To be fair to Cash for Clunkers, the intent was to get people on better gas efficiency cars, not to downgrade people to worse cars. California policy is the one that mandated cameras on newer cars, but also to be fair there it does reduce incidents of crashing during reverse.

I think Microsoft shouldn’t really be making plans around windows based on the state of the government today and should be concerned with how it changes just 6 months from now.

Not sure how they could be confident in the idea of selling hardware to users right now, considering even the cost of thin clients is stupidly high.

Maybe there’s something I’m missing here.

Shouldn’t a wishlist mean that it isn’t shipped at all though? Why would wishlisting expose your home address?

No way, not my buddy!

The world’s first opt-in computer worm. 🐛 🪱

Lead by a clown man

Sort of? But I think it’s still a good idea worth exploring – sort of.

I’m not really sure how posting comments there would work, but if you could essentially “hack” reddit as part of the lemmy-verse, it basically would mean that lemmy would be the better service at that point.

I’m not sure how technically viable it would be though.

I feel like Gemini is a good idea but it should be open to simple link-only style media injection.

I think it’s 100% valid to look at embedded media with some side eye, but I think the utility for non-tech users is basically eliminated by not having simple embedded pictures or media.

A protocol that enforced no runtime scripting, but stills allow some media embed would be awesome.

Better yet, help support open data initiatives like OpenStreetMaps or alternatives. No reason why maps can’t be digital without ads.