All "episodes of Galaxy Quest are true historical documentaries".

Classic.

Since I sense that caller ID is completely spoofable for calls from international networks, now add some technical salt: Require domestic phone companies at the edges to add some kind of "network of origin" prefix to caller IDs from international origins. This is prepended to what is provided by the outside network, even if they provided "no caller ID" or "unknown caller".

Make it that domestic calls don't have this prefix and it is illegal to insert anything that resembles one.

This way I can see incoming calls from network Xyzabc for the junk they are. And networks will each get a reputation from consumers.

I can dream.

Edit: I've had just about enough of people using "white privilege" to justify violence and blatant discrimination because "they haven't been exposed to enough". Its just another way to justify racism. Plenty of white people live in poverty. Its not ok in either direction.

Still, its a useful thing. MIDI input support might help with the input problem.

I'd really like to be able to edit cookie lifetimes on a site-by-site basis. Overlap where cookies are reused by multiple sites. Plenty of cookies should be discarded a minute after last use. Others should stay around because they're useful.

You'd be amazed how much overhead a change can introduce even if the real work is done by a dedicated library. This is the whole point I was making.

eg A library like imgui that repeatedly redraws itself isn't actually that wasteful power wise if you tune it and make it fit for purpose. We've done exactly that for mobile. The simplicity of its approach enables all sorts of optimisations. Imgui is a straightforward animal that can be optimised in all sorts of directions, that is actually one of its drawcards. Reorientating it to output text has already been done - thats how flexible it can get.

Have both use the same specialised libraries.

If anyone wants inspiration, Winamp is the gold standard for media players with excellent GUI bling and skinning.

Tech in general has quite a few things about itself it needs to fix. Is it ethical for Apple to write the OS, run the store, sell its own wares AND compete with people it charges, eg 30%, to compete? Same question for other stores, eg Google? Both companies have analytics to determine which of the crop is successful and therefore needs to be harvested. Is this a level playing field? Do we expect such? Should we?

These aren't trivial or straightforward issues. It will be interesting to see over the next 20 years how this plays out. It would be better with a shorter time frame but... nothing involving legalities is usually fast.

As for Voltaire, while I'd buy that guy some wine, the lack of meaningful progress on something at least like CFE from RFC 5984 is somewhat of a barrier. My limited understanding is that its still in development rather than anything near production ready.

Belt tightening like that is usually the sign that the MBAs took over. This is fine up to a point except when they start running a financial services enterprise instead of ... whatever you'd call they had before. Animation media entertainment company?

I wonder when the rot set in. The creativity out of Disney is now matching Hollywood baseline and that has been dropping significantly. They're buying major franchies rather than creating them. I think this strategy is biting them. Too much financial analysis. They are losing the sharp creative edge.

Or is this my view, not based on insider knowledge, and completely inaccurate?

Its a tool. Like a chainsaw. You can use it to make ice sculptures or to hack off an arm. Metaphorically.

It's a pity I was shown this several months after I'd been let go for "poor fit".

I've always wondered what happened to the poor guy who had been assumed to have my skill set and had to live up to it. Probably got canned later for "not delivering to expectations".

I'm sure these are a good tool in the right hands, much like chainsaws. But I still have suspicions on how they are used.

This will pre-select suitable candidates that can spout as much gibberish and misunderstandings as their bureaucracy is obviously already used to.

Worked & couldn't gain traction. Capital requirements too great. Eg just a lack of funding. Limited prototypes produced but not mature enough. Tech is quietly smouldering while it is passed from company to company. Slow progress.

Worked & got absorbed. Now in some black ops lab quietly still in development with protoypes already in limited use. A limited commercial version is 5, 10 or 20 years away. The restricted version in use within 2-5 years.

Worked & still in commercial development. Fundamental issues are blocking major progress. Possible confusion over usage priorities is diluting resources, eg they are optimising for one or two use cases and those aren't particularly helping guide development, yet those use cases are also where funding is available. 10-30 years.

Don't work & too unreliable. R&D couldnt get a stable and reliable product due to fundamental issues.

Don't work & unreliable & not enough cash. The prototypes sort of worked but had issues and on top there wasn't enough capital to iron out the issues in the early prototypes.

Other options also exist. The timing started 10 years ago. Should start to see results, if any, from the "worked" options sometime this or next decade if that happened and to whatever extent. A lazy web search still shows some names. A few have quietly disappeared.

But who watches the watchers?

I think police departments and government can do better. Removing data implies a lack of transparency. Transparency and being seen to be improving at "doing the right thing" should be core targets right now.

This isn’t just about police either. I should be able to look up a lot more. Open democracies, informed voters, right? Regular, yearly/monthly data dumps should be commonplace.

How else are modern democracies meant to function? Lobby groups? How 20th century!