Literally nothing except scheduling software could drop cargo ship emmissions by around 20%!?
This needs to be implemented on ALL shipping immediately! With global temperatures continuing to rise dramatically, every little bit helps and this is actually a huge benefit relatively speaking.
@christianselig By the time it was revealed that he set up a department in Tesla specifically to gaslight people about battery range while falsifying possible range in the OS, it’s more wild to me that it took this long!
@dangillmor My understanding is there was actually a bug where some iCloud syncs failed, including deletes. So these items were in some limbo land with a cached event still attached to them for years until Apple fixed the bug and flushed the stuck event. But since they never fully executed the delete, they became active again.
Which is to say, the failure to fully delete was the bug, the patching of it returned the zombie photos to life, and if you kill them again they’ll really go away?
@arstechnica Since the term “cord cutters” was coined specifically for people fleeing big cable bundles, I suspect this is a harder sale than they think it is…
This is fascinating stuff! Gates Pass and Mt Lemmon are prime candidates for this technology. Motorcyclists and cars love to do fast “canyon runs” up both those roads and blind corners become a huge issue if the car is going like 2x the speed limit around a blind corner with a cyclist using the lane ahead. https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/112407010282309595
@billyjoebowers If it’s for biking I tend to use Halo skull caps with flaps as my summer sun defense. Mostly because I sweat so much I need the little drainage thingy at the front that protects my sunglasses from getting rained on on the inside of the lenses.
I got in an online argument today with people who claimed I was supporting the destruction of the only Jewish country in the world because someone painted a Palestinian flag on A Mountain and I said it was for a better cause than the usual sports vandalism. Fuck that. Israel is destroying itself, and people around the world don’t want to be a part of it, that’s all. Thus the protests. (1/3)
No one arguing with me denied that Israel has killed 35k Palestinians, destroyed basically all medical and education institutions and put close to half a million more civilians at risk of famine. Instead they came at me with rationalizations about why it’s OK.
It has nothing to do with anti-semitism, it’s simply about actions speaking louder than words, especially actions that are straight up evil. Hamas is evil too, but this whole rationalization that it’s ok to be as bad as them because they started it?
Nope. You cannot kill 35k mostly civilians and keep the high moral ground.
Does anyone out there remember the specifics of the Apple engineer that got fired when he got caught trying to hide an image of Britney Spears in some Macintosh ROM? I think I probably read about it in a MacWeek article, but it seems to have sunk beneath the waves where even search engines can't find it anymore…
EDIT: Maybe it was Paula Abdul? At any rate, some singer he was obsessed with!
Do you feel you have less interest posting about politics / current events lately?
Why?
Do you notice the same responses over and over again?
Do you feel headlines and events seem to go nowhere or seem to repeat?
Do you think people are more polarized or less polarized?
Are people beholden to their sides’ ideology— the kind of people where if you looked at their profile you would know exactly what they think on most issues without nuance?
@flexghost I think a large part of it is for-profit news organizations are in a desperate war to gin up some sort of BS headline that will make you click their stories. So they will cover anything clickworthy rather than newsworthy. At this point the exhaustion is real.
MTG shouldn’t be worthy of coverage. 90% of what Trump says shouldn’t be worthy of coverage. They have NO track record of credibility. But… they can get clicks still so they’re headlines.
@charliejane@cstross@pluralistic Literally filed a bug report asking for filters on iMessage last week. Give me a regex filter list screen and a big on/off switch in the main Message GUI to hide all filtered matches when it’s on. Because it’s political season and holy hell does everyone and their dog want a donation.
Recommendations for a daypack that A) is able to be stashed into a larger carry on backpack, and B) can carry a MacBook around during the day? Ideally packs and smushes quite flat when empty, but a bit of padding for the laptop
@christianselig I randomly got this Mountainsmith day pack with a separate padded laptop pocket and I love it, especially because you don’t have to open the main compartment to get to the laptop area. Fits my 2021 MBP 16” perfectly.
EDIT: It’s called the Divide although today’s version looks slightly different.
“Those are the two choices. It's kind of like, one is old and effective and compassionate, has a heart, and really cares about people. And one is old and has been charged with 91 felonies.
"I don't understand why this is even a hard choice."
@leean00@flexghost It is perfectly fine to be dissatisfied with the two party system. As long as you go vote for Biden and a continuation of democracy in November. And make anyone who is thinking of “sitting this one out” get off their ass and vote Biden too.
Also, Biden has been surprisingly effective, particularly in the face of the congressional clown show that’s been happening the last couple years. So it’s not even that dissatisfying to vote for him!
@arstechnica Man, literally the only thing that I caught that doesn’t feel authentic at the end (aside from the obvious additions like an ADB port and a hidden card reader) is that I have pretty strong memories that you had to hold down the mouse button to eject the disk after a restart, didn’t you? Otherwise it just rebooted on the same floppy again. It’s been a hell of a long time since we owned a 512 when I was in high school though, so I could be wrong.
