No one has mentioned The Culture?
There really wouldn't be much to update because a good chunk of it is still modern. Not only that, but Banks really fucked with gender, ideology, and civil rights in a way that is still incredibly relevant in 2023.
I also really want someone to try to portray Fwi-Song from Consider Phlebas.
Based on pics it looks like a rifle that's not legal in DC due to it having too many features, and probably the named/clone ban.
Being from Atlanta I presume the fellow did not take the 16 hour class to put in for a DC carry permit, which doesn't let you open carry or carry on the mall.
That's a felony for the firearm, carrying it, one for each bullet, and each magazine over 10 rounds.
He discovered the weapon during the flight between San Francisco and Hong Kong, it said.
So he made it passed TSA with an entire firearm.
Not just that, but he doesn't keep track of where his firearms are.
For an honest mistake, so much had to go wrong.
If you cannot trust yourself, then do not provide yourself temptation
I just commented this elsewhere, but I personally feel that their reasons for being closed source are worse than actually just being closed source.
Only superpower left who hasn't tried to invade them at some point in time.
Oh and I forgot, a big one, I engage the cats if they show interest in my task.
When cooking they can smell safe things, if I'm working on tech i have a very large screw and bolt for them to play with/try out instead of my small ones.
Cats are social and want to be included, if you give them the option to do "parallel play" I think it will improve what people see as problem behaviors that are really just begging to be included.
Companies don't trust their workers because they don't treat them well enough to earn their trust.
So to avoid the trust issue they just implement more and more draconian techniques to make up for the lack of pay/vacation/respect.
It honestly might even be cheaper than just being nice to your employees. So yay? Profit?
I personally do not trust any company provided equipment. I would never do anything untoward within the eye of their cameras. I work from home and I set up a second wireless network for all my work gear, and firewall rules to prevent them from talking to anything on my networks. I also use an external webcam that is usually turned off (electrically, as in no power flowing), and even my microphone goes through a sound board that can completely turn off. Bonus points is that I can also turn my mic down on my board, or pad it to hell and back and even if the meeting software lies about me being muted, I know for sure thanks to my trusted hardware.
Sounds like an arms race due to mutual distrust.
Surveillance cold war?
Who could have guessed that may-issue permits could be (gasp) abused!
I thought the police would be even and fair in their determination of who should get one, just like they are in all their other activities.
Adipose tissue is estrogenic, if anything it should enhance results.
Very car-brained to not consider a car heavy machinery.
It shouldn't matter as long as the sites are developed only with open standards.
We already have webcompat for anything truly broken.