I’m rereading the Watch series currently and almost every book hits very close to Current Affairs.
The Fifth Elephant feels like a peaceful interlude after GG (Popularism), MaA (Anti-Woke), FoC (Cultural Oppression of Minorities), Jingo (Nationalism).
I have expanded this read through to include Truth, MR and the Moist series.
Ironically the Truth will also be the least relevant, even though most of our current RoundWorld problems are caused by Media Moguls manipulating things.
I honestly don’t know any proponents of “intelligent design” who are female.
Except the Sycophantic Patriarchal TERFs who do everything their husbands tell them to do.
Once again, the EU ^^ is overstepping their mandate. There is no benefit to endusers if Google, Opera and Firefox are forced to use WebKit for rendering on iOS only. There are disadvantages for Opera, (who are Nowegian), but no other European companies.
There are huge benefits to endusers if their phones batteries last more than 15 minutes because Google and Opera are trying to backdoor their privacy.
^^ the EU’s regulatory bodies.
I think there is an ounce of truth in that, but Corporations don’t “want” things. Investors want dividends and ROI. Executives want golden handshakes. Employees want a pay cheque.
Someone is financing the Astroturf campaigns. Someone is directing who they lobby.
This is like saying that Safari is just a reskinned version of KDE Konqueror. It is patently wrong and oversimplifies the development processes.
While Apple did use Konqueror as a base for WebKit, and some of that code was pumped back into Konqueror, they are not the same. Chromium was also based on WebKit but has had so much code replaced that it is also essentially different code.
I recommend Ken Kocienda’s book “Creative Selection” about the development of the iPhone and WebKit.
Although I would prefer to roll-my own but Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS and SailfishOS all run on the FairPhone.
YMMV for software support, but the non-Android Linux-based phone OSs will suit most people’s needs, as long as Angry Birds isn’t a killer feature of their phone.
It’s still amused by the whole USB-C push to “Reduce eWaste”.
By legislating that everyone should use USB-C, they generated a lot of eWaste in the form of legacy USB-A, B, micro, lightning, etc, as well as requiring more cables in the form of USB-C to USB-A, B, micro, lightning, etc. cables in the transition phase.
The various different types of USB-C cables (power only, data only, Thunderbolt 4, etc) as well as the glut of different incompatible USB-C interfaces has made things much worse.
It reminds me of the XKCD comic about introducing new standards to reduce the number of standards.
The credit card game bans are all coming from one Australian Religious group.
Similar Astroturf groups are being used to create fake grassroots community groups to PrOtEcT tHe ChIlDrEn.
There are lots of people who make that assumption. These are also the most likely demographic to fall for a fake App Store scam.
That said, Apple have done a piss-poor job pruning their “Walled Garden”. If they really cared about user privacy, Facebook would have been banned multiple times for privacy violations.
I wonder how home-grown European companies like Fairphone will be affected by this.
Hydronium H3O+ is the most corrosive acids. Hydroxide OH- is the most corrosive alkaline.
If you mix them together in a solution you get Hydronium Hydroxide; also known and (2)DiHydrogen Monoxide.
HP are already doing that with the policy on bootleg ink and toner.
I’m not going to listen to it but apparently it isn’t a dis track, it is a load of wank about how rich he is that he can afford a Cybertruck.
Apparently the author also declined to listen to it, but they are a Journalist; it is their job to listen to it.
Leslie Bibb
I have seen title cards change on unwatched videos from something that is innocuous and directly related to the content to something with a scantily clad female, tangentially related to the video who is much younger than me.
While not technically Jailbait, the title cards are sexualised.
I mainly watch renovation, restoration, cinema, off-roading, engineering and fabrication.
The majority of this content is male-dominated and I do appreciate when videos aren’t bursting with aggressive machismo. I think the algorithm has determined that when I watch a video with a female host it is because it thinks I am being pervy.
Loops is a Fediverse equivalent.
It is not a medium that interests me, I have found the content on Loops to be mediocre.
That said, I have found the content on TikTok to also be mediocre and YouTube clips are just jailbait clickbait.
Yes, I know it is algorithm generated, but I am pretty sure everyone is just getting jailbait clickbait.
Repetition with sincerity.
Just keep telling them that they are beautiful.
Someone with body issues of any sort just need to have their self-esteem reinforced.
Targetting their specific issue can seam insincere. Just telling them that they are beautiful is enough.
This is evidence that the US political system does not function.
There are two paths forward;
I would not call Zohran Mandani a socialist. I would call him a progressive rational centralist.
Insert “2025 year of Linux Desktop” meme.
Honestly though, the only thing keeping gamers on Windows are the requirement of these Rootkits and inertia.