I want to move to a timeline where this is part of a bad movie plot, not part of the news.
nyan
joined 2 years ago
I would say that all issues can be traced back to letting people sell stuff on what was designed as a government/educational communications system. We keep on adding patches trying to smother commercially-motivated bad actors who were not an expected part of the original design, but it's not really much different from playing whack-a-mole.
(I didn't read the article, but I imagine it's Yet Another Idea for some kind of patch, and probably not a very good one, because most of them aren't.)
Don't get hung up on the details, because they change over time. When I was in school, that line was "in all thy sons command" (I'm fine with them replacing it to be less sexist, but don't ask me to sing the new version from memory!)
Go further back, and "from far and wide" drops out, if I recall correctly.
Have they ever been seen in the same place at the same time?
Eh, it's not that bad. Lacking depth and sometimes a bit ridiculous, but it isn't offensive, the plots are easy to follow even if they're less than brilliant, and the characterization is consistent. Mediocre, mildly amusing brain candy that I'll probably have forgotten about altogether by this time next year.
I'm probably going to stick with it to the end unless it manages to crash and burn in a highly spectacular manner by doing something revolting. So far, it's just made side excursions into the silly, like delivering a "dramatic" monologue inside a burning building. I can handle that.
A snake doing the limbo could not go lower than these people at this point.
Not any further off than it's been from the beginning, I don't think. At least, not so far.
Well, ".ee" is the country TLD for Estonia. Doesn't guarantee it's hosted there, though, and I have no idea what the rules for .ee domain names are (whether they're restricted to residents or not). My guess would be "hosted somewhere in Europe".
Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out, dude.
The problem is not the hypothesis, the problem is that it isn't really presented as a hypothesis. Reporting on the results before doing the experiment isn't the way to go.
Our theories of how the world works are necessarily incomplete, and experiments turn up things that overturn scientific understanding often enough. The way this is set up matches a common pattern of vilifying tech without seeing whether it's deserved or not. Maybe not wearing a noise cancellation headset would, in fact, help this patient, but until that's tested and found out to be true, reporting on it is just spreading FUD.
If it's a high-pitched hum, they may genuinely be unable to hear it. It's common for people to lose their hearing in very high registers quickly as they age (like, most teens still hear them, but thirty-somethings mostly don't). Without noticing, since it doesn't impede day-to-day communication.
There are definite reasons why people who step up behind me and take a look at my computer screen either flinch or look at me funny (sometimes both), and I expect people here will have some . . . interesting takes on this as well 😅. The colour choices may make more sense if you know that I'm usually in a low-light environment, so even some "dark" themes seem fairly bright to me, and anything with a white background is like a slap in the face.
Trinity Desktop Environment 14.1.0 on Gentoo, homemade theme. For those not familiar with TDE, it is a fork of KDE 3, from the days before indexing daemons and other such CPU-eaters, so this looks old-fashioned because it is. The wallpaper is Digital Blasphemy's "Tropical Moon of Thetis", and yes, the font is the dreaded Times New Roman, presented here in all its jagged glory because I prefer to keep hinting and antialiasing switched off. The system monitor text on the left is from conky. On the right, TDE versions of konsole and konqueror (as file manager).
(And just to clear up one piece of misinformation about TDE that comes up regrettably often: the development team forked QT3 along with the desktop and is maintaining it. So: unsupported widgetset no, QT3 more-or-less yes, if you find a bug please file it, if you don't know of any bugs please don't spread FUD.)
I have an ancient and rather ugly office chair which I love to pieces. Unfortunately, on Thursday morning, the chair attempted to make that literal, as I sat down and heard a nasty splintering sound. Now, I got this thing secondhand, and it's always had a vertical split up one wooden leg. My brother had run four large carriage bolts through it in an attempt to hold it together, which in hidsight turned out to be a bad idea, as one half of the leg had split in the opposite direction along the line of the first two bolts. ☹️
Removing the bolts, applying a rather considerable amount of wood glue and some dowels, then clamping it, letting it dry, and cleaning up got me to the point shown in the picture (larger version here )
What I need to know is, is there anything I can do to structurally reinforce this thing any further, short of replacing either that leg (beyond my skill level at the moment) or the entire base (a new one would have to be shipped up from the US)? In particular, would "splinting" it with a piece of new wood along the damaged side (or pieces along both sides) help keep it from tearing itself apart? Or should I just redrill the hole for the castor further away from the end, put a couple of C-clamps on, and hope it holds long enough for a new base to arrive?
I want my chair back. 😭
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So essentially the same business plan as 95% of all tech startups of the past quarter-century.