Wow, the Times' Tom Friedman had to reach a long, long way to find the required "balance" -- in this case totally false equivalence -- re Supreme Court extremist judges.
Thomas and Alito are corrupt in their acts and words, but Ginsburg said something true but (arguably) mean about candidate Trump.
average EV sales in collapse factoid actualy just statistical error. average EV sales increasing big. Fuckups Georg, who lives on a jet and eats over 10,000 ketamines each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
@ShredderFeeder Speaking as somebody who did that, the number of thousands of dollars it costs to install a decent charger in your garage is "0.7" and it pays for itself in a few weeks.
Development isn't mysteriously becoming deskilled. It is actively being directed, to manage the employment market, by the largest players in that market.
"Fast food involves both hideously violent economies of scale and sad, sad end users who volunteer to be taken advantage of. What makes the McRib different from this everyday horror is that a) McDonald’s is huge to the point that it’s more useful to think of it as a company trading in commodities than it is to think of it as a chain of restaurants b) it is made of pork [...]"
... Except instead of pig meat and bbq sauce it's your skillset and identity.
I think about this every day.
What am I subjecting myself to, what machine am I really putting my arm in, if I start to build a skillset around React, or Kubernetes, or AWS or GCP or any other skills that exist only in service of corporate infrastructure and will have me existing only in service of that infrastructure's owners until they get too bored or their shareholders get too greedy or I get too expensive.
My pleas for the open software world to remember that one person in front of one computer is a constituency that matters are as much about that seemingly forgotten constituency as it is about the negative space around it, all the agency over how we grow and value ourselves that's handed off to machines churning out limited-liability slurry, made of the interchangeable molded parts we've unknowingly die-cast ourselves into.
I thiiiiink that all this email actually means is "Find My Device will now include bluetooth devices at their location last seen by an Android phone, which means that if your phone is disconnected from the Internet but Bluetooth is on then Find My Device can still find it if another Android device passes nearby (unless you disable this feature)".
But uhhhh wow Google used some pretty alarming language to describe it
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Anyone use a Blackstone griddle for barbecuing? If so, what do you think about it? Our 27-year-old Weber BBQ grill has finally died, and I have recently been cooking on a Blackstone griddle when I volunteer at the Snack Shack at our local baseball fields. We don’t honestly cook enough red meat where I might want the direct flame of a grill. I feel like the griddle might be better for some of the vegetables and other things we cook - and would also still work fine for hamburgers and hot dogs.
@danyork Geez, if I had a grill last me 27 years, I would have a hard time convincing myself to do anything except buy that brand again immediately, probably the model up.
@jalcine I really struggle with a good approach to this. If we want people to experience agency in their computing, we really need to find a way to do this that isn't terrifying. Migration anxiety is very real, and I wonder what a better-crafted experience would look like.
I've never seen a Linux install experience that wasn't "burn it down, pave it flat and start over". An installer that lead out with "let's make sure you don't lose anything you care about first" could be revolutionary.
@jalcine Whenever I think about this I'm reminded of how far from its ideals the linux world has fallen. Fedora's homepage reads "An innovative platform for hardware, clouds, and containers". Ubuntu opens with "A guide to VMware infrastructure transformation".
These are not problems any human has. The number of people in this world who need innovative container anything is zero.
Far as I can see Debian and Linux Mint are the only two distros leading with "this is for people and communities."