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Three books.

These two feel especially relevant:

Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered - E.F. Schumacher

Tools for Conviviality - Ivan Illich

and

The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - John Koenig

This game is hilarious. I love the reveal, how my poor, horribly drawn, mobile touch-based drawing compares to the actual person; the juxtaposition was really funny.

I kinda wish I could see other people’s drawings.

Given the current momentum, it feels like (to me) the adage of “Windows is for Games” is going by the wayside.

If you look at Steam, and OSs like Bazzite it’s clear the consumer-side is finally shoring up. But that aside, from an economic incentive, game providers (for example Amazon Luna), don’t want to be paying the licenses for running Windows machines for Video Game Streaming on Demand. In fact, at my time there one of the major thing I worked on was figuring out how to stream the games using Linux + Proton + Vulkan so we could use the AMD machines.

Honestly the biggest hurdle was (and probably still is) Anti-Cheat and BattlEye.

At any rate, I’m personally happy to see this trend as I haven’t had a Windows OS since Windows 7.

This might have a bug. I have the following configuration.

K - King H - Knight R - Rook E - Enemy King X - Empty

K X X X R K E X

But it indicates it’s a draw by stalemate.

There is only 1 legal move for black here. Which is to move back to X. If it takes my Knight rook gets it.

He moves back, I move my Knight out of the way. Checkmate.

Edit: oh wait nvm there’s no legal move for black.

I wish they would’ve flown by and taken a picture of the Apollo 11 lunar landing site.

I think it would’ve been a super cool throwback to the history of lunar exploration; maybe it’s just me but I think it would’ve been really exciting. It would basically be the like visiting a UNESCO (moon?) heritage site.

I think the person requesting to access the data was doing the right thing and I agree with the judge’s ruling.

The fact that they’re gonna shut it down, implies the scale of indiscriminate nature of data capture and the volume of data being captured.

These cameras are popping up all over the nation and if people realize how much data is being captured and where that data is going (or who it’s being sold to) and how it’s being used by government and private entities they would be appalled.

There’s been exposés about these cameras, everything from AI misidentification of “stolen” (not) vehicles and erroneous arrests and police encounters, to analysis of shopping patterns being sold back to private entities for better ad targeting. It’s wild.

I’ve been complaining about the iOS Keyboard for years, and the people I’ve been complaining to would act like I’m insane.

I suspect this last iteration broke it just enough for it to impact more people and make some of the problems I’ve been experiencing mainstream.

But yeah things like deleting when I meant to space, putting an “I” instead of “K” and a bunch of other little things like “thinks” instead of “things”, unintended periods; complete failure of spelling just generating gibberish “x” instead of “c” leading to un-autocorrectable failures; and if you want to reference the name of something that doesn’t fit the grammatical structure of the sentence but isn’t a mainstream item, forget about it.

Also “od” instead of “of”.

Seeing this video is super validating. Emotionally, it does a lot to make me feel vindicated.

Someone was telling me you can install 3P keyboards, does anyone have any recommendations?

It’s unsurprising, since this kind of classification is only as good as the training data.

And police do this kind of stuff all the time (or in the very least you hear about it a lot if you grew up in a major city).

So if you’re gonna automate broken systems, you’re going to see a lot more of the same.

I’m not sure what the answer is but I definitely feel that “security” system like this that are purchased and rolled out need to be highly regulated and be coupled with extreme accountability and consequences for false positives.

If this did happen to be space debris as a result of human activity then the likelihood that this becomes a more common occurrence is likely seeing how Kuiper and Starlink are looking to have somewhere around 42,000 satellites and it currently has around 8,000; Kuiper also has similar ambitions.

The comments in the threads are interesting. A surprising amount of people are saying they don’t get it.

I can shed light into the food thing (I don’t think of myself as autistic but the people around me do, my kid is diagnosed - I was the last one to clue in “that’s just being a kid” I would say); so food, making yourself a proper breakfast is self-care, and self care takes energy. Making yourself breakfast is a lot of work, so you do it and it eats your energy, or you don’t do it and you feel shittier later because you didn’t eat.

It’s a shitty catch-22.

And some days you’re tired from the day before; I love that the sim carried over the energy levels from the day before because sleep does help but there’s no real reset, the day before carries into the next day so you’ll be like “I know I should make myself food, but I’m exhausted” so you avoid it and it turns out worse, or you do it and now you’re tired for the next task.

I wonder if this is a parallel trap for people who study PoliSci and want to go into government to make a difference.

Regardless, each career has a disillusionment curve — although yes in this case the financial reality of it (still is) is super unfortunate.

If I had to guess, probably mostly because it doesn’t fit in a nice capitalist box of money in / money out.

I’ve been there highly recommend; check out the gardens he has what I can only describe as psychedelic elephant statues in the gardens that are pretty wild.

You’re walking down a path, and out of the corner of your eye within view down a row in the foliage, kind of visible will be a surreal looking elephant-thing will appear tall as can be.

Really really cool.

The fact that companies like Google are complaining (while pretending like they’re looking out for consumers - which is unsavory) is a great signal indicator that this is going to disrupt monopolistic / anti-consumer business practice's. Good.

“Beijing has rolled out new EV subsidies to help keep struggling companies afloat.”

This seems like an odd approach. If you’re gonna site maintenance as the concern, then what you’re saying is you’re concerned about the consumer; meaning if the company is gonna go bust, you should take the money that you’d spend keeping these companies afloat and give them directly to the consumer to replace the car.