Ok, but it’s also actually incorrect to call a plain cheese pizza “margherita”. And I learned that while in Italy.
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Have you thought about installing a giant blur filter in front of your property so it matches the image? Or maybe a good artist can give it a faux blur with some paint and other effects?
7·15 days agoYou gotta wam me before you make me laugh.
5·16 days agoWasn’t meant that way. Meant it like, everyone slowly realizes how great the joke is, applause builds…
slow clap
2·20 days agoGoogle Wave tried to replace email with a come-and-go / bulletin board / long-form chat kind of thing. I’d still like that for occasional things, like organizing holiday get-togethers with the family, but that has been the only time I think about using something like that.
For most personal communication that isn’t biz-to-biz, it’s chat nowadays. And the rooms/teams/channels concept (like IRC) is the main medium for what I used to want Waves to be. At least on Teams, it still supports more than just a “tweet”, and people can come and go on those threads, and depending on the service, you can pin messages, associate a wiki for persistent content, etc.
But all those still require people to be on that particular chat service.
Perhaps that’s the end result for personal and group communication. The format feels pretty right for the job, to me. I just hope it eventually morphs into a federated system like email and Lemmy, as I just don’t imagine everyone agreeing to sign up for yet another chat service every time someone else wants to start a group chat. Then instead of “did you add so-and-so to the group chat”, we’d just pivot the problem to “oh, we were discussing this on the Slack group, but on the Teams group someone else said blah blah…”. Same problem–fragmentation.
I don’t have all week.
Some training content for work (I think it was for an in-browser code security training). And I’ve run into one or two sites where they required me to try in Chrome for a support issue, just can’t remember what it was. And newbs vibe-producing corporate tool proofs of concept as Chrome plugins because it’s simpler and doesn’t depend on any gatekeepers to deployment. (Fortunately, other gatekeepers still got a chance to say “no” and forced it to become a real web application.)
There was a time when Chrome was fresh that it seemed to be a fast, lightweight feeling new alternative. I didn’t switch back until I was looking for more control over content presentation options.
2·1 month agoOh hell yeah, thanks!
I’ve enjoyed Garfield Minus Garfield for the artistic statement, but perhaps it also exposes the patterns you’re referring to.
I tried it a few years ago. It was expensive compared to popular alternatives, and it didn’t directly integrate with my mainstream chest strap anymore. You still had to run multiple apps to collect your data, then go upload it to Strava separately. And that was it’s new policy at the time; previously, it did support heart rate monitors directly, and I guess they decided “nah, that’s not what we’re here for.” No idea what it does now because switching to a much cheaper app gave me more functionality. I think its shtick was the training feedback. So that tells you what it was trying to be, at least back then–a personal coaching app, not a comprehensive workout tracker.
Depends on context, too. Counter-point, for example: “You let your boy wear pink? He’s gonna be a sissy.” “You should take your kids to the church the rest of us go to.” “She/he’s too young/old to do ___.” I could imagine a few good reasons to tell people to mind their own business.
But yeah, we’ve really got to look at ourselves in the mirror frequently and make sure we’re not just shutting out constructive criticism. Brains adapt, and that can rationalize bad things.
What, Wired? Looks great to me–one of the most pleasant-looking article sites I like to read, but that’s on Firefox with uBlock Origin and Dark Reader.
51·1 month agoThat didn’t quite explain everything. I want to add that there are “type your name to sign” forms that are just what you described, just bytes spelling out your name. In those cases, you’re right, those bytes don’t have your handwriting to prove anything, but they do accomplish something. If the form is secured behind a login and not a totally buggy heap of garbage, then the act of typing your name on that form demonstrates that whoever logged in deliberately expressed their approval. And whatever level of identity verification is needed for login is then playing the part of demonstrating who did that. That’s not perfect, but the level of evidence might match the level of risk enough to justify that mechanism to the company providing it, and it’s important to consider all factors: not just system cost, but end user tolerance.
E.g., there was (maybe still is?) a “ham” radio logging system that had end users generate their own PGP signing key pair to sign their log books, which are simply a list of who they talked to over the radio, always for non-commercial purposes (by law). Many questioned whether a secure web site with good 2FA might suffice and be much more convenient, manageable, and adequate risk level for most users.
“Digital signature” is a proper term that should mean what the parent comment explained–public key crypto “signing” (a hash of) a document’s content–but “sign here by typing your name” will inevitably get called a signature and, obviously, is also digital, just not a real “digital signature”.
8·2 months agoYep. I also still remember the last PS blackout. That was 24 days.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_PlayStation_Network_outage
There’s no changing Sony because there’s no changing its users.
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5·2 months agoTwitter has to be the most basic problem, though. Shit loads of small data in, shit loads of small data out, basic search but no significant structure. Just index the shit out of it. Right? What am I missing? There’s probably an AWS service that does it, just upload your theme CSS. (Last part was sarcasm.)
No problem. The same people arrive from even later in the future with enough built-in power for both machines and rescue themselves. Everyone returns to their own times. When they arrive back in the earlier time, now they know they have to build another machine with spare power to go rescue themselves.
Hmm, I don’t see how semicolons work in this sentence.
Marking up the sentence with extras to help visualize:
A sentence of similar structure, subbing components for others of the same language parts…
… would be:
(edit: I couldn’t quickly think of a location adjective for the last noun, which would have stuck to the pattern more closely, but “big” is still the same role, an adjective.)