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@JacksonBoren ("Jackson Boren") wrote:
Just thinking about how Darla the Bichon Frise did a four film run of Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, The ‘Burbs, Silence of the Lambs and Batman Returns, dropped the mic and then retired and died
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
I don't think Kevin's coming back y'all. I'm sorry you didn't get to be influenced by this rigorous debate of ideas. Apparently self-censoring is the one exception to the rule about no censoring. I'm gonna call the ACLU and ask whether this new info changes their outlook at all.
Waymo sues California DMV to keep driverless crash data under wraps
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Waymo filed a lawsuit against the California Department of Motor Vehicles to keep driverless car crash data from being made public. The autonomous vehicle operator, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet, claims that such data should be considered a trade secret. The news of the lawsuit was first reported by the Los Angles Times.
California’s DMV oversees the largest autonomous vehicle testing program in the country, with over 60 companies permitted to operate test vehicles on public roads. Only a handful are approved to operate fully autonomous vehicles without safety drivers at the wheel, and even fewer have been approved to deploy vehicles for commercial purposes.
Waymo is seeking to keep private information about how it...
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@morninggloria ("Erin Ryan") wrote:
Supreme Court Justice Anita Hill
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
Kevin if everybody who was afraid of repercussions chose to silence their voice, we would never have seen the progress that was made by the civil rights movement. MLK wouldn't have deleted his tweets.
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@siberianmi ("Kevin Kolk 💉💉💉") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
@polotek Frankly for fear of the cancel culture crowd piling into what was a relatively calm conversation once you started quote tweeting bits and pieces of the thread and it begins to lose context.
China unveils five-year plan for space exploration that continues push into lunar space
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China has released its plans for space exploration over the next five years, detailing ambitious goals that include strengthening its space infrastructure and developing a next-generation spacecraft for carrying people to space. The country is also researching how it could possibly land people on the Moon in the coming years.
The roadmap, detailed in a new white paper released today, would continue China’s ambitious progress in the realm of aerospace. Over the last few decades, the country has placed significant emphasis on expanding its space capabilities, increasing the frequency and scope of its launches, and pushing into new areas such as the robotic exploration of Mars. China has also mounted a long-term campaign of lunar...
@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:
everyone wants to fuck me and I totally get it.
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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
Kevin I'm not sure why you thought that debating life or death issues was gonna be nice and cordial. The context was there for people to find. Until you started deleting it.
https://twitter.com/siberianmi/status/1487114009467834375?t=mqjxf1H-O_mhveaWwoOc0Q&s=19
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
Fine line between debating and "dunking" I guess. One of them is necessary for the progress of human society and the other should be... censored? https://twitter.com/siberianmi/status/1487112302621081603?t=mqjxf1H-O_mhveaWwoOc0Q&s=19
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
Hmm. Kevin's deleting his tweets. I guess he doesn't want to debate ideas anymore. Weird how do many people who swear debating things openly is the only way to work things out aren't actually ready to do that.
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
And we know Kevin isn't actually engaged with the *impact* of these things. Because he's not actually under threat. This isn't about debating "ideas". This is about what happens when the ideas spread and start radicalizing people.
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@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @siberianmi:
@siberianmi @RichFelker @lulumeservey I'm not trying to stop "ideas". I'm trying to stop being from being discriminated against, harmed, and killed. Sorry for the confusion there.
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@ryder_ripps ("RYDER RIPPS") wrote:
since bored ape is trending im going to leave this here, http://gordongoner.com
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
Then he does the thing that all white people do. "Let me tell you how the civil rights movement went. And how we won!"
I mean the sheer audacity it takes to say "they tried to censor MLK and that was bad. So maybe we should let the Nazis use substack."
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@siberianmi ("Kevin Kolk 💉💉💉") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
@polotek @RichFelker @lulumeservey You mean I'm miss-informed that there was similar attempts at censorship only by opposed to reform which didn't work? Is your core argument that today we are definitely so enlightened that we can now begin to censor speech we oppose? https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/civil-rights-movement-reminder-free-speech-there-protect-weak
@MattBaume ("Matt Baume") wrote:
Current obsession: This title card that appeared in a British news show about gay clubs sometime in the mid 80s
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
The ACLU also tries to actually stop bigoted discrimination. Because they know that's also bad. But then you talk to people like @siberianmi and he's like "the ACLU did a thing one time which means we can't censor anything ever even if it means people are getting hurt".
