🌸🌹2ck 🌱🐇 @2ck@social.cleverlibre.org

@lupyuen that's cute, but if people gave up mp3 players because they got smartphones, I don't see them buying IoT wands over a well designed smartphone app

So, a K-shaped recovery is called that because there's an idea of two broad segments of the economy with one that dips and then comes back up and another that starts off low and stays low, so like if you charted both together, it would look like a "K" rotated 90 degrees CCW? I can't tell if I visualize things differently than most people or if this is just shitty terminology.

i feel like Jessica Rothe was typecast as a dead girl in Utopia.
#TV

I was worried I might not have any nightmares tonight, but then hundreds of ants exploded from under my dishrag, so I think I'm set 😬🐜🐜🐜

@pganssle Democracy doesn't just work at elections. It is a day by day process involving maintenance of trust in democratic institutions and in society generally. That requires an understanding of what's going on currently so you can understand why people are doing what they're doing. That's news. Yes, it's important to have an understanding of history, and I agree that there's a lot of news that can be ignored, but that's hardly a reason to pan news generally. Rather, it's an argument for moderate one's intake.

@pganssle saying the news is mostly irrelevant is a much harder case to make in the USA. Nominally, our democracy relies on an informed and engaged populace and the news does point to which issues are currently of political interest. Even if the main part of your knowledge comes from slower research, the news keep you up to date.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/lib/libxft/-/merge_requests/1
A truth I grasped early on is that being a computer programmer means being excited about rather weird things...
Anyway, I'm looking forward to this finally landing in my preferred distro

@freemo 😁 i can respect that

@freemo I wonder if you'll say anything about it if, later on, your algorithm doesn't continue making the returns you claim 🤔

I've been thinking about the saying that ends like "...true friends will help you hide a body". Why all y'all got killers for friends?

@ilovecomputers very well reasoned legal opinion in the letter. good on Github for taking further action to protect developers

@coucouf @debian Got it. That is definitely worthy of congratulations and thanks. Well done FTP masters 🎉😄

@freemo @mistermonster i assumed that. figure you're either looking for academic interest or considering selling (trading potential profit for reduced risk)

@freemo @mistermonster Get people to sign an NDA?

Very cool project: https://ncats.nih.gov/tissuechip/about
Apparently it's part of the ongoing mission including the #SpaceX flight taking place now (see https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/spacex-crew-1-science-iss).

They really could have been more explicit throughout the article that "facial verification" is literally the same thing as facial recognition.
More important though, I'm disturbed by the tacit acceptance of govt mass surveillance implied by the focus on how the products of surveillance will be used. How about not carrying out warrantless surveillance of people who aren't suspected of crime?
https://www.academia.sg/academic-views/governed-by-tech-citizens-and-the-making-of-the-smart-nation/