I was disappointed when the Pixel 7A phone was released without a ceramic body. The rumors all said it would. At least it's not glass backed. Why anyone would want more of a slippery, easily fractured material than strictly necessary on their pocket computer is beyond me.

Do politicians think strong encryption is suddenly going to be un-invented and forgotten? If you replace popular apps' end-to-end encryption with backdoored versions, criminals will simply switch to other apps. It makes no sense. A college sophomore could write an E2EE chat app and put it on GitHub in a week. Is all crypto going to be outlawed? What are they going to do about TLS? It's ludicrous.

I can check out an ebook from the library, but only if there are copies available. Think about that.

If you think about it () parentheses (are) the greatest (mathematical (linguistic)) innovation in punctuation (of all time) (all other punctuation may be (replaced) by a sufficiently sophisticated application of parentheses)()(())

I have done so many geography quizzes, and yet I somehow always forget Kyrgyzstan. Sorry Kyrgyz's.

Trying to be friends with people who are unstable and physically and emotionally unhealthy is really tiresome.

The new Flash movie was good for a DC movie, but that's not really saying much.

Anybody heard of this? Is it a NOSTR competitor? As far as I can tell it basically is NOSTR but for Ethereum, using smart contracts for coordination instead of relays. The Farcaster site's use of the term "sufficiently decentralized" and saying that it's in "private beta" makes me a bit wary though.

Farcaster

Farcaster

A decentralized social network

Failure to obtain a job isn't really failure. It's like Edison said: you have simply discovered one more way out of 10,000 to stay unemployed!

"Let's write eighty-four as XXCIV," said no one with half a brain.

Backwards compatibility is like using Roman numerals. Only the Romans could design a numbering system so bad that we're still using it thousands of years later.

Blatant economic illiteracy on the front page of MarketWatch. Full of quotations from "a liberal-leaning consumer-advocacy group" to justify some sort of "action by Congress" to confront this supposed problem. Maybe Inflation Reduction Act Part 2? Yeah that turned out great. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/greedflation-is-replacing-inflation-as-companies-raise-prices-for-bigger-profits-report-finds-bfb51060

Apple sells you a glued together piece of crap for triple the price of an equivalent specs device from Dell or HP. Never liked it.

Fact: the mango is the king of fruit.

Nostr needs gamers. That's how Discord grew so much. Would be a great fit for open source games!

Where are all the people who love peanut butter?

"The government will help us if something goes wrong." — Credulous idiots

Reddit's self-destructing.

LowEndBox

Reddit Is About To Go Public, So They’re Pushing Their Users Away (And Killing Third-Party Apps)

Reddit is preparing to go public. Again. This time they

Let me think, is there some type decentralized social media that solves this issue? Hmm…

Yes I totally want the WEF to scan my eyeballs for an elite globalized shitcoin and get lectured all day by woke robots.

Bitcoin Magazine

When Bitcoin Meets Artificial Intelligence: Woke Madness Or Awakened Sanity?

Ideological battle lines are being drawn around artificial intelligence, and Bitcoiners need to enter the fray.

Okay I have confirmed that I can send zaps with Cash App, but I don't think I can receive yet. Having trouble finding the LNURL in Cash App.