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I need to re-read Constellation Games soon. Lately I keep coming back to considering the expectations that its alien society has for the caretakers of artificial intelligence. Spin…

I was looking at the in-app purchases list and it doesn't explicitly have a family-sharing plan like Weather Line does. This looks great and I'd definitely consider switching my fa…

You’re mistaken. The Nazi Party in Germany intentionally killed a lot of German citizens.

That phrase originated from a story in which a lapsed carpenter stopped an execution. Christ, we need more woodworking classes for kids on the tech path.

Executive order itself: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/12/elim...

Congrats, Tom! I’m glad to hear there’s more than one moderator here so you can share the workload and hopefully relax well on your time off.

I've been researching Open Source alternatives to WordPress, and apparently Drupal just today released a new variant with modules pre-loaded to cater to marketers considering a sim…

What a choice, and what poor timing. Companies that make breaking changes on holiday weekends aren’t going to earn much goodwill from developers.

Yeah, if it was actual spies or junior enlisted, I doubt we’d hear about it, so this may not be the first time. For a captain not to be able to trust his senior chiefs is what’s mo…

If this was a bunch of junior enlisted, I’d be impressed at their ingenuity, and they’d probably get a slap on the wrist for doing the dumb things that nineteen year olds are expec…

Neat! I wonder if demand for DOS computers for industrial control applications was the driving force behind creating these. I’m sure just buying a new DOS machine with parallel and…

I concur on Affinity. For graphic design, pixel art, layout, and photo work I've switched to the Affinity suite. I used Premiere for about two years but never liked it as much as F…

Apple ships extra stickers with their logo in the box with a lot of their products, maybe slap one on your computer and see how far it gets you in court?

Wow, I was wondering at first how good a video had to be for a YouTube engineer to add css like this—and after watching this twice now, I'm deeply startled by how many brilliant an…

I’m part of an artist’s collective, and this really captures the spirit of how we sometimes spend our holidays.

A computer can generate billions of unique seeds, but not billions of relationships with your sales team. Maybe don't allow companies you don't trust to buy ads? If only companies …

Local weekly pinball tournaments are an amazing way to meet folks and hang out in a low-pressure social environment. Since the rounds of the tournament are randomized groups of fou…

I really enjoyed the Bobiverse books, but could understand why folks who favor authoritarian theocracies as a government structure might feel that the novels don’t convey zealots t…

I have sixteen of the tumblr Verification checkmarks. I bought some myself as a joke, and then folks gifted me more. They are just the funniest possible UI choice—they look so brok…

I second this, AI in the Culture series is the most positive example I've read. It's notable that AI co-exist with humans everywhere in Banks' novels—unlike say Star Trek, where Da…

I hope anyone who wants to pursue the arts doesn’t let pessimists like this discourage them from expressing themselves in the ways they love best. I can say from experience that be…

If you find something that works for you that lets you create artifacts of your interests, go for it! You never know what people will latch on to. I also have a lot of unrelated in…

This was a pain to find on mobile, so for the convenience of LAMP developers curious about the included packages: Apache/httpd: 2.4.52 Mysql: 10.5.13 PHP: 7.4.27 Source: ftp://ftp.…