Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

If you like writing academic papers and are also into BDSM, do you say I'm into latex and LaTeX or can you just say latex once?

A prediction (based on decades of coding):
There is some code - somewhere deep in the zillions of lines of X(Twitter) code - which absolutely and wrongly depends on the literal string "twitter".
And, as the rebranding continues, it will fail, spectacularly.
7/24/23
#TwitterX
#X

Anti-Vaxxers http://xkcd.com/2806

The letter X will be holding a press conference later today. #TwitterX

Twitter's New "X" Logo Is Reminding Plenty Of People Around XOrg

-- Elon's weight in the XOrg vs. Wayland debate?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Twitter-X-X.Org-Logos

I posted about switching to Firefox as my "daily driver" browser as a little tiny step away from Chromium browser hegemony, and I had a ton of people in the replies suggesting I should just use Brave or Edge or Opera or Vivaldi instead.

I'm a little concerned that people don't realize just how pervasive this problem is. Every single one of those sits on top of the Chromium codebase.

A friend of mine once explained that a key reason most automakers don’t provide OTA software updates is that they are considered recalls.

Since recalls are “bad” they are not incentivized to build updateable car software because they want to keep their 4 recalls on average per car metrics versus Tesla’s 62 recalls on average.

A great example of how chasing the wrong metric can screw a product. https://insideevs.com/news/662943/tesla-most-recalled-car-brand-mercedes-toyota-least/

The problem facing ride sharing and food delivery services is that you can only pick two out of these three

• Low prices
• Well paid drivers
• A profitable platform

The entire category pioneered by Uber is not a good business model. It only got so large as a category due to being subsidized by billions in venture capital.

What we imagined climate change deniers would say when the climate catastrophes came, versus what they actually are saying...
https://boingboing.net/2023/07/19/tom-the-dancing-bug-what-we-imagined-climate-change-deniers-would-say.html

Marshmallow http://xkcd.com/2804

Choices, choices ...

With unique behind-the-scenes access to the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope, Netflix followed a team of engineers and scientists as they took the next giant leap in the quest to understand the universe. Premieres Monday, July 24. #NASAWebb #JWST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1G0cYnZBHo&t=3s

Steve Jobs emails Adobe's CEO

May 26, 2005

Today we'll likely issue 3+ million certs.
That's 125,000 per hour.
2,083 per minute.
34 👏 every 👏 second 👏

virtual reality

the people who kept telling us that movie piracy is a serious crime don't actually seem all that interested in paying people for making movies.