Covfefe has been a pretty fun word, as well as referring to “Mooch” as a unit of time.

I wish everyone would abandon reddit because of the terrible treatment it showed its users and contributors, some of whom should be considered amongst its builders.

But news alone of a web site having an outage isn’t really a technological discussion any more than news about a traffic jam would be.

v23.6.12

The heaviest sentence was given to an adolescent who was formally given a 6-month prison sentence, although he should be able to serve this at home while under electronic surveillance.

Grounded.

I put a Ubiquiti long-range Wifi 6 AP on my ceiling, fed with a Dream Machine Pro SE. Google Fiber just kept saying, “You know, we could ‘upgrade’ you to our mesh stuff for free!” Ha, no thanks.

Btw, this is not an endorsement of Google Fiber. I just cancelled it. They can’t or won’t handle chronic infrastructure issues. Multiple outages a day, every day (as confirmed by their app) for weeks to months, and they still wouldn’t even acknowledge that there was a chronic problem, much less tell me any status of a permanent resolution. That service is total trash.

I wonder what impact this has. From my perspective, the people who think like this are usually the ones not interested in traveling anywhere past the end of their street.

“Put us in coach.”

Something you say when selecting airline seats.

“Put us in, Coach.”

What he really meant.

Every US enemy right now is looking into harnessing the power of flocks of birds.

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including names and email addresses

By now, that’s been stolen from so many companies that I wonder how much new info is really being compromised compared to what’s already out there. Speaking anecdotally, my spam already comes personalized. Like, even the obviously-not-from-a-partner phishy-looking stuff.

Let’s just have a pint and wait for Pixel 9.

Your first post didn’t make any sense to me, either, until you explained it, and now it makes sense, although I’d recommend clarifying as “land animal meat is the opposite goal of fish meat” or something like that.

But yeah, I’d never thought about it that way. Interesting.

I always crimp my own, including using slide-on/slide-off hoods. That way I can back the hood off before plugging it into the port, which keeps it easy to disconnect, and I can slide it back on before pulling it through a tight spot.

The actual headline:

Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon / The platform says it will hold on to its accounts and retweet from time to time, but it plans to focus on Mastodon and other social platforms instead.

My initial perception was focusing on the fact that that’s not abandoning it. That’s keeping one foot in the door, just in case.

Thinking more about it, I think the wise thing is to announce it like this so the head brat at Xitter doesn’t revoke their account and hand it to someone else. Editing my statement above, too.

I suspect many of them have never heard of it, either. It was default software on some bloatware device I had, either a Samsung phone or tablet or a Lenovo laptop, maybe. I expect plenty of people just accepted that it was there in front of their face and must just be “the news on the Internet”.

Translated headline:

Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon / Flipboard is not actually abandoning X.

Edit: Thinking more about it, I think the wise thing is to announce it like this so the head brat at Xitter doesn’t revoke their account and hand it to someone else.

Given vast computing resources, the new model was able to solve certain mathematical problems, the person said on condition of anonymity because the individual was not authorized to speak on behalf of the company.

Though only performing math on the level of grade-school students, acing such tests made researchers very optimistic about Q*’s future success, the source said.

I’m really starting to agree that all this drama is clever marketing to sell a neat–but not bombshell–thing that would otherwise not be a real product.

… armed militia going from house to house killing men and boys,” …

That’s just on the verge of being pure evil?! What more does it take?

That’s one of the three in the article. The other two are, “Should service providers be able to block officials?” and, “Should officials be able to apply pressure to service providers about their policies?”