I have two chimps within, Laziness and Hyperactivity. They smoke cigs, drink yerba, fling shit at each other, and devour the face of anyone who gets close to either.
They also devour my dreams.
The “mythical beast” is likely a tiger. Compare it with those:
They’re part of a set of four or five mythological animals, associated with directions: Black Tortoise of the North, White Tiger of the West, Azure Dragon of the East, Vermillion Bird of the South. The fifth animal, when included, is a Yellow Qilin (or dragon) of the Centre.
I’m more worried about getting chickenella from salmon.
Prolly preaching to the choir, but…
Big tech does not have walled gardens. It has corrals, full of milk cows. If you’re in one of those corrals, big tech will milk you dry, and cull you once the risk associated with you outweighs the predicted benefit from keeping you.
As such, whenever possible/reasonable to do so:
inb4 “but dat’s too hard lol lmao” — play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Guys, please don’t call anything after Zirconium or Niobium. We need the names for the future Russian hacker groups Snugly Bear and Hugging Bear.
On a more serious note, someone is developing an operating system codenamed Boron.
At those times you see how the obnoxious, harmful, idiotic, dumb, disgusting culture of “ackshyually” in Reddit comes from the top.
Don’t get me wrong. The law is bad; it’s dressed as “think on the children!!!”, but it boils down to
However Reddit’s core argument is not “the law is bad”; it’s “ackshyually Lebbit is not social media lol”. Implied, “we deserve a free pass”.
[Reddit is] a forum primarily for adults
And yet the same Reddit is challenging the restrictions the social media ban imposes to teenagers’ implied right of freedom of political communication. Cut off the crap, stop lying you don’t want that target audience dammit.
“this is also not an effort to retain young users for business reasons”
Babbling about your intentions is used toilet paper.
we don’t have the traditional social media features the government has taken issue with
Such as being a vehicle for online bullying, an amplifier of anxiety, a conduit of peer pressure and a tool for potential predators… or addictive design. Right? Let’s see what the former moderator of r/jailbait, Steve “Greedy Pigboy” Huffman, Reddit CEO, has to say about this.
[inb4: yes, he was likely added as a mod there against his consent. But it shows they know Reddit is grounds for child predators.]
Fuck this shite. Fuck the Australian law, it’ll screw with kids and adults there. Fuck Reddit. Fuck everything and a bit more. /rant
I typically fold a single tortilla into half and put the filling in. Taco style, but with flour tortillas.
They’re typically homemade, and I’m not skilled enough to make them thin enough to wrap.
And they got a bit too used to it. To the point they struggled a bit with other seas; Caesar’s first attempt to conquer Britannia, in 55 BCE, highlights it.
When the Romans were close to the coast of what’s today Kent, from Pas-de-Calais, the Britons were waiting for them on the hills. Full of love, hugs, and arrows. No problem: boats are fast, right? Just look for another open beach, it’s shorter to go through the sea, the Britons won’t catch you! What could go wrong?
…except it is not shorter. This is not the Mediterranean, sea surrounded by land; it’s an island, land surrounded by sea. It was really easy for the Britons to protect any potential landing spot, while the Romans took the long way.
Eventually the Romans said “Per Hercle… let’s land anyway in this muddy island”. With boats built by the Veneti. Who lived in Brittany (the continental peninsula). Great shipmakers, they often did the Gallia-Britannia route to trade tin, their boats were little wonders of engineering: built of sturdy oak, with thick nails holding planks together, leather sails… what could go wrong?
The Veneti shipped between Brittany and Cornwall. It’s mostly open sea, and deeper than between Pas-de-Calais and Kent. The Romans had a hard time landing, because their ships couldn’t go too close to the shore without getting stuck. The Romans knew a lot about the geography of the Mediterranean, but those lands? Hic sunt bibitores loti dracones.
But hey, eventually the Romans did land. They fought there, encamped there. The ships were beached… without taking into account high tides. Because unlike in the Mediterranean tides are a big deal down north. Caesar got storms, high tides, some ships were full of water, some hit each other and became useless, then the Britons saw all of that and said “They can’t go back! The suckers can’t go back! They got almost no supplies and they can’t get more! Attack!”
