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I have a suspicion that Google and Android aren't going to just vanish.

I'd definitely prefer random disturbed violence by civilians over a government militia with zero accountability.

It seems like all home technology adds friction and inscrutable failure modes in order to gain functionality/flexibility.

"Smart" seems to mean "powerful but complicated and frustrating."

I get the functionality benefits. I just don't want to pay the friction price.

Imagine how expensive it’s going to be for the world to help Russia if it collapses.

Are you sure? I can't find any reference indicating that.

Update: Huh, TIL https://avro.apache.org/docs/%2B%2Bversion%2B%2B/specificati...

I had one of these in my bedroom as a kid. Clearly I slept more deeply than I do now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_ball_clock

I thought of middleware as sitting on one server, with the database behind it typically on another.

You're right, I should have referred to sunrise instead. For me, permanent DST would mean the sun doesn't come up until 9am in late December.

Given how many times in my life I've internally groaned at yet another corporate email or website that references "EST" during the summer, I'm convinced no one is paying attention.

And that, if we do actually implement year-round daylight saving time, everyone will still call it EST.

I doubt it. People seem to have a strong aversion to sleeping before sunset.

If a pillar is removed from a building with no warning, no one would claim that its collapse was from the unwillingness of anyone else to put a new one in place.

If DOGE had announced a 2-year phaseout of humanitarian aid, governments and NGOs might have had time to fill the gap. Doing so arbitrarily and abruptly was simply cruel.

Curiously, it seems difficult to find John Donne's Meditations XVII with the original language. The spelling has been modernized everywhere I can find it online.

(I suppose this technically isn't the opening line, but it's the first line used when most people quote the passage.)

No man is an Iland, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine

A distributed system without consideration into how to coalesce the data together is no better of a solution vs what we have today.

Unless you'd rather prioritize liberty over safety. I want crimes to be harder to solve if the alternative is a panopticon.

I'm not sure he cares since he's not running again

Don't underestimate the willingness of the GOP and the Supreme Court to kiss his feet.

...and I don't see a way he can use it for graft.

He's an expert at it.

Or, just maybe, people are interested in knowing more about history? I certainly never knew there was a Swedish colony in the U.S., so I’m glad the article was written.

There will come a time when properly designed LLM apps are not vulnerable, and there will still be poorly designed apps that are.

Whether it’s possible to properly secure an LLM (and retain its utility) seems to be heavily disputed, in this thread and elsewhere.

My city had a very vanilla, but very useful mobile app for submitting problems like missed trash pickup or dead traffic lights.

Someone apparently decided it needed to be "more modern", making it nearly unusable for quick reports like traffic light problems while I was stopped at the light. Every page was a separate request to a server, slow JS, etc.

They've since improved the flow and performance, but it still asks me for contact information before I can submit it. Fortunately they haven't started server-side validations yet, so I can still submit bogus info.

Just let me tell you your traffic light is out! Why is this so hard?

No. No, please, no. I won't buy a car that relies on voice for anything, and I really don't want to rent one either. Wildly inefficient, slow, unpredictable.

As is often the case (and I suspect you're already familiar with it) Randall Munroe tackled the moon->black hole question:

https://what-if.xkcd.com/129/

At this point, I feel like automakers should be criminally liable for redesigning the automatic shifter UX. It's probably the 3rd/4th most dangerous control in the vehicle; why do we want people to have to relearn it every time they're in an unfamiliar car?

(I stick with a manual for my vehicles, so fortunately I'm mostly immunized against the madness.)

I'm unconvinced. Navigating the UI via knobs seems much more distracting to me. I have to reach farther in my vehicle, but more importantly, I have to watch the screen anyway to make sure the knob ends up on the right control.

Am I missing something?

I can't believe Russia even took that to the UN. Insane.

https://global.espreso.tv/mosquitoes-vs-moscowitoes-reznikov...

"Oops, sorry, we have no idea how your document was lost in that cloud failure"

In the end, we need actual laws that tell the market what kinds of models get paused / analyzed, how long that pause can be, etc.

A: Congress used to be able to establish regulatory authority in the executive branch to manage details like this, because writing a useful law that covers this in any detail would be impossible. Thanks, GOP-stacked Supreme Court, for wrecking that.

B: This administration doesn't give a rat's ass about the law, so none of this would make a difference anyway.

I think it'll have more of an impact with used hardware buyers. I wouldn't buy an M5 for Linux, but repurposing a cheap M1 in a few years? Absolutely.

I do my best to find a local or online shop that actually knows & understands what they sell. Getting harder, but for more expensive items definitely achievable.

Banned from Twitter for a 2-word response:

https://bsky.app/profile/gilduran.com/post/3mky5taqg3222

Plus news organizations are punished for including links in their content.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-links-hurt-news-publish...

He was convicted in 2005 during George Bush's presidency. So the previous previous previous group in power?

Since the beginning of the computer age kids have found ways around parental controls. I'm very skeptical that it's a good idea to punish parents for that, especially since the kids are likely more tech-savvy than the parents.

And, in many cases, "parent" singular. Putting a single mom in court, in jail, because she works 2-3 jobs and her kids are more knowledgeable than she is about computers? C'mon.

I joked on Twitter 10-15 years ago that my dream use case for AR would be to easily identify wash temperature for my clothes as I prepare for laundry.

A friend replied with the news that cold would work for just about everything, and I haven’t used warm or hot water since then (maybe once with some really dirty jeans and towels). Such a great hack.