Back in the day, Walmart and Apple fought over contactless pay standards for the US.

Apple’s standard was eventually mass adopted, and since then Walmart has refused to license the tech. So you have to use their app, which uses their own tech stack.

Perfectly rigid sticks don’t exist.

AI is either a solution in search of a problem, or it’s a scheme designed to gobble up as much VC money as possible.

8 was at least an attempt to try to make things better for home users and get away from win32 cruff.

Like or hate the exact approach they took, you have to admire the spirit.

10 and 11 has been Microsoft saying “fuck em. They won’t ever be happy steal everything you can while they’re still here.”

That’s fine. 1% per uberweird news cycle is the death of facebook.

Zuck invented the feed.

There’s always been a class war, what matters is if Labour is paying attention.

The Magi (of unknown number) who bring three listed gifts are in Matthew’s birth narrative, while the ahistorical census and “no room in the inn” are in Luke’s birth narrative.

They are basically completely separate stories.

In Matthew, Mary and Joseph live in Bethlehem.

I’d like to see one of these publications post recipes for CEO stew.

Cincinnati chili is beloved by Cincinnati, though…

FFS, his leak is probably in an extension.

Installing more extensions that might also leak is not a real solution, no matter what they do.

Japan also has a population in decline.

Seems like an important enough factor to mention.

Your Aunt should be paying enough taxes that owning a second property should be more or less unfeasible.

A fair system would have her seeking other retirement vehicles.

End-to-end encryption matters if your device isn’t actively trying to sabotage your privacy.

If you run Android, Google is guilty of that.

If you run Windows in a non-enterprise environment Microsoft is guilty of that.

If you run iOS or MacOS, Apple is (very likely) guilty of that.

These things don’t cost effort, they just buy a library and pump up the cost of the game and make the fucking publishers feel better about themselves.

FAT chain traversal sounds like a diet plan. 😅

“couldn’t do anything”

This was a third-party implementation problem, not an OS issue.

By the time Third party software stopped being all loosy-goosey like the OS was windows XP, Microsoft had already re-branded the OS to Win7.

Vista’s UAC wasn’t any more problematic than sudo is.

Cloaca

Soundtrack to Secret of Mana makes me cry evertim

I feel like she looks a lot like an actress. Who am I thinking of?

[edit] Adria Rae