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After decades of watching people use these three words, I've come to the conclusion that 'national security threat' is a right-wing dog-whistle for 'we have no actual proof, but we…

Pictures on a menu implies that the menu rarely changes - menu creation is expensive and slow - and has standard offerings. This then means that food is likely to be less fresh, le…

Most people I encounter who complain about AI use it as a shorthand for 'anything I don't like or disagree with'. When asked why they think something was created using genAI, they …

Good, so we can agree that the minor hassle for the minority to get a slightly slower immigration line at the airport does not outweigh privacy rights for the majority. BTW: Where,…

With the major distinction being that a lot of Europeans have absolutely no intention of ever visiting the United States, a country with a history of sometimes more, sometimes less…

The UK is a silly place[1] and has been pretty Orwellian for a long time. It is not a sensible idea to extrapolate their approach to a post-eu situation in the current member state…

Nothing is brought to the Commission that local governments do not secretly want, but publically rage against because the voters are against it. When Brussles then decides, 'there'…

Network effects are real. It is hard to convince people to move over to your platform if the selling argument is 'not quite there yet, but we got you covered on the minilib front, …

> BIFF WAS REAL. Of course BIFF [1] was real - and he kept respawning. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF_(Usenet)

A few thoughts. First, many people back then did not have permanently-online systems. You loaded the new stuff, went off-line, read, answer maybe, and uploaded your answers. That g…

The generation before that (yours truly) still remembers the usenet glory days, and the liberal use of the kill file [1]. [1] https://www.catb.org/jargon/html/K/kill-file.html

Both of these are meant for operating a home/private network. .self seems to be geared towards a 'accessible from the everyday net' kind of approach.

Please leave states out of this. The State™ is not your friend, and we don't need a future, even more criminal government to have access to the shutdown button of even more of our …

Has Apple ever lowered the price of a product line? This is just the new normal.

As a relatively enthusiastic OpenAI user ... what did you do to trigger a verification process?

None of Ferris' books is younger than 10 years. Used copies are plentiful, hardly a library who has not been touched. At some time, the market has been satisfied.

Well, you can just give me a list of the domains you operate, and I can put them in the network blacklist.

It was on for me again, 6 hours later. Ah, another domain for the blacklist.

> parents could be heard telling their kids 'don't stay up too late reading', as if it could be a problem. F Having lived on this planet for a while now, I am under the impression …

Late December 2010 was the last release of a Harry Potter movie, cutting off the movie -> book pipeline.

So ... kids did read more in a time the single most influential kids book series was popular as compared to today? Surprise. Kids did read more when stories were more about friends…

As a non-American, that mostly is a reaction to rabid US jingoism, as in the US claiming themselves as "Numba 1" in everything, when usually, they are in the 10s or 20s at best. An…

Some do, especially in Portugal and the Azores, for tea. And I grow my own peppers and chillies in cold Germany - why would we not be able to do so on an industrial scale? Or you b…

In the end, it is up to the consumer. Local variants exist. But supermarkets are convenient and cheap.

The pattern is not broken, it works as designed. This is mostly a money-pump from government(s) to private interests, mostly sitting in large IT houses.