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I tried to go back to using an old but trusty iPhone 5 in 2018. I found that I couldn't get a signal in half the locations I used to get signals fine previously. Technology had mar…

Our legal systems have already become like this. Only those with the knowledge on how to navigate the system or those qualified to interface in the expected protocols have any hope…

I do wonder if there is any overlap between the Culture novels and The Algebraist. I seem to remember mention of aHumans and rHumans in both -- a fascinating idea really.

Works perfectly on Mullvad Browser, Firefox and Safari. Remember: friends don't let friends use Chrome.

Hands down the best TV show I've ever seen, and so well matched with Max Richter's soundtrack. Very much looking forward to the last season.

I can't help but think the other parties would put forward better policies that don't alienate the electorate nor swathes of international business. Some would say the current cons…

The current conservative government is on its last legs before being banished for at least a decade. It appears they already have their eyes on the lucrative private sector and are…

Any mention of Frontpage should come with a trigger warning! After all these years, I still haven't forgiven Microsoft.

"Now there's a design that POPS!" https://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell

Interesting. A real life example of latency and half-life[1]. [1] https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/04/25/n1-latency-and-half...

"banished handguns so you can no longer protect yourself..." I think this view has been quite comprehensively debunked by now. I for one do not want to live in a country where most…

Andy Weir's short story "The Egg" deals with similar topics. https://www.paullowe.org/the-egg/

Field 6 "sharedfromaid": "aid of the sharer's Site/Secure Note" is unencrypted. The hackers will be able to infer relationships between Lastpass users. Field 10: "genpw": "Is an au…

1Password also uses a secret key in addition to your master password to encrypt your data. You enter the secret key when setting up the account on a new device. So a hacker would h…

It seemed to me to be a handbook on how to conduct a revolution. Much as Heinlein's Stranger from a Strange Land was a handbook on how to start a religion (hello Scientologists).

I agree. There are some playlists and songs I only listen to in the gym, and similar songs constantly float to the top of Spotify's recommendations for me due to gym being 3x week.…

Perhaps as technology progresses, we'll see the equivalent of Neal Stephenson's Young Lady's Illustrated Primer from his book The Diamond Age . The primer is an AI-backed story int…

I do feel sorry for her in a way. She was riding a treadmill of expectations. Started off slowly, probably thinking "yeah, we can do this" and by the time the treadmill was moving …

Another dark pattern is listing a page of products, and marking one as "Sold out". Makes one wonder how much stock is left of the other items, and when those might also become sold…

I had a similar experience in Washington. Amex had an international courier deliver a new card within days. In the UK, the three companies that won't lose my custom (unless things …

People with higher incomes can afford Amex's Platinum card, which includes good travel insurance, good customer service, access to a good hotel booking program, airport lounge acce…

That's where effective legislation and regulation can play a role. It's not as if other parts of the same bank aren't making money hand over fist.

Looking through our history, it looks like us-east-1 preëmptible VMs were a flat 30% the cost of non-preëmptible VMs. So in the worst-case scenario, we'll be paying 10% more for th…