monotremata
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- Comment on Not real... *for now* 1 week ago:
It’s a British TV anthology series similar to The Twilight Zone, but most of the episodes are about technologic dystopias
- Comment on Not real... *for now* 1 week ago:
It was in Black Mirror years ago.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
I feel like there’s a buddhist lesson about impermanence here.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 1 week ago:
Thanks, Stefon.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 2 weeks ago:
Yeah. I thought it was important context that they had backpedalled, but I did not intend to downplay the severity of the issue.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 weeks ago:
Citizens United would be a decent candidate. Once it was established that donations were protected political speech, it effectively legalized bribery, and made oligarchy essentially inevitable. Most of the missteps since then have been motivated by folks trying to simultaneously play to populist talking points but also placate billionaire donors. The left needed an actual positive message, like the kind Bernie Sanders was pushing, that would energize folks and unite the overeducated with the working class, but that was never going to be acceptable to the donor class, and so candidates like him always had to be shoved aside for someone who would clearly cater to corporate needs. And someone who would clearly cater to corporate needs was always going to be a really tough sell and not really a solution to the needs of the moment.
That doesn’t really account for the rise of the tech bro fascist accelerationists like Mencius Moldbug and the Dark Enlightenment, which is a big part of the current moment and accounts for how the far right was able to hoodwink some billionaires into voting for a social collapse that seems very likely to hurt them also. But Citizens United still seems like a fair candidate for a point at which some of the last paths away from this outcome were foreclosed.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 2 weeks ago:
Supposedly they’re unblocked again, but there’s been no explanation from Xitter about the issue. Definitely seems suspicious that this happened while DOGE is having trouble with whistleblowers using Signal, though.
- Comment on Printing fine details without the tool crossing the part? 3 weeks ago:
I think the issue is with it being just a single wall. The slicer tends to have some trouble with that.
My first thought was just to model the return paths as well, making it a loop, print that in vase mode, then just cut away the unwanted parts. My second thought was to wonder whether there would be a way to use post-processing to set the extrusion to zero for those particular paths, maybe using the multicolor features, and thereby avoid printing the extra area.
- Comment on Is it time to ring the alarm on internet door cameras? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Do you want me to heat that up in the "Michael Wave"? 2 months ago:
Clearly something is pushing in the direction of voiced instead. The ultimate form is presumably “lambdop.”
- Comment on Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to all desktop users worldwide | It is Firefox’s strongest privacy protection to date, confining cookies to the site where they were created 6 months ago:
Maybe they should patent it, to protect their TCP IP.
- Comment on Microsoft is bringing annoying Windows 11 Start menu ads to Windows 10 6 months ago:
I don’t think it’s most yet, but it’s improving fast thanks to the Valve Steam Deck. Bazzite is probably the distro to look at for a machine that’s primarily for gaming; it’s based on the Steam Deck OS, but works on more machines. There are some high-profile games like Fortnite that won’t run on it, but a lot of stuff will, especially if it doesn’t rely on any fancy anti-cheat stuff.
- Comment on Nothing is requiring employees to be in the office five days a week 6 months ago:
Definite “Friday was the name of his horse!” energy here.
- Comment on I'm just gonna stick to slotted, thanks 7 months ago:
One issue is that it can be leveraged to maintain a monopoly. Microsoft famously made a bunch of small modifications to the HTML standard, so that web sites that wanted to work with MS Internet Explorer had to write custom versions to be compatible. But because so many people just used IE because it was bundled with Windows, those “extensions” started to become their own standard, so that then other browsers had to adopt MS’s idiosyncrasies in order to be compatible with the sites, which in turn harmed standardization itself. They even had a term for this technique: “Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.” It nearly worked for them until Google pushed them out with Chrome. Microsoft tried to do the same thing again with Java until the government got involved.
It’s complicated, certainly, but there are legitimate cases where “just a little tweak” can be quite a big problem for a standard.
- Comment on I liked Fusion 360, I like Onshape - but I'd rather like something that I won't lose over the whims of one company. So, what? 8 months ago:
Oh, cool! I didn’t know about that. I might actually check it out once that’s released.
