Aw man I glanced at that chart thinking “oh that’s pretty good!” before reading.

I think Signal can do most of this, although for example exporting requires third party tools like signal-export or signal-backup-decode. Edit: Oh Signal also doesn’t have a web version though…

I had forgotten about Misery Index. I think I saw them live many years ago, good show 🤘

This is Marketplace with Dave Smith Aperiodic Monotile Schuldiner.

Secret handshake

Needless to say, most companies aren’t Apple. They don’t have cash reserves, can’t reroute shipping, can’t lawyer/bribe up, can’t afford to lose money for even a month. We’re going to see the first bankruptcies and/or layoffs soon. Shit.

That’s probably just mail that lands in your spam folder without being entirely blocked. According to Microsoft and Google approximately 99% of incoming spam (of the ~160 billion spam emails sent per day) never even reaches their users mailboxes. I assume that’s roughly standard across email providers. I am concerned comparably sophisticated filtering may become necessary on the Fediverse eventually.

I’ve been using Fedi for a long time and from the very beginning I’ve been afraid of spam and bots ruining it, at least temporarily. Spam is still a problem with e-mail, and it’s been around for 40 years and they’ve developed very sophisticated anti-spam mitigations for it.

“Fuck you, I’ve got mine” seems to be the mantra of a shockingly large number of people.

“Arguing that you don’t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don’t care about free speech because you have nothing to say.”

That’s very quotable.

In this mode the aircraft has superior protection from all modern anti-air weapon systems.

To quote an old car show: Oh no! Anyway.

“The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year.”

A key part of Moore’s law which is often omitted is that Moore was not just talking about transistor density but about cost. When people say we’ve reached the end of Moore’s law this is not because we’re no longer able to increase semiconductor transistor density (just look at TSMC’s roadmap) but that the “complexity for minimum component costs” is no longer increasing. Chips are still getting faster but they’re now also more expensive.

While solar power is great and possibly the future, I sure hope they fully thought this through. A lot of areas with large numbers of solar panels are struggling to manage overcapacity. Solar energy produced is not always sent to the grid but wasted, as there is often not enough grid-scale storage capacity to absorb it. I’m no expert, but I wonder if mandating smart in-home sodium-ion batteries which intelligently charge and discharge based on grid capacity wouldn’t be more effective.

The same with Lightroom sadly. The open source alternatives are either too buggy or have UX designed by very “opinionated” people, making them painful and frustrating to use. I currently want to get rid of Lightroom but can’t.

Ah, thanks. That was entirely unclear from this article.

Another game I simply won’t need to buy. Neat. I guess some publishers just don’t like selling games or something.

Perhaps that’s because Steam doesn’t seem to be trying very hard to “lock in” developers to their platform. Devs are free to sell their PC games on Gog or Epic or whatever. Steam is popular because it’s a good platform. This freedom for developers or customers mostly does not exist on mobile or on consoles, except for the EUs efforts here.

Even their “console” the Steam Deck can, relatively easily, run games from other stores. I’m not saying a 30% cut should be considered fair but they do seem to take a different approach to digital sales than the other large players.

I wonder if this lawsuit could also affect The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.