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aeva, 7 days ago to random

you ever think about how the standard cartoon bomb (a large blue or black sphere with a big fuse coming out the top) is essentially the "save icon" of destruction, because 1) it's symbolic meaning is widely understood, and 2) it's an anachronism that is widely recognized only for its symbolic meaning as its real life counterpart is long obsolete?

patrickworld, 7 days ago to random

Mom and three babies came to visit last night. Unrelated but if a raccoon found a stale muffin on your deck, it would eat both the muffin and the paper it’s wrapped in

cstross, 10 days ago to random

An Adam West Batman reboot in which Batman is camp because Batman (and all his adversaries) are overtly queer-coded would be AMAZING
https://muenchen.social/@fnordius/112537718138970471

b0rk, 12 days ago (edited 12 days ago) to random

apparently this git cheat sheet PDF doesn't render properly in Chrome? https://wizardzines.com/git-cheat-sheet.pdf (here is what the 4th column looks like in Chrome vs what it is actually supposed to look like)

so I guess that's my side quest for today instead of whatever else I wanted to be doing. PDFs are weird.

(edit: it was a relatively short side quest, I think it's fixed now)

cfiesler, 17 days ago to random

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lauren, 19 days ago to random

Lawmakers say Section 230 repeal will protect children--opponents predict chaos

"Chaos" is putting it lightly. Disastrous is more like it. -L

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/lawmakers-say-section-230-repeal-will-protect-children-opponents-predict-chaos/

mark, 20 days ago to random

We all know that this new Windows #recall feature is a concern, but we also all know it's going to be hugely popular right?

Because the flip-side of the coin for "domestic abuser surveillance" is parental surveillance. Parents trying to figure out how to raise their kids safely in the digital age will gobble up the ability to check on what their young ones are doing online when they're not around.

cstross, 20 days ago to random

Microsoft Recall in Windows 11: in what way can this be POSSIBLY compliant with the requirements of GDPR?

(Same goes for Office365 requiring autosave to stash files in OneDrive, and Outlook slurping all your emails into Microsoft's cloud and using them for AI training.)

mark, 22 days ago to random

This #hipaa -compliant telephone conversation could have been an email.

netbsd, 26 days ago to random

New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD's licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.

https://www.NetBSD.org/developers/commit-guidelines.html

mark, 26 days ago to random

The Strong Force Infinite Matter Glitch is super-useful when you're trying to create your Build a Universe any% speedrun.

cfiesler, 27 days ago to random

truly the stupidest timeline https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/14/on-elons-whim-x-now-treats-cisgender-as-a-slur/

lauren, 27 days ago (edited 27 days ago) to random

***** A few words about Google's future *****

At #Google I/O today, the firm is publicizing an array of new projects. Some of them seem flashy and relatively useless, others seem like they could be very worthwhile. How many of either category will still exist five years from now is of course a crucial question given Google's history.

But Google I/O is merely the gloss, in many respects what has become the so-called "lipstick on the pig". Because Google executives have permitted their race for the golden and in many respects false prize of "Artificial Intelligence" to cloud their vision, and to permit an increasing number of basic services that billions of Google users depend on every day to, in effect, rot away.

The collapse of Google Search, once a global technological wonder, has been profound. Often incorrect or even inane generative AI responses now often supersede links to the very sites from which Google is obtaining the raw material for their AI systems (usually without any form of compensation, while driving down user click-throughs).

A similar decline is obvious in various other core Google services.

Of great continuing concern to me is the very foundation of how virtually all Google users access most Google services -- Google accounts themselves. I continue to be flooded by persons who have problems with their Google accounts through no fault of their own, including lockouts and permanently lost crucial personal data, with Google's automated systems providing them with no resolutions, only horrific frustration. Google's frankly poorly conceived and rushed implementation of passkeys -- and the pushing of users to them who typically do not understand them and have more problems as a result -- is making matters even worse. What good are fancy new services when your Google account needed to use them may lock you out at any time with effectively no genuine ability to appeal?

Some groups of Google users -- such as seniors and other users with special needs who may not be technologically sophisticated -- are especially affected by these sorts of problems and suffer mightily as a result. I don't think Google actually "hates" these users -- I think Google simply does not want to make the minimal efforts required to help them, basically treating them with much the same disdain as you might flick a bug off your shirt.

There is so much that would be relatively simple for Google to do that would vastly improve the user experience for these users and others -- but Google seems to only care about the majority, and if you're in the minority, well, if you swing slowly in the wind locked out of your account, too bad for you. Google's got other fish to fry to keep the profit centers humming.

I could go on, but you get the gist. I don't hate Google. I still have major respect for the firm and especially for Googlers (Google employees) in general. But I am enormously disappointed with the direction executives are now taking the firm, and this seems to be getting worse at an accelerating rate.

And that's very, very sad to see. -L

RickiTarr, 28 days ago to random

Okay, since I'm on laundry today, a little story.

When hubs and I first got married, we were very much enjoying our little Honeymoon Bubble, and we were being lazy as Hell. We didn't do many chores, but the laundry we really let go. We weren't wearing many clothes at home anyway, so why bother. Anyhow, after weeks we finally reached the swimming suit bottoms situation, and decided it was time. It was loads and loads of laundry that needed done, so I had my husband back the trunk of the car up to a window of the house, then he popped the trunk, and I started tossing laundry out of the window into the trunk. We went to the bank, got about $30 bucks in quarters, and found the emptiest laundry mat we could, and did it all in one fell swoop. We folded it all and loaded it back into the car using those wheeled laundry carts. We never let it get that bad again, and decided it was time to be adults, and do regular chores, but it still makes me laugh imagining what the neighbors and the laundry attendant thought.

Feel free to share your own laundry story, if you feel like it, I love hearing people's stories!

skykiss, 1 month ago to Law

FedSoc justices disgraced themselves and their fake pet theories in the oral argument on presidential immunity.

Remember when they were “minimalists”? Oh, but now they embarked on a long policy peregrination so as to make what Gorsuch called a “ruling for the ages.” (He actually said that.) Behind the stunning pomposity, it’s miles from “minimalist.”

Remember when they were “constitutionalists”? The constitution says they’ve got to stick to the “case or controversy” before them, and yet they went on their wild hypothetical wanderings. Some “constitutionalists.”

Remember when they were “originalists”? Follow the text, never mind the outcomes?

All gone, in hand-waving about what various rulings might portend, and what effects they could have.

Remember their recent switch (Dobbs, Bruen) to “history and tradition”? The “history” is that no president but Nixon and Trump committed crimes; none sought immunity.

The “tradition” is presidents for centuries got along just

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#scotus #law #corruption