The Stochastic Game

That awkward moment when your dog disappears in the bushes, you call him, and he comes back with a brown tongue and an absolutely horrible breath… 😬

“A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents.”

Oh noooo, how could anyone have seen this coming? Maybe the UK government is actually full of morons?

“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. 🤷🏽‍♂️