I don’t think that’s nonsense.

In principle, if you have robots which can do all the work then the amount of stuff available becomes decoupled from the number of people to provide it.

The whole concept of there not being enough of something to go around goes away, because if you don’t have enough of something you tell the robots to build some more robots to make that thing.

This presumes much more capable robots than we’re able to make, of course, and also that there’s an unlimited amount of raw resource available. That could be the case if you’re able to send to robots to mine the asteroid belt, but it certainly isn’t the case now.

That isn’t actually infinite, of course, but I don’t think it’s unreasonable to describe the economic equivalent of “all you can eat” as “quasi-infinite”, if you’re feeling grandiose.

It’s also not going to happen in the immediate future, because the technology simply isn’t there yet, but people who have drunk the AI kool-aid seriously believe it.

I can’t see how they’d do it, proton gets installed by the steam client. That client doesn’t run with root privilege, so at the very least they’d have to trigger a password dialog which would be highly obvious.

It does matter, because that Google integration didn’t happen by magic. Whatever the site is, they chose to do things that way.

The only way Google stops things like this is if they get actual pushback, and the only realistic way to achieve that is to make the people using their service reconsider.

I feel like you’re getting a lot of partial answers, so I’ll try and fill in the gaps.

Palestine action are a protest group who believe that Palestinians are being mistreated by Israel, and that the UK shouldn’t support Israel in doing that. They e been around for a while, but obviously they’ve gotten a lot more active recently.

The key thing is that when they say “action”, that’s exactly what they mean. They aren’t about the usual things like protest marches, although I imagine they take part in those as well. Their approach is to do things like shut down roads leading to companies supplying the Israeli military or police by physically blocking the road.

The significant thing they did which brought them to the center of attention was to break into a military airfield, and throw paint into the engines of aircraft which they believed (and were likely correct to believe) were about to go to Israel to provide reconnaissance over Palestine to support military operations there. A lot of the news called that “vandalism”, but in reality a bucket of paint in the intake for a modern jet engine means the engine needs to be partially dismantled and thoroughly cleaned before it can run again. That costs a lot of time, and a huge amount of money, so really it amounts to sabotage.

That seriously angered the government, who used certain powers they were given by parliament years ago to declare that Palestine Action weren’t just criminal, they were terrorists. Those powers allow them to deny all sorts of fundamental legal rights, so much so that they can’t really be said to have been given fair trials. These are powers which were intended for people planting bombs in public places, and they’re alarmingly authoritarian even for that.

Among other things, declaring them terrorists has made it illegal for anyone to support them in any way. As a result, the overwhelming majority of people who have ever been arrested under the terrorism laws are now people who’s only crime was to say that Palestine Action did nothing wrong. Police were rounding up whole crowds of protestors, including harmless elderly people, and arresting them all for “supporting terrorists”

The party has the ability to kick them out, which they’d rather do as far as possible from a general election so that the new leader can be in a position to carry out a successful campaign.

When they resign between elections, it’s usually a matter of leaving before they’re kicked out, to minimise the damage of a public power struggle

If you’re sure it’s the same day, then I’ll bet they take far more photos than they actually use. Those photos go into some database somewhere, and they have a program which goes through them all and picks the ones it needs to generate street view.

What must have happened is that they’ve made a change to that software for some reason, or possibly they’ve gotten new photos somewhere nearby, so they’ve run it again and it’s picked different photos to use this time

Pretty sure that would be advertising from space, rather than in space, which would definitely make a difference in this case

No, there’s still a fundamental disconnect there.

The law may say they have to, but they don’t actually have to. The difference is important

They’d be supposed to, but they certainly don’t have to. Nobody can actually tell the jury what to decide, or there’d be no point in a jury

The fact that it’s a bad idea doesn’t mean that isn’t the reason

“consider” as in “you won’t understand why Israel does what it does unless you think about”, it doesn’t mean “give them what they want”

The UN doesn’t have any particular claim to the word “international”, except insofar as anything they do is international because the UN itself is international.

Other organisations, or even loosely affiliated groups of nations, can do international things because the word just means something like “between nations”.

Well there’s a clickbait headline if ever I saw one

Given that we’re discussing the behaviour of phones, I’m quite certain that there was never a time when they generally had line out ports. Also, I can’t imagine people are connecting their Bluetooth speakers to the wrong interface.

What you’re describing is still wishful thinking, because there’s no world where every consumer device is going to have accurately calibrated volume regardless of whether there’s a protocol which specifies it.

That’s pure wishful thinking. The vast majority of users wouldn’t even know what line level is, and you can’t expect end users to have audio engineering expertise. You also can’t expect anyone other than an audiophile or actual audio engineer to be able to get alll of their consumer electronics conform to such a standard

Agreed, perfectly reasonable precaution so long as it’s possible to calibrate it per device

I get really irritated when my phone limits volume with a notification like this, because the phone has no idea what hardware I have playing the sound. They’ve made some unfounded assumption about how loud 80% volume actually is, and interrupt whatever I’m doing to complain about it

Now you have to opt-in (in theory, according to Microsoft, who historically aren’t terribly trustworthy about such things).

When the feature was first created, and released to a group of end-users who have opted into the “insider program” to get new features earlier than most people, it wasn’t opt-in

I imagine he means things like Chromebook, rather than Chromebook itself. Mass-market consumer hardware which comes with Linux by default

The safety designed into Rust is suddenly foreign to the C family that I’m honestly not sure you can do that. Even “unsafe” Rust doesn’t completely switch off the enforced safety