Notices by Karl Auerbach (karlauerbach@sfba.social), page 2

@thomasfuchs A 30 year old HTML page may still render, but the Flash video it contained probably can't be played. I consider the removal of Flash (despite its security flaws) to be a kind of vandalism by Adobe.

@lauren Do you know about the later collection of stories in "Machine of Death"? The stories are about a machine that can predict the way a person will die, but there is always a twist.

http://machineofdeath.net/ebook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_of_Death

@feditips For me the playback does not work - it's just an image with a non-functioning start-play (triangular) icon and a couple of never changing time numbers.

Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb ...

Here's a piece from WaPo that suggests going slow, or not even, expelling Santos from Congress.

He should have been expelled yesterday, or last month, or the day his lack of ethics became obvious.

But no, here's piece that says "oh no, we can't set a precedent that might someday be used badly". Oh, no, not a bad precedent that might someday be possibly used in a way we don't like.

That way just encourages bad acts - because they are never punished.

Politicians who lie and cheat - whether in Congress on SCOTUS or as governors - are a fetid scum on our political pond.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/28/george-santos-censure-house/

@fu @pluralistic @vonubelgarten On the other hand, I get the feeling that many drivers are rejecting Tesla's touch-screen-for-everything model of driver control. Most new EV's are reverting to the concept of having distinct physical knobs, buttons, and levers.

(Sometimes in our Tesla the passenger has to act as a co-pilot to figure out where some control is to be found this week [Tesla updates often change the loction of the controls on the screen] on the touch screen - and because those controls are often so small the passenger is the only one who can put a finger on the right activation spot on the screen without risking driving off the road into the bushes.)