On the face of it, this falls foul of numerous anti-bribery laws and regulations of the sort employees of companies such as Apple are required to do tests on annually. (If you ever so much as worked as a mail clerk at a large company, you will have clicked through multiple-choice tests driving home that, should you somehow find yourself in a position of trading a bottle of champagne or some Superbowl tickets for a multi-million-dollar contract in some exotic foreign land, that sort of thing is absolutely not on, and will cost you your job if not federal prison time.)

On the other hand, those rules were drafted back when America saw itself as qualitatively above the sordid corruption that less fortunate nations were mired in. Those days are as far gone as the drag clubs of Weimar Berlin.

Oof!

There’s probably a market for targeting people matching not only a demographic category but the combination of one and attempts to keep it private, like religious conservatives who browse gay porn in incognito mode or seemingly progressive people who have right-wing views they keep secret.

As the age verification technology would forcibly deanonymise all EU users, opening a huge new vein of behavioural surveillance data to the zuckerbots.

Bet it’s the Moonies. They’re cashed up and all over right-wing politics across the world.

Lovecraft was right after all

God reasons in the electromagnetic spectrum

Horny and stingy is not a good look.

RIP tiny red house.

This message authorised by RFK Jr.

Why does a command-line-based document processor have an embedded web server?

To make it work with British English, simply add all nouns (as in “you utter coatrack” and similar)

Some anti-Europeans in the UK still refer to the metric system as the Napoleonic system, after the French dictator who threatened to invade England.

New Untitled Goose Meme just dropped

IIRC, Asteroids (and all Atari arcade games that used vector graphics) contained a proprietary vector graphics processor that was given a memory buffer full of drawing commands and would move the beam and draw, freeing the main CPU from having to do so.

The inability to roll windows up into just the title bar, or to get Firefox to place each of its windows on the same virtual desktop as before, are major annoyances. Otherwise, Wayland runs better than I expected.

Thinking is like running: almost everyone can do it, but most people don’t enjoy doing it for prolonged periods of time.

Good to see it’s on schedule.

Though I do wonder whether an alternative route, from Gedser to Rostock, would have been better, bypassing Hamburg and going directly to Berlin and central Europe. The current route has a bit of a Cold War vibe, staying firmly west of the former Iron Curtain, at the cost of longer journeys to points further east.

That’s an odd way to describe a Cybertruck

I’m guessing another round of privatisation would fix it. Maybe some regulation-free “free trade zones” as well.