This could be a big deal for MS, which is thought to be related to Epstein-Barr.

Ah, good catch.

Never mind AI, MRIs are more important.

At least we have the US Helium Res— dammit, Biden!

The U.S. just sold its helium stockpile. Here’s why the medical world is worried

Helium is needed for MRIs.

Sites can just use CSS.

Louis Rossmann does a pretty good job of covering the choice between complying and going out of business from his own experience. https://youtube.com/watch?v=eCtWeNwOb9w

That made me think of this very old Tom Scott video.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IFe9wiDfb0E

Always worked well enough for me.

I buy direct from the manufacturer whenever I can.

The prices outside of Amazon will be higher though, that’s the reason for this enforcement, the “Amazon tax”. Cory Doctorow has been talking about it for a while. I’m glad to see someone that can do something heard it.

Finding stuff outside of Amazon isn’t easy, though. Search engines barely show results for anyone outside Amazon, Walmart, and ebay. Too often I’ll find a retailer for a while only for Amazon to buy it later or otherwise destroy them (I miss Woot and Jet and Fictionwise and Bookpool, &c).

Conservatives don’t assimilate into American society.

I’m experimenting with the LILYGO T-Deck+ on MeshCore for messaging and thinking about the Mecha Comet for other stuff. I’m really hoping to leave the corporate stuff behind.

Keep in mind that changes are coming even if you stay on Windows or Mac or Android or iOS. AI in particular is going to require everyone to relearn everything in non-deterministic ways, so you end up begging the system to do what you want in new creative ways. Also, the UI will be radically reworked over and over. There’s really no way to avoid learning new ways to do things on an invention that’s less than 50 years old.

Yes, it’s work that we don’t usually have the energy for, especially now, but the best we can do is look for a community to support each other through it all.

Wait, does it not work on your hardware, or are you using it frequently enough to be bothered by passwords?

Where’s my Dvorak phone?

OneDrive is the most aggressively stupid and evil file sync service I’ve ever used. Constantly upselling, actively re-enabling terrible defaults to maximize storage and bandwidth used, terrible at sync resolution when used with multiple systems, and punitive data loss when you try to disable excessive backups.

It’s one of the main reasons I stopped using Windows at home outside a VM.

I’ve often wondered if data could be reliably stored in lab-grown animal cells, specifically cancerous ones, that multiply based on usage into large data tumors. At the very least, it seems like an interesting sci-fi tech.