and now 15 years later we have some of the largest institutions scraping the very same library for financial profit with zero recourse. This dude died for nothing; An act of informational philanthropy was punished while corporate greed of a worse degree goes unpunished.

Who decided that UIs need to be massive and have acres of dead space?

In retrospect the merger of the search bar and url bar seems like an ominous portent.

assuming no "i need to play [new game] with my friends"... the used market!!! consoles - Xbox One / PS4 if paying for a subscription fee is acceptable - Xbox 360 if not PC - older computers with dedicated GPUs or slightly newer computers with nice APUs covers about everything you'd want

Early adopter pog but also reminder that you can get an android based emulation machine for like 200-300 & a massive community centered around basically doing everything to help you load it up with like your entire lifetime of games + most of them can run Silksong. You can run free with the wind.

(context: i made this in reply to a video on another platform demonstrating a tool that gets a new tor relay ip every 10 seconds) bro still using tor for opsec 😂 bro doesnt know ip hider script virtualbox😈

bluesky user learns how autocorrect and spellcheck has worked for 19 years

I desperately want a Ford Fiesta EV. They've been teasing it for years now. My old Fiesta was a glorified golf cart that could do [legal highway speeds]. Give that lightweight body the power of electric motors? And Android Auto? I would be in love.

You didn't just make it bad because you're incompetent. You made a decision to not care.

normally I would put technical complaining on my mastodon account but complaining about windows anything would just result in a lot of replies telling me to switch to linux

Billionaires spending massive amounts of money over a small portion of the population because they need the public mad at something and it's us, trans people. Disgusting morals of the ultra rich to keep people distracted and angry.

Dreams are weird. Like, I dreamed that I was grocery shopping in backwoods Appalachia and saw they were selling hotdogs with shrapnel. And I thought, oh yeah, to use for ___. I even had a memory in my dream of accidentally making one to eat and being frustrated. So of course I bought a pack.

source ports of decompiled games gotta be my favorite genre

its insane how slow and bloated chrome is i just installed [a chromium-based browser without the years of history, tabs, and extensions my chrome install has] and its just so much faster its not even comparable!

Celeborn: Tell me, where is Gandalf? For I much desire to speak with him. I no longer see him on Slack. Galadriel: Gandalf the Grey did not log on today. His status has fallen into shadow. Legolas: He was laid off by the Balrog of Morgoth. Our roadmap needlessly prioritized a Moria-first strategy.

What’s fascinating to me about steampunk is how long-lived and widespread it was despite the genre not having a single definitive work. For most people it was purely an aesthetic. It was as well-known as cyberpunk but it didn’t have a Neuromancer or Snow Crash you could point to and say “Like that.”

People complain that I don't share the things I make/work on, so here, have a vibe coded systray app lol

AI code accelerates production failures and spending, study finds

you don't seem to have less of an axe to grind if you see she had to beat anti-imcumbent/biden bias and forget she didn't try very hard to do exactly that it is of course a party wide cultural failure of unaccountability after massive losses, but she had agency.

I've really hated seeing Plex's death spiral over the past decade or so. I still use it, but I got the lifetime pass when it was about $100... a price at which I could overlook the flaws under the pretense that it'll improve. At this point I can't recommend others make that investment.

Google Cloud suspended major customer Railway.com without cause, causing outage

why is this a twitter post xcancel.com/github/status/…

i have not encountered a single person excited about mandalorian and grogu and i know people who still use the word adorkable

The actual problem is far more banal: at Google you get promoted for shipping new things, not maintenance. Maintaining existing things is seen as dead-ending your career. This is why everything corrodes over time, and why some products just die

Remember when we found out about the NSA's actual mass surveillance data center and nothing happened en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Da...

Chicken tikka masala is younger than Will Smith Pasta primavera is younger than Mariah Carey Spaghetti carbonara is younger than Joe Biden Chocolate chip cookies are younger than Jane Fonda Sliced bread is younger than Mel Brooks

I respect anyone who says "I could make a whole PowerPoint about why this is wrong" and then actually proceeds to do it.

Andromedas and Thing Doers are both developed by "senior engineers" But a "senior engineer" working on Thing Doer has 20 years of tenure at that company, while at Andromeda, "senior engineer" is the 2nd lowest level in the tech org and the person in that role is 1.5 years out of college

the taco bell drive thru here starts up with the AI chatbot but the employees hate it so it's always cut off like "Welcome to Taco Bell! Will you b-- hey. order whenever you're ready"

wat

took a synthesizer album cover photo at the river yesterday. makes you want to let a sequencer rip while you slowly turn some knobs

It's been fun seeing everyone deservedly dunk on this quote, but it's also kind of depressing how the idea of physically owning software died such a quiet death. Yeah there are programs that I physically own that require now-dead activation servers, but at least I can crack those with impunity.

Here's what I don't understand... How can they even charge SALES tax on something you never actually own. You're renting it... you never own it, there's never a point where you can say, "Okay, this version works best, let's freeze this version & buy it."

JIT compilation entering political discourse

JFC. During an oil crisis, when EVs are a lifeline, Congress is about to *put a tax on EVs*. Spectacularly stupid.

I was just watching 90s television and the subtitles said “Paid for by the United States Department of Education.” Can you imagine.

Utah tells porn sites to take the P out of VPNs, and it's their fault that they can't

I've been having a blast using Office 2010 on an old Windows 7 laptop and saving to network storage. It's amazing to just focus on writing, having the Internet be optional, no AI help, and it uses megabytes of RAM, not gigabytes.

They're doing it to.make me, personally, less productive on the computer