I can’t accept the fact that there is no external sd card support.

OK, this is going to sound dismissive, and I really don’t mean it to be. But why?

For data transfer, you can still use the USB port (I do it all the time). Other than that, there’s more than enough storage available onboard for any reasonable amount of usage. I don’t even really keep anything critical on my device at all, so what there is is kind of overkill already.

I just don’t understand the need for an SD card with storage being as plentiful now as it is. I want to understand.

You can’t do mobile deposit, but surely you can still just use the bank’s website.

We’ve got several months of evidence as to how hard.

I’m not getting any meaningful results searching for that project. What is it?

It’s an airstrip in a warzone. Every departure is newsworthy.

You could alias sudo to just for a little more rudeness.

Fair enough. I guess I’m just overly sensitive to the broad-strokes assumption that any given thing is an AI “smoking gun” since I’m an em dash user.

(“it’s not just x, it’s y”, etc.)

Keep in mind, the AIs learned from us. So that’s a thing in AI responses because humans use that structure. Same with em dashes.

AI can do that. At least well enough to not help, and it would make actual human-generated code harder.

Not even kidding, I think the fediverse is how message boards work on starships in Trek. Each ship has their own server, and as they pass within subspace range of one another, they federate. Probably most people even think it’s called “fediverse” because it’s how the Federation chats.

Fifty years ago, it would be because a trial takes time. A trial this big, with repercussions this big and a defendant list this large, will take months or even years to play out.

Fifteen years ago, it would be because, with people this rich who have this much money to pay the best lawyers, the pre-trial work needed to get the prosecution started takes a huge amount of time to do right, because any attempt to speed it up in a way that isn’t very, very careful, with every i dotted and every t crossed, could end up in a mistrial and the person walking free.

Five years ago, it would be because the DOJ was absolutely mortified by the fear of being “politically motivated.”

But right now, it’s because the DOJ is explicitly no longer independent, and the guy in charge of it doesn’t want anyone listed in the files to be prosecuted because he’s in there, and if anyone gets prosecuted, he has to be.

That’s a good one. I was thinking, stop trying to make it seem like you’re helping agents improve, and just go with something like “HOLD THE LINE.”

I mean, it’s an odious slogan for an odious government org, but at least it’s better than suggesting the opposite of their stated mission.

Wait-- their slogan is “go beyond?” That’s so parodic I can’t believe it’s true…

… WHAT.

NOPE, IT’S TRUE.

How is this government so completely and entirely inept?

Sorry, I left out the part where most RSS fetchers are not hosted by the user. Of course it is self-hostable, but that’s by far the less common use case.

Images and CSS aren’t natively a part of RSS, though (and in fact I don’t think I’ve ever seen an RSS feed or reader that tries to do any CSS rendering at all). Assuming you have a third party downloading your RSS XML, all of the tracking capabilities are outside of the RSS spec itself, and dependent on you clicking on a link or something after you get the RSS feed.

If you want news and articles from the sites you appreciate to come to you directly and not be filtered through social media first, RSS is what you want. You get every link, and often the full text of every post, and you aren’t at the whim of an algorithm.

Spam-free? It’s literally only what you’ve specifically asked it to deliver you. If a site starts spamming its RSS feed, you just unsubscribe from the site.

Tracker-free? There’s literally no way anyone could track you through RSS. It’s just an XML file and can’t run any arbitrary code.

I use it for everything I can: news sites, blogs, YouTube channels, social media feeds for people whose content I don’t want to miss. There are even services that will let you subscribe to an email newsletter through one of their inboxes, and they’ll convert it to an RSS feed for you to follow so it doesn’t clog up your actual inbox. I especially like reading webcomics through it; it makes sure I get everything, and I don’t lose my place, get spoiled by a later post, or have to rely on the whims of social media.

I love RSS.

“sigh No, I’m Terence Shrewsbury-McEllen-Smith-Harper-Thomas-Capote. You’re looking for Terence Shrewsbury-McEllen-Harper-Thomas-Capote-Smith.”

“No, we’re not related.”

Agreed, good catch.

For me it’s the text (too regular and perfectly-ruled to be hand lettered, but too much variance between the letterforms to be a font) and the little AI artifact on the random doohickey directly under the bottom left corner of the AI computer monitor:

Aside from that, it’s just the weight of unmotivated choices. Why is the “good” side of the image grayscale while the “bad” side is in color (a human probably would’ve done it the other way)? Why are the desks drawn slightly differently while the person, chair, and computer are drawn the same (a human would’ve probably made everything identical to better illustrate their point)? Why all the random clutter on one but not the other (if the point was to make the AI computing experience look scattered and cluttered, surely they would’ve made it more overwhelmingly cluttered, but if it was for verisimilitude they’d have put clutter on both desks)? Also, subjectively, the “AI” logo on the screen suggests a pleasant experience, not an oppressive one.

An unmotivated choice on its own isn’t necessarily an AI calling card, but enough of them together alongside one or two smoking guns can definitely make the case pretty strongly.

It’s called Live Plus.

If you’ve never heard of Live Plus before, it’s a feature on LG smart TVs that uses ACR (automatic content recognition) to analyze what’s displayed on your screen (via The Markup). LG then uses that data to offer “personalized services,” including content recommendations and advertisements.

[…]

On Samsung smart TVs, for example, you can disable targeted ads by going to Privacy Choices, selecting Terms and Conditions, and toggling off Viewing Information Services and Internet-Based Advertisement Services. On Roku TVs, ACR can be turned off by disabling Use info from TV inputs, which is tucked away in the settings menu under Smart TV Experience.

Saved you a click.

Electron (and Tauri, and Neutralino) also offers some deeper OS integration stuff that browsers don’t do or actively block; direct file management, USB peripheral control, that sort of thing.

But for something like Discord, you’re totally right. You just need the browser.