That whole section of the Dewey system is strange. Programming, computers, journalism, library science, then witchcraft, the unexplained, fung shui, tarot.

Like why aren’t the computer books sorted next to science and math topics? Or electronics? Who decided this? (Dewey was long dead before people started writing computer books).

Well the guy who came up with this crap design did leave Apple. So maybe if enough people shake their fist at the cloud, something finally happens.

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Sell it to an AI datacenter. I hear they’re buying up all the RAM.

Is the explanation, “Because Windows 11 is shitty”?

Still doesn’t explain why he didn’t have local backups of his important data. If you’ve had computers that long, and are a developer — you should know better.

Everything I’ve read about this “helper” says it doesn’t work. 🤷‍♂️

The sylvania bulb I bought gets really hot. I stopped using it. Philips seemed ok.

The plastic is already getting old and brittle. I’m not that worried about retrobright damage.

These CEOs seem really slow on the uptake. Gonna put all your chips into the AI business just as the bubble is about to burst.

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Sounds like Amazon taking a page from Walmart’s book.

If you’re really saving 20% in file size with XL, adding back a very compressed preview image that takes up one or two percent isn’t going to cost you much.

All you have to do is add a small traditional JPEG image at the start of the file. It doesn’t have to be high resolution or more than a couple of kb. The new format decoder would know this, and skip the traditional jpeg “header”, rendering the newer file format embedded in the image.

I would be more excited about JPEG XL if it was backward compatible. Not looking forward to yet another image standard that requires OS and hardware upgrades simply so servers can save a few bytes.

That bracket in the second picture looks like it’s made for a slide-in bidet seat.

Reminds me of ThunderScan. A device that turned your dot matrix printer into a scanner by pretending it was an ink ribbon cartridge.

https://hackaday.com/2023/12/12/thunderscan-the-wild-1980s-product-that-turned-a-printer-into-a-scanner/

Quite a claim from the guy who labeled things “Full self driving” and “Autopilot”. 🙄

I got to thinking today about how my TiVo HD from 2006 still works fine. Strange how a company going out of business can still support decades old hardware, but a gazillionaire conglomerate like Google just “doesn’t have the resources”.

Studios shouldn’t be allowed to own tv channels. (Or cable/internet providers).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Paramount_Pictures%2C_Inc.