This one feels more authentic.

https://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Sed.html

I actually prefer the "organization" of the original article, but could not continue past the LLMisms.

The criticism against this decision seem to often miss the point of it IMHO.

Let's be realistic, there IS a problem with sideloaded apps being downloaded by ignorant people, and they do get scammed/hacked or whatever.

This leads to unhappy people complaining to their banks, politicians and media, these in turn starts lighting a fire under Googles bottom.

So, my point being, how do we solve the ACTUAL problem with rogue apps then?

Budget-wise it becomes impossible.

Coin-operated meters means someone have to come around checking the meter, collect coins, check the parking tickets. One person can only cover so many devices per day.

Then you have mechanical maintenance, with that comes disputes with "it was broken, it didn't accept the money" and so forth.

I've probably forgotten a number of other related things, but compare the above to digital solution.

Parking app, where the customer pays only for the parked time, no fiddling with money or keeping track of time. The parking attendant checks much quicker by just scanning the license plate while walking the rounds (could be done via car and a mounted camera even).

Analog just costs more, and citizens doesn't want taxes to go to things that are not strictly necessary.

It was possible for many decades already, budget and maintenance-wise. You can at least accept a credit card as an alternative. Yes, it's not perfect, but the fully digital alternatives also have drawbacks, as pointed by OP.

Things that were possible become impossible. Once Britain ruled the seas with wooden sailboats. Those boats are not perfect but could they win today’s naval battles? Also no.

I know but you're fighting the cost difference between installing CC terminals and QR code stickers.

Curious how OpenBSD or Haiku will comply.

For what I understand, OpenBSD could just patch useradd so that the age category is mentionned in the comment field of /etc/passwd or a random text file in /etc.

Haiku could just run an automatic dialog asking you if you are minor, in Illinois or California and write a text file with the corresponding age category of said person.

These bills do not mandate that the user cannot modify that information AFAIK.

I can't imagine OpenBSD would be bothered by laws specific to a very small selection of US states.

By adding a simple birthdate field to your account info and a system API of some sort for retrieving the account owner's age range, same as everyone else.

Tbh they probably don't care about anyone other than Microsoft or Apple, though it's certainly not written that way.

OpenBSD devs have signaled noncompliance from their Canadian fortress of freedom.

No conspiracy here.

Brewdog had a loss of 37m GBP last October, and went into something similar to Chapter11(?), american company bought the remains and saved what had any value left.

So not really "evil company buys good company and fires everyone" IMHO.

edit: useless at spelling...

Evil company took money from customers with promises of a different kind of company, too their own fortune in hiding and let the company explose the face of the customers is the news.

You might say "but that's nothign new" but that is what makes it news because Brewdogs campaigns where exactly focues on selling cutomers the idea that they where inf fact something new.

The fouders are rich any any customers who invested is left with nothing. That's the news.

I know the times are changing and people now take it for granted that a cab driver might be selling heisenbergs securities while he drives around customers, for someone to pick up a bit of crypto gambling while they wait to reach their destination. But it used to be that financial investment was somewhat protected exactly to avoid these types of companies defrauding non-investment savy customers, but brewdog did just that. They claimed that getting a couple of shares along with your beer was ok because it was a new type of company sticking it to the man, but at the end of the day they wheren't punks they where just capitalists putting on customes to scam as much money from their customers as possible.

If you visit US, I really recommend a detour to the Kennedy Space Center if you can, there's a ton of interesting stuff especially about the Apollo program.

Especially if you can time your visit to Florida with a launch. Seeing the Shuttle launch in real life made me realize what a poor medium television is to actually show you reality.

(I don't know what the current policies are but you used to be able to apply in advance for VIP tickets, or buy them on the secondary market, which gives you much closer viewing of the launch)

Make sure you look at ALL the stuff in the rocket garden and make sure you take the bus to the Apollo center and make sure you do them in that order.

If you've never seen a gator then looking in the ditches by the road during the bus tour is a good bed.

Yes! I just got to go there earlier this month for the first time. They even have the lectern from the Kennedy speech (and the speech itself)!

Went to Florida some years ago when my kids were all teens and pre-teens. Did Disney World, Universal Studios, Sea World, the works.

We unanimously agreed KSC was by far the best of all. If you only do one thing in Florida, that would be it.

Been once as a kid and once as an adult. Wonderful place. The rocket garden is wonderful.

Well, you may not like it, but BK probably have done their research and found that employees positive interaction with customers equals more sales.

Yes, there are probably a thousand other actions they could take to increase number of sold meals, but my guess this one is easy pickings, i.e. cost vs return.

Around where I live (Chicago suburbs), BK restaurants are closing often. Even new ones, open for a year or so close down (many buildings are turned into dispensaries for some reason). Their issues are deeper than how employees greet customers.

"The Beekeeper's Corner", excellent if you are interested in beekeeping.

Just create a new password manager using SQLCipher then? If it is good enough people will use it.

It is weird when people wants to change something that works just great.

KeePass have served me well for years on Windows, Mac, Android, Linux using Dropbox and Syncthing as storage. Don't mess with it.

It's even weirder when people dismiss real issues as "works just great". Just use the great old version and ignore all future changes if they scare you!

Haha, this is essentially what the original maintainer (Dominik Reichl) does. He keeps a 1.0 and 2.0 version depending on which format you use.

I am interested in his new book, "Six Math Essentials", but I doubt it will be on my very low level of math understanding..