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The “metro station” looks a bit like someone lifted one platform of the Greenwich DLR station and dropped it on a car park.

This is funny, but I really wish more comic artists would ask themselves if they need the last panel. It’s so often superfluous.

Sphinx of the black quartz judge my vow.

Sorry, you probably don’t care! I always figure if I’ve looked it up myself (out of curiosity) then I might as well share what I found.

Origin appears to be an 1880 mosaic by the Venice & Murano stained glass company in Venice, depicting the Last Supper. It’s a little over a meter across, and was bought by a Melbourne gallery in 1888.

Tidal pay artists more than most platforms, and over four times as much per stream as Spotify. That’s not to say it’s not still part of a broken system, but most other platforms are worse.

I’m dead impressed how you traveled back in time a few minutes before screenshotting your reply.

Swapping US technological control for Russian technological control? I don’t know to what extent the current solution is dependent, but it would be extremely naïve to just use OnlyOffice as-is.

That’s not the only factor in the die-out of the Neanderthals. Another is thought to be a massive reduction of the population and geographical constriction during the ice age, isolated communities afterwards resulting in little genetic variation, and thereby high susceptibility to disease.

To add to this, the context of the original photo is a home in Hollywood in 1923 from a member of the (obviously) deeply prejudiced “Hollywood Protective Association,” with signs installed as part of a push by some residents to evict the Japanese-American community and curb additional settlement by non-white people.

As far as I can tell from a cursory search, there was no real material motivation at all, just racism and xenophobia following an increased number of Japanese migrants.

“Why do they wear clothes with writing on them?”

Between Wiktionary and Etymonline, the suggestion is the word stems from Latin Vesi as a Latinized form of their tribe name, itself coming from PGmc *wesuz “great, excellent”.

I really hope this is right, because a nation of goths who call themselves “the Good Guys” is hilarious to me.

I’m curious, what’s up with their roundabouts? Did a little searching on the web but only found some complaints about bad drivers.

The Crimean Goths stayed distinct and independent until 1475, and Visigoths were traditionally significant players in the 1492 Reconquista that expelled the Moors from the Iberian peninsula.

The article touches on a bunch of valid points, but re the headline, I don’t really think that a failure to generate excitement about AI integration into Windows 11 is because they missed the boat. It’s because they’re shoehorning it into places it doesn’t belong.

They have the ability to make it useful. Ethical concerns aside, GitHub Copilot is as good as any AI development assistant, and better than most. Hopes that they’d gain ground with Bing would have needed them to be way ahead of the curve (and for AI search result summaries to be more useful than the top results, which they rarely are).

But for Copilot to be useful in the desktop environment, it needs to be there quietly in the places it’s needed. Improve your help tools, make Grammarly irrelevant, infer document context to make search better. Don’t rename half of your products “Copilot”, don’t put flashy buttons in every app, just use the benefits of applied AI to improve your products.

Oh, and make it optional, for fuck’s sake. If I don’t feel like I have control over my OS any more, I’m not likely to stick around when other options are available.

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I think your client isn’t handling the markdown correctly. Link without markdown:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)

This misses your point, but I’ve always preferred light mode in bright environments and dark mode in dimmer environments, with literally the single exception of Discord, whose light mode is totally unusable despite a bunch of iterations.

“Light mode, you say? How about 1px wide fonts, a background so close to #fff as makes no difference, and contrasting elements with basically no contrast at all? IS THIS LIGHT ENOUGH FOR YOU?”

I think they’re now only posting comics that aren’t signed/watermarked at source. They’ve stuck to their bizarre principals but are side-stepping the requirements from the mods. Could be mistaken, though.