And as soon as people start doing this, demand for the chips goes up and it becomes more expensive than buying them pre-assembled.

“This product tested on free range mice.”

Seems to me like Pirate Television should be really easy these days….

And here I thought the ammonites survived to the time of the Persian empire…. :D

Conversely, the company I’m working for has been around for 45 years, isn’t unionized, promotes from inside, and provides reasonable wages and great benefits.

They know that if they mess that up, we’ll all leave and go work somewhere else.

Of course, the company isn’t American, which likely makes a difference.

I’ve got a Tribit Maxboom and it’s great. Water resistant, line in plus Bluetooth, has a handsfree button (triggers Siri on iPhones) and volume up/down, plus a bass boost mode that uses more power.

It doesn’t drive as much sound as my portable guitar amp, but for a battery based speaker, does pretty well. If you buy two of them, they’ll figure out how to work together to provide surround sound, otherwise a single one will play stereo audio to fill the area.

Had it for around 6 years and it still holds a charge like the day I bought it (I usually need to charge it every couple of months).

Is there a slide deck or transcript of this? I don’t watch videos this way.

That’s an old cat!

They’re not text predictors; they’re text transformers. So, more for translating a text from French to English, or providing you a summary of what a large input text is trying to say.

They can do prediction, but not well, and not without a lot of extra computation, as they’re really trying to summarize everything you’ve said, including the bit you haven’t written yet.

Owncloud or nextcloud? Owncloud is a bit less private, but has third party cloud offerings as well, if you don’t want to host it all yourself.

They used existing archives; the pages were actually archived earlier. But they could only incorporate the pages that had actually been archived, which was mostly major services (Geocities, ProHosting, Lycos, etc) and public institutions.

The Wayback Machine started saving web pages in 1996. I’ve got Geocities pages I created at the time where that’s the only way I can access them now.

The frustrating thing for me is that Wayback only saved web pages; all the Gopher pages and FTP pages just vanished.

He felt abandoned because he mostly was. Not as much as the others who were left for the Taliban despite promises of a free trip to the US and citizenship though.

Regular cars have been increasingly slaved to the on-board computer since the 1990s though.

You can only buy a few modern cars that don’t send constant telemetry back to the manufacturer, for example — just like televisions.

Why not revert to the Internet of the 1990s, before it was commercialized and before Internet became synonymous with Web Services?

Of course, the truth is, even back then, there were a lot of dark memes on Usenet.

Am I the only person who doesn’t use apps with in-app ads?

What I find odd here is that I predicted exactly this problem back when WhatsApp first started using the protocol. I encouraged people to use Signal instead of WhatsApp because WhatsApp moved discovery outside the security model, where it would just require one “mistake” and all that data could be harvested. Plus, of course, once Meta bought them, they had unfettered access to this data.

I’m curious: what do you think evolution is?

I don’t really care if there’s only one browser engine — but that engine had better support the latest international standards around stuff like progressive web apps.

Apple still supports PWAs, but they’ve become second class citizens. It should be possible to deploy most software as a PWA from XCode instead of a dedicated binary, including with access to hardware interfaces. And it would still be secure, and wouldn’t require app stores or sideloading.

We’re getting closer to discovering dropbears actually existed outside the stories told to tourists….