As someone who emigrated from the US to a more reasonable country, I really hate having to remember the time of year to calculate the time difference when I need to contact people in the US.

Even though permanent DST makes more sense, I’d take either.

Already, very few middle schoolers have the tech savvy to self-host anything. If it’s not a tablet, they have trouble using it.

Add to that the possibility that the data center run on memory and processors could mean that local computing power will disappear, to be replaced with devices like Chromebooks that use corporate cloud services for everything.

I feel like the bar is extremely low for TED talks these days. But maybe it has just changed to a financial one instead of an intellectual one.

Non-US research suggests that the Andean strain of hantavirus is spread through respiratory droplets, like Covid.

There are documented cases of infection in people who were just in the same room as the person who gave it to them.

I knew that function. And improving OCR felt like a worthwhile endeavor to crowdsource. There are a lot of old books that we need to digitize before we lose them forever.

The pivot to recognizing things for self-driving cars makes a lot of sense, but I really don’t like the idea that I’m increasing shareholder value for Tesla.

OMG is that why I always have to identify bicycles and crosswalks? That makes sense.

Some style guides recommend not capitalizing prepositions unless they have at least four letters.

At this point, we should not be surprised.

I don’t know when businesses stopped backing up their production databases on physical media, but maybe we should go back to that. I can remember multiple previous jobs where the IT manager was responsible for daily or weekly backups to external drives that were stored off-site in fireproof safes.

I get how cloud storage can meet that requirement now, but surely people recognize that cloud backups are worthless if every dumbass in your company can accidentally delete them.

If your artificial coding agent has a level of access that allows it to delete the cloud backup, maybe the person who gave it that access is the dumbass.

Probably because you have the hubris necessary to believe that if the One Ring were in your hands, you would be strong enough to wield it without becoming corrupted.

When I was a kid, my best friend’s dad liked to cite those verses when we made comments about his receding hairline.

Well, we’re not buying the product, so maybe they can extort us into paying to solve a problem instead.

Probably price increases to offset corporate losses.

I have access to a microwave, but there’s usually a line, so I take things that don’t need to be heated. Pasta salads, regular salads, and yogurt parfaits are easy go-tos for me.

That used to be a problem on Reddit, too. Maybe the current drama will drive more traffic to the Fediverse.

I know we’d like a Good Guy With Money™ to swoop in and rescue various corners of the internet, but I think Sir Paul has other things to do.

If legacy media treated the Trump administration’s ridiculously unconstitutional antics with the same skepticism as they express about protesters, perhaps he wouldn’t have been elected to a second term.

Let’s not forget the years of literal psychological experiments that Meta conducted on its users to find out exactly what factors led to higher engagement.

This isn’t a simple message board. This is a highly-engineered, personalized content delivery system with the goal of serving as many ads as possible.

Aerodynamics was obviously not a concern in the process of designing a vehicle that has (checks notes) literal corners.

Only 60,000 Cybertrucks have been sold. Not “half a million.”

While the total number of deaths from fire may seem insignificant to you, it is a far greater death rate than major auto manufacturers usually tolerate.

In the 1970s, Ford had to recall the Pinto over 27 deaths out of 1.5 million units sold. That’s 18 deaths per million units.

Cybertrucks are sitting at five known fire deaths per 60,000 units sold. That would be a ratio of 83 deaths per million units.

They didn’t, though. The US government took over Argentina for a reason.