one thing that is readily apparent after returning to the US after some time away is that China has already achieved the civ style cultural victory and is playing past the endgame screen a less incompetent US admin could counterbalance this but, alas

one interesting observation is that the actual set of countries that do vote by mail looks almost exactly like the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eco... map (with the notable exception of the Nordics but they mostly have equivalents like howtovote.se/voting-by-co...)

CAPTCHA idea: pick the struggling companies from the Astr*nomer brand grid

just doing some research on traveling on german trains with a bicycle

did you know that 60-90% of the dairy workforce (depending on the source) in Reggio Emilia consists of Sikhs (primarily from Punjab) and Parmesan production is pretty much only possible because of their work? archive.is/qzlMH

I just funded a mullvad account with 2 months of credits without realizing I don't need it, anyone want the access code? paid through may 12th (don't do anything particularly naughty with it please)

please, please, please do not intercept or "disable" copy/paste in your webapp, especially on password fields

new google regression dropped: sending a specific venue now appears to send a *search* that is context-specific and may resolve to a completely different venue happened 2x today with maps.app.goo.gl/wqurboP7pS4i... (NYC instead of LA) maps.app.goo.gl/L8cN2jESy6Xx... (CN instead of LA)

for the past two years Berlin has had ridership comparable to NYC Berlin has less than half the population, even if you don't count the commuters (LI is 4x Brandenburg alone)

hypothetically speaking, do we know if worldcoin orbs are available on the grey market?

if you're wondering how things are going in the .ru AI chatbot space, this is the login screen for GigaChat (it's free but you need to be KYC'd via federal savings bank)

all models like this (and perhaps all foundation models period) must belong to the commons on which they build incidentally, RIP Mozilla Location Service arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/n...

we've had to rotate our tor keys so the archive.org onion service now lives on archivep75mbjunhxc6x4j5mwjmomyxb573v42baldlqu56ruil2oiad.onion it's no speed demon but it should generally work! let me know if you run into any issues (game emulation is known to be broken right now FWIW)

@bsky.app can we make the info tip about alt text open the add-alt-text dialog on click? my brain refuses to find the "+ ALT" button on top of a busy image

haven't really had the stomach for social media the past couple of months but notifications look like this despite 0 content so I guess I'll be more actively posting on here now

First we’ll be hearing from @brewster.kahle.org @arkadiy.bsky.social on the work @archive.org is doing to provide a dedicated Tor onion service to allow private and unrestricted access to their collections, including from politically repressive locales.

overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out

has anyone done a numerology art project on the patterns in their 2FA codes?

on an otherwise dark day, I am very happy to have this with me if you're impatient the drop is 5:16 then double drop at 6:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8rErqsxvE

just posting this evergreen quote for no reason at all: “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”

if you were an Ethereum developer between 2015-2018 YOU MAY BE ENTITLED TO COMPENSATION by which I mean compensation from your past self, *check your created contracts for withdrawable ETH, people*

searching "thiel praxis" on German google will absolutely not yield the results you are looking for

we're living through what are probably the most significant changes in computation since 1945 and I'm not even talking about AI bye bye Von Neumann architecture https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-to-make-the-universe-think-for-us-20220531/