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If it's a work from home day, I've only been awake 7 minutes

so yes, I need breakfast first, but then we can talk

I was gonna say all this is going to do is make a load of people start using VPNs, who would have otherwise had no reason to. Therefore making the surveillance they want to do even harder

Not necessarily, been a little while since I checked on it, but my understanding was fuchsia was Google's home grown replacement for the Linux kernel.

It's in use already on some of their nest devices IIRC and there's always been speculation that eventually they may introduce it as an alternative kernel for Android (or chrome OS, though obviously less likely now) one day

Lol bit of a blast from the past with the old logo in the thumbnail image

Well shit, I didn't think the Jurassic park books would ever end up on my reading list but here we are

Depends on the language, English to any big language and back wasn't too bad, but Babel fish was probably the best in 2001 and it was far from perfect. I remember it being a common joke at the time that the translations were a bit rubbish.

Huh, I'm today learning calligraphy and cursive not synonyms

Though we don't really use the word cursive in the UK, we just call it handwriting or the slightly awkward "joined-up handwriting" if you need to be specific, though that's pretty much only with kids learning to write

I thought he was casually carrying around a PS5 for a second there

They really missed a trick naming that one

Wait, how have you guys fucked up payments this time? I thought the US was finally on board with everyone else after the chip and sign debacle

In the UK (and anywhere I can recall travelling) we pretty much always tap (i.e. move your phone or card within 5cm) above the screen or a bit more in recent years, on the top of the machine for one of those touch screen ones.

I think the only time I don't manage to pay first time is when the terminal or my phone is broken

On the flip side, maybe these companies shouldn't be allowed to sell shit that they can render inoperable long before the end of the physical product's life? I'd say given this stuff is sold through normal retail channels, we're dealing with consumers that might not fully understand what they're buying into.

Requiring manufacturers to provide an open firmware or local API that would allow 3rd party software to make use of the devices is such an obvious solution to this, it should be a legal requirement.

Especially for a company the size of Belkin, there isn't really an excuse

Oh I'd somehow forgotten this era

That shit was in everything non solid for like 2 years

I'll have to see if hypernormalisation is still on iPlayer

Edit: yes it is, well that's not what I needed to discover at 1am with work tomorrow...

Siren song for those browsing with an internet connection of a geographically British persuasion: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p04b183c

There's a reason the more educated you are, the more likely you are to hold left wing views.

You can't learn how the world works and not want to take obvious steps to improve things

...........unless you're a psychopath

I'm pretty sure you could drop a phone-less trump less than even 100m from his home without him being able to find his way back

In answer to the making a good living:

Historically, record labels, then streaming becoming the norm allowing the collision between record labels and streaming services driving down the artist's cut. Now increasingly so more recently, Live Nation/Ticketmaster and similar live event conglomerates taking bigger cuts and liberties from the last line of revenue traditionally successful artists have. And it's at every level, there will be a local event promoter behaving as the live nation of local music in your area.

For new artists, most people discover music via streaming recommendations these days, if the algorithm doesn't smile on a given artist for whatever reason, they won't get played, and therefore they won't get signed (given more and more up and coming artists self publish their earliest stuff these days)

You'll get the odd station elsewhere that peppers in a sound effect or two, but this kind of faceroll on the soundboard is a uniquely American radio station thing in my experience

American republicans are so fucking stupid they can't understand the soft power they're burning that basically already made them what they're lusting for.

I miss the era of SA/4chan/YTMND being the meme factories of the internet.

It was chaotic, yes, but goddamn were there fewer problems