Certainly, Ubuntu used to be friendlier to new would-be Linux desktop users for a variety of reasons. (And we could get into some controversial decisions/directions it's taken but I won't.) I'm sure lots of people still run Ubuntu although Canonical is less prominent these days. My impression is that Canonical was sort of a passion project of Mark Shuttleworth's and they're just a lot lower key at this point.
yeah thats kinda harsh, phoronix is a good oss news aggregator at the very least, and the PTS is a huge boon for "whats the best bang for buck llvm build box" type of question (which is very useful!)
It is certainly not, I'm not sure where the commentor gets that view. Most likely because alongside their primary journalistic content they also produce secondary reporting like these short pieces, disseminating niche viewership content to a wider audience. I can see how it might be easy to see it as blog spam given the latter is almost entirely their purview, but it should not be misconstrued as such in this case.
The thing that prevents a TV mfg from bricking your device is that they'd be instantly (and successfully) sued. In fact, there have already been many such class actions, ie with printer inks.
The downside is that it's sometimes easier and cheaper to just pay off the class and keep doing it.
They didn't just outperform "normal" congress critters.. they also outperformed nearly every hedge fund on the planet. But they (meaning, of course, just one person and their spouse) are obviously geniuses.
Hedge funds’ goals are often not to maximize profit, but to provide returns uncorrelated with the rest of some benchmark market. This is useful for the wealthy as it means you can better survive market crashes.
They use crazy investment strategies that allow them to capture high returns in adverse general market conditions, but they rather under perform the general market in normal and booming conditions. “Hedge” is actually in their name for a reason. Rich people use hedge funds for…hedging.
There are a lot of smart TV's (name-brand ones!) that will try to connect to any open wifi. Monetizing from analytics and telemetry are literally priced into the cost of the gadget. A lot of smart TV's will even ship with their cameras turned on. And Hyundai/Kia and Subaru literally disabled certain in-car features for people in Massachusetts after the repair bill passed (https://www.wired.com/story/right-to-repair-cars-hackers/)
Given that, I hardly think that 'decoy sims' are much of a stretch.
What a strange thing to say - - "sucks to be you if you don't like it, just leave" is not really how I'd expect people to have a conversation around identified policy gaps, especially among people that aren't there.
