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Comment · 2 days ago
Cool, made me think of Tschumi's manhattan transcripts, but I see he actually interviewed Tschumi in this book. And I also realise I used to read this guy's blog, crazy to see it is still active ~20 years later.
Comment · 9 days ago
That would be easier to believe if was not already the case that most android scam apps and malware are distributed via the play store.
Comment · 1 month ago
I imagine almost all other bread tastes awful to German taste buds.

And imho the British kind, especially, does not even deserve to be called by the same name.

Comment · 1 month ago
Hell, just block all emails mentioning Norton 360. Wouldn't be any great loss to the world.

But what I don't understand is MS letting these through the spam filter but randomly, in a thread between myself and another person both using MS account emails, sending a single email in that thread to spam.

Comment · 2 months ago
>In fact, they may literally not understand the gentle ribbing and might respond poorly.

That, IMHO, is what makes it so delicious.

Comment · 2 months ago
Americans buy beef in a roll? I had to look this up.

In oz I have only seen this kind of packaging for pet food or lunch meat (colloquially 80/20 in this case would probably refer to the meat to sawdust ratio).

Otherwise prices in Australia are similar but for beef mince from the supermarket meat counter.

Comment · 2 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
The issue in oz, is that energy investment by power companies is locked in with decades long contracts - raising power prices for everyone. But investment by individuals is subject to bait and switch.

Most people bought in with the expectation of a 12-15yr break-even, but the dropping feed in prices, and increase in grid costs have meant that break-even will probably never materialise.

Meanwhile, we keep paying excess costs for power companies to produce dirty power, and subsidise mining companies to sell off our gas and coal overseas, without even getting a benefit through taxes or royalties (or barely any).

Makes sense people are kind of pissed off about this (even if their reasoning is batshit-skynews-crazy).

Comment · 3 months ago
It is probably not what you are taking about, but apple itunes deleted my entire music collection, first on my iPod, then on my hard drive, as I tried to sync one to the other. That was around 20 years ago.. when I stopped trusting tech.

So when Microsoft force updated my entire office to windows 11 and force uploaded their desktops to onedrive and locked them out because the cloud drive was now full.. I was uneffected (apart from having to fix the mess).

Comment · 3 months ago
Not only that, I used to use [email protected] for setting up aliases to interact with different businesses. On more than a few occasions I had some very confusing back and forth until realising the issue, when they asked which department I was from.

When they saw their own business name in the email address they just straight up assume I am part of their company. No wonder phishing works.

Comment · 4 months ago
To be fair, barilaro called himself 'pork barilaro'. I don't think anyone shed a tear for him being run out of politics.

I certainly don't think it has anything to do with this.

Comment · 4 months ago
Fwiw, most mould is caused by buildings. Poor ventilation, leaks, no waterproofing, substandard building materials.

Yes, you can avoid mould in older buildings by carefully airing out rooms and keeping things dry and away from walls. But not if the previous three tenants had a mould issue and the landlord just painted over it.

Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
Behind every ideological move is a rich man trying to get richer.

That is to say, ideology may do some heavy lifting, but the buy-in to actually translate that to action requires a profit motive.

Reading current events is a whole lot easier once you disabuse yourself of the idea that everything happens for a reason.

Comment · 4 months ago
Seems like with this kind of carry on, they could possibly end up in breach of their supplier agreement with Lego itself.

Crazy that they would risk that for a little spat. I guess they thought strong arm tactics would silence the story.

The fact they think it ok to admit to using their countersuit (against Bryan, the Lego owner) as leverage in this very post is wild.

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