Well he’s Finnish, but I don’t think he’s finished yet.

That’s awesome! Hopefully AirBnB doesn’t donate a million dollars to Trump for an exemption.

I do kind of wish these things required some kind of disclosure instead of letting them pretend they’re super consumer friendly and don’t need any of that demonic regulation.

Their footnote section is doing a lot of work.

1 In some countries and regions taxes are included in the total price displayed. The total price including taxes is always displayed prior to checkout.

They also either don’t know how notations work, or the AI they’re using to generate this doesn’t because it has a separate footnote with that same sentence later on.

I would be thoroughly unsurprised if some EU or other regulation came into effect so that they have to do this, and now they’re taking credit for being consumer friendly.

Mathematically worse.

This is/was letting a contract expire. It’s not something that was brought up to the level of congress. Up until the last few years of supreme court decisions agencies were founded with broad powers in their domains, including discontinuing sub-programs.

That’s how it’ supposed to work. None of this has been brought to a vote, which would give Democrats the opportunity to oppose it. For “some reason” congressional Republicans are continuing their prior strategy while being a majority and having the leadership of just, not doing things.

It’s formatted weird on the Steam page but I have this text at the top.

“TotalSpend” is the total amount of external funds applied to your account. This value is used to determine if an account is a “Limited User Account”.

“OldSpend” is the amount of external funds applied before Friday, April 17, 2015 18:00:00 UTC. If your account was linked to Perfect World for CS:GO or Dota 2,

“PWSpend” will be the approximate USD value of funds applied from Perfect World, otherwise that value will be zero. If your account has applied external funds in Steam China,

“ChinaSpend” will report that total, in RMB.

Weirdly I also have a row for “PackageOnlySpend” that doesn’t have a definition.

This is not a law.

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When watching the plumber work it’s unhelpful to complain that they aren’t fixing the electrical.

If you want to be part of a team attempting vast sweeping changes with no oversight or nuance maybe DOGE is still hiring.

Granted that’s not in Japan.

The last supported Samsung device was the S4.

Because ordering someone to develop something is more complicated and nuanced than saying what they’re currently doing is unacceptable and they need to do something else. Courts are a reactive body. Legislature is who would need to push for open kernels/hardware/firmware.

GrapheneOS

The phone OS that only runs on Pixel devices. That’ll teach Google.

Have seen a definite uptick in Bamboo ads since they made their anti-consumer changes. Great printers. Sucks they’re starting the slide to corporate assholes.

Fair, apparently at some point I conflated GNSS and Galileo.

5-10h battery life. Their goal list includes 20h idle time and recording video. It seems to be using some nonstandard SIM and only has GNSS, not GPS. Which is probably fine functionally but apparently they weren’t able to source a GPS chip to use the US system that met whatever their standards are? Large list of negatives for something the price of a shiny new foldable, or several non-foldable smartphones.

They also seem to be doing the usual dance of “Made in USA!!!*”

* what you think of when you think “electronic components” sourced from Asian countries, mostly we’re talking about assembly and that this is where it’s put in the consumer packaging.

* not counting inflation.

I’m not saying it doesn’t suck but SNES games were over $100 adjusted. It’s kind of crazy game prices have been inflation proof for ~2 decades.

Yes actually.

(They fold like a Navy carrier plane so they will fit at existing airport gates.)

Yea some kind of fork of the torrent protocol where you can advertise “I have X amount of space to donate” and there’s a mechanism to give you the most endangered bytes on the network maybe. Would need to be a lot more granular than torrents to account for the vast majority of nodes not wanting or being capable of getting to “100%”.

I don’t think the technical aspects are insurmountable, and there’s at least some measure of a builtin audience in that a lot of people run archiveteam warrior containers/VMs. But storage is just so many orders of magnitude more expensive than letting a little cpu/bandwidth limited process run in the background. I don’t know that enough people would be willing/able to donate enough to make it viable?

~70 000 data hoarders volunteering 1TB each to be a 1-1 backup of the current archive.org isn’t a small number of people, and that’s only to get a single parity copy. But it also isn’t an outrageously large number of people.

It would be interesting to have encrypted blobs scattered around volunteer computers/servers, like a storage version of BOINC / @HOME.

People tend to have dramatically less spare storage space than space compute time though and it would need to be very redundant to be guaranteed not to lose data.

Yeah lack of third spaces and class mixing is big. Everyone is segregated into their own existing (shrinking) in groups, that then get concentrated by the webiverse.

The 70s oil crisis was an inflection point for Europe and a lot of cities/countries started moving back away from cars as the sole transportation option but the US didn’t have the same reaction.

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