[-] brotkel@programming.dev 30 points 4 months ago

It’s like the ending of Silicon Valley. Maybe they’re trying to shit their pants so badly that nobody will ever try to make another device like this.

[-] brotkel@programming.dev 47 points 4 months ago

Scientists: We’ve been trying to reach you about your spaceship’s extended warranty…

[-] brotkel@programming.dev 10 points 5 months ago

Florida also defers to the voting rights in the state where the judgment happened for convictions outside of Florida. And New York lets felons vote. Therefore, Trump can vote in Florida under Florida election law.

[-] brotkel@programming.dev 6 points 5 months ago

Maybe if our news ever reported on him like that, we wouldn’t be back here again.

[-] brotkel@programming.dev 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Death of the Author doesn’t really work when the author is still alive, profiting off the work, and gets to decide which new projects get an official stamp of approval. Plus, she’s absolutely delusional enough to believe that her continued royalties off the franchise justify her views and that people must secretly agree with her.

There’s enough other great works out there to put your time and effort into building an expanded world around, if that’s your thing, written by authors who are far kinder and more talented than Rowling. Might I suggest Ursula LeGuin or Terry Pratchett for some light and enjoyable fantasy?

[-] brotkel@programming.dev 24 points 7 months ago

A TV show centered around superheroes was a novel concept in 2006. In a post-Marvel vs DC world, not so much.

[-] brotkel@programming.dev 5 points 7 months ago

I found out something shocking that could be related to this. AWDL, the proprietary protocol behind AirDrop, will exclusively use channel 6 on 2.4ghz networks and channel 49 (in the US) on 5ghz networks to find any nearby clients, and it’ll look for them about once a second. That means if your WiFi network isn’t broadcasting on those channels, any Apple device that doesn’t have AirDrop disabled will constantly be switching WiFi channels to check for this and switching back. I learned this when trying to get VR streaming over WiFi to a Vision Pro and found very consistent lag spikes once a second until I changed channels on my WiFi router.

[-] brotkel@programming.dev 37 points 7 months ago

Scotland was literally willing to leave the UK over this. I wouldn’t be putting money on Joanne to come out on top here.

[-] brotkel@programming.dev 25 points 7 months ago

Must have been around Tacoma.

[-] brotkel@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago

7: If you mess up one tiny thing, you’re going to end up wiping and spending the rest of the night rerolling it to start fresh.

[-] brotkel@programming.dev 41 points 8 months ago

Oh, so the engineers who thought up and built the machine must own it, right? Right?

[-] brotkel@programming.dev 5 points 8 months ago

She looks like she’d have a different kind of cautionary lesson to sing to children.

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