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The author doesn’t mention it, so it seems appropriate to suggest asking a doctor for attention deficit disorder screening. The cultural forces in play encouraging us to flit and s…

This article describes well how advertising and such degrades the quality of the product, but it isn’t really enshittification unless the platform is also turning the screw on its …

“greenest punk should be able to bend over and take it.” Nothing in this suggests consensual self insertion. Perhaps being “Schrodinger’s asshole” was the idea here? The meaning of…

I grew up with these just as they were beginning to age and part of the challenge was getting the dated Basic to run on newer machines. The blend of clear instruction and evocative…

What's great about this comment is it gets two things wrong: the conclusion of the study (which found reductions across the board in fuckedupedness) and the drug being studied (Rit…

Without even looking at anything else, I love the name.

A key difference between Sinclair and Jobs was Sinclair's hostility to quality control and UX. Cheap at all costs! I would liken Sinclair to Jay Miner, perhaps: an engineering geni…

Presumably "provider of service" rather than "service provider" ie "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any infor…

Searching for deals on tech stuff isn't so fun. Some sites are heavy on SEO chum and posting as many keyword-laden headlines as possible. Aggregator sites are flooded with whatever…

I remember the Amiga 500 being extremely cool in the UK, the essential gift for teens in xmas 89/90. So I'm curious about the context where for Dominik Diamond it was uncool.

It would have a custom GPU that will remain conspiciously better than anything available for less than $1000 for three years. You could imagine an in-house "NVidia game console" th…

The hidden pitfall in this question is that the most obvious answers come with external power supplies. Some are half the size of the computer. e.g. https://www.servethehome.com/le…

Perhaps Bejerot Syndrome could refer to the pop-science tendency to gather and link rational objections to a proposal, policy or practice so they can be posed as pathologically ass…

The right analogy would be "elbigbad's Theory of Relativity of the Web", wouldn't it? Not quite so bad.

> "Most tellingly, the monitor was extremely basic (technical name: a pixel VDU) which ran on BASIC 1.0; a programming language that quite amazingly, was already 20 years old (havi…

Perhaps they worry that the basilisk will remember.

The annualized rate is the standard measure and in itself isn't a problem until it's being used to conceal newsworthy changes to the underlying economic trend. You've pointed on ou…

Rick Bergman, presumably.

A known dataset source with a strong quality filter

To an algorithm trained to look for such things, the title is suggestive of sex trafficking and human smuggling. Perhaps the machine is misinterpreting the game's social conscience…

The razor-and-blades business model, in the middle of the Venn diagram of shareholder duty, consumable supplies and vendor lock-in.

No, but it requires a RAM expansion that was not very affordable in the 80s, costing more than the c64 itself. Compare to Amstrad CPC Sonic, for a similar 8-bit machine—but only th…

It was part of Canute's empire ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea_Empire ) for a few years in the early 11th century, until his death.

This was the era of the Anglo-Scandinavian Empire, formed in Britain and Scandinavia under the king of England, Canute, a Danish prince. It didn't outlast him by long (and Norway w…