A friend of mine misheard a lyric from this song. He always believed the line was:

”There’s a bathroom on the right"

Which honestly, is pretty helpful info.

Sure, you know everyone’s favorite ship, the aircraft carrier, well wait till you meet the drone carrier! It’s just as big for some reason, but it mostly carries drones and guided missiles and it probably sails alongside a traditional carrier, because it can’t actually perform all of the same duties. This is how we’ll be able to spend more than ever before.

Yep, eerily similar. It’s not even clear what these ships are supposed to do well.

I think you’re both right. What’s really important is the lives at stake, and only the software can really meaningfully improve, but the incentives aren’t there right now to make those improvements happen.

One thing to consider though, is the incentives can always be tweaked. Maybe the robo taxi company barely blinks at a $100,000 fine, they chuckle about a $1 million fine, do they still laugh about a $50 million fine? They may really start to sweat over a $200 million fine. And hey, I can think of larger numbers, we can always provide them a better incentive (while financing the state).

Which time? I mean it’s sort of a time honored tradition…

Which I guess, means that burning the library of Alexandria is in itself an expression of culture.

(* well, they’re not dangerous because they are radioactive. It could turn out that they’re dangerous for some other reason.)

Once my mate Paul was crushed by a palette of bananas. The crazy thing is, it put a load of pressure on his bowels and he shit all over the place. There was just shit and bananas everywhere. But Paul never got cancer, so I guess he was pretty lucky.

These bodies are complete shit. Evolution consistently results in biological forms that barely work. That’s what it does, it produces a bare minimum viable product, so that’s what we are.

This jumble of nerves and synapses and hormones and gut bacteria that we call a mind is a huge fucking tangled mess. Truthfully, it’s tragic that we have to live in these bargain bin bodies that break down constantly and often didn’t work right from the start.

I don’t have an uplifting end to this rant.

We’re all in it together?

Bring back Ethernet ports everywhere! Ethernet 4 all!

Seriously dude, I thought we talked about this.

Having typed out long urls by hand, I appreciate the QR code.

That said, they aren’t applicable everywhere, they shouldn’t be used everywhere.

Beets

Bears

Battlestar Galactica?

Hey, fuck you.

Yes! Let the hate flow through you!

Feel the true power of the dark side!

list of installed plugins.

Yeah, as you said, that’s a pretty serious security issue. That’s a data leak that explicitly lays out the shape of your attack surface. It tells the attacker exactly what additional software your server is running and if any of it includes known vulnerabilities, the attacker now knows how to gain access.

This is a big part of the problem. You can use Plex on PlayStation, xbox, Roku, apple tv, iPhone, android, etc…

The apps are ubiquitous, the coverage is complete. In just about any situation, Plex is a workable option.

Do you know how to rebuild your car’s engine?

Do you know how to remediate black mold spreading on the walls of a houseboat?

Do you know how to compile Linux to run on some custom arm hardware?

Do you know how to repair or rebuild a crumbling stone retaining wall?

There’s a good chance you may not know how to accomplish all of those tasks. There’s also a very good chance you may not care about knowing how to accomplish all of those tasks, as some of them may not be relevant to you. This is ok.

Finally, I know you’re posting on the Internet, but you don’t have to be an asshole, that’s a choice.

It does not, not at all.

He’s like my kid when he was 7. He fully believes “Ugly” is the worst thing you can say about someone, a real cutting remark.

Let’s hope he doesn’t learn other words.

Yeah, fuck that. I’ll keep my device as long as possible because of course I would! Try for five years.

“Hording”… The fucking nerve to say that… I am actually offended. Whatever happened to “recycle, reduce, reuse”? What could possible be more irresponsible than constantly replacing your devices?

Did you know Americans (and other nationals of any country) also live in other countries? Personally, I could be in several different countries at any given time, not accounting for VPN use.

So what? So for every 1 in 100 times an “American” account is revealed to be posting from overseas it’s actually an American? 1% false positives, I’ll take that, fine. This still seems useful to me.