mindracer

https://thenextweb.com/news/oracle-layoffs-march-2026

Search on Windows is completely pointless, it’s been broken for years at this point. I’ve installed PowerToys and use Command Palette now

KinGrinder are worth checking out, I got the K6 for about £70

A driverless car will be involved in a fatal accident

Wow, the last 14 years

How long till they block apps like plex or kodi

Microsoft says its Agent Mode in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench

Amazing

Nazare, there’s a show called 100 foot wave that follows a couple of surfers who ride there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazaré,_Portugal

Silverbullet?

https://github.com/silverbulletmd/silverbullet

Recently started using Viumium, much prefer it to using a mouse

This is a parody apparently

https://bsky.app/profile/molly.wiki/post/3lcdqpash6q2a

The BBC have a podcast called Sports Strangest Crimes. The most recent series was about Moses Sawbu who was match fixing in the lower leagues. Worth listening to it

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0jv3zvy

I’ve been seeing this in DDG too, pretty annoying. I usually end up switching over to Google but will try Brave now you mention it

LUGs still exist I regularly attend my local one

So…. I’d assume the same applies to Apple?

I doubt the average consumer would know how terrible the HP printer experience is until they’ve bought one

Weren’t the news of the world hacking their voicemail?

I guess the police and others didn’t know that at the time

They’re not outside the law, if the police come knocking with a legal request they have to provide data\details they have. What would you have them do?

A few years ago my cat needed his teeth cleaned my local vet charged me £125. The same vet, now owned by CVS, is now going to charge £250

Not watched the show but the book it’s based is a memoir https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Vice

Thanks will give it a go

Same, I’ve been using DuckDuckGo privacy browser and every update seems to break something

I use NextDNS and have crazy battery drain when the app is enabled on my iPhone

Incredible place, while at Bangor university I did my dissertation on electric mountain and now spend my weekend hiking round Snowdonia. Lovely part of the world

The site might still be functioning but they’re losing users

https://mashable.com/article/twitter-x-daily-active-users-dr...

I always lock my laptop when away from my desktop as I’m terrified my cat will end up doing something similar

The keyboard is a huge improvement, much more accurate and easy to use

Regardless of whether they’re secure or private they have to comply with data request. They’re not outside of the law

Edit: of course if they kept minimal logs & user information would help when law enforcement came knocking. Can’t give what you don’t have

Cortana is going EoL in the next few months so being able to uninstall it is not surprising

I saw a video of one and it looked terrifying. absolutely no room, if there was a fire no one would get out