Why is any randomly downloaded software running on government computers to begin with? Why aren’t these systems and networks locked down better?

Quite a claim from the guy who labeled things “Full self driving” and “Autopilot”. 🙄

Note how they are all old school USB ports, and not USB C.

The website you linked to says that it’s not a class action suit, but a “mass arbitration” which I’ve never heard of. It also claims that Google has a “no class action” clause in its warranty/user agreement. I don’t see how that’s legal, but whatever. I also wonder if that clause was there at the time of purchase for gen 1 and gen 2 thermostats.

While an interesting idea, that project wants what amounts to the cost of a new thermostat in exchange for a kickstarter project. Might as well just buy a new thermostat.

Surprisingly, these still work as dumb thermostats after the cutoff date.

Was hoping something like Homebridge could be used to still control these, but so far no luck. After the cutoff they can be used manually like a traditional thermostat, which is a surprise coming from Google. I still fear they are going to generate a bunch of ewaste from people replacing them.

Isn’t this how Skynet started?

I think it’s more likely just Tim Cook. The buck stops with him. Someone needs to say no to some of this stuff (liquid glass, yearly release schedules, etc.) and that someone should have been him.

Today I learned the word “sherd”.

They did. Someone at the top has been ruining that experience lately.

Actually amazed it isn’t running windows.

Would this be a good replacement for 12v lead acid car batteries as well?

This report is a blog linking to a blog.

https://blog.stackademic.com/aws-just-fired-40-of-its-devops-team-then-let-ai-take-their-jobs-d9db9d298bfa

Some of the companies on this list will be fine after the bubble pops because they make other products, and they didn’t do that stock swap circle jerk.

Thanks! Wish I could get that in the US.