So my cell provider has no good plan for roaming to Europe. So the last time I was in France, I got a local phone number and a SIM card so I could use Internet while I was there. It was a bit of a pain to get the SIM so I put it somewhere I'd be able to find it* when I next needed it.
Now I can't find it.
Can anyone think of a way to get a French cell phone SIM either without leaving Toronto, or without leaving Charles De Gaulle?
Probably in that one purse I threw away a few years ago.
@mcc You have an eSIM in your phone or no? I used Airolo very happily on two European trips. Several companies will ship you a physical SIM, too, if you have time.
"A product of combined manual, mechanical, and computational labor, the leaves were produced on Lyon’s famed Jacquard looms, their text and imagery encoded in hundreds of thousands of punch cards that directed the weaving..." https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/lyon-woven-prayer-book/
Adobe did the thing companies that host and sync data keep doing: they updated their terms in what is a reasonable way without a) giving advance warning and a thorough explanation and b) realizing that the legal niceties sound horrifying to an average person. Adobe can’t legally safely host your content without a license. This updates mostly adds compliance issues that are govt focused—and should be examined. https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-adobe-terms-of-use
@mcc As long as companies have to handle your data in some fashion with your permission in some circumstances, they have to obtain a limited license. Adobe isn’t always handling your data (some people don't use sync or cloud services at all), but they have a generic license that covers if they do. As far as I can tell, their TOS is very similar to Dropbox, Apple, etc., in terms of the copyright liability that they need you to grant them a limited license that applies only to hosting.
I don’t know how else to describe this, but parts of downtown St. Louis smell distinctly like a used bookstore. Like a room stuffed full of musty aging books and yellowing magazines.
@andybaio I grew up sometimes downwind of the Weyerhaeuser pulp mill in Eugene, Ore., and that smell apparently materialized typically on off days (the smell came when they weren't actively processing?). Faintly, it might smell like used books—it's kind of like "earthy book smell.”
I rarely try to warn people off from watching some piece of media. Usually, only if it’s traumatic or explicative. However, I make the exception for Bodkin, the Netflix series. It has some very strong acting and narrative elements, but nothing ever resolves, and the last episode was ridiculous. Terrible. I am angry about how they wasted their opportunity. No blame on the actors at all! It is not worth watching. If you do watch it, you can tell me if you agree with me. But I urge you not to.
The last two episodes, they seemingly forgot Frank, the traveller king, and a few other important characters. The Interpol people were ridiculous. We're meant to side with Emmy, the rich kid, for unknown reasons—she demands a newspaper job at the end after having delivered, apparently, nothing. Did they re-edit the ending? Will Forte was directed all over the place.
And, bloody hell, Semtex from before 1998 is likely chemically dead by 2024.
New Upgrade: It's time for our ninth annual competition regarding what will happen at Apple's WWDC keynote! What will be announced? Will it be all AI, all the time? And a new wrinkle is added to the draft format!
@joesteel Do you remember when TechCrunch featured w**v‘s alleged venture-capital firm without mentioning that he was a fucking Nazi with giant Nazi tattoos and actively attacking people on the Internet (doxing etc.)? It’s so memory holed that I can’t even find the criticism of it. (They covered him extensively when he was a “troll” and was jailed due to AT&T data leaking…)
@joesteel Despite liking the person who was running TC for many years, I basically barely read it ever since that moment. I mean, it started life badly enough, anyway.