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RIP King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrIgnNtZrN4

If you want a gut understanding of what we need to do about climate change, play the boardgame Daybreak. Also, every card has a qrcode that links to educational material on the rea…

The UK seems terrible at this whole "free society" thing.

Here's the cosponsors of the bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1/co... I think the purpose of the change was to "increase revenue": > Requiring that cer…

Oh dear God in heaven and Ada Lovelace forgive me for the horrors I have wrought.

Hey! Don't blame us programmers for new features! We don't usually write the user stories!

Pine64 updated the PinePhone with the PinePhone Pro.

Reminds me more of the Amazon Delivery Partner model where the way you want to do something implies harming innocent people, so you have a third-party do it to shift blame for the …

A good reminder that the United States never outlawed slavery.

The Rust for Linux politics mess should be laid squarely at Linus' feet. He's the BDFL. He approved adding Rust to Linux, and he massively failed at communicating what that even me…

Thank you so much! That's incredibly enlightening!

Something I've been wondering: why do ebooks take so long to render? My kindle seems good at it, but opening an ebook in calibre/fbreader/etc can take minutes or even fail in some …

Remember the name McKinsey. They are an evil organization that does bad things to good people. Anyone from McKinsey is to be regarded with suspicion at the very least.

“…You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn, you stick your hand in there and…

Regardless of everything else, most people should not be using bcachefs yet. Kent has even stated that unless you're okay not being able to access your data for chunks of time whil…

ISO standards have always reeked of EU regulatory capture to me.

neither. permaweird.

I was thinking more of every web app needing one or more "if isIE() {} else {}" blocks somewhere in its codebase. Now we have the wondrous pleasure of doing the same for Apple.

Mobile Safari is the new IE. Random idiosyncrasies that are poorly documented dictated by the whims of a single corporation. Apple has broken stuff multiple times in the past few y…

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IIRC, America's weird relationship with sex is rooted in our Puritan history. Idk about our comfort with depictions of violence. We definitely have a history of "cowboy & indian" f…

I doubt it will be _the_ standard, though. I think we'll need to flip the setup so that a cord is in the car with people stealing them for the copper.

Their first point seems valid. Remember the AOL search logs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release The rest of Google's points are worthless hogwash.

This is also known as "The Oracle Method"

Too bad Microsoft is just a bunch of Ferengi in a trench coat.