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11 months agoRemoving things is not sufficient for removing bias. Omission is a kind of bias. You can lie by cherry-picking just some of the truth and skipping the rest
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They set it for me in Canada, so they are lying there
28·1 year agoIf you don’t find the humour funny, it’s not going to work for you. It’s half humour, half love letter to trek. Star Trek meets Futurama
To some extent, the characters have to be hyper and heightened because they have to fit a Star Trek episode in under half an hour
Is it going to be like Whatsapp end-to-end encryption where they just rolled out a 4-digit pincode for “backups” on their servers as the third end?
If you ban bank heist movies like Ocean’s Eleven, people will stop robbing banks
Because Microsoft and VC types have thrown many billions of US dollars at this and similar companies, so a lot of (their) money is at stake
Me: Play Whitehorse the band
Google Assistant: Playing Whitehorse the song by some other guy
Me: No, play Whitehorse the Canadian band
Google Assistant: Playing Whitehorse the album by a third guy
Me: Play Achilles Desire
Google Asistant: Playing WhitehorseMe: Play Tu vuò fà l’americano on Spotify
Google Assistant: !?!?!?!?Me: Play Laisse tomber les filles
Google Assistant: !?!?!?Me: Play Les Cowboys Fringants on Spotify
Google Assistant: !?
Me: Play Les Cowboys F R I N G A N T S
Google Assistant: Playing Les Cowboys FringantsI only ever use those junky voice assistants when driving, and they are useless half the time
Hype! Lower Decks; Lower Decks; Lower Decks!
The appeal of the “we could have been a contender” fantasy for Microsoft is the idea that they’d be printing money by collecting the 30% tax on apps and in-app purchases. If they were 100% dependent on Samsung, they’d be printing at least 50% less money
Because you are nostalgic for win 8 with its full screen start menu?
What year was Android an also-ran?
2013: 51.8% Android, 40.6% iOS, 3.8% Blackberry, 3.3% Microsoft
You might not need exponential growth, but you do want a certain critical mass of activity for each of a variety of topics
A new challenge with open submissions would be low effort AI spam. Scifi magazines are buckling under the tidal wave of crud right now https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/25/23613752/ai-generated-short-stories-literary-magazines-clarkesworld-science-fiction
I left in November and deleted my account in December. Mastodon/the Fediverse is what I always wanted Twitter to be but it never was
I’ve been a loyal Fitbit user for a decade, but Google’s killed all the features that made it good (challenging friends, playing silly games). I’m thinking of picking up a Garmin next
Oh, I forgot about these. These songs are so lovely to catch up on
I’m sure I saw an interesting article about it many years ago, but this is the best I can find right now: https://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/ql0bsd/what_time_signature_is_the_tng_theme/
The time signature (I had to Google) starts in the common 4/4 but then switches into 12/8 or 6/8 which has a lot of flavour
Not sure if you are trolling, but no
Meta is joining the Fediverse not because it needs the people currently on the Fediverse, but because it needs a regulatory figleaf to protect itself from monopoly charges. At Meta’s scale, there are 0 users on the Fediverse right now. There is no market benefit to getting Fediverse people to move to Meta
What Meta gets out Threads/Fediverse compat is that suddenly Instagram is not technically a walled garden with platform lock-in, so while the number of people who’ll migrate from Instagram Threads to the Fediverse is going to be tiny they suddenly look a lot less like a mean monopoly to regulators
At some point they might remove the Fediverse compat. The people currently screaming about embrace-extend-and-extinguish because Meta is joining will then scream about bait-and-switch even though they’ve had Threads defederated the whole time. The Fediverse will still be there. That’s the cycle of life