The image is a cropped xkcd with the text replaced but the same joke.

You should save some part to mail them later ,so they can never be sure when their are done with you.

The can’t find the difference meme would fit better.

I agree with the sentiment but …

then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.

Companies already put serial numbers in components and configure them so only specific ones work together, requiring OEM tools to pair them.
It’s imaginable that someone makes something similar with e-fuzes instead.

The other atomic clocks that are averaged to give us our ground truth for time.

… or one second back, that’s the problem.

Well, apart from the free movement of people and goods, the common currency, the gdpr, the international students and the consumer protection what has the EU ever done for us?

Brought peace.

Uh peace, shut up.

While that works for “news agencies” it’s a free money glitch when used in a customer support role for the consumer.

Edit: clarification

Go speak Lojban with people numbering “beyond what can be counted on the fingers of one hand”.

The system works great all year round but what it delivers is not electricity…

The absence of coincidence

Look up the strong law of small numbers.

Also, one of their examples of AI was an exhaustive search.

[…] would someone like monkeymant59h@icloud.com really be dishonest?

Iphone users can never be evil, I have learned that from watching films.

The spec is open source, particular implementation are typically under patent/copyright protection.
Not that they can be enforced effectively, unless the chips are exported into the US.

I don’t know, but you can check individual instances by going to the /instances subdomain and searching for threads.

shjw and blahaj are defederated, world isn’t.
This can always change, but I have confidence in my admins.

Edit: Thanks to Canyon201@lemmy.world for this link

Hummingbirds make for bad spys as they are an hour away from starvation for large parts of their lives.