One key term to search for is “digital signage”. Since they’re built to stay on 24/7 for years, you’ll probably need to buy another one, which offsets the higher price to an extent. If you can make do with a smaller panel, a large monitor with HDMI input is another option.

You can also sometimes find a shop that’s selling off someone’s warehouse remainder of older dumb panel consumer TVs, although that’s getting much rarer as the number of new-in-box units decreases.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Provided it’s an analog clock.

Reviewing it (I haven’t needed to touch the setup in a good year or more), it’s basically a replacement to make other code think the browser acceptability check returned true, since feeding in a fake User-Agent stopped being sufficient to pass the check a couple of years ago. One-liner, and not written by me, but I seriously hate the fact that it pushes browser monopoly.

I usually don’t even turn on the TV until the teeny display on the player is showing “MENU”. Achieves the same thing without requiring me to get up.

I would be more impressed if Discourse worked in my browser without using an extension to inject code changes. It also tries to forbid browsers it doesn’t recognize, regardless of their ability to run its code. Plus it doesn’t downgrade gracefully—you should be able to view public information in full without Javascript (I don’t expect any ability to log in or manipulate content, but reading things should work, and Discourse seems to break scrolling somehow). Not impressed. Granted, I’m not sure what I would choose if I were setting up a Web forum today, since mobile is now such a Big Thing and I don’t use it, but Discourse fails at things I consider basic.

This is likely to be C&D’d as well if it ever reaches the point where it does anything useful (remember, reddit doesn’t need grounds that would hold up in court to send a C&D).

The sun will freeze over before Google would give them an API.

“There’s one born every minute.”

A question that comes to mind: Is there a power plant nearby that’s been running at a higher level since the Bitcoin mine settled there? The issue might not be just noise pollution.

Would everyone who is surprised by this please raise your hand? . . . That’s what I thought.

We need more examples?

Seriously, though, there are options in between keeping copyright as it is and removing it altogether. Shortening the term is one. Mandatory mechanical licensing is another (that is, allowing people to make copies for a fee set by the government or a nonpartisan board without requiring permission from the copyright owner, who does, however, receive the fee—the trick is setting the fee at a level that makes it reasonable for the average person making a single copy, but still high enough to make it unattractive for corporations churning out millions of them). We also need to overhaul how derivative works are handled, and some aspects of trademark law.

Pretty much any country can search you at their borders if you’re seeking to cross in, yes (there may be some special cases—I’m not sure that an EU citizen crossing from one EU country to another is normally subject to search), but most countries only do that at border checkpoints, or if you’re caught crossing illegally. “More than an hour’s drive away from the border is still the border” is not the law in most places, as far as I know.

They can do it at the border or within 100 miles of it

Pretty sure that’s just a US thing (including declaring that international airports are “borders”). Other countries will have other laws.

Still best to bring a burner instead of your real device if you’re passing through international customs, though, even if both countries involved claim to be respectable Western democracies. Just in case.

Apparently decades of science-fictional takes have not been able to make people understand why this is a Bad Idea and we shouldn’t even be talking about it except to say, “Absolutely not!”

They’re widely variable. PyPI gets into about as much trouble as npm, but I haven’t heard of a successful attack on CPAN in years (although that may be because no one cares about Perl anymore).

I honestly didn’t realize Threads’ federation support was this pathetic.

Maybe they noticed that a lot of servers in the wider Fediverse had preemptively defederated from them, and decided it wasn’t worth their time.

More like 1.6 billion, given performance to date.

I so very hope this idiot asshole winds up either jailed and/or has his wealth severely diminished and most of his businesses fail from being unable to repay loans / convicted of fraud.

Jail would be too easy for him. I want him to be on “Would you like fries with that?” for a living. Forced to pander to the people he looked down on in order to put food on the table. Bonus if he also has to work three minimum-wage jobs he hates for a total of sixty hours or more a week.

Price, range, infrastructure, in roughly that order of importance when averaged over the population. The article then goes into factors affecting price. (Of course, the article originated with the Financial Times and was only reprinted by Ars, so it makes sense that they would put money first.)

So you’re saying that this mouse can’t move the on-screen pointer or register even normal left clicks with the generic Linux HID drivers? Seems unlikely.