“Wie heisst das Zauberwort?” - “Sofort!”

That would be really nice.

I just finished S02E08. Weeks earlier I had given up on it in boredom, but last night I pushed through and realized that the whole first half is groundlaying for what happens in the 2nd half. This might be the best episode yet, plot-wise. Genius.

OK, that’s empowering! It’s just trying so embarrassingly hard to be like Amélie or Wes Anderson and it’s not good at it, and it’s so cheaply produced (take a closer look at the recurring zoom in on the Pie Hole). But it’s all so over the top that it comes out almost psychedelic. And they make good plot choices, so far at least, that are more realistic than anything else in the show.

So, what’s your guilty pleasure right now? One that would make you react as depicted if found out? - Hm, that’s not possible because you wouldn’t share it then - but almost like that?

(for me it’s Pushing Daisies)

Yeah this is bad, seeing what some people patent, apparently just hoping it will stick and make them some money down the line.

I was going to put some particularly egregious examples here, but there’s too much choice - just search “worst dumb us patents” or some such.

OK, this article focuses on dumb and pointless, which is what I was going for:

2. A stick. Seriously, in 1999, someone received a patent for a toy made of “any number of materials including rubber, plastic, or wood including wood composites” for “an animal, for example a dog, to either fetch, carry or chew” and including “at least one protrusion extending therefrom that resembles a branch in appearance.” While the description is bad enough, you have to look at the image submitted to fully appreciate how ridiculous this one is. USPTO actually granted a patent on a fake stick.

1. My all-time favorite dumb patent is Apple’s design patent for… a rectangle with rounded corners. Granted in 2012, Apple received a patent for the shape of its product, which is pretty standard. It’s a rectangle. It has rounded corners. The entirety of the single claim reads, “The ornamental design for a portable display device, as shown and described,” with several pictures of what looks to be the shape of an iPad.

Lol, I was about to react with an “ackshuly” that is the precise point of this cartoon. Well played.

a routine configuration change

Honest question (I don’t work in IT): this sounds like a contradiction or at the very least deliberately placating choice of words. Isn’t a config change the opposite of routine?

Was that a threat?

“Google might break! Please be careful!” - the threat of a good time.

Let’s be very clear: Pichai is one of the Very Big Assholes whose name should be uttered in the same breath with Thiel, Altman, Zuckerberg etc.

He drew comparisons to the late 1990s Internet boom, which saw early Internet company valuations surge before collapsing in 2000, leading to bankruptcies and job losses.

“We can look back at the Internet right now. There was clearly a lot of excess investment, but none of us would question whether the Internet was profound,” Pichai said. “I expect AI to be the same. So I think it’s both rational and there are elements of irrationality through a moment like this.”

Equating the dot-com bubble with the internet. Only a $trillion company CEO could spout such bs. And the misinterpretation translates very well to AI.

Frankly, what I’m getting from this article is “Hey, we’re not the #1 in the current hype, so would everybody else please slow down a little so we’re all at least on equal footing again?”

And the idea that it could all burst, leaving not only Google/Alphabet utterly destroyed - don’t threaten me with a good time, Sundai!

I prefer to think of them as (F)Leather mice.

Thanks for that!

Lemmy.world that i use was though.

So what does that entail - the site was completely down, or images didn’t load?

Would I even notice that in my unaffected instances feed? Just no lemmy.world posts at all, or would it leave empty placeholders?

I didn’t notice and I’ve been on Lemmyverse the whole day, on and off. Different time zone though (Eastern Europe) so I’m not sure how that translates to “this morning”.

Have you ever pulled a long hair out of your butthole? Weirdly pleasurable.

Apparently this is not about software licensing so much as about the services Rebble provides:

Core would spearhead the development of brand new watches, and we’d be there to provide our Rebble Web Services to go with them.

It now seems Core wants to just keep on using these services as their own. I read a few paragraphs but I gave up when they go back 9 years to explain it all.

But this isn’t the first time a company tries to steal what isn’t theirs, under the auspices of FOSS, and my benefit of the doubt definitely stands with Rebble here.

We used to have a copier that would go bonkers over that. The spot was in a different location though.

PSA

git the FLOSS software is completely independent of github, the MS-owned web platform.
git was originally written by Linus Torvalds and can be selfhosted easily without additional software. Or be used locally.

No reason for Linux budgeting since it comes completely free (as in beer and as in freedom)!

(sorry could not resist. arrest me for dad-joking)

It is possible to install True Linux™ on many phones, it’s just the phone-specific bits that often don’t work too well. Ideal for this scenario though.

Of course you’re still right, but with that in mind the list is much longer than you think.

I was going to comment that I really miss that extra step. A local server on Android sounds like a major PITA, not to speak of the possibility of continued data mining.

It is possible to install True Linux™ on many phones, it’s just the phone-specific bits that often don’t work too well. Ideal for this scenario though.