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") replied to a tweet by @polotek:
The ACLU is a body that tries to protect speech through legal action. There is a reason the ACLU isn't trying to help people get their Twitter accounts back. Because it's not the same fucking thing.
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
I think the thing that bothers me about the free speech debate is how simplistic it is. The idea that we aren't allowed to examine anything about the context in which things exist.
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@siberianmi ("Kevin Kolk 💉💉💉") replied to a tweet by @siberianmi:
@polotek @RichFelker @lulumeservey Much of the same criticism being aimed at Substack for it's choice to not exercise a heavy hand in censoring it's platform has also be aimed at the ACLU for protecting the free speech rights of groups whose speech is racists, misogynists, false or otherwise toxic.
Three things Web3 should fix in 2022
Last weekend, it felt like everyone I knew was sending me the same link. “The Problem With NFTs,” a long video essay by the Canadian media critic Dan Olson, ricocheted around all corners of the tech world since it was uploaded on Friday. (It now has 2.6 million views and climbing.) Over 138 meticulously researched minutes, Olson traces the history of the 2008 financial crisis, the creation of Bitcoin and Ethereum, and the rise of NFTs and DAOs, and reaches the conclusion that what we have taken to calling “Web3” is effectively beyond saving: the technology is too broken, and its creators too indifferent to its failures, for it to ever to live up to the promise of its most starry-eyed backers.
Few of Olson’s criticisms are entirely new,...
Pokémon Legends: Arceus: Easy Pokedex Tips That Will Make A Huge Difference
Pokémon Legends: Arceus does a lot of things differently from the mainline Pokémon games, and that includes completing your Pokédex. Where before the games tasked you with collecting the entire monster compendium to fill out the encyclopedia within the device, _Arceus_takes place in the past, presumably before Bill…
@meakoopa ("Anthony Oliveira") retweeted:
commenting "babe??? WTF" on every couples post i see on valentine's day
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") wrote:
if it were a music company it would pay musicians
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@washingtonpost ("The Washington Post") wrote:
Why did Spotify choose Joe Rogan over Neil Young?
Spotify isn’t a music company. It’s a tech company looking to maximize profits, writes Travis M. Andrews. https://wapo.st/34gfuKW
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@OriginalRamiz ("Ramiz Monsef") wrote:
If anyone made this for me and then said “Presto!” I’d punch them in the neck.
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@mark_wilkins ("Mark W / CCP Darwin") wrote:
Why is it "root-mean-square" when the order of operations is "square-mean-root?"
Important statistical questions on a Friday afternoon.
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
Even though I spent a lot of time configuring and familiarising myself with new tools, I managed to actually get quite a lot done in my first sprint there.
And it mostly just felt easy.
I wasn't even sure what I would need to be able to work comfortably on these projects, but now I think I have all of it.
Oh, if I could integrate Jira somehow that would be great.
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
So grateful for all the libre tools people have built for us that I've been setting up as part of my new job.
I'm really impressed with the neovim LSP support.
Install a language server (most of which are packaged for my distro), add its name to the config, done.
I've mostly just made do with less ever since I stopped being able to use the common IDEs and stuff but now I can have everything except the physical pain and price tags.
Gave my VTuber a new shirt and will now attempt to add colliders to her boobas. :D I just hate it when hair and arms clip through...
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:
don't worry folks, it's just this easy
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bleeptrack@chaos.social ("Bleeptrack") wrote:
RT @_brennacolleen@twitter.com
guilty
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/_brennacolleen/status/1486807172273090567
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caarlos0@mastodon.technology ("caarlos0.dev") wrote:
I found about git-worktree this week, and just had to write a bigger-than-a-toot-but-still-short thing about it to share with y'all
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@owillis ("Oliver Willis") wrote:
200 republicans -- and 6 democrats -- voted against the infrastructure bill.
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@fvaraorta ("Francisco Vara-Orta") wrote:
Cultural intelligence is an undervalued skill in investigative journalism that's sometimes labeled as being "too woke." BUT it's needed more than ever in an era of disinformation and polarization so our stories can have more nuance & in turn more impact - which helps everyone.
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:
It’s so lucky that this happened earlier in the day…
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
(Which isn't to say there aren't more important aspects to the film. But apparently the robot design is the part of the film my brain has decided to latch onto and mull over.)
@bombsfall ("Web3 Henry Dubb") wrote:
I think I'd be good for you
and you'd be good for me
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
@RyanElward ("J Ryan E") wrote:
Teamsters Local 665 says no to pay cuts for part-timers. We fight for each other.
