Do like the BBC and spin up your own mastodon instance, Guardian.

Most election data comes from the Associated Press, but I don’t see a place to purchase API access, may only be available to news orgs.

https://developer.ap.org/ap-elections-api/

A reddit poster had some JSONs from New York Times four years ago for 2020 but I’m not sure if you can make them work for 2024.

https://old.reddit.com/r/rstats/comments/jo1yuw/us_election_results_api/gmnxfz3/

Because they hate their customers and want the mouse to become junk you have to replace when the mouse goes dead. It’s a finesse in planned obsolescence.

Scams are getting pretty wild out there, and pretty convoluted.

Thanks for the heads up for this type of scam, in particular.

Two words: rate limiting

Also too greedy to implement online order rate limiting so their workers won’t get overwhelmed.

Tomb Raider 2013 really didn’t have to go that hard, but god damn it, it did.

Eh, I’d say the biggest learning curve is updates and how they’re generally password protected.

It’s actually not straightforward to a new Linux user how to bypass entering your password every time there are updates, and with how often Linux updates, this can create headaches and confusion for new users.

Especially with coming from Windows and being used to Microsoft arbitrarily forcing updates in the background. They are confused because Microsoft gave them zero control, while Linux actually gives them full control, and that can be confusing when you’re used to updates being forced on you in the background.

Linux expects you to be an adult and handle this shit, and does a lot less hand-holding for the casual user, and this can be overwhelming for some new users, because it’s a lot of extra personal responsibility they formerly didn’t have to think about. Some people just don’t have the extra mental energy to dedicate to it all.

You’re already closer to using Linux by doing so. Lots of people are unaware that macOS continues to be Certified UNIX. Many of the command line tools function very similarly to their Linux counterparts.

I’m waiting for Microsoft to inevitably be forced to keep supporting 10 for free^[1] longer than they planned, because 11 uptake just isn’t fast enough.

What happened with 7 will happen with 10, and they’ll end up supporting it for another year or two.

Microsoft is trying damn hard to not care about consumers, but the consumer market still matters, so I suspect angry customers will force their hand.

That NSA data center in Utah has been around since the Bush years. None of it was “new” when watch_dogs came out, it just wasn’t in the public consciousness. Most of the stuff was happening or being developed at the time.

It’s tricky to know how to feel about this when so much of what Musk’s companies produce amounts to vaporware.

It’s definitely an amazing technical achievement, and props to the engineers, but it definitely feels tainted when the man who finances the whole thing really shouldn’t be allowed to still have security clearance for a litany of painfully obvious reasons.

Beautifully done, honestly amazing, but with Musk it’s always in the back of my head “what aren’t we being told about this?”

Starve the Beast. The conservatives use it for everything. Run on government not working, and then working to dismantle government to prove it.

Because actually, the biggest change came on May 9th, 2013…

If I recall my understanding correctly, it’s 1) because there hasn’t been consistently this much CO2 in the atmosphere since an era when the planet whose climate was fundamentally different and 2) that this is an escape velocity type thing, where it becomes harder and harder for us to get back under 400ppm CO2 in the atmosphere, because of how long it takes for CO2 to be absorbed. Thus, climate change will spin out of control far faster in this new, different environment.

So literally, yes, we were climate changing, but post 2013 things are indeed a lot more grim and the outlook less clear.

These people are fools who are making a conscious choice to ingest information that would challenge their worldview.

Let’s hope Ea-nāṣir’s code is better than his copper.

I was under the impression you could still do a cache:url style search, but it seems impossible.

They’re caching them, they’re just not sharing that with the public anymore. I know it has a cache because the Google result shows a bunch of text from the page that no longer exists. That “preview” text is pulled from a cache if the “new” page is resulting in a 404. I was hoping there some way for users to still access it, even if esoterically, but even those options seem unavailable.

https://www.meetup.com/fusion-la-israel/events/303578537/?eventOrigin=group_events_list

The meetup page is still up but Google Startups has been stripped from the image.

https://lu.ma/Israeli-Defense-Tech-Conf-Fusion-Google-Mafat

Also, the original page still shows up in Google searches, but was not archived on archive.org and I have been unable to find Google’s cached version of the page. Although they obviously have a cached version since the text is visible as a preview of what’s on the page.

Stay classy, Google.

Thanks for the heads up, I thought it was just me and gave up.

I like to think that Balatro is so popular it crashed the payment system, heh.

Yet somehow the top comment is basically saying what I’m saying. Interesting.

I mean, that’s fair. I get it, I just don’t really find it very funny.