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There is no need to “bring back” forums, there are plenty that already exist. You just need to participate in them if that’s what you want.

This analogy makes absolutely no sense.

vacuous empty comments saying sweet nothings empty puffery

By definition the only ad-hominem comments to be seen anywhere above.

If a hammer had a chat interface that said everything was a nail then the answer would be yes, the hammer lies to you about everything being a nail.

'Trivers said Epstein is a person of integrity who should be given credit for serving time in prison and for settling civil lawsuits brought by women who said they were abused.

"Did he get an easy deal? Did he buy himself a light sentence? Well, yes, probably, compared to what you or I would get, but he did get locked up," Trivers said. He said he got about $40,000 from Epstein to study the relationship between knee symmetry and sprinting ability.

Trivers also said he believes girls mature earlier than in the past. "By the time they're 14 or 15, they're like grown women were 60 years ago, so I don't see these acts as so heinous," he said.'

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-epstein-charity-idUSKBN0L...

Highlife music

Nothing in there about network states, taking over areas of the city and putting people in special coloured shirts to mark them as outsiders and then booting them out, etc

If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that the US can’t really be seen as the “good guys” in such a simple way.

More like the past 200 years. America have never been the "good guys", and it is only Americans who seem to think they ever were.

Which particular long list of bugs? I’m on my work laptop, personal laptop and phone all day no problem. I’ve seen all the ranting here about the interface, window corners and menu icons but in day to day use have not encountered a single “bug”. And after some initial skepticism I actually like the design direction of Tahoe.

I reported one of these recently. It was also related to clearing space, specifically system files. It was the second top sponsored link and presented as an Apple support page. The styling was very convincing, with the only giveaway being the url.

A day later my parents called me very stressed out about a popup on my mother’s iPhone saying she had been hacked. I asked them to take a screenshot, and again it was a website that was styled to look like a modal on top of a iOS Settings app page. With the new ui this was extremely effective, as the page title is just a tiny thing down the bottom in scrolled state.

I don’t know what is going on, but I’d assume the problem is AI moderation.

As someone whose hobby is collecting and listening to music, who has spent huge amounts of money and time on the hobby, this is fantastic news.

You are right. A Google search for the quote, with or without the em dash, brings up nothing. It is not even misattributed.

Reminded me of this video covering his use of Metasynth and other obscure software in early tracks on yt https://youtu.be/5wIOBBodoic

If your party is successful, the police will knock on your door, unless your party is very successful in which case they will lob tear gas through your living room window.

I threw a party (illegal, on the beach, with great music) so successful the police just provided security at the parking lot entrance 1km away because they didn’t want > 400 wasted people roaming the affluent neighbourhood if shut down. Oh there were also nudists at the beach when we were ferrying in our gear at sunset who stayed for the whole thing and ended up on the dancefloor in their birthday suits at 2am.

I have Sonos and they work perfectly, I love them. If you think Sonos is bad (recent app update included) go look at the HomePod subreddit, it is basically non stop issues. Having said that, I use Airplay a bunch and it is fine for me. I have had problems with Airplay in the past that were 100% solved by checking and improving wifi signal strength.

I'll just hop on this chain since you commented recently.

I recently updated a very carefully managed (over many years) local Apple Music library to sync with cloud Apple Music. One funny (captive laughter) side effect was performance issues I had long since learned to live with just disappeared. For some insane reason running a completely local library is much, much laggier than one that is constantly syncing with the cloud.

The real fun, however, was when I recently created a smart playlist and noticed it was missing tracks that obviously should have been matched. I luckily found an older smart playlist with the same rule and lo and behold this one contained the tracks that were missing. So two smart playlists, exact same single rule (equating to "not Favourited"), with > 1000 difference in total tracks.

This is stressing me out. How can I trust any of my smart playlists anymore? Is my library corrupt, or is it just a bug? Who knows, and who knows when or if it will ever be fixed. I can list numerous other bugs with playlists in the macOS Apple Music app that have existed across 2 or more previous major releases.

Apologies in advance if this is too off topic, it’s something that has been bugging me for a while and I wanted to mention it somewhere.

I occasionally use the Unifi Wifiman app to quickly test my network, even though I don’t use Unifi gear.