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@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") wrote:
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@guardian ("The Guardian") wrote:
US judge blocks sale of Gulf of Mexico drilling leases over climate concerns https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/28/gulf-of-mexico-oil-gas-drilling-leases-judge-blocks-climate-biden?CMP=twt_gu&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium#Echobox=1643386230-1
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:
Where did this hacker news Texan Bridge Brigade come from
@polotek ("Marco Rogers") wrote:
Actually the people they harmed get moved more often.
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@laurieontech ("Laurie") wrote:
Bad actors rarely get fired.
They get moved elsewhere until the people they harmed are gone.
@AlanTudyk ("alan tudyk") retweeted:
Correction, @POTUS Biden and Democrats.
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@GovRonDeSantis ("Ron DeSantis") wrote:
Governor DeSantis is awarding over $80 million for infrastructure projects in South Florida. https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1OdKrBwznWYKX
cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope") wrote:
I finally watched "Interstellar" over multiple 20-30 minute sessions stretched over days (because life). I don't know how that impacted my experience of the movie, but I probably can't handle movies with any emotional intensity any other way right now. But my biggest takeaway from that film appears to be wondering about whether those robot designs could really work. 🤔
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@shadow ("Rail enthusiast wife Daria") wrote:
The bridge that collapsed in Pittsburgh this morning (Forbes Avenue over Fern Hollow in Frick Park) wasn’t even on my radar as having issues. About my age. Won an award from the American Institute of Steel Construction for design after opening (bottom pic here)
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@reckless ("nilay patel") wrote:
Spotify says it has taken down *20,000* podcast episodes for violating a Covid content policy... a policy that no one has ever seen, enforced by a mysterious moderation team of indeterminate size. @ashleyrcarman asked, Spotify ghosted. https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/27/22904463/joe-rogan-spotify-neil-young-decision-moderation-podcasts
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@clhubes ("Lucy Huber") wrote:
When youre pregnant with your first kid everyone tells you how hard it will be and how you won’t sleep etc etc and that’s TRUE but also not a single person tells you one day your toddler will say “good night, love you” individually to every one of his trucks, the cats, and you.
@ewarren ("Elizabeth Warren") wrote:
If we got billionaires like Jeff Bezos to pay their fair share of taxes, we could have universal child care and pre-k for every kid in America. And yes, I have a plan for that.
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Jeff Bezos is expanding his free school program.
https://trib.al/OZkwvAF
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:
The amount of people saying “Pittsburg” on the internet today is causing me too much psychic damage 😂
The Surprisingly Messy Culture Wars Within The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
In the 1970s Will Shortz submitted a crossword to the _New York Times_with a word so scandalous that the editor rejected it. The word: bellybutton. Fast forward over four decades and Shortz himself is the _Times_crossword editor who is now the gatekeeper, selecting puzzles from the nearly 200 submissions he gets a week.…
Hackers have stolen $80 million in cryptocurrency from the Qubit DeFi platform
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Qubit Finance, a decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, has become the latest victim of a high-value theft, with hackers stealing around $80 million in cryptocurrency on Thursday.
The value of cryptocurrency stolen makes this the largest hack of 2022 so far.
Qubit Finance acknowledge the hack in an incident report published through Medium. According to the report, the hack occurred at around 5PM ET on the evening of January 27th.
Qubit provides a service known as a “bridge” between different blockchains, effectively meaning that deposits made in one cryptocurrency can be withdrawn in another. Qubit Finance operates a bridge between Ethereum and the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) network.
Analysis produced by CertiK, a blockchain auditing and...
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Mongo say we only pawn in game of life.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/01/28/a-flys-fate/
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@alpineparrot ("Alpine Parrot") wrote:
We love that you love them, @tracyohn !!
Thank you for supporting us from the very beginning 💖💖💖
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Well… my @alpineparrot #ponderosa pants arrived this past week and I love them! Wore them on my last 3 outings.. #frontandback (me in centre) Have you ever tried snowshoeing in the #Kananaskis that’s us… #cataractcreek #slowandsteady #hikealberta #snowshoeing @Albertaparks
@steveklabnik replied to a tweet by @steveklabnik:
Anyway if you were wondering why I was being all sensitive about bridges the other day…
Eight Things To Do In Destiny 2 To Prepare For The Witch Queen
Destiny 2’s longest season still has a month to go. That’s bad news for everyone eagerly awaiting the game’s massive upcoming _Witch Queen_expansion, but good news for those who still need time to tie up a few loose ends. That’s especially true for newer players who may be a bit behind on the four-year old live service…
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
I wonder how it works in macOS terminal or Windows Terminal.
