The Stochastic Game

“Hacker Laws”: tag yourself on your favourite law or principle!

“Synology Reverses Policy Banning Third-Party HDDs After NAS sales plummet”: nice! Good job everyone! Sometimes, the market just works as intended, somehow.

Ah, the push and pull of centralization vs. decentralization. It always depends on where the biggest concentration of assholes is, the capital or the localities, at a given time. In France we’ve seen this play out back and forth over decades, and it’s currently making a come back the other way.

“We can no longer build what people can afford”, says the Vancouver real estate industry. Someone will have to explain to me why “building costs” prevent lower prices when new condos go for 5 times less elsewhere in the province. Sounds to me more like “we’re unwilling to give up our insane margins”.

Reminder that you have until mid-December to get in on the class action lawsuit claims against the Loblaw company for their bread price fixing scheme (yes, we have real crime here in Canada!)

I don’t care about getting a few bucks back, but it’s always fun to make big corporations to pay more!

Another interesting article from Cory Doctorow about our relation to (new) technology, and the metaphor of the “centaur” vs “reverse-centaur”. It reminds me another similar framing from, I think, the Technology Connections channel, about “automation” vs “babysitting” or something.

No no no, honey, I’m not hoarding a bunch of junk from Kickstarters and eBay, I’m… eerrrr… errr… building a collection and legacy of creative inspirations! Like David Bowie!

Funny how I see Apple pundits starting to “question” the single-App Store model now that Apple caved to the demands of the authoritarian US government. Apparently it wasn’t a problem when Apple was caving in to other authoritarian governments. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Pretty cool: “China’s oyster-inspired ‘bone glue’ bonds fractures, can replace metal in surgery”

“The new glue can be injected directly into a fracture site to help speed up bone repair. It bonds bone fragments together in 2–3 minutes, even in blood-rich areas where most adhesives fail.”

I love Zootopia because it pulls off the unlikely combination of family cartoon, buddy cop comedy, noir, and detective thriller (only Roger Rabbit managed that before!) But this trailer for the sequel leaves me cold… too much “redo the same stuff”? And it looks like a simple action story?