Using public money for hit squads to hunt down ransomware gangs sounds great and all, but be sure to throw in some documentary crews as well, so we can get some good TV out of it.

Well, he certainly does. Whether you watch that episode or not is up to you.

I used Duolingo for a while (for French and Spanish) but it didn’t allow for progress at the rate that I wanted to go. Then I realized that it was holding me back by design, to keep me using the app regularly. I know people who have done well with it, but it wasn’t a good fit for me.

if you want to spend time re-reading those books, might I suggest spending that time finding new authors that are more deserving of your time and attention? Yes the books were pretty great; yes this situation is awful.

Just, find new good books.

What no AI-enabled bidet?

Everything I needed to learn about SciFi I learned from watching Prisoners Of Gravity on TVO. The host Rick Green was always interesting to listen to. I learned there was far more scifi than just TrekWars

what’s that? oh just a lawsuit for 43 quadrillion dollars.

Facebook is quite resistant to people forcing them to do things

…and yet…

“constantly add more stuff that relatively few people want or need, and require everyone to buy new hardware to support it.”

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Windows, Apple and Android, and the companies that develop software that run on Windows, Apple, and Android, have all fallen into the habit of writing unoptimized, bloated code. Replacing a phone or a tablet because it “got old” is the norm now. We all know the only thing in phones and tablets that consistently get old are the batteries, the hardware is almost always fine, but the OSs and the software constantly get upgraded to the point where we don’t even keep track of the version numbers anymore (when was the last time you looked at the version number of Firefox?) A 6-year-old tablet is effectively junk because everything that used to run on it has been “upgraded” so many times. It’s like trying to run Crysis on a 486.