Are they and their deps open source?
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@RobinJerilea ("Robin") replied to a tweet by @williamlegate:
@williamlegate BTW, I just learned today that Niel Young contracted polio when he was little before there was a vaccine and it had a big impact on his life for years. Just a note as to one reason why he is passionate about this
HOLY SHIT
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@gbarnhisel ("Greg Barnhisel") wrote:
The Forbes Ave bridge over #frickpark in #pittsburgh collapsed at about 6am. Several vehicles and a bus on the bridge. No injuries reported yet. Strong smell of natural gas. Avoid the area #pittsburghbridgecollapse
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@JahHills ("Ryan H. Walsh") wrote:
"Neil's protest failed!"
"NY was a fool to think his music is that important!"If you study the history of protest, sometimes when it looks as if some form of protest has failed, it actually leads to LOTS of consequences in the direction you're protesting for.
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@williamlegate ("LeGate") wrote:
BREAKING: Spotify has shutdown its live customer support due to an unprecedented number of complaints after they doubled-down on their Joe Rogan anti-vax campaign
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
wish I had the chops to fix this https://codeberg.org/dnkl/foot/issues/756
Vergecast: Spotify’s latest Joe Rogan problem, Intel’s bet on Ohio, and Q4 earnings for Big Tech
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge | Photo by Vivian Zink/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
Every Friday, The Verge publishes our flagship podcast, The Vergecast, where we discuss the week in tech news with the reporters and editors covering the biggest stories.
This week, it’s time for earnings reports again! The Verge’s Nilay Patel, Alex Cranz, and Tom Warren look at how profitable the big tech companies like Microsoft, Samsung, Intel, and Tesla were in Q4 of 2021. The crew discusses the surprises, the non-surprises, as well as upcoming plans for these companies for 2022 and beyond.
Later in the show, Casey Newton, contributing editor and editor of Platformer, joins the show to discuss Spotify’s latest controversy regarding Joe Rogan’s podcast, leading to musician Neil Young removing his music from the platform. Will this...
@trixiemattel ("Trixie Mattel™") wrote:
My new song is out now! https://ffm.to/thistowntm
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@msolurin ("Olayemi Olurin") wrote:
There’s nothing blind about justice, stop perpetuating that lie
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@meowmeowmeuw ("juniper 🧊") wrote:
america rules
How To Beat The Bizarrely Difficult Crash Bandicoot High Score In Uncharted 4
Face it, Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End isn’t exactly a nail-bitingly difficult game. In fact, the debatably toughest moment of Naughty Dog’s modern classic comes in the form of a game-within-a-game: Crash flippin’ Bandicoot.
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
"Google drops FLoC and proposes new Topics API for replacing third-party cookies used by ads"
I wonder how it feels to work on harmful fucking garbage that nobody wants.
Love to spend squillions of dollars on making the world a shittier place.
Great allocation of resources, very efficient system we have.
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
What do you use to navigate Java projects?
For me, tree-like navigation does not work so well on them, due to deep directory hierarchies.
Some fuzzy finder perhaps?
Maybe with LSP-powers?
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@commclassroom ("Community Classroom") wrote:
Monokle from @thekubeshop makes it easy to manage and debug your clusters
In this tutorial, we are gonna do a walkthrough of the cool features offered by Monokle and see how to work with clusters using @CivoCloud
Watch👉 https://bit.ly/3Hcdsub
Pokémon Legends: Arceus Gives You A Shiny Ponyta With A Special Legacy
Even if shiny hunting in Pokémon games isn’t your cup of tea, it’s always exciting to randomly happen upon one of these uber-rare, alternately colored pocket monsters. Fortunately, Pokémon Legends: Arceus makes achieving this feat easy by reviving an old series tradition and giving players one guaranteed shiny by way…
The eject button held all the power on the original Xbox
The most important button on the original Xbox wasn’t the power button: it was the button to eject the disc tray.
Conceptually, this doesn’t make sense.Of course the power button should be the most important button — it turns on (and off) the whole console. But that attitude is steeped in our understanding of modern devices, where our games and apps are far more self-contained than they were during the original Xbox’s heyday.
The console’s design reflects the eject button’s priority. The disc eject button is bigger, higher up, and surrounded by an LED ring in the console’s iconic green glow, drawing even more attention to it.
The reasoning here is simple: the original Xbox (like its contemporaries and predecessors) was useless without...
