Also, guessing their standard is pretty low if Gimp does the job — at least from a professional standard. There’s not much of a comparison.

Seconded.

* gruff New Jersey accent * Pack it in, boys!

Well that’s nice. Hopefully they have some teeth, so we don’t have to go through another one of Zuck’s crocodile-tears-fuelled hearings, followed by absolutely fuck-all change 🙄

A thought — there is a lot of news (paper?) jargon in there that makes it difficult for the layperson (including myself) to parse. It took me more lines than I care to admit to understand that the text wasn’t about office workers not having desks …

Consider a re-write with less jargon to reach a wider audience?

Slightly unrelated — was watching a Danish military analyst’s commentary on the farcical white house shit-show the other day, and he had this really great line (I’ll paraphrase): “The interesting thing with [Chump] isn’t what he’s going to do next, it’s what he’ll do when it fails” 😂

Video link for those interested (quite good, and in English).

Someone mentioned that to me, but said the story had been attempted scrubbed from the web — anyone have a link?

Edit — Never mind, nothing was scrubbed, that was the shortest Google search I ever did 😅

It’s only a matter of time before 6 Flags is just 1000 AIs on rollercoasters.

… wasn’t OpenAI not also …

Uhm. No? Or yes? Maybe? 🤔😅

“… reports Chinese state propaganda branch, through western media …” 🙄

We have a Samsung “smart” TV, hooked up to an AppleTV box. The TV’s original remote is in a drawer somewhere, forever unused.

I have the apps that I need, the tiny Siri Remote turns on the TV and handles volume, and, apart from the aggressively, insanely, mind-blowingly horrible on-screen “keyboard” / text input (we don’t have Apple phones we can use to mitigate this, sadly. Also, what the fucking fuck, Apple?!) we’re happy. For now. I trust Apple to make the experience incrementally worse as a fact of life.

Not perfect, but leagues better than dealing with Samsung’s interface.

either

Is there any indication that they won’t implement this shit at some point?

Also, should we be trying to come up with the most insane “features” in this vein that we can imagine (knowing full well that some corporation will come up with them eventually), and then patent them to protect humanity from them?

Is there any organization that collects patents just to block them (in the consumer’s favor)? A kind of white-hat patent troll? And, if not, should we create one?

I spy a research rabbit hole in my near future … 🐰

Edit: ESPHome is a system to control your microcontrollers by simple yet powerful configuration files and control them remotely through Home Automation systems.

• Klaus
• That Christmas
• The Grinch (2018 animated)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Home Alone 1 + 2

That Christmas became an instant classic this year. Fucking amazing ❤️

Just watched Klaus with the kids for the Nth time (first time this year, though), and still absolutely fantastic.

I’m probably forgetting some, but these are definitely at the top of the list.

Just finished watching Klaus with the kids 30 minutes ago (we’ve seen it many times before), and it’s just brilliant.

Exactly! Seems like a very “Yo Dawg!”-moment to me.

The less Microsoft I need, the better, and recently switched from VS Code to VS Codium, which, I believe, puts me at 100% free of Microsoft 😍

(Barring some M$ code in other software I use that I don’t know about)

That requires that you trust the app vendor not to have some sort of back door, no?

I think that would release an awful lot of carbon 😓

I mean, fuck Apple, but …

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

— Hanlon’s Razor (Wikipedia)

Still, though — fuck Apple.

Background on the Vice stuff for those interested 👍