Roguelazer

Yes, the choice to cut labor and feed bloated corporate profits by replacing local tech support with offshored MSPs is definitely the root of it. I think everyone knows that and the outrage is because everyone whose job title doesn’t include the word “Chief” realizes its phenomenally stupid to take all the slack capacity out of our economy in order to goose stocks an extra 0.5%. I’m not convinced the author of this article quite realizes how much everyone with two eyes can see that the last three decades of “conventional business best practices” have been toxic and corrosive and how big of a generational project it will be to dig us out of worshipping “just in time” production and “ultra-lean” (read: understaffed) workplaces.

Maybe Kobo will finally make an API for loading articles so we can send them from Instapaper/Raindrop/Pinboard/etc…

Focusing on airbag-deployments and injuries ignores the obvious problem: these things are unbelievably unsafe for pedestrians and bicyclists. I curse SF for allowing AVs and always give them a wide berth because there’s no way to know if they see you and they’ll often behave erratically and unpredictably in crosswalks. I don’t give a shit how often the passengers are injured, I care a lot more how much they disrupt life for all the people who aren’t paying Waymo for the privilege.

The companies that run these residential proxy networks are sketchy as shit and in a better world would be criminally prosecuted. They’re tricking random low-information users into installing VPNs and other software with backdoors that turn them into a veritable botnet.