The Matrix.
Not sure how that isn’t mentioned yet!
First movie was a masterpiece that became a classic, the rest were completely unnecessary.
When my brother showed The Matrix to his kid, she asked “Is there another one?” and he said “No.”
The first movie was a complete package that told a story well, and where it ended was the right place to end it all.
But of course, money.
Really tarnished my feelings about the first movie and I don’t think I could even watch it the same way anymore.
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Did you see the recipe? It’s mixed in together with the egg before you cook it.
Looks like Madoka Magica
Your mileage may vary i suppose. Soy doesn’t seem to be a problem for Japanese cuisine, which I usually consider as tasting very light in comparison to a lot of food.
Tamagoyaki egg rolls for example use soy sauce and are delicious and not overpowering at all.
https://www.justonecookbook.com/tamagoyaki-japanese-rolled-omelette/
100%! Why have just salt when you can have salt and umami!
I also put a little soy sauce in the beaten egg mixture for omelette or scrambled eggs :)
Things that can only happen in commercial buildings, because if it happened in your house you wouldn’t tolerate it.
Small businesses do this because it’s free, quick to set up, and easy to maintain with no technical knowledge required.
Facebook obviously made it easy on purpose, hoping to create exactly this scenario - where half of all small-business presence is only on Facebook and if you want to see that content you need a Facebook account to do it.
I hate it passionately, but I absolutely understand how it came to be this way.
Small business owners aren’t thinking about the ideological consequences of forcing people to engage with big tech to see their site, or that they should take a stand in promoting an open and decentralised Internet. They’re just thinking “I need a web presence” and I guess I can’t blame them for that as much as I dislike it.
Exactly.
In around eight years of using a dashcam I’ve needed the footage maybe three times.
Putting an SD card in my computer three times in eight years isn’t anything I could call a major inconvenience.
I bought my dad the same camera. High quality recording, dead-simple, no frills and no hassle.
I’m glad to see people going public with these sorts of shenanigans.
The thing about maker communities is that makers generally appreciate the importance and ethics of “not stealing other people’s shit,” and putting companies on blast for it does in this community hurt their bottom line.
And when it hurts their bottom line, that drives action.
Elegoo wouldn’t release their firmware for the Centauri Carbon claiming it was proprietary, until someone proved it was just modified Klipper, and therefore in breach of Klipper’s license. And the community backlash was strong enough that Elegoo were compelled to release it.
So yeah, do the good work and keep making these companies accountable.
Not exactly a “commentator” as he isn’t usually talking about the state of tech as a whole but specific products, and usually vintage ones.
But you mentioned Fran so I think there’s some overlap.
If you want to listen to a retired Brirish chap go on about weird retro audio formats for half an hour, he’s your man.
He does occasionally review modern products, and if they are crap he will absolutely tell you so. He has a lot of integrity and it shows.
This is the answer. Experience is subjective and what feels best to people is going to be heavily biased by where they were in their lives at the time.
“What was the best era to be aged 10-14 and into video games?” is a subtly different question.
The expiry date has been a necessary and useful tool, but these dots seem like they could be a good idea if they can actually sense when spoilage happens.
Meat could have been exposed to bad conditions that makes it spoil before the expected date.
But maybe even bigger is that the date is always going to be very much on the side of caution, so it might avoid waste where people tend to bin stuff as soon as the expiry hits, even though that food may still be perfectly good.
Exactly.
LLMs are fundamentally hallucination machines, but this truth utterly conflicts with almost every purpose that AI is being marketed and pushed and sold for, which depends on them being able to analyse data ‘truthfully’ and accurately.
So it’s no wonder that none of the big tech companies have decided to consider or accept hallucinations as a problem, because accepting that truth means also admitting that LLMs are fundamentally unfit for purpose - which is the one thing they simply cannot and will not do with so much money riding on it.
As if it was ever really about mileage, rather than pure aesthetics at the cost of any functional consideration.
There’s a reason door handles remained fundamentally unchanged for such a long time, and that’s because we already had it nailed.
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Sadly, yes.
What it comes down to is that any product or service with a profit incentive will inevitably betray you, no matter how good or how well-intentioned it started out.
Our only saviour is open source, self hosting, and federation.
It’s why ownership rather than rental is the model we should all individually be pursuing.
Absolutely.
This just means “We pushed our crap too fast and people noticed, so we’re letting things cool off slightly to quiet down the critics, and next time we’ll boil the frog more slowly.”
It’s funny, because they’ve managed to draw completely the wrong conclusion. You aren’t anti-tech despite working in the tech industry, no - you’re anti-tech because of working in the tech industry.