"the tube-shaped boom can be squashed flat and rolled like a tape measure"
What? That sounds crazy.
Turns out: it is.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/wsxNgRI_RMs
@AltStore was rickety to install, and it only has two apps, neither of which I want.
However. Apple's line is that "no-one really wants an alternative app store". This app store costs under €2/year. Proving Apple wrong is never not worth two euros.
https://fosstodon.org/users/altstore/statuses/112287538562764439
If there's a kind of cringe porn I can enjoy, the Horizon scandal is it. I'm seeing a bunch of little crimes and sorta-kinda engineering all stacking up to produce catastrophes. Looking forward to the definitive pop-tech-history full-length book.
Weird to recognise myself in the first part of a "history of" video 🧓 So glad to see 春游 only going from strength to strength!
https://www.youtube.com/embed/0O9UDQKpH_c
Author:
Perrin pressed forward through the beech woodlands. Where an oak or a larch broke through the tree cover he enjoyed the cool breeze. At a creek he could pick a few hawthorne berries. But as he rested under an old willow, he wondered if he could reach the pine forest before nightfall.
My brain:
Dude is in trees. There are trees and also trees and trees. There was wind. At a water he ate tree fruit. He sat under a tree. He wants to get out of the trees and into different trees.
I've never had any accountancy training. But at one point zaomengshe.com needed financial reports, and I said "How hard can it be? I'll write some Python scripts." So the one thing I do know about accountancy, is that it is FUCKING HARD with financial partners who are incapable of attaching unique IDs to transactions. Which is all of them.
That's why, although I barely dare to say it, I kinda have some sympathy for Fujitsu here.
Woah! I did not expect this to go through at all. I had fully expected to begin the process of giving up my existing citizenships this year.
https://ard.social/users/tagesschau/statuses/111781537631783164
This seems like the perfect chance to pitch my phone OS based on neoliberal orthodoxy. Instead of calling malloc() like godless communists, apps bid for memory in an on-device currency. And not just memory! CPU time, network connectivity, storage. Programs can trade off space/time performance based on the device's current market conditions. As the consumer, you can mint as much currency as you like, and allocate it to apps according to how much you value their use. Preorders will open soon, as soon as I get my Bahamas bank account set up.
(Not a reply because I believe Charlie has blocked me. And this post isn't likely to do me any favours either.)
The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the ActivityStreams 2.0 data format.WordPress.org
Interesting quote from Google's #gemini team:
"LLMs also struggle with tasks requiring high-level reasoning abilities like causal understanding, logical deduction, and counterfactual reasoning even though they achieve impressive performance on exam benchmarks."
Which is another way of saying LLMs are the exact opposite of critical thinking. That could be a useful shorthand. "Is critical thinking important in this task?" "Yes" ⇒ "LLM-free zone".
"Ford’s methods were so influential that they became known simply as Fordism (something that Google and Facebook still haven’t achieved.)"
I dearly hope "Googlism" becomes a term for something you keep vague when telling people you have a doctor's appointment.
https://crookedtimber.org/2023/11/08/silicon-valley-is-the-detroit-of-the-future/
Oh, interesting. I saw a brief popup at the station on the weekend and ignored it.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/flipper-zero-gadget-that-doses-iphones-takes-once-esoteric-attacks-mainstream/
"We're migrating the company wiki, as part of the cleanup all pages without an edit in the last 6 months will be archived."
-- real thing said by a free-roaming employee not wearing a Hannibal Lecter muzzle.
Huge news if true. This would be a worrying escalation that could throw the whole region into chaos, with implications for the supply chain worldwide. #bbc https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-66887236
Ow ow ow my eyes! Sadly, much as I'd like to blame this on ChatGPT, I'm betting a human is responsible.
I would definitely have gone with the headline "Repair company lobbies for law change to permit expanding business into commercial machinery." Sometimes clickbait tactics are used for good, not evil. #ifixit https://youtu.be/2uCpY3tFTIA
My reaction when Naomi Wu went offline was basically "that's a shame, but you're probably right not to make a big fuss or fight this." Guess I misinterpreted that.
"Literally the only thing that was keeping me online for the past few years was they were worried it would make China look bad if they cracked down on me. Now that they know that I could be dead in a ditch tomorrow and no one would give a shit or say a word I’m 1000x less safe here."
https://www.hackingbutlegal.com/naomi-wu-and-the-silence-that-speaks-volumes/
I bumped into the name "Horatio Alger Association" but decided I couldn't be bothered following up. Slacktivist puts it in context:
Hard work and clean living were never enough for the street urchins and matchstick boys in his books. The ones who achieved success only managed to do so because they were assisted by older, wealthy, unmarried men who took those boys off the streets and into their homes.
If you think there might be a creepy subtext to that, you’re wrong. It’s not a subtext at all.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2023/08/11/ragged-dick/
Oops, maps.me finally went away. It used to be a good app, it worked offline and almost all the screen was map. They gradually cluttered the screen with more and more junk, and now you can't download more than ten regional maps, not enough even for a whole country. It's now useless as an application for, like, viewing maps.
Are there any free apps for viewing OSM offline any more? #openstreetmap
Global Mobile Map Viewing & Navigation for Offline and Online OSM Mapsf-droid.org
Meat Lego Gnosticism put on a good show, but anything after the first two albums is unlistenable. https://crookedtimber.org/2023/08/09/mary-harrington-on-the-family/
I see. We're going with "x-en" are we? "Du x-st". "Sie hatte ge-x-t". This is how it's gonna work?
https://ard.social/users/tagesschau/statuses/110800392909844182
This MS Teams parody account I follow never fails to disappoint. If you love kafkacapitalist cyberhorror with a surreal twist, you can't do much better. https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/announcing-the-new-maybelline-beauty-app-in-microsoft-teams/ba-p/3877999