I have found my True Love, and it is this miniature, Mohawked, axe-wielding maniac and their, uh… [hound? horse? rabid hedgehog? (whatever it is, I’m here for it)] scribbled by some medieval or early modern kid in a Cambridge University Library legal manuscript. #MedievalManuscripts#Manuscripts#doodles#DoodleArt#CHARGE! 🪓🤺
I'm going to have a bit of a #tech#rant (less charitable people might say #whine) here. If you just want jokes and cute bunny pictures, feel free to skip this one.
Object of my #ire this week? #Furnaces. I'm not even going to rant about their main control boards; most of that's been said better than I could say it, by others with more knowledge than I.
But this "make a #generic#part#incompatible with all other similar parts by using #electronics that refuse to operate if the other end doesn't have the right matching settings blown into its software, so you can #charge ten times as much for it" should be #illegal.
#Apple is getting famous for this lately. You can replace parts in an Iphone or Ipad, but they won't work right because they're paired by serial numbers for no operational purpose whatsoever.
When the #FultonCounty, GA, DA, #FaniWillis, filed #criminal#charges against #Trump & over a dozen of his allies for their attempt to overturn GA’s 2020 presidential election results, she did something ingenious.
American #law has long recognized thru the #crime of #conspiracy that combos of criminals are more dangerous than lone wolves. RICO is conspiracy on steroids, providing for stiffer #penalties & other advantages like bringing multiple connected conspiracies under 1 umbrella.
Hot on the heels of the "energy" #pixel_dailies, the theme for today's #PixelDailies is #charge. In the US, the Energizer bunny was well known, but here in Europe, we had the Duracell bunny instead, now immortalised in #pixelart#mastoart
Let's get this out of the way: they give a number of #reasons why #webservers "might wish" to establish that a web #client is running on a "#trusted" software stack, including things like "make sure other game players aren't cheating" and "ensure I'm talking to another human".
There are only two things here that #Google cares about:
Having better #evidence that #ad#impressions are being served to actual humans-behind-browsers rather than to #bots. This is because the more certain they can make advertisers feel about this, the more they can #charge for an ad impression.
Ensuring that #users do not use ad blockers, because that hurts the bottom line.