FIFA has an ethics committee?

Isn’t that like the Amish having a CIO?

This has to be one of the more difficult things to figure out. Some players, now, are showing signs of CTE, presumably from heading the ball when they were younger. But, when they were younger the ball was different and the game was played differently.

It might be that the way the game is played in 2026 with a 2026 ball that doesn’t absorb much moisture, headers are relatively safe.

Also, if you limit training headers when players are young, they may not develop the right technique, which means they’re in more danger if they have to do it later.

Maybe it makes sense to ban headers outright now, just to be safe. But, that’s a big call.

Maybe I remember wrong, but my memory is that at one point MacOS had zsh as the default and then switched to BASH, and then maybe back to zsh again. But, since Internet search is broken these days, I can’t find anything about that.

The ergonomics aren’t great compared to a dedicated camera. The camera sensor not being in the middle is annoying unless your subject is far away. Having to hold the phone so that you don’t accidentally touch the screen, accidentally block the camera, etc. is not ideal. The shutter is never in a great position, even if you do something like use the volume button as a shutter.

Even flip phone cameras were more convenient than that. With those the camera was roughly in the middle, and you could hold the phone in a way that felt less awkward.

OTOH, the thing that killed cameras for me was the ergonomics of getting the pictures off the camera and backed up online. You either needed to remove the memory card from the camera, make sure you had a USB to memory card adapter, plug it into a computer, drag the files somewhere, etc. then wait for that to complete, and remember to put the memory card back into the camera.

For a short while, the cameras claimed to have WiFi, but it wasn’t like you could just connect them to your home router and let the camera connect to the Internet and upload the photos. No, the camera created its own WiFi hotspot and you had to connect your laptop or something to that hotspot and transfer the files that way.

To me, the killer feature of phone cameras (aside from always being in my pocket) was that to back up the pictures I’d taken I had to… do nothing. I’d get home, use my phone as normal, and within half an hour, the photos were already online and backed up.

Was zsh the default at the time? Or did you switch to zsh? AFAIK the new default is BASH, but it was zsh for a while.

IMO, your level of nerdiness is much higher if you change the default shell.

Yeah, that’s where this meme fails. BASH is the default and has been for decades. Most people are not Gigachad.

I’ll accept FISH as being for babies, Zsh as being for Emo types or extra nerdy people. SH being for white beards makes sense.

BASH is:

and not much different from the movie Her

Did you misunderstand that movie? A relationship with an AI is never seen as normal in the movie. The protagonist is a pathetic, lonely man who is going through a divorce. He buys an operating system with an AI component who he then falls for. When he admits to his ex-wife that he’s involved with his operating system, his ex-wife laughs at him for it. And, at the end of the movie, the AIs have evolved so that they’re no longer interested in humans and leave humanity behind to do their own thing.

There’s never a time, even in that movie, where AI relationships are something you’d want to admit to in public.

1999:

(https://www.pinterest.com/pin/804174077258541617/)

2005:

(https://www.deviantart.com/lorenviz/art/Mona-lisa-low-poly-598373457)

That’s not what that phrase means.

It makes me wonder if politicians, celebrities, etc. have their plate numbers already entered into Flock as a whitelist of people not to pull over.

The story makes it pretty clear that the cops are, as usual, not doing any independent thinking. The system says to pull that car over, so they do what the system wants. They don’t double-check to see if what the system is telling them to do is reasonable. If someone fat-fingers some data entry and the plate for the governor of California gets added to the system, the cops might charge up and box him in and jump out with their guns drawn. That might result in someone with actual power getting mad about Flock. So, maybe they prevent that by pre-loading the system with a whitelist of plates that are assumed to be in the clear.

four cop cars came flying out of nowhere and boxed us in. The officers jumped out and started shouting.

So, 4 cars, who knows how many cops.

Really, this is a story about how absurd cops are in the USA.

At no point in this tale was there ever a car reported stolen. It was only a set of license plates that went missing. So, at no point was there a car thief, you can’t have a car thief if there’s no stolen car. Obviously, if there’s no car thief, there can’t be any reason to assume that the person in the “stolen car” will be violent. Yet, somehow the police charged up aggressively, boxing him in using 4 cars, jumping out and shouting, hands on their guns.

The cops even claimed that their reaction was “lucky” for the guy:

“You’re lucky we’re in Plymouth. If you were in Minneapolis, they definitely would’ve come at you with guns drawn.”

And the guy considers himself lucky too:

And the more I’ve sat with the aftermath, the more I’m thinking about how, with a different set of officers in a different city, or a different unsuspecting driver with 34 ## DTM New Jersey plates who was a little less collected, this could’ve ended so, so much worse. Thank God our kids weren’t with us. I’m not sure if I would’ve been able to react as calmly.

If he hadn’t been as calm, he might have been killed by the cops because he might not have reacted as calmly.

The fact that this is being framed as a “Flock” issue is absurd. It’s like a story about a sensor in front of the orphan crushing machine which sometimes misidentifies normal people as orphans and throws them onto the conveyor belt. Sure, that’s an issue, but let’s focus on this orphan crushing machine first.

Reading the decision live to viewers on Friday, a tearful King was resigned to now serving time behind bars … “You got what you wanted, so to all those who were people crying about how we disrupted you, you got it, congratulations,”

Um… thanks?

But, dude. We didn’t come after you. You came after us. You’re not the victim here.

That’s a very different meaning though.

Race traitor?

Yes?

These are all lemmy-related. What brought me to the fediverse was Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter.

I was using Mastodon long before I started using Lemmy.

Just convince Ireland to enforce it… and thereby piss off the tech companies that are the basis for their economy because they pretend to be Irish. Or, convince the tech companies to move from their safe haven of Ireland to somewhere else in the EU where the GDPR is actually enforced… something they’d gain nothing from doing.

Good point.

I heard a podcast recently (99% invisible) that talked about how the “60 degree” screw became standard in the world. Before that, there were many competing types of screw, which meant that there were all kinds of incompatibilities.

What they mentioned only in passing was that the British Empire already had a standard at 55 degrees. At that point, the British empire was huge. The smart thing to do would have been to simply adopt the British standard and make it the worldwide standard. Instead, the US forced the rest of the world, including the whole British Empire to adopt the new standard.

I imagine if the US hadn’t entered WWII the world might be using German standards, or it might be using British Empire standards, or maybe even Soviet standards, but it definitely wouldn’t be using American standards.

US stays isolationist

…

US takes Canada

Which one is it?

Hmm, yeah, if it is the desktop environment that’s having issues, that could be hard to recover from. I’ve never had that happen, or even heard of it happening. Maybe try out Gnome? Or try reinstalling? it doesn’t sound like a normal problem, and if it’s not a driver issue it could be just reinstalling will be enough to get things working.