For the want of a nail that fucker wouldn’t go back to cross the Rubicon. Sadly he did. And he got praised for landing.
I’m sharing this mostly as history trivia.
Donkey Kong Country (1994). I still play it all the time.
That’s basically the premise of Shinju no Nectar.
a ‘product of its time’.
Something like this, indeed. Or more like a product of the situation, plus a few laws - like network effect (the value a user derives from the OS depends on the number of users using it).
Note that not even the devs are to blame for this; it makes sense someone releasing commercial software would focus on the 70% (Windows), sometimes on the 15% (Mac OS), but almost never on the 4% (Linux).
This article is such a slop, that AI could write it.
“Wealth” is the result of the produce of land and labour*. As such, just like stocks going up doesn’t generate wealth on itself, stocks going down doesn’t destroy it either. As such, the crash won’t “destroy” wealth.
What is happening, however, is that the stocks those people bought will be worth as much as Monopoly money. Ultimately the wealth moved hands - from them to whoever issued the shares.
Why this matters: if the wealth was actually destroyed it wouldn’t make sense to look at who got it. If the wealth moved hands, it does. You can and should blame the ones who got it.
*and before someone starts whining “wah, you commies only see errything through Marx”: that’s Adam Smith dammit.
It does, but this is a vicious cycle: small market share → devs don’t release Linux versions for their software → the software ecosystem is fragile → users who’d rather use Linux still need to use Windows → small market share. Anything countering any of those “links” weakens the vicious cycle, including Microsoft pissing off some Windows users; that’s why the penguin gets smug, because they know “Winrows is now an Agenric OS lol lmao” means slightly higher Linux market share.
It’s like one of my cats. When she’s doing something silly, and I grab the phone to take her pic, all I get is a picture of her butt. Because to observe something you need to interact with it, and when I interact with her she collapses into the “I wants buttslaps!” state.
And before I watch it, she’s in a superposition of states. Much like Schrödinger’s cat. However her states aren’t dead vs. alive; they’re “sleeping”, “licking her own buttocks”, and “ruining my Christmas decoration”.
Your typical Linux user gets really smug when learning about dumb shit Microsoft is doing with Windows. Just like that penguin in the OP. Because that dumb shit is making plenty Windows users consider ditching Windows for Linux.
One of those things is to force-feed AI into the users. Exemplified by Microsoft seeking to transform Windows into an “agentic OS”. People who don’t know how those systems work don’t want it; and people who do, even less.
“Windows is now an agentic OS”.
Leftover polenta from yesterday lunch with two eggs, some yerba, and a cig.
It isn’t that bad. At least now. But if there’s at least one stray in your neighbourhood, you can be pretty sure he’ll smell it from afar, and he’ll sit just like that cat, watching the oven.
Yes. Typically only Sunday, and the owner of the “dog TV” being a small market: grocery store, bakery, etc.
Bit of language trivia: you know, commercial rotisserie ovens? Like this one?
Here in Brazil they’re known as “TV de cachorro”. Literally “dog TV”. Guess why: because you always get a bunch of stray dogs staring it, just like the cat in the OP.
Comment exemplifying why I show such disdain towards the community of Hacker News:
Cut off this feigned ignorance — if you want to promote alternatives, do it transparently, instead of passive-aggressively showing disdain towards a project trying to make the life of some users slightly less shitty. While carefully derailing the conversation from the topic to what you want to promote.
[Nota bene: I’m saying this as a Linux user. Like, I don’t oppose trying to encourage people to use Linux, I’m saying this is the wrong way to do it.]
It’s always like this in HN. Always. Feigning ignorance, sea lions, assumptions, false dichotomies, whataboutism… that place makes Greedy Pigboy look honest in comparison.
On-topic. Microsoft, I hope this bubble bursts really hard for you. With love, hugs, and crippled stonks. And when it reaches the point users are making tools to avoid the “features” you’ve been adding to your product, you know you fucked it up.