It’s so funny to me that one of the #TTRPG arguments against fudging rolls is you should instead fudge rolling. That is: pick whether to roll and take that result, or not roll and choose the outcome. As if there was some big cosmic moral difference between the two 😂

“The EU is punishing businesses for becoming too successful!” Well, yes, that’s what governments are supposed to do. See also, I don’t know, phone and internet lines, train tracks, fire-fighters? It’s not that hard to think for two minutes about this.

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?

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*.

We watched Inception with the kids. When asked about the ending, the youngest immediately said “I think it’s NOT a dream because otherwise that makes the WHOLE movie WAY TOO CONFUSING”

John Gruber is usually one of the best Apple reporters, but IMHO his capitalist US-centric view makes him write extremely poor takes when his favourite corporation falls under government regulation. Remember that Apple is cleverly making DMA a mess on purpose.

There is an increasing amount of customer-facing changes coming to many “big tech” products & services in the EU. The fact that these corporations are OK with the hurdle of maintaining geofenced feature variants tells you all you need to know about what they get from the rest of the world.

I see several new apps/websites using a login workflow where they send you a code via email. For those of us using password managers, this feels soooo slow and annoying…

We are getting reports of people waking up to January 1st, 2023. This looping timeline bug is being looked into. Please ignore missing people or out-of-phase flickering ghosts for now.

The greatest trick the devil played in the 21st century was make tech bros believe that content moderation was censorship.