I’ve heard from copywriters who now fear losing their apartments, one who turned to sex work,

One of these jobs is not like the others!

Or the personification of an arperture, which could indicate a closed mind 🤔

Well, one that can open and close on demand, I guess 😁

A smart name would be Einsteinium.

All the continents should be renamed, “Landia” and the oceans should just be rolled into, “Oceania”.

Why makes things complicated?

It rubs the Costco on its skin.

When my Plott Hound wants attention and she sees me on my phone, she somehow figured out that if she shoves her nose into the bottom of the screen and swipes it up, that makes the app I’m looking at go away. It’s ridiculous!

It started because she wanted to send the whole phone away so she could get attention from my hands. Turns out that motion is all it takes and I’m forced to stop what I’m doing and deal with her (by giving attention, of course 😁).

Actually, you’re right: They do kinda look like scallops.

Having said that, I think I’ve figured out what they actually are: Marshmallows 😂

Something tells me that boom arm is just a tad too short, compared to the fucking telescope of a camera it’s paired with.

Oh please. AI generated images of food are just as realistic as the food in traditional food advertisements.

We’ve all been looking at pictures of painted plastic since forever. Not only that, but photoshopped, painted plastic 😁

Have you ever seen a pizza with sausage slices that big‽ That was the dead giveaway to me. I mean, every pizza ad makes the cheese and toppings look perfect but those are little sausage towers.

Now I want a pizza like that!

Indirect water consumption via electricity generation made up more than 80 percent of the datacenter’s overall water use

So 80% of this is total bullshit. Do we really care that data centers are causing mild increases in how much water a power plant is taking in from their local cooling ponds‽ That were built specifically for this purpose, so that potable water doesn’t get used.

The real issue with data centers is how much power they use! Talking about their water consumption is a pointless distraction. It’s a topic full of so much misinformation it just turns people away from the real problems once they realize it’s bullshit. “If the water use reported in the media is bullshit, maybe the rest of it is too?”

Oh gods. I leave them everywhere 🤷

If it’s part of a fingerprinting lib, then they just fucked it up. Because the fingerprinting can be done in one ~16ms window of time when the script runs and then you can break down the audio objects and pretend nothing happened.

Honestly, this doesn’t sound like spyware. More like absurd optimization. Here’s why: Audio devices often go to sleep (to save battery) and can take a second or two to wake up. That’s enough time that the end user will miss the first second or two of audio.

By keeping the audio outputting something (even if it’s just silence), they can guarantee that their little (often hilariously terrible) product videos will play the way they expect (which is loud and startling, of course!).

This is just one of those stupid tricks that’s bad for energy use but good for ignorant users who might complain that the first second of every AliExpress video is silent 🤷

The reason why I believe this to be the case is because there’s really nothing unique or interesting to be learned from an audio output loop that’s literally sending zeros through itself. If you wanted to use that to fingerprint a user, you wouldn’t need to keep it active. You could pass a single zero (silence) through and be done.

Shit: Is this why people ask me random IT questions and suddenly vent about their lives in chat?

…and then they all died of dysentery because that uneducated, unnamed boy was never taught proper sanitation because he pooped in the woods nearby and didn’t bury it, resulting in shigellosis being spread to the entire family by the flies that landed in the poop transferring the shigella dysenteriae bacteria on to the food the family was preparing for the poor, sweet boy who they worried would drive his pole into their daughters just as surely as he would a pole into the ground.

Availability? Do you want a bunch of rich weirdos with them or loads of 12yo boys, all over the world?

I’m 100% against software patents but… If this means no one else can pull this bullshit for almost two decades 😎

Who better to resurrect a dead computer?

LOL! I was making a joke.