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Has Apple replaced “users” with “people” in their documentation? https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/managing-notifications “This time he would reach the sky… The tree of axiomatic systems beneath him was broad, deep, strong… his sibling-twins has branched at choice points … spread into the distance with webs of logic… as he reached upwards, his own rich growth path assured … something ahead of him: a new postulate … but: the statement was undecidable!” Ha, a literal world of logic. That’s a new one for me. “Vacuum Diagrams” by Stephen Baxter. #scifi  The pope is taking a strong position on #climate change. https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20231004-laudate-deum.html @J12t Germany can't afford to import all the energy it needs (besides the principled opposition to nukes, another problem was that they used fuel from Russia). Trying to run Windows again the first time in a few months. So far I'm on the 5th reboot, I think. I should really always try to run it the day before I need it. @darnell : the BBCs thoughts on mastodon and the fediverse were very nicely outlined at the recent FediForum: https://fediforum.org/2023-09/session/1-b/ How many people knew what an “atto” is before today? I learned it down to pico because capacitors, of course, and I’m not sure I ever had much use for femto and atto … that was similar for things above mega for a while, but then we got FETs with giga-ohms and then computer storage put it out of the park. One very reasonable thing the Germans did in their post-WWII constitution is to NOT have a mechanism to remove the chancellor, only a mechanism to elect another chancellor in their place. A “constructive” vote of no confidence, instead of a destructive one. Another exhibit for why that is a better plan: the US House today. The opportunity to wreck havoc is an attack surface. Why not reduce its size?  @J12t here in Italy if I recall correctly we have the same thing but an escape hatch to that was found using “technical governments”. A real shame for a nation that calls itself a democracy Imho the speaker removal today is another sign of an active, organized campaign of subversion that aims to degrade the US government’s ability to act. It’s not right vs left, or progressive vs conservative. Like in a magician’s card trick, that’s just what the operation wants you to pay attention to. If the actions do not, and cannot advance the supposed objectives, the real objectives must be different from the stated ones. Observation on some other platform: "certain Republicans just joined with Democrats to oust a Speaker on account of that Speaker joining with Democrats to keep the government open, pay the troops and civil servants, etc.?" If you just harvested your afternoon Kohlrabi snack, and on the way back, you step on a cucumber, you got to eat both right then and there, right? Online account hygiene. Is that a thing? I realized I do not know how many google accounts I have, for example. Sooner or later that’s going to bite me, isn’t it, so I better figure this out and clean this up? How do you all keep track of this stuff over decades?  @J12t they're in my password manager or they don't exist :) I likely have dozens of google accounts because every organization that requires one gets a new account, usually a new browser profile as well, as Wierd Al sings, "Keep them separated" I don't think 'google account', I think 'FLOSS project account' or 'kid activity account' and add a note in my password manager that it's via the googs Shame on you, Google. Shame. https://www.wired.com/story/google-antitrust-lawsuit-search-results/ Browsing Newegg website. Suddenly all pages turn to this. Believe me I was not trying to buy an Intel Core 2.  @J12t Newegg seemed to take a turn for the worse many years ago. I don't know why. Do you still like them? Some people will set up their social network to consist entirely of imaginary friends. And they will prefer those over real people. Imagine a non-trivial fraction of humanity does this. What does this do to humanity? https://www.platformer.news/p/the-synthetic-social-network-is-coming H/t @caseynewton  @J12t @caseynewton I doubt it will be something users will like per se. Having it as productivity tools makes it more approachable. It's not cool to waste your time with bots online. It's already a problem of social media now and people are quitting / losing trust. The loss of authenticity and realness will probably make more and more people quit social media and focus more on real life. The entire sell point of social media is that it emulates your reality, not create a new, fake one. |
What can Hamas reasonably expect to gain here? Shock? Yes. Hostages? Yes. But then what? I’m not seeing the picture they are apparently seeing, unless I include Iran.