In that era you had CRTs or Rear Projection TVs.

Rear Projection was bigger (55" 4:3) but often times was susceptible to burn-in and had a worse quality picture compared to a CRT

Before LCDs it was plasma which until the the late 2000s had more technical advantages over LCD Refresh rate, contrast. LCDs couldn’t really match them until the 2010s (I never had a plasma display though so I don’t fully understand plasma)

DLP was a thing and could get up to and over 80" while maintaining quality but DLP could not be wall mounted as they were quite big like rear projection screens

Neurotypical people don’t have to battle to stay awake during death march meetings?!

You and me both sister

Welcome to the last 20 years. (Someone older than me would likely say last 40… and so on)

Defcon 25 appears to be the first year of the voting village.

That said the late 2000s were full of discussion on voting machine security prior to the addition of the voting village. This was all old news by the time voting village was added.

This documentary explains where security was in 2006

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808532/

I haven’t watched this in a very long time but the hackers managed to procure source code from a public sever run by the company making the machines (Diebold I think) and faced some legal issues as a result.

They also illustrated a proof of concept attack where a counting machine was made to miscount votes to favor one person over another.

For people not in the know its very important to know that it is ILLEGAL for an independent 3rd party to perform penetration tests on voting machines without the manufacturer’s consent and the code that runs these machines is not public in any way that would allow for a proper audit of the systems to ensure that even the manufacturer has not tampered with the machine.

In general, with tools these LLMs have the ability to bring the next generation of Alexa / HomePod like devices (though I am not sure Amazon has delivered on that vision yet)

I like the idea of running a Llama based “Assistant” that would not require all my data leaving my house which could also be accomplished with these features.

In my car though… just use my fucking phone and get out of my way

People who don’t understand and read these articles and think Skynet. People who know their buzz words think AGI

Fortune isn’t exactly renowned for its Technology journalism

Thanks for the suggestions, I will consider that!

READ TO YOUR KIDS!!! I read to my 3 younger girls, the oldest is 11 (the rest are all school age)

We have kept bed time routine in tact (during the school year)

Its an opportunity to just hangout, most nights we read but some nights we run down a YouTube rabbit hole. Or the girls just fall asleep talking to me about whatever is on their minds.

We have read since 2021

Most of the Harry Potter books

The Hunger Games

Freak The Mighty

Max The Mighty

The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Martian

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Holes

Small Steps

Maniac Magee

Hoot

Dory Fantasmagory

Hail Mary

Space Cat

The Fighting Ground

and some others I know I am missing.

Some of my picks are obviously not kid’s books but I had a thing where as my younger kids fell asleep I would read whatever I was reading or was cool to me out loud to the remaining kids and they really loved some of them.

That has shifted a bit and I now keep a few books in rotation.

to all the kids I am currently reading Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. when my youngest falls asleep then I pick up Kiki’s Delivery Service when the next oldest kid falls asleep its time for The Hunger Games

It’s a bit selfish but I found that I can keep my momentum going with the routine myself by ensuring I read things that are interesting to me. I also get the kids more excited by being genuinely excited myself to read.

Its quite amazing to feel strong emotions about the books with my girls and everyone should try to experience that in my opinion.

I also typically read a book exactly as written. Except in the case of The Martian. My kids preferred that I read that with a silly soundboard to lessen the language (at their request).

God, I just wish I could hitch a ride and slam some pan galactic gargle blasters for a while :(

Just worth pointing out, changing water source in Flint Michigan and not adding corrosion inhibitors seemed to do an excellent job for a short period.

As with most absurd laws in the US the answer likely depends mostly on the color of your skin or your social class

In my city we do music nights in the park and people setup entire mini bars to make drinks and the police don’t bat an eye over it

I often times ride around on my bicycle with a can of something good and don’t get bothered by the local police as well (though they could certainly get me for something more harsh than drinking in public if they wished to)

The biggest law I don’t play with is Open container. Its illegal in my state to have an open bottle / can ANYWHERE in the passenger compartment of a vehicle

From my perspective trans women seem to attract more vitriol than trans men at least in the media / at the macro level

A gender studies professor could have a field day breaking down the way the patriarchy plays into this on both sides of the equation I would imagine

I am an outsider though and know very little on these topics (other than to just be cool to people)

I skimmed some of that it was; something

At any rate glad you are doing well and finding joy in life! Keep up the progress

Works the other way too.

If I take 100 Gallons of clean water and dump a gallon of sewage into it, would you pour yourself a glass?

The systemd and the Wayland debate both feel very similar.

At the end of the day the old method of using init scripts was becoming inadequate and needed to change

Wayland debate seems the same, switching to Wayland has been talked about for over a decade. The change has been coming and frankly I was expecting it a lot earlier

Whats neat about linux though is if you have nothing better to do and are knowledgeable enough to bitch about all of this; then you also have the technical prowess to standup an install of your favorite distro and get it to use X instead of Wayland and init scripts instead of systemd

For me as an enduser I hope Wayland enables more modern features to be delivered more easily as X has felt old for a while.

I want to berate you if you were raised in the US and don’t know.

That said if you are younger than me in some states it’s been deemed un important over the last 20 years

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connecticut_Compromise

This is referred to as “The Great Compromise”

Slave holding states wanted slaves to count for the census and free states saw that as un fair. So slaves got to count as 3/5ths of a person and everybody won! /s

No VA doctor should be refusing to treat any patient for those reasons. It’s absurd and unethical.

I mean, just in general… Germany’s Hitler was a fucking loser too.

He had a lot of takes on these issues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZijLQGH1v0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-bLf4F0PM4

My FAVORITE… just because its crude and quick is this

https://youtu.be/8fO3fmJDNlI?t=150 (1982…)

Sorry… I am a bit of a Carlin fan