…but it was still an incremental step over what already existed. Apple’s whole thing is to improve what already exists, and pretend like they invented it.

Also, finding an exploit means the system will get stronger very shortly.

Creative Labs and others were doing MP3 players before them.

The US doesn’t have a great track record of “not supporting distopian regimes”. They’ve either installed leaders with a dictatorial bent when the elected government wasn’t doing what they wanted, or just supported their puppet in the area even though they did horrific things. Generally they think “the end justifies the means”.

Apart from WW2, I can’t think of any major foreign operation that Americans were involved with that hasn’t blown up in their face sooner or later.

Decent is far more 3D than Quake in that it’s play area goes in all directions. However I think it gets overlooked because I think it owes as much to flight sims, and those have been 3D for a very long time.

Certainly a war crime. Yes.

Does anyone know why this trend started?

Reality shows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFtl2XXnUc

…but you’re a doctor.

Had this on Friday.

• Boss: Have we hit the milestone?
• Me: No, our performance is low and we don’t know why? We need to analyse it.
• Boss: …but we’ve done what we said we’d do. We shouldn’t beat ourselves up over some metric. I think we’ve should say we’ve made it.

Net result is that we’ve pushed a major problem into the next phase without giving ourselves more time to do anything about it. …and people wonder why projects are “late” at the last moment.

Those are all war crimes by today’s standards. We looked at what we’d done and realised it was wrong.

Conservative MP is only a subset of twat species, and I would say a more severe variety.

Been there. Done that.

No, it’s because he’s a Conservative MP

Mid 2024 then. They’ve been around 1,000 a day recently.

The latter. Creators still complain about comments because they see all the negative ones. YT just does sentiment analysis on them all and hides anything critical.

Already happened once.

The League of Nations was the previous try, and it’s failure to stop WW2 sealed it’s fate. A lot of it’s functions were transferred into the UN after the war, but really the victors of WW2 positioned themselves in positions of power in the new organisation. Hence the “Permanent members of the security council”. To be fair, the victors of WW1 had done the same thing when the LoN was formed. The difference was that this time it included the USSR, which Russia inherited it’s position from. That inheritance is now biting us in the butt, as Putin wants to forcibly reconstruct the USSR.

Why anybody thought a voting system, around which military actions are justifiable, was going to work is beyond me. Especially when you give 5 countries veto powers in perpetuity. The charter of the UN is to prevent world wars, and it’s structure makes it completely ineffectual when a superpower wants to go to war.

I have a feeling Ukraine and Palestine will become the UNs failure. One permanent member of the security council deeply involved in each conflict vetoing anything against their interests. The UN should be in both zones, but is powerless.

I just want more diversity of communities. That needs more diversity of users, and that needs scale.

Doing one thing does not stop you from also doing a second thing in parallel, and the best time to regulate a technology is when it’s emerging. That way you have a chance to stop it getting out of hand.

I really don’t find that, but maybe it’s just because I don’t know what “working properly” looks like. Everything is on Firefox for me.

I do sometimes get a site that won’t work due to a plug-in, but that’s different.

South of Orikhiv: https://deepstatemap.live/en#9/47.5023/35.8704

South of the Dneipro River https://deepstatemap.live/en#9/46.6589/32.7036

South of Bakhmut https://deepstatemap.live/en#10/48.4939/37.9399

There’s not a lot of recent movement from either side. The Russians are dug in, and the conditions are awful. Still, Russia are losing men at horrific rates, higher than at any point upto now.