Remember that time when a physicist proposed a Thorium Potassium reactor which woudl run at a lower temperature and the feature that the reaction would destroy itself before ever going critical and the world was like “interesting” and then he said “and it even prevents weaponised uranium” and then the world went “no thank you”

OH HEY EVERYONE, EVERYONE, THIS GUY LIKES JSON

Fuck you and your unstructured garbage.

Camera should get that astigmatism checked out

I’m not scared of AI advertising because it will be impossible to sell. There are 3 issues:

1. No marketing agency would ever have the balls to say “we’ve checked our database and there is no one who would click on your ad.”
2. Any marketing department that gets told their ad has a near 100% click through rate would demand to be shown to more people because “obviously there’s a massive audience for our product.”
3. There would be situations where the AI could not find an ad that the person would click on and the AI would shit itself because it would be prompted to “always show an ad”

We already could have the option to only relevant ads but no ad company would because it’s being paid to shove ads in front of eyeballs.

It’s very telling that they are moving away from the Nokia brand as well, probably looking to terminate the license agreement to recoup some costs

It appears that the flagship route didn’t work out for them (I rode my Nokia 8 for as long as I could, but the storage was giving me problems.)

Much like when Motorola went into zombie brand mode (after being sold to Lenovo) they leaned hard on the midrange which appeared to do ok, as well as their feature phones.

Google giving up on KaiOS was probably the other killer, money had to go into redeveloping their feature phone software.

4/10 people surveyed said they were beholding the chair but they were mearly just staring at it

Please down vote this post, it is a press release from a ultra right wing xenophobic Australian political party

Even the best One Nation themselves can describe reviews of their leader as is “mixed”

Please down vote this post, it is a press release from a ultra right wing xenophobic Australian political parfg

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I remember this being discussed at length on various forums at the time (the legality, questions about what would happen if it all fell into the sea.) but as with so much of the Internet, it appears to have been largely lost. Luckily I was not imagining things this time and did find a couple of references.

Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world’s smallest nation | Ars Technica

The Pirate Bay Wants to Buy Sealand * TorrentFreak

Remember when they tried to buy Sealand?

Your reminder that Nintendo 64 games on the Nintendo Switch are using an open source emulator that Nintendo has not contributed to or endorsed in anyway, and is believed to be using game ROMs collected by preservationists.

Brocollini is a licensed trademark

That’s why it makes me so shocked that Sky is reporting this. Sure, they love overly dramatic and shock headlines but I’m shocked they aren’t complaining that the Labor government is being “slow to respond”

That’s a lot of words for “my kids won’t come to Christmas anymore and I don’t know why, don’t they know I raised them?”

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/glossary/bnc-connector/

It’s good to know that even the AI Lenovo uses also has just given up caring. I swear you could say to their CEO “Did you know you owned Motorola for a bit?” and the first question he’d ask would be “Did we make sure to kill the spirit of everyone who worked there?”

There are plenty of better reasons to hate The Verge; reposting Press Releases as “news”, jumping on trends of public opinion, 12 minute video summaries of 30 minute events, staff who think Debian is some sort of anti allergy medication (this has gotten better, but there is still a little too much Tim Cook semen spitting at times.), “reporters” who have the job of reposting anything from Techmeme and techurls, the stench of Vox elitism, staff posting quote tweets as news and staff posting their purchase recommendation emails from Amazon (with affiliate links added) as “deals”.

All that being said, it’s still leagues ahead of Gizmodo and I do think it’s worth reading.

Relevant xkcd

I love it when a politician explains exactly what they did through loophole