The moon, like all solid bodies, has a surface rich in oxides.

Honestly, this to me isn't as interesting with respect to the moon as it is with respect to Venus. Venus is very hydrogen deficient. If you could dramatically up its hydrogen capture rate (e.g. magnetic lensing) and in a way that would greatly exceed the loss rate (normally we think of the solar wind as a loss mechanism), it would have a wide range of effects that would make it more earthlike. In particular, you'd get the Bosch reaction, where H2 and CO2 react to form water and graphite. Venus's surface is active (both volcanism, and while it has no subduction, it has microplates that jostle up against each other), so over geological timescales, surface carbon will be sequestered. So you're lowering the pressure, lowering the temperature, raising the water, and lowering the acidity. Also, if the water content in the crust rises over geological timescales, it becomes more ductile, so potentially - after immense timescales - you might *possibly* start/restart plate tectonics

None of this would be at all on human timescales, but it's interesting to ponder whether Venus's conversion to a hellscape could be slowly reersed.

SMS is being phased out as quickly as possible.

Are they supporting RCS?

It's not worth buying a new device today without RCS.

I have a 4G flip phone that can be a wifi hotspot which is pretty cool so you can have an Android without a cellular modem.

No RCS though.

The eink is better for your eyes, though.

... and animals have a much stronger claim on sentience and subjective experience than any current AI does.

Based on that, it's pretty clear that we won't take the welfare of AIs seriously, and (barring some sci-fi-like breakthrough) we shouldn't, because they aren't the least bit sentient.

An anonymous Wikipedian tried to delete Harald Malgram's page as "not notable" when he is credited as being the primary guy who prevented a nuclear WWIII in the 60's.

As well as being a key mover in the government for decades and the youngest member of the NSC ever.

All because he said he handled UFO materials a few weeks before he died.

Jimmy put his foot down but an awful lot of revisionism comes from Langley IP's.

I use my own name there and don't feel a need to hide. It's a source of truth only if the organizers are trustworthy.

Apparently this rouge editor has made 60K edits. Who is he or she (or autonomous agent)?

... we ensure the welfare of working families so they don't have to compete in their power bill with AI for the electricity generated and distributed by the infrastructure systems they and their ancestors built.

Then we can start to think about the machines' feelings.

Oh no, you want to say that Microsoft is following its usual strategy, as they've done for 30+ years?

What a complete surprise! Shocker! Stop the presses...

If you so much as touch anything made by MS without having a plan B ready and waiting in the top drawer, you can't be helped.

I've never seen a hint of "kiddy porn" on Bluesky, while on X, Musk *personally reinstated* the account of a major user who shared child pornography.

The exact same situation applies to a Mastodon server. They can't ignore court orders either. If you get a court order against Mastodon.social, you've blocked half of the Fediverse's users right there. Hit the other major servers and you've hit nearly all of the rest.

At least on Bluesky you can *actually* migrate between servers (e.g. including your content), instead of just migrating your metadata.

Maybe they don't want you to notice how inane it is?:-D

That's one of my two most hated things about half the shows I've seen lately. If you're outside on a walk or whatever, you basically cannot see ANYTHING, because your phone's screen can only produce so much light, and when the total contrast range of the content falls between 0 and 20 IRE, good f**king luck.

The second pet peeve is shows that suddenly switch into another language with subtitles. I don't mind it if I'm watching on the couch, but that's really rare. Most of the time, I'm watching while doing something else, and that means I have to stop, back up, play it again, and watch the subtitles. So we need a SAP track in which someone reads all of the subtitles for any portions that are spoken in a foreign language. I'd even settle for text-to-speech, as long as it is fast enough to keep up.

Between those two things, I want to throw my phone about every third or fourth time I watch something on Netflix. And given how many people consume content on their phone, you would think Netflix would at least TRY to make their content consumable on those devices. I guess they just don't have enough competition to stop sucking.

And don't get me started on their apparent inability to reliably deal with network changes on iOS. Literally every time I walk away from the house, it stops playing at about the same distance away and never recovers. Tap the back button and start playing again, and it is perfectly fine. There's no network outage, and it is several blocks from my house, so it isn't waiting for the phone to switch from Wi-Fi to cellular. So my best guess is that when the network switches, it keeps trying to use the existing HTTPS connection that is no longer functional from the prior network, and never tries to make a second request in parallel. I don't know if this a Netflix bug, an Apple bug, or both, but it is really, really annoying. It used to work a lot better a few years ago. But I digress.

I suppose you also don't want gay marriage because you're not gay, you don't want your pizza place to sell pizzas with pineapple because you don't like pineapple on pizza, etc.?

Nobody is suggesting that Apple should force users to have multiple browsers installed. What we're suggesting is that Apple should be forced to allow users to install other browsers if they choose. It is safe to say that no matter what, the browser that comes on the device will always be used by a rather large percentage of users, so it's not like support for Safari would degrade massively if Apple allowed other browsers, but having that option means that when (not if) Apple falls down on the job and fails to support some new web standard that some sites need and those niche sites start requiring Chrome, it will force Apple to compete, whereas right now, there is limited incentive for them to do so.

Yup. Google basically funds all web browser development at this point, with the exception of whatever limited app-specific window chrome/menu bar/bookmark/history development goes into Brave, Edge, and other third-party Chromium wrappers.

And this is also why breaking Chrome away from Google would be a huge mistake. The best-case scenario is that it becomes another externally Google-supported browser, and nothing changes meaningfully. The worst-case scenarios are that Android becomes nonfunctional because of missing browser engine functionality, that Chrome becomes a for-pay nightmare, that Chrome becomes an ad-ridden horror that massively privacy-rapes you, or that Google walks away from Chromium and the entire ecosystem dies. None of the plausible outcomes are better for consumers in any meaningful way than the status quo, IMO, and most are dramatically worse.

You know that experiment failed to be replicated when done in an environment where the researcher wasn't pressuring the students to treat each other badly using political motivations, right?

I think it is far more likely that people who crave power and dominance over others naturally seek out positions where they have power, rather than that power turns good people evil. *

* I'm deliberately ignoring self-serving corruption, of course. There's a big difference between spontaneously deciding to use your power for personal monetary gain and spontaneously deciding to use your power to beat the crap out of people just because you can, for example. The former is pretty common. The latter seems unlikely in people who weren't already prone to wanting to beat the crap out of others.

If they had a design patent it would have expired in 2006.

This seems to be a case of hypocrisy, not criminal infringement.