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_Disney_ needs to buy mindshare? From the company that’s happy to steal it anyway?

This feels like more funny accounting.

I would love to know why Siri has clearly deteriorated. I assume it’s opaquely failing due to server infrastructure not keeping up. Thought device-side was supposed to help with that. That’s another thing I’d like to understand — what are the moving parts to Siri?

If only the application of the law was as binary as code.

Most voters are independent.

But our gerontocracy is still living in the nineties (if we’re lucky).

Many cities have removed cameras before their contract was up (though that didn’t stop Flock from putting them back up in Evanston!). You can also target the next time the contract is up for renewal - gathering community support takes time anyway. You can focus on removing some or all cameras, or on the contract language (ACLU has a good resource on this that I can’t find right now). Municipalities should care about the liability they’re being exposed to - some states like Illinois have laws against sharing data with the federal government, and there’s a federal case going through the courts now.

Adobe sucks, but I need CMYK to make “dead” print projects, so I got the Affinity suite.

Open source principles are nice but unlike Affinity, GIMP was not made with graphics professionals in mind. I don’t love proprietary formats but it doesn’t matter as much for print projects which have a lifespan and revenue.

People are mourning Affinity because it was a great functional tool with no strings attached. We’ve seen this story before. It’s fine; someone else will step in with an alternative when necessary.

So because I need professional print features, I’m a GIMP hater?

It’s fine if you don’t want GIMP to change to meet the needs of a different group (after all these years I suppose the GIMP team agrees). But to people who want to be paid for their product, this is valuable feedback.

Like how mobile payments took off in Africa early because they weren't held back by existing infrastructure.

So?

Same, enamored and I’m not even the EE. Elegant, no cost on the product side, and I don’t have to take the board out of the case to access it.

Well, yes, the senate is useless. It was useful to check the South’s power in the Great Conpromise, but now the most deliberative body is not needed when the House can slow things down all by itself. Unicameral works for me.

Representatives would be more representative if not for gerrymandering.

That's what's interesting about this move (and all the other moves). We've stopped pretending we're good, signaling instead the prospect of violence to enemies foreign and domestic.

Least they could do is tell us about the tech stack for the website.

We love to blame the common clay, don't we. You can win a majority of voters and lose an election. There are systemic problems, starting with money in politics, two senators per state, the electoral college and gerrymandering.

You seem to think social media should be a marketplace of ideas. I just want to read stuff I like.

But great for us who drive a car into the ground.

Hey, maybe he’ll pick up web UX next.

"the things I was doing for years" unfortunately involves several native apps. There's a reason I got a Mac, after all.

Good point. I remembered not getting Firefox to work but that was an even older Mac I was dusting off to run a birdcam installation.

Sure. But my needs haven't exceeded that RAM. I just want to keep doing the things I was doing for years on it happily, but security updates, broken services and website bloat have intervened.

Hadn't thought of doing that - I'm not a natural Linux person myself and I'm repurposing it for an 11yo. But maybe it's not so different from their school Chromebook for what they need. Just removes some of the nice Apple family features and the apps they'd be inheriting, but that's what I get for not paying the tax with new hardware purchases.

You're talking to someone who's fixed their microwave several times to keep it going 20 years.

I’ve got a 2010 MBP that’s still perfectly suitable, but without OS updates, I can’t get a browser that websites will load cleanly on, can’t use Xcode, bunch of the Apple services the company hooks you on don’t work, etc. Used OpenCore bootloader to extend its life into newer macOSes, but that’s getting hard to keep up with. What a (e)waste.

Smartphones exploded when devs were given a bunch of cool new I/O followed by rapid cost reduction. Shame that the startups doing the cool hardware don’t do that… can’t say it’s the funding. They sure had enough.

Best of all, their security through obscurity.

That was my one condition when an air fryer entered the house. No connecting it. When they’re putting WiFi on the cheapest models you know it’s a profit center in spite of you not paying for it.

Now, at the price you paid to retrieve that memory, is it a viable business model?

<HN voice>Technically, the motor car replaced the coach. A more accurate and enjoyable analogy would that car engines don’t look like horses.

I’m currently reading a book, The Way Out by Alan Gordon, on his research into this neuroplastic pain, which is when neural pathways carved by the pain remain after the cause is gone, and how he’s treated it in patients with mental exercises.