The inability to roll windows up into just the title bar, or to get Firefox to place each of its windows on the same virtual desktop as before, are major annoyances. Otherwise, Wayland runs better than I expected.

This is my surprised face.

Not sure about the others, but DC doesn’t have the option of going it alone, so it’s become a state, and get representatives in Congress, or remain a special case as it is now. Given its large minority population, the Republicans won’t have it as a state any time soon.

If there was any justice, Aaron Swartz’ ghost wouldn’t let him have a moment’s rest.

As they say, if you talk to God, that’s praying, but if God talks to you, that’s schizophrenia.

From what I’ve read, Japan’s work ethic has been more about presenteeism than productivity for a while. While long hours are the norm, it’s more important to be seen to be working than to be productive, so you don’t leave before the boss does, but you do spend a large amount of that time staring out the window or otherwise idling.

If your soda machine is not a Sodastream, you’re under suspicion.

They just need to carve out a religious exemption.

They should at least outlaw the exclusive deals with venues and artists which they use to crush the competition.

At Facebook, that sort of thing would just be called an ordinary workday.

Except perhaps in the UK, where there’s a Labour government who are triangulating rightwards Blair-fashion, but who (if recent local elections are anything to go by) look likely to be replaced with a far-right populist party that’s actually a private company controlled by donors.

The Coalition has been a stable political entity for generations, and is structurally more like a party with two formalised factions and centres of power than like two parties temporarily cooperating. (In Queensland, they have even merged into one party.)

The ALP are hardly Whitlam-style socialists, but they’re somewhat more progressive than UK Labour, in that they at least purport to be progressive, rather than banking their capital, rewarding donors and distracting the public with culture wars inherited from the Tories.

Mind you, they do most of that when the Greens hold their feet to the fire. With Labor having a lower house majority, it will depend on the Senate to force them to do the right thing.

Israeli security industry: builds virtual CPUs out of memory overflows in image libraries to crack open iPhones, can McGyver data across air gaps by writing to RAM in a pattern that generates radio frequencies

also Israeli security industry: sells an app that archives Signal messages by emailing them in plain text

Next, he’ll write the foreword to a new edition of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, now reclassified for the Inspirational/Self-Help/Business section.

His real name is Adam, which is as Hebrew as they come

Wonder if this will improve or worsen their safety

The good news is that the shutdown in Chinese container shipping will give them plenty of time to grind through Duolingo

There was a list floating around (before Trump) of songs that, with sufficiently motivated reasoning, could be claimed for conservatism. I don’t remember the entirety of it, but I recall The Beatles’ “Taxman”, and the reasoning that taxes are bad, being a representative example.

That’s to keep in touch with his handlers in Moscow