Nor do I see a great deal of concern for manufacturing, as long as it is done somewhere else. If it done here: it is super dirty and dangerous, jobs no one wants. Elsewhere: what great opportunity for them to rise out from poverty. The fact that the environmental regulations are nonexistent, either never brought up or dismissed because we can't regulate another government.

Last fridge I had was a Kenmore Elite with 10 year warranty, it failed to the same compressor issue that has been plaguing the LGs. It was replaced once under warranty but that failed 3 years later.

Just got a GE; first one was DOA, didn't cool at all. My thermometer is saying it's replacement is currently sitting at 44F when it is set at 34F, I have had it for 2 weeks....

He had that big falling out with Elon so that he can't be accused of pandering to him when electric car sales go through the roof.

I have also heard that this is really "big oil's" plan, they always manage to cause a huge price spike just when green energy is about to take over the market, somehow this stops the green revolution and forces everyone to go back to using fossil fuels.

I say this as someone who thinks Bush was an absolute idiot and would love to see the government shrunk.

TSA is basically a jobs program, what happens if we get rid of it?

Yes, let's blame the working class for spending money on Chinese goods after their jobs were offshored and their spending power was decreased.

This was something that people decried about during the BLM and Stop Oil protests, see below for some of the accidents caused by those actions:

>M25 Police Motorbike Crash (November 2022): An Essex Police motorcycle officer was injured in a collision involving two lorries during a rolling roadblock. The roadblock was set up because Just Stop Oil activists were trespassing and climbing onto overhead gantries along the M25.

>Greenpeace bridge protesters blamed for crash on Fred Hartman Bridge https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/greenpeace-bridge-pr...

>Crash data raises safety questions about bridge protests on I-40 https://www.carolinajournal.com/crash-data-raises-safety-que...

>In 1997, American Airlines captain Warren VanderBurgh gave a lecture warning about the dangers of autopilot. He titled it "children of the magenta line," after the magenta coloured course line the flight computer draws across a cockpit display. He noticed that pilots were so used to following that line, to managing the automation rather than actually flying the plane, that they lost their own skills to manually fly the plane. This wasn’t a problem until it was a problem.

>VanderBurgh’s concern was not about autopilot itself but rather the complete dependency on autopilot at the expense of the internal knowledge of how it works and the loss of the judgment to know when to use it. In 2009, his warning came true in the very worst way possible over the Atlantic. When Air France 447’s sensors iced over, the autopilot handed a perfectly good airliner back to its crew, the pilots, confused and out of practice, stalled it into the sea.

-https://carlhendrick.substack.com/p/children-of-the-magenta-...

Children Of The Magenta Line -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ESJH1NLMLs

To get pedantic about it, they aren't developing that much code, they are maintaining that much code.

Not that I think LOC is the best metric but here are the figures for 2 of the project I brought up. Linux kernel is ~40M LOC FreeBSD kernel 7.8~9M LOC

I would argue that the OS's that run the internet are much more cutthroat than a browser, not just in terms of attack risk but in business terms as well.

>Microsoft aggressively tried to destroy Linux in the late 1990s and 2000s. This era included the internal "Halloween Documents" mapping out strategies to fight open source, former CEO Steve Ballmer calling Linux "a cancer," and Microsoft covertly funding SCO Group's proxy lawsuits against Linux users.

The larger your codebase is, the greater the attack surface. One of the arguments about the way that Firefox is progressing is that they keep adding more stuff into the codebase. If it's getting too complex, maybe they shouldn't be adding those features...

>Another delusional argument. Wikipedia brings in a fraction of what Mozilla gets, and with orders of magnitude more users.

Mozilla received 16.9 million from contributions in 2024.

Wikipedia took in ~170 million in the same time period.

Not sure where you got that Mozilla was bringing in more than Wikipedia through donations?

In going through the Mozilla Financials, I don't see where they have a huge endowment set aside, 73% of their revenue is royalties. I did however see that they spent 31 million to buy Acronym(an ad company) and 21 million to buy Fakespot. So that's neat.

https://stateof.mozilla.org/pdf/Mozilla%20Fdn%202024%20-%20A...

Yet somehow Firefox is different? It needs to make money! It needs to make money so much that they keep spinning up all sorts of new projects so that they can make more money, or at least that was the argument for some of what they were doing.

At this point in time, if they had taken all the money they spent on their various projects and put it in a trust they would probably be able to fund development without taking in any more money.

And it's not like people wouldn't donate to them either, look at how much Wikipedia has pulled in from donations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konstantin_Tsiolkovsky

IBM was a US company, just because the Nazis used their computers doesn't make computers bad.

Just because something was once used by bad people or for bad things doesn't mean that it is bad.

After all, books were written by Hitler and the Nazis and I would hope that you aren't willing to paint all literature as being in the same light.

I have often heard people talk about how Capitalism keeps the middle class in check by having a large number of people in poverty but it seems to me like a large number of middle class people feel that they are living in poverty.

Microsoft GDID telemetry includes full browsing and gaming history https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787239

https://youtu.be/as2KoDtsS_0?is=3H1TVc2PZPbGLdPK

What I read in the link was that it was removed because LLM was making suggestions to improve the code/bring it up to modern standards but since it was rarely used no-one wanted to review it not that it was buggy.

>In recent months we have seen a lot of old kernel code removed stemming from that AI/LLM noise.

This is the opposite of what my parent was hoping to see, extended support for old/obscure hardware because we have LLM.

>Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Retiring-Moxa-Driver

Supreme Court recently ruled that you need a warrant for even the geofence data lookup from 3rd party recently.