Nice: in Scotland, there’s an Airbnb above a book store that lets you help run it during your stay.
The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery
“The Internet Archive just lost its appeal over ebook lending”: your reminder that big book publishers are just as greedy as any other big corporation.
I remember when Steve Jobs pushed for DRM-free music and helped make it happen. Nobody of that stature is left to do that with books, movies, or TV series.
If I was to switch away from Firefox, I would have done that because of Mozilla’s past blunders, like buying an ad tech company or dealing with Facebook, not this new one about adding AI chatbots in their browser. Still, this isn’t a good trend for Mozilla… it makes me even more sad because one of my friends worked on that new feature 😢
Today in American Apple journalism, Ireland is a country that “supports successful companies”, and not the tax loophole that every worldwide corporation uses to evade paying billions of dollars for their business across Europe and beyond. I’m always impressed by this sort of mental gymnastic of libertarian tech-exceptionalism.
Good morning! Yesterday evening I finally finished reading the horror classic that is Junji Ito’s “Uzumaki” And, no, I hadn’t read it before.
Personal message to Kirie: hey, how much crazy shit do you need to witness before you listen to Shuichi and get the fuck out?!
Gamemaster screens aren’t there to prevent #TTRPG players from peeking and cheating. They prevent spoilers (such as when you have a Bestiary book open with a big-ass monster illustration on the page), and add vertical real estate for extra information that would otherwise not fit on the table.
European Apple bloggers: “We actually like this European iOS! And we don’t miss that AI stuff anyway.”
US Apple bloggers: “You’re wrong! Government oversight sucks!”
It’s so fun to watch Americans get all upset about this.
Hello everyone! Look how glorious the good fluffy boy looks in the morning…
You know what I haven’t done in way too long? YES you’re GODDAMN RIGHT, it’s a RHUBARB PIE, bitches!