One reason I like it is as soon as you open the app you see a bunch of latency metrics for various domains.

X is one of the default test domains. I don’t know when this happened but x.com does not seem to be running anycast in Australia anymore, I get 110ms latency to x (for many this would be 130 to 160 or higher, my provider uses premium transit). A traceroute shows the server I am hitting is in Japan.

Why? This is highly irregular, I can’t imagine any other major website not having a POP in Australia.

I’m confused. USASpending looks to be source-of-truth as you say, so how has the US federal government failed in tracking spending when said source-of-truth is supplied by them?

Skimming OiG audit reports, they appear comprehensive and detailed. How has the government failed in auditing if these audits exist?

Where is the 20 years of failure to audit and track spending you mentioned? I’m not sure what you expect me to google.

There are 5 different existing agencies within the government that all exist for essentially the same purpose -- to track and audit government spending. None of them have been successful in any capacity over the last 20 years.

Provide proof of this claim please.

They only just launched Direct File after years of lobbying to prevent such a system by a consortium of accounting software companies[0]. If it falls apart people will continue to be forced to pay money to these companies just to file their tax.

As a comparison, in my country you could submit your own tax return using government supplied desktop software since 1999, and in 2015 that software was replaced with a web product. 1 in 3 people submit their own tax returns using this product.

[0] https://thisisunpacked.substack.com/p/irs-direct-tax-filing-...

Any person with a shred of integrity would never in a million years even think of doing what Musk has already done, based solely on consideration of conflicts of interest. What a preposterous statement.

Who links to twitter anymore? That place is untrustworthy and irrelevant.

Trump’s platform and policy plan is actively transphobic, is it rhetoric to call this what it is?

https://www.donaldjtrump.com/agenda47/president-trumps-plan-...

I agree that you can’t generalise, since there are many voters who are simply not aware of positions / policy like the above. Having said that there are plenty who are, and they love to troll by saying the bad part out loud then dissembling through hand waving or claims of irony or victimhood.

Off-topic rant… I’ve seen identity politics mentioned over and over again the past 24 hrs. I don’t know what the definition is, but promising to dismantle the legal and medical apparatus surrounding an entire identity sure looks like identity politics to me. And personally, the only time I am exposed to any form of identity politics is when I see conservatives screeching about the topic whilst espousing heavily political opinions on why they don’t like certain identities.

+1 for ProcessWire. I am not doing freelance dev anymore but for the small set of sites I still maintain I love doing updates for the ProcessWire installs and dread it with every other project. Anyone shopping for Wordpress alternatives should definitely check it out. The only project I’ve tried recently that is as fun, flexible and productive is Astro.

A simple file based caching plugin like KeyCdn Cache Enabler saves every page as static html and uses Apache rewrite rules to serve those files until invalidated, bypassing php entirely. It is trivially easy to install and configure.

Free tier cloudflare caching basically does the same, host your dns on cloudflare, turn CDN on for a record, and whatever users request from that IP gets cached statically, distributed across and served by Cloudflare’s global cdn.

For more interactive database heavy applications like ecommerce you can go deeper with opcode and object caching, but none of it is that complicated. There are plenty of managed solutions that do all of this for you.

Just install any old file based caching plugin like KeyCdn Cache Enabler or Gator Cache and a Wordpress install becomes a static site for every single request until content is updated. Takes all of 5 minutes, win win for all involved.

The creator has a huge amount of docs surrounding the project that are quirky and very informative https://linktr.ee/Myndex

Oven doors are annoying, often requiring you to bend quite low or else drop them depending on placement. As a comment on the linked article mentions many commercial ovens feature this style of door.

Exactly. It's a fantastic book and extremely fun, but in Stross' own words: "In the background of what looks like a Panglossian techno-optimist novel, horrible things are happening."

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/05/crib-she...

On it's origins (extreme burnout as a programmer in a high growth environment during the dot com boom):

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/acceler...

As a youngish sufferer of osteoarthritis in my foot I had my hopes up, however there is no mention of cartilage or bone in the article.

The “cure” for osteoarthritis would need to regenerate or replace damaged or missing cartilage, a seemingly impossible task from my limited understanding.