Russia’s involvement with foreign assets is pretty well-documented. Maybe not on a hysterical level where someone believes Russian government stole elections in USA, but they definitely meddled and continue to meddle in affairs of neighbouring countries and EU, both through information campaigns and via direct actions and influence.

Talking about stuff from early Middle Ages (князи), it has zero relevance to modern culture. Russia is anything but isolationist as it should be clear since 2014/2022.

It’s devices but also parents. If parents don’t read books everyday, kids won’t either.

Why can't you read from a screen instead? Why do all the benefits of reading seemingly disappear when read from a display screen?

Most screens have distractions just one tap away.

Personally I also like the physics of a book a lot more for reading. Every book is a physically different object. You physically turn the page. You can physically see how far you are in the book. It's just all much less abstract and tangible.

It’s a different experience but E-readers come close. Screens’ UIs are too interactive for a proper lecture.

every screen, even the majority of e-readers, now has advertising, which is designed to distract and incept.

Meaningless comment filled with buzzwords and marketing numbers.

The only way for this model to work, is for governments to put high pressure on tech giants to put the breaks on the whole surveillance & data selling business. Otherwise they will take your money and sell your data at the same time.

I wonder if fully forbidding personalised ads will actually make gdp of developed nations to shrink.

Govt won’t do it. They want that data too.

I pay for multiple patreons, too. I wish patreon wouldn’t be such a shitty website/app. It’s insane what basic features it’s missing.

It’s possible conditions weren’t good enough at potential alternatives.

No sane terrorist will also call about a bomb on board, but those are taken seriously, too.

And as correctly mentioned by others, we shouldn’t be concentrating on an ideal game theory spherical terrorist in a vacuum.

maybe not, but a terrorist would call in a fake bomb threat to inflect terror; that's kind of the point.

IE6 was the most popular browser still during like 2006-2010. There was a point when Opera, Firefox, Chrome were already a thing, and they supported proper standard CSS and HTML, but 90%+ of users still used IE6 and you had to use tricks to support both standard and IE6 fuckery.

I do miss those times.

I was still supporting ie6 in at least 2014 for a couple of clients.

I miss those times, too, but not the IE6 bullshit.

There is a company that makes a plurality of government software that still used VBScript-based HTML pages that required IE7 compatibility mode for their court management software when I left a few years ago.

Do you really need the agents, skills and them having access to your calendar, plus multiple back and forth, to create an email about scheduling something - and anyway you will have to check it manually?

Yes because it's not a single calendar, and I sometimes need to be reminded of potential plans (not saved on a calendar), history with that specific person ("oh I already made a demo to this person 2 years ago and from my notes, it seems that I didn't get a lot of feedback, perhaps prioritize someone else?"), and other context. I offer the LLM context, and I in return get a distilled context from which it's easier to make decisions.

Writing important emails used to be a 1-2 hour occasion, nowadays only 15 minutes, but surely not 10 seconds.

And yet all these 2nd amendment guys are nowhere to be seen fighting the dictatorship, as they sometimes claim wanting to use their guns for.