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bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•History of (extremely predictable) failures catching up to you? Quick, write a book!English
9·2 years agoWhat, so if there’s power that’s honest, harmless and sensible you’re supposed to… not speak truth to it?
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024English
12·2 years agoOkay, but apart from YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, YT Studio, Chrome, Google Keep and Nest, what have the Romans ever done for us?
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024English
8·2 years agoI have a couple of Android devices and even with Android added to my list of Google products, I’m pretty sure I use fewer than Gruber.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•'It’s a common misconception that we recommend all EAs “marry to give,” or marry a high-net-worth individual with the intent of redirecting much of their wealth to effective causes'English
5·2 years agoOK, David’s was still “that tracks” tier but that crosses the line to NEEEEEEERD!
They sound like a keeper.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 7 April 2024English
6·2 years ago“Demolishing 20”
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•New York taxpayers are paying for spicy autocomplete to tell landlords they can discriminateEnglish
12·2 years agoA large boulder the size of a small boulder.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 31 March 2024English
4·2 years agoLinode now brought to you by Akamai, the CDN that also exists, you know (it’s not just CloudFlareont!)
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 31 March 2024English
5·2 years agoI guess there’s still DigitalOcean and Linode, the Azure and AWS of Some Guy LLC, respectively.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•Pedro Domingos destroys climate activists with one simple fact!English
32·2 years agoHe’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit!
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 24 March 2024English
4·2 years agoYeah I can tell. So much for that respect.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•The Honduran charter city is going exactly as well as you expectedEnglish
14·2 years agoA guy who knows the age of consent in every country by heart, except for financial regulations. There’s a lot of overlap too.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 24 March 2024English
5·2 years agoI had been mercifully spared from her nontechnical opinions until now.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•John Gruber now has to cope with U.S. v AppleEnglish
10·2 years agoIs Apple obligated to ship an iMessage client for other platforms? For free?
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Open secure messaging protocols with freely available and unencumbered specifications and even implementations are good, actually.
I wish XMPP or Matrix or whatthefuckever existed so that we didn’t have to rely on fifteen fucking proprietary IM systems to communicate with an adequate portion of our friends.
Can we make it an outright criminal offense to ship a new messaging application without an accompanying RFC detailing the format? With aggravating circumstances if you outright forbid third party clients that end up being created anyway.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 24 March 2024English
5·2 years agoAh damn, Justine has my respect for a bunch of cool and interesting stuff but this is just embarrassing, unless I’m missing some extremely dry satire.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Elsevier keeps publishing articles written by spicy autocompleteEnglish
4·2 years agoHuh, so something like a cant then (and indeed Wiktionary lists it as a synonym)
I still doubt “argotism” (as far as it’s a word in actual use at all) is countable.
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
SneerClub@awful.systems•"Using AI to raise funds for my xrisk institute" (video)English
6·2 years agoThe Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask was not supposed to be an instruction manual!
bitofhope@awful.systemsto
TechTakes@awful.systems•Elsevier keeps publishing articles written by spicy autocompleteEnglish
5·2 years agoJust now I tried to find what an argotism is and the top result was that very paper.




Sounds like a straight (derogatory) version of homoiconicity.