The only reason I ever even tried “Outlook (new)” was because the old Microsoft “Mail” app was trash (the piece of shit wouldn’t even let me send plain text email). I immediately lost interest as soon as I realized there was a bunch of 365 shit bundled into it that I couldn’t disable.

If Microsoft wants more RAM just to do AI shit on my computer, I’d rather have even less just to make sure they cant.

I’ve gotten back into Minecraft lately, after not playing it at all for at least a year. I finally reached a couple major milestones, like defeating the Enderdragon and obtaining netherite scraps (still don’t have any netherite equipment yet–obtaining smithing templates is a real pain). Playing on a couple SMP servers has also motivated me to put actual effort into beautifying my bases, rather than just living in a tiny wooden shack I made on day one or two.

Wouldn’t go so far as to say it “ruins” the album, but “Shakermaker” is quite a letdown compared to the rest of “Definitely Maybe”.

I once decided to make myself an elaborate vegetable omelette for breakfast, and didn’t realize until the very final step that I had forgotten the cheese.

If you don’t want critters eating your veggies, you have to set up a fence around your garden.

The Mozilla Foundation did a tech podcast called IRL. It hasn’t updated in nearly a year, and I don’t know if it’s ever coming back, but some of their back episodes are worth listening to.

“Coldplay Live 2003”, mainly because it contains some of my favorite deep cuts.

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If I can’t watch YouTube without ads, I won’t watch it at all.

Not really interested in any of the upcoming stuff this summer besides the Horimiya spinoff tbh. Besides, I have a lot of catching up to do on the current seasonals. In the fall, I’ll probably want to see Spy X Family and Frieren.

I own an Android, and I was not aware of this feature. I checked my settings, and it appears that the countdown was turned off by default. Does that mean the SOS feature was disabled, or that it would activate instantly with no countdown? Because the latter would definitely increase the risk of false alarms.

Lately, I’ve been obsessed with Into The Breach, a mecha vs kaiju strategy game bythe developers of FTL. It’s surprisingly challenging, and more similar to chess than any other strategy computer game I’ve played before.

I think somewhere in the ballpark of 10-20 years is probably enough to reward creators. Anything significantly longer than that, and it just incentivizes them to milk their creations forever, and punishes other creators who might otherwise make novel derivative works.

I am also of the belief that intellectual property in general (copyrights and patents) should be subject to eminent domain in the same way that physical private property is, i.e. it should be possible to force the creator to sell it to the public (with fair compensation) in cases where it would be an invaluable public good.

I would encourage you to stay as far away from Raddle as possible. It has an incredibly toxic site-wide culture, and some serious security problems.

Reddit’s plans—driven by an urge to make the company more profitable as it inches toward going public

Correction: Reddit’s plan is driven by an urge to make the company profitable.

There are three farm stands within cycling distance of my house (I believe one is technically in another town, but that doesn’t matter), plus the seasonal farmers’ market.

The Westport Independent is a censorship simulator, in which you play as the editor of a newspaper, choosing which stories to run and how to edit them in order to avoid angering both the authoritarian government and political radicals who want to take them down, while also appeasing your journalists, who may get angry and quit if you censor their stories too much.

yup

It’s wack how the internet seems to have collectively forgotten about this technology over the past decade, despite it not being the least bit obsolete.