@bascule ("Tony "Abolish ICE" Arcieri 🦀🌹") wrote:
"[A judge] invalidated the largest offshore oil and gas lease sale in the nation’s history, ruling that the Biden administration violated federal law by relying on a seriously flawed analysis of the climate change impact of drilling in the Gulf of Mexico."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/01/27/biden-gulf-of-mexico-lease-sale/
How to set up a Slack account
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Now that we’re spending more time indoors, we’re finding new platforms — and new ways to use old platforms — to stay in touch, whether it’s for work or with friends. This is the case with Slack, an instant-messaging platform that functions somewhere in the space between email and text messages. Designed for quick communication, Slack became an important tool for a lot of workplaces well before everyone started working from home. But you can use it for pretty much anything: friends, group activities, clubs, or online communities.
Slack has a free version and offers several paid plans. You start by setting up a workspace (which is your main area of operations and contains your network of contacts) on Slack. In your workspace, you create...
@AnnTelnaes ("Ann Telnaes") wrote:
Opinion | Not another woman on the Supreme Court!
#SCOTUShttps://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/27/not-another-woman-supreme-court/?tid=ss_tw
@telegram ("Telegram Messenger") wrote:
everyone always asks "where are the memes?" – but no one ever asks "how are the memes?"
Fortnite’s return to iOS via GeForce Now feels just fine
The game plays much better than I expected.
Fortnite hasn’t been available on iOS since Apple yanked it from the App Store in August 2020, but I’ve been able to play it on my iPhone once again thanks to a closed beta on Nvidia’s GeForce Now cloud gaming service. While it’s not quite as seamless an experience as using a native app, this GeForce Now loophole works a lot better than I expected.
With this closed beta, you’ll be playing a mobile-optimized version of the game. If you’ve tried Fortnite on iOS or Android before, the layout should feel familiar — the experience is well-designed for touch, with easy-to-navigate menus and large (though finicky) onscreen controls. This GeForce Now version also supports controllers, and I’ve played most matches with my iPhone plugged into my...
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@jwgoerlich ("J Wolfgang Goerlich") wrote:
Hey teenagers…
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I guess New York needs to work harder at cleaning up their pest problem. They spread disease, you know.
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owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
I doubled its memory to 8 KiB; let's see if I ever come across a repo that needs more.
Samsung’s QLED TV is back to its lowest price
Save on this excellent QLED from Samsung | Samsung
If you’re looking to pick up a TV ahead of the Super Bowl, Samsung is currently discounting many of its QLED TVs, matching their lowest prices ever. Normally, the 75-inch model of the Samsung QN85A QLED TV costs $2,999.99 but is currently on sale at Samsung and Best Buy for $1,999.99. This massive, slim-bezel display features amazing visual fidelity and also includes a variety of other handy features. The Tizen OS grants access to most major streaming services and a number of helpful apps, and the TV features built-in support for Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, allowing you to control playback or find your favorite show with ease. The already excellent picture quality is enhanced even further thanks to HDR10+ support, a 120Hz refresh...
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
just noticed that my homemade shell prompt doesn't show git status on the work monorepo.
the prompt program runs out of memory when doing the git bits and I handled that with `catch {};` so it just skips that part.
So.. I've been playing around with my streaming stuff on/off for a while. Yesterday I decided to just work on my stuff on stream instead of waiting till everything is done and perfect to "really start" streaming. :D So later today I want to start working on a room for my VTuber. Build the base in Blender and probably paint over in Krita. 😉 I'll drop the link here later on.. Some time between 19:00 and 22:00 Hamburg time, probably.. (UTC+01:00)
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Cultural anthropology to the rescue! Now sleeping easier.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/01/28/sleep-however-you-feel-like/
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@schneierblog ("Schneier Blog") wrote:
Tracking Secret German Organizations with Apple AirTags https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/01/tracking-secret-german-organizations-with-apple-airtags.html
pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Twisty. Confusing. It takes a while to confuzzle out what you're looking at.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2022/01/28/friday-cephalopod-quite-possibly-non-euclidean/
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@AmazonScience ("Amazon Science") wrote:
Updates to the @PrimeVideo app need to work on 8,000+ different devices. Alexandru Ene explains how the team managed the trade-off between performance and ease of update and, with the move to WebAssembly, increased speed & stability. #PrimeVideo https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-prime-video-updates-its-app-for-more-than-8-000-device-types
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@edburmila ("preorder CHAOTIC NEUTRAL now") wrote:
How does a belief in meritocracy and social mobility survive knowing that there are 330,000,000 Americans and 9 Supreme Court justices and two of them went to the same high school.
