The Stochastic Game

So, I had a look at a handful of competitors to Adobe Lightroom and they rank from mediocre to bad. No wonder Adobe can continue being Adobe. Does anybody have any good recommendation I might have missed?

Seeing people defend big tech companies against government regulation reminds me of the research into why lower-income people vote against policies that would benefit them (for instance, this one). But also, I guess, a lot of tech pundits are simply free market capitalists 🤷🏽‍♂️

You can tell what the priorities are for Apple, Google, and other big tech companies by comparing their reaction to government regulation in China vs Europe. I may really like some of their products, but I definitely don’t like *them*.

Good morning!

The local bald eagle of Deer Lake seemed busy yesterday. Not circling or whatever as usual, but going in straight lines to conduct some important eagle business around town.

Putting the “golden” in “golden retriever”!

NASA engineers are debugging Voyager 1’s latest problem with only a memory dump, and a 45 hours delay to do anything. I’ve had to deal with some difficult debugging situations, but this is a completely new level of difficulty…

Good morning!

I played the new version of Steve Jackson Games’ Illuminati with one of the kids. It lasts a bit longer than I would like, but it’s fun coming up with explanations for our weird conspiracy power structures!

“There is no EU cookie banner law“: an interesting take on the “cookie consent pop-ups”. It may be good to keep this in mind as big US corps are also about to implement the DMA in more stupid and annoying ways.