Apparently decades of science-fictional takes have not been able to make people understand why this is a Bad Idea and we shouldn't even be talking about it except to say, "Absolutely not!"
I don't think the context you assumed is quite as clear as you thought it was. I'll leave the rest of it.
They're widely variable. PyPI gets into about as much trouble as npm, but I haven't heard of a successful attack on CPAN in years (although that may be because no one cares about Perl anymore).
I still will never understand how Canadians can look at privatization down south and be all “I want some of that!”
We don't. Unfortunately, when Canadians go to the polls, the thing a lot of the less thoughtful are thinking is "I want [last administration that didn't magically fix all the problems] out of power. I don't care what their opponents actually intend to do with the province/country as long as they're gone." I have no solution for this.
I honestly didn’t realize Threads’ federation support was this pathetic.
Maybe they noticed that a lot of servers in the wider Fediverse had preemptively defederated from them, and decided it wasn't worth their time.
There are probably enough school essays in most AI training sets to represent a measurable percentage. (Although there is probably a much larger percentage of pornographic fan fiction with subliterate spelling and grammar, so maybe we should be glad that we're only getting bad high school essays.)
I seem to recall that scarring around the electrodes, which eventually causes them to stop functioning, is a known failure mode of older experiments along similar lines. It's one of the reasons I didn't hold out much hope for this iteration.
I just hope the patient doesn't take any long-term damage from the implant.
Anyone who is actually surprised by this has not been paying attention.
Fake celebrity porn has existed since before photography, in the form of drawings and impersonators. At this point, if you're even somewhat young and good-looking (and sometimes even if you're not), the fake porn should be expected as part of the price you pay for fame. It isn't as though the sort of person who gets off on this cares whether the pictures are real or not—they just need them to be close enough that they can fool themselves.
Is it right? No, but it's the way the world is, because humans suck.
Y'know what's worse? When there's no dot. Worse than that, it's an undotted directory used to store a single config file. Ugh, unpleasant memories. 😒
Linux, and much of the open-source software that goes with it, has been multi-architecture for a long time. If you take something that already runs pretty decently on x86, x86_64, PA-RISC, Motorola 68000, PowerPC, MIPS, SPARC, and Intel Itanium CPUs, porting it to yet another architecture is, while not trivial, at least mostly a known problem.
Windows, by contrast, was built for descendants of the Intel 8088, period. It's unsurprising that porting it is a hard problem and that results aren't always satisfactory.
(Apple built on top of a modified BSD kernel, and BSD has also been ported around quite a bit, so they also have a ports-are-a-known-problem advantage.)
Fixed incomes + sudden rise in prices of everything = homelessness (or starvation or freezing to death, take your pick). The senior demographic includes a disproportionate number of the poor as well as the wealthy. As with so many things, this is disgusting but not surprising.