WhatsApp sets its sights on the US
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
With more than 2 billion users, WhatsApp is already one of the most popular messaging apps in the world. But its largest markets are all outside of the US. Now, Facebook, the parent company of WhatsApp that recently rebranded to Meta, is hoping to change that.
Starting this weekend, Meta is kicking off the first-ever US marketing push for WhatsApp, focusing on the privacy offered by the app’s encryption. The first TV ad will air Sunday during the AFC Championship Game, comparing unencrypted messages to a stranger opening your physical mail. Similar ads touting WhatsApp’s privacy will soon start appearing on billboards around the country and online.
The goal of the marketing push is to get more people in the US to switch to WhatsApp by...
Apple trolls Spotify with Neil Young tweets, playlists, and push notifications
“We Love Neil” — subtle stuff. | Image: Apple Music / The Verge
Earlier this week, Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify after falling out with the platform over its hosting of Joe Rogan and COVID misinformation. So now, of course, rival streamer Apple Music is courting Young and his fans, sending out tweets, playlists, and even push notifications to brand itself as “The home of Neil Young.”
It’s all a bit of theatrical silliness, of course. Neil Young is a legendary songwriter, yes, but his presence or absence won’t decide the fate of this or that streaming platform. He’s no Kanye or Taylor Swift. Instead, Apple is simply indulging in the time-honored corporate tradition of inserting itself into a relevant news cycle while the going is good.
The company’s not been subtle about it either. It even...
Apple now has 1.8 billion active devices
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Apple made more money than ever during the holiday season, and its growth during 2021 has helped the company add 150 million more active devices. During an earnings call with investors last night, Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed that Apple now has 1.8 billion active devices.
That’s up from the 1.65 billion Apple reported a year ago, and the 1.5 billion active devices in January 2020. While Cook didn’t delve deeper into the device details, Apple crossed the 1 billion active iPhones milestone a year ago, after selling its billionth iPhone in 2016 and then hitting 900 million active iPhone users in 2019. Apple counts a device as active as long as it has engaged with an Apple service within the past 90 days, so the 1.8 billion number covers a...
Logitech’s latest mechanical keyboards are affordable and understated
Logitech’s G413 TKL. | Image: Logitech
Logitech has announced a pair of new wired mechanical keyboards, G413 SE and G413 TKL. The first is a fullsize keyboard costing $79.99, and the second is a tenkeyless model, which omits the numpad for a more compact footprint and costs $69.99.
The G413 SE and G413 TKL are interesting for a couple of reasons. First is that unlike many of Logitech’s other keyboards, these designs are relatively understated. The cases are a simple black-brushed aluminum-magnesium alloy with a plain Logitech G logo on the top right. Meanwhile, the keycaps use a simple black design and are made of durable PBT plastic with transparent lettering that lets the keyboard’s white backlighting shine through.
Image: Logitech
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Google leaks Pixel 6A name in, of all things, a coloring book
A leaked render of the unannounced Pixel 6A. | Image: Steve Hemmerstoffer / 91Mobiles
A Google-produced coloring book may have just offered the first official mention of the Pixel 6A, the rumored affordable followup to last year’s flagship Pixel 6 and 6 Pro, Droid-Life reports. The coloring book was sent out alongside a Nest Audio smart speaker to members of Google’s Pixel Superfans group, which was launched last year to provide a “VIP experience for Pixel lovers” including access to “limited-edition swag.”
Images of the coloring book shared by _Droid-Life_show a variety of black and white sketches of Google devices like phones, smart displays, and security cameras in need of some color. A table-of-contents lists a “Pixel 6A,” a phone which Google has never publicly mentioned. Unfortunately, turning to pages 6 and 7...
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guessing that they treat strings as bytes and do secondWord.firstByte, and get 0xF0 instead of the full owl which is 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0x89, and only 0xF0 is not valud UTF-8
@rob_hawkins ("Wet January") wrote:
Honestly, more people said yes than I expected.
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If I made a cushion from the same material as the jacket my cat likes to sleep on, would she sleep on it?
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
"Successfully downloaded new metadata: 0 local devices supported"
I guess HP doesn't believe in lvfs/automated firmware updates?
owl@beach.city ("ugglan") wrote:
put " 🦉" as my name on zoom, so that badge with intials shows "U�"
feels like IRC when UTF-8 was newfangled