Absolutely! I still laugh at that even knowing what’s coming.
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7·1 day agoHow do you all feel about Reuters, Associated Press, National Public Radio and BBC
Recommend them all. They’re pretty unbiased and highly credible. I’m also a monthly donor to NPR :)
I tend to just stick to the wire services (Reuters, AP) and fill in with NPR/BBC and some local news stations that aren’t owned by Sinclair. I tend to avoid any and all that have clear bias or try to appeal to emotion. I just want the verified facts.
For topics related to technology and privacy, TechDirt is pretty solid. They don’t pull punches and are very well researched.
I’ll edit this comment if I think of any more specific ones.
187·6 days agoCharlie Kirk. Kirk, 31, was the CEO…
He was only 31?
Geezus. Hate really does age you. I’m over 10 years his senior, and he looks 5 years older than me. And for once, this isn’t a humble-brag.
But I’m not going to spare him any empathy either
Me either. I’m not even sad he’s (apparently) no longer among us. I just get disgusted with everyone who’s calling for violence left and right (metaphorically and politically).
8·6 days agoMight be a bit premature. I’m gonna hold off until someone whose brain isn’t a pile of mush and who isn’t a pathological liar confirms it.
But if someone’s gonna make some wisecrack comment celebrating/endorsing acts of violence, they should definitely watch it to see the sick reality of what they’re celebrating.
Kirk is (was?) a piece of shit, but the armchair judges, juries, and wannabe executioners around here need a reality check.
How’s this?
“No, Chicago salt trucks are not being used to interfere with ICE 😉”
14·11 days agoYep. Parks and Recreation was an amazing show, but I almost gave up on it during season one. So glad I powered through.
Yeah, I never got that. I mean, I got what they were going for, but the realist in me always sees what goes into a “digital afterlife” as being a copy with no continuity of consciousness. The copy could still miss her husband, though, and I wasn’t even thinking about that TBH.
I guess the way I saw it was that “If there is an afterlife, that wouldn’t have been ‘her’ in the machine and she’d have been able to have both.”.
3·16 days agoWhy would we? lol, we wouldn’t. But when management says “Help Delores with her app problem”, what are you gonna do?
No/Low-Code: Letting people who don’t know what they’re doing half-ass things poorly without understanding the first thing about it and leaving them completely incapable of fixing it when something goes wrong and then pissing off actual developers when they have to go into the Playskool interface to fix it.
The elderly are still being shoved away in a simulation of their golden years, because I guess that is easier than trying to make room for them in the real world
Yorkie kind of had it bad in the real world her whole life. I can sympathize (though mercifully not directly relate). And I’d much rather San Junipero myself than live out my days in a nursing home. YMMV, obviously.
afterlife" still places everyone’s continued existence at the mercy of real-world infrastructure that could decide to just turn them off at any time.
In a lot of ways, Upload is something of a sequel to San Junipero lol
I’m an American, and I agree. It’s not so much the American cast, but the tone shift that came along with the move to Netflix.
Brooker via https://movieweb.com/charlie-brooker-responds-to-black-mirror-criticism-netflix/ :
“Arguably the happiest [episode] I’ve ever written was San Junipero and I just did that off my own back. I was aware we’re going on a global platform now, so we’ve got to make these stories a bit more international. And I wanted to mix it up a bit, as in not just keep doing bleak-a-thons.”
That said, “San Junipero” is one of my favorite episodes. Probably because, at the time, it was the rare happy ending.
But at the end of the day, it’s still a great show that wonderfully extrapolates current tech trends into varying “10 minutes into the future” dystopian scenarios. Sometimes we need to think everything will work out. :shrug:
18·17 days agoMost of the last mile fiber network is passive (doesn’t require active electronics to pass the signal like DOCSIS/cable internet or ADSL).
Cable and DSL typically have the equivalent of UPSs in their neighborhood nodes, but they often go unmaintained.
By Grabthar’s Hammer, what a bargain.
That’s like throwing the baby out with the bathwater, though.
All the stuff I’ve ordered from Ali is still in use (or in my parts bin awaiting use). e.g. All my smart bulbs are from Ali and were pre-flashed with Tasmota. They’re almost 6 years old and going strong.
14·21 days agoThat’s basically what EFI booting does.
Initramfs’s main purpose is to load enough of a system to be able to load/boot the kernel and everything else from the hard disk. It’s also used for more complex boot scenarios such as loading LUKS and providing a password prompt if the root partition is encrypted.
Season 13 aired in 2009, so it’s been 16 years IRL, but I don’t think that matters for the time jump.
Bobby was what, 12, 13 when the first run finished? Also, did they say how long they were in Saudi Arabia? If Bobby’s 21, and they were there 10 years, they’d have had to have left when he was 11 which doesn’t check out.
But I did wonder about the aging. Boomhaur looks like shit but he also tans a lot, so that makes sense. Dale looks almost exactly the same, but he’s kind of a basement-dweller/opposite of Boomhaur, so I guess that makes sense.
There’s no way Bill dropped his shut-in weight that fast, but I’ll let it slide. He should definitely be graying though.
Peggy, Kahn, Minh, and Nancy, and the Wassanasongs all look about right, IMO.
Hank, though, doesn’t look like he aged a day.
72·21 days agoVery good. I’ve seen too many random Google Forms going around just harvesting emails / info to plug my details into any that I don’t click into from a legit/verified site. Not that I’m accusing OP of that, just that I don’t know where they got that form link.
It really irks me when people use “mainstream media” as a pejorative like there’s some kind of conspiracy. There are way more sources covering it than that, but I think that’s more than enough to make my point.