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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3069: Terror Bird⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough, Brontornis does now most frequently get placed in Anserimorphae alongside waterfowl, whereas it was previously most often thought to be a terror bird (though I should say there’s still plenty of debate). It’s thought to be heavier than any terror bird at possibly as much as 400kg - where the average horse apparently weighs 500kg.

  Being extinct, I assume no one ever told it how to get to Sesame Street.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With every exhale, we're smelling the inside of our lungs.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  and sometimes itn’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The internet used to come through the phone, now the phone goes through the internet.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In a sense, that’s what phreaking was, if a toy whistle from a breakfast cereal box counts.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Untraceable airplanes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Already covered in the OP!

  they don’t show up on flight radar or adsbexchane even with government filters turned on

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Literally just a copy”—hit iOS game accused of unauthorized HTML5 code theft⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ripoff artist made $42,0000.00

  Not quite that much ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Government announces plan to open up Land Registry⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  owner:wikidata=* does exist, though I don’t think anyone tends to map land ownership other than occasional estates.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who are these 3 other guys in the car with Coolio in the "Fantastic Voyage" music video?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  B-Real pops up at around 3:30 in the video, he’s not in the car.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘People spontaneously strip off and join us’: nude cyclists send message you don’t need to be buff⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A chamois is normal in cycling pants, and even underwear keeps things somewhat in-place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're remaking Morrowind as a Skyrim mod. Here's a charity livestream we held on the weekend.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  BGs have shown us nothing but good will, we’re following their guidelines strictly on assets - i.e. nothing ported, everything remade from scratch - and we’re requiring both Morrowind and Skywind to be installed… but there’s no guarantee. We’re not stressed about it.

• We're remaking Morrowind as a Skyrim mod. Here's a charity livestream we held on the weekend.youtu.be ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After 40 years of being free Microsoft has added a paywall to Notepad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Specifically: tabs, dark mode, and retention of unsaved documents. They’re apps for very different purposes, but Notepad has had some nice little updates over recent years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are you brewing?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did a lazy ginger beer over Christmas, but I wanted it vegan and it didn’t clear in time through an extended cold crash. I put it in a plastic keg with CO2 shortly after Christmas, but I was worried about the haziness so I didn’t share it for New Years either.

  I used quite a lot of sugar and it fermented dry, but I didn’t bother checking the OG, so I have no idea how strong it is (though I’d guess it’s 6% or so).

  End result: while most people I know are attempting Dry January, I’m drinking a lot of ginger beer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"It seems likely Elon Musk has lost over half of the UK twitter daily audience by now"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pub buildings built on the cheap or converted (i.e. single storey, flat roof) are almost always a reliable predictor for terrible beer, aggressive clientele, and a regular light dusting of snow on the bathroom sinks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The country is done for⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why stop there? Time to campaign for fee, hee, jee, kee, etc.

  L, M, N and O get a free pass because they’re really just a prefix to P, not letters in their own right.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Good list! We differ on some of them…

  I take issue with the settings menu still relying on the old menus while having shuffled things around so I’m forced to look for settings

  This is still an issue, but I feel it’s diminishing as they (annoyiongly slowly) do move all of the functionality to the new app. It was much worse in Windows 10, I think.

  I can say that the start menu is horrendously slow, it can take up to 5 seconds for it to load.

  “Works on my machine” is a profoundly unhelpful answer for me to give, but I’m fortunate enough not to have experienced this. If you’re looking for a workaround and don’t mind a further Microsoft app, the launcher in Powertoys is pretty solid.

  Sometimes keystrokes disappear in the start menu only to magically appear some time later.

  God, I hate the search from the start menu - but I would say that it’s been profoundly broken since Windows 8 and is marginally better in Windows 11.

  They made the right click menu worse and only changeable in regedit.

  100% agreed. I do think Windows 10 and earlier had a growing issue with the context menus getting unwieldy (Visual Studio is a great demo of how this can get really out of hand) but the solution Windows 11 have brought is annoying more than useful. I suspect at one point I made the registry change and forgot about it, because I’m back to a big Win10-style list.

  They made RDP credentials only saveable using CMD.

  Agreed again. That said, you’re a masochist if you’re not using an RDP manager like mRemoteNG! I wish Microsoft had a decent RDP app that wasn’t tied into Azure.

  They removed vertical taskbars.

  I found vertical taskbars incompatible with hotdesking on desks with different monitor configurations, but I do agree this one sucks.

  how to unfuck up windows 11 so it works how you expect it to.

  I think “how you expect it to” goes to the core of my point - needing to adapt to change isn’t inherently bad. But I’m not pretending Windows 11 is a wholesale improvementy, and I do concede many of your arguments.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Agree with all of those points, I just don’t love the reductive notion that every change is a bad change and nothing’s been for the better. In several ways it’s a better OS - but as you say, they are also getting more contemptuous of the end user with things like privacy, anticompetitivity, and ads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At the risk of being unpopular, I think a lot of what people perceive as unintuitive or worse in terms of settings and OS features is just change. I’m on Enterprise Windows 11 at work and I wouldn’t willingly go back to Windows 10.

  I think because it’s Enterprise I’m dodging a lot of the worst of it - ads, telemetry, surprise updates, etc - but the unified settings are better once you learn them, tabbed File Explorer is better, dark mode switching is way better - there’s plenty to like.

  I want to see the rise of the Linux desktop as much as anyone, but implying Windows 11 is all bad isn’t that fair an assessment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The EFF have more information about location data brokers. Well worth a read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sympathy for their PTSD⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For context, this is from Frankie Boyle’s 2016 Hurt Like You’ve Never Been Loved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sparkling flamin hot Cheeto drink⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the Chateau region of France

  This is… bizarrely vague. Bordeaux?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Men Harassed A Woman In A Driverless Waymo, Trapping Her In Traffic⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The whole article is just a description of these tweets: nitter.privacydev.net/…/1840759345354809414