nicole_express

The sites that are most valuable to preserve are likely the same ones that are most likely to put up barriers to archiving

Extremely shameful of Ars Technica; I used to consider them a decent news source and my estimation of them has gone down quite a bit.

One thing I'm curious about here is moderation; you are outsourcing it to Bluesky to a degree, but I assume you'd want a way to remove posts you don't want to reproduce on your blog bey…

The big thing that holds me off from playing in person is scoring; for the life of me I really struggle with the fu calculation. I guess the solution to that is only win big hands, but that's its…

Fair enough, I guess I'm assuming too much knowledge-- a supergun is just a device designed to take a JAMMA arcade connector and provide everything an arcade cabinet would do for a home setup. (i…

Looking at dry pasta from Europe and the US, they seem pretty much the same, except the US pasta is more likely to use enriched flour; not sure what makes that less healthy. Bread varies a lot and y…

It's actually the opposite-- New Coke came out after Diet Coke, and was more-or-less Diet Coke with sugar (HFCS, whatever) instead of aspartame. But yeah it's definitely not the same as clas…

Nothing about unfair competition is mentioned in the press release, so I can only assume this wasn't a significant factor in the competition authority's decision. Unfortunately, I can't…

I'm so glad they're protecting us from Apple (checking document) making it too hard to collect personal data for advertising. Thanks, Italy

The big problem I have with HTMX is the same one I have with React server components and similar concepts; I really like being able to just serve static files. Plus the clear separation of server and …

I mean, I kind of disagree with the assumption that bright colors immediately mean horrible; especially when we're comparing to a dirty ruin of a mosaic for the "real" color. That'…

> Written out? Or just not written in? There's a big difference. Almost everyone isn't written into history. But nobody cares about the white men who aren't written in because the pe…

I wonder if this is a regional issue; didn't do anything of the sort for me and people I know in Massachusetts, but there the Affordable Care Act wasn't that different than the existing &quo…

See I'd say the definition of censorship is saying a word is bad and preventing you from saying it , even if you disagree. And git isn't preventing you from having a master branch. In fact,…

Changing defaults is an interesting definition of censorship. It's not like you can't configure it to still use a master branch if you want to.

Engine pylons are actually usually designed to fail in a particular way to ensure the separation happens as safely as possible; obviously that didn't happen here, which will probably be something…

People fought interstate highway construction too. In some cases, they were right; people in the Boston area are generally pretty happy the pushback against the Inner Belt that would've demolishe…

You can basically form a corporate entity with a nominal Delaware office, but it doesn't need to give any details about where the actual work takes place, yeah.

Honestly I'd rather just not have coins at that point, rather than try to push $1 and $2 coins. Then I can just carry my wallet for bills and not have to worry about keeping track of coins separa…

I mean, "right" is a social construct. It is likely more effective ad targeting, but European law outlaws this despite that, because they believe it is better social policy, decided through …

English has certainly diverged quite a lot, but there are other ways it stayed the same and German diverged; for example, the infamous "th" sounds were at one time common to all Germanic spe…

Trump's definitely referring to the United States with his pointless renaming attempt because it's singular and not plural, but I'd be careful accusing him of thinking about anything.…

In the United States, "North America" and "South America" are generally treated as separate continents, so therefore as a whole are called "the Americas". This frees up t…

The current administration has taken, shall we say, a broad approach to what they consider "in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws", this clause is suddenly interpreted very differ…

We're going to see more ridiculous overreach like this as alternatives to meat consumption get more popular. (I say ridiculous because no one is getting confused by "veggie-burger")

> You have the freedom of choice to use an old IPhone with an old Lightning cable, since they are "superior" to USB-C, and old IPhones are apparently of such high quality. It's so bi…

The OSSC Pro is actually one of my go-to in my workspace setup. Big fan of it, highly recommend. A problem here is that it doesn't have composite input like you'd need for the Apple